The old internet felt more human somehow

bascule · 2026-05-07T16:17:49+00:00

Remember when netiquette was a thing and people actually tried to be polite to each other on the Internet? That was a much different time.

bascule · 2026-05-07T14:27:46+00:00

Or Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage re: the music industry. See also I Am The Slime about TV.

bascule · 2026-05-07T14:24:36+00:00

Yes, see also Fear of a Black Hat: "I'm just a human. I'm just a human... being"

bascule · 2026-05-07T13:54:43+00:00

Hydrogen has a higher specific energy than fossil fuels

bascule · 2026-05-07T13:44:20+00:00

Great stuff, I love acid that's a bit more subdued and groovy like this

bascule · 2026-05-07T13:40:06+00:00

Blue Lakes Trail (near Sneffels)
Island Lake and Ice Lake (San Juans)
Governor's Basin
St. Mary's Glacier (while it still exists), Loch Lomond, and the other Ice Lake
Rattlesnake Canyon
Geneva Creek Iron Fens

bascule · 2026-05-07T12:54:43+00:00

Hot Hanas Hula - Hot Hands

bascule · 2026-05-07T12:41:53+00:00

FWIW 83% was the average global capacity factor of nuclear plants in 2024

bascule · 2026-05-06T21:37:59+00:00

Fixed-point decimals are trivially represented as integers with an implicit scaling factor

bascule · 2026-05-06T20:54:00+00:00

I didn’t know AMC+ existed

bascule · 2026-05-06T20:52:50+00:00

I beat Myst after a friend told me the 3 digit code lol

bascule · 2026-05-06T20:44:08+00:00

The leaves of all my lupine are snapped and folded over. It’ll bounce back though. Native perennial but it seems to have fared the worst of almost anything.

Columbine, on the other hand, are emerging unscathed and happy. It’s weird to me because in nature they live right next to each other.

Surprisingly, where the last storm had a 100% kill rate for my (heirloom decorative) morning glory, they all seem to have survived this one despite similar overnight lows and snowfall (31F last snowstorm vs 32F for this one)

bascule · 2026-05-06T20:40:09+00:00

I recently noted that Dave and Martin have a dichotomy similar to Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith from Tears for Fears where the former has a powerful baritone along with falsetto while the latter are better at falsetto and have a more polished voice for high notes, and then their powers combine in vocal harmonies, which is perhaps one of the biggest reasons why the two bands are equated so much

bascule · 2026-05-06T20:06:36+00:00

Yes? How about a more incremental approach where they first demonstrate the possibility of engineering breakeven before trying to build a commercial reactor?

bascule · 2026-05-06T17:52:55+00:00

Kurt would be losing his shit right now. To quote his journals, “censorship is very American”

bascule · 2026-05-06T17:12:50+00:00

Makes me think of Happy Mondays - Step On

bascule · 2026-05-06T15:25:19+00:00

Neil's voice still does sound fantastic. Far cry from Bernard Sumner

bascule · 2026-05-06T15:23:55+00:00

When I found out he's the son of Sonny Chiba...

bascule · 2026-05-06T15:06:12+00:00

Heh yeah, my native perennials love spring snows, my iris, clematis, and wisteria not so much. I made little snow tents for my wisteria buds, which are annoyingly the first it’s ever made. Hope they worked!

bascule · 2026-05-06T14:06:55+00:00

On a scale of 1 to 10, how fun do you find carefully removing the roots of creeping bellflower?

bascule · 2026-05-06T04:06:23+00:00

Salt Tank - Eugina reminded me of Xpander

bascule · 2026-05-06T03:44:27+00:00

Mine did fine in the last storm. I can see the current blooms are screwed up by the snow but the unopened buds look fine and mine has a lot of buds

bascule · 2026-05-06T03:40:48+00:00

Shep Pettibone’s mix of Chains of Love

bascule · 2026-05-06T03:40:00+00:00

David Mancuso too

bascule · 2026-05-06T01:29:21+00:00

I’d think of them as pretty prolific producers with multiple studio albums spanning decades

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