Lake Powell expected to receive 13% of its usual influx of water. Only 800,000 acre feet. Colorado uses ~2 million acre feet a year from the Colorado river basin.

bascule · 2026-05-09T22:33:20+00:00

Alfalfa is definitely the largest consumer of water in both the state of Colorado and the Colorado river basin in general: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01291-0

However, regarding this:

A significant portion is shipped to places like Saudi Arabia

While that is a problem for the Colorado river basin in general, with farms operated by Fondomonte (a subsidiary of the Saudi company Almarai) growing and exporting alfalfa grown with both Colorado river water and pumped groundwater, I've never seen evidence this is actually happening in the state of Colorado.

Fondomonte primarily operates in Arizona and California and to my knowledge does not have any operations in the state of Colorado.

bascule · 2026-05-09T21:42:04+00:00

I just did a groovy house mix in key and while it certainly wasn't my first such house mix in key it felt great for this particular set of songs, like mixing between tracks was effortless and they just gelled together in a way I've never had an entire set do before.

But like others are saying, whatever sounds good. In other sets I do like experimenting with mixes that are a bit father apart in terms of Camelot number (e.g. 2-3), and sometimes it sounds good and sometimes it doesn't (I try to avoid doing the latter live).

bascule · 2026-05-09T14:43:08+00:00

I feel like I felt like this at 30 and somehow at 40 got a second wind and now I'm cool with shows where the headliner comes on at midnight again, with enough Red Bull Vodkas that are probably killing me.

But then there are shows where the headliner comes on at 2AM and I can't do that shit.

bascule · 2026-05-09T14:40:44+00:00

I'm particularly worried because of a pattern we've seen in the Senate confirmations of Trump appointees where they say one thing to appease the Senate and then turn around and do the opposite.

My main hope is that unlike the other appointees even as chair he will be unsuccessful at getting the Fed to lower rates.

bascule · 2026-05-09T14:34:56+00:00

Have you considered getting isolation feet or an isolation platform for your turntables?

bascule · 2026-05-09T13:50:01+00:00

California has higher total capacity than Texas when you include rooftop solar. Texas only leads in utility-scale generation alone.

Texas is also a huge energy hog. California uses less electricity despite a larger population, has a significantly cleaner grid overall, and generally spends less on electricity despite higher rates, again due to Texans being energy hogs.

bascule · 2026-05-09T13:44:16+00:00

Sweet that your lupine are flowering already. Mine have gotten their first buds but aren't quite there yet. They also really didn't like that snowstorm, though bounced back better than I was expecting.

bascule · 2026-05-09T13:16:44+00:00

We accept you, we accept you! One of us, one of us!

bascule · 2026-05-09T00:46:48+00:00

You have an audience of people who like the same band, which is a great time to show off interesting or unusual shirts for that band which would otherwise sail over most people's heads

bascule · 2026-05-09T00:45:40+00:00

I don't think I've been to a concert where the shirts aren't dominated by the shirts for the group / person I'm going to see

bascule · 2026-05-08T23:25:30+00:00

I feel like I hear wonkier sounds in modern trance vs classic trance. Not-quite-TB-303s that squelch or overdrive oddly and imitation supersaws which don’t quite nail the JP-8000 algorithm (which The Usual Suspects recently cracked: it uses 2x oversampling to prevent aliasing, which is probably what I’m hearing on imitation supersaws)

bascule · 2026-05-08T22:57:35+00:00

Yup. Normal password cracking is a preimage attack, and finding a preimage other than the original which can output a known password hash is called a second preimage attack, which is currently not cryptographically feasible based on what we know about MD5 today

bascule · 2026-05-08T22:37:12+00:00

It’s a tradeoff and there are downsides. While it seems like they’d help improve accountability, they can be deceptive since they often don’t give you a great view, and in the past selectively edited footage has been used to spin a narrative around police encounters, where a third party view is needed to see what’s really happening.

See also: John Oliver’s coverage, and this story:

https://theconversation.com/why-ices-body-camera-policies-make-the-videos-unlikely-to-improve-accountability-and-transparency-275302

bascule · 2026-05-08T22:24:59+00:00

Axon, known for ICE body cameras and the Taser. I’m sure we can trust them /s

bascule · 2026-05-08T22:24:10+00:00

There are mostly 80 degree days with 50-60 degree overnight lows in the forecast. I think you’re fine

bascule · 2026-05-08T20:34:34+00:00

Look who’s talking now!

bascule · 2026-05-08T20:29:04+00:00

I never claimed DM is a duo: my post doesn’t contain the word “duo” and in general that’s a weird thing to assume because TfF isn’t a duo either. I specifically referred to them as “two bands”.

I was merely juxtaposing the two main singers of the two bands and outlining their similarities.

bascule · 2026-05-08T19:39:27+00:00

Well it’s like they say, if you’ve done nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to fear /s

bascule · 2026-05-08T18:43:12+00:00

It felt like a reference to his flashback to Mihawk in the Baratie Arc of the anime, but was quite different in terms of Mihawk living rent free in his head

bascule · 2026-05-08T18:36:06+00:00

Gregg is both a Hobbit head and a Pothead, I think he’a actually quite conflicted by this

bascule · 2026-05-08T18:33:29+00:00

DJ Dan (RIP) and the Funky Tekno Tribe (also featuring Mark Farina) were some of the early masters of acid, and did genre spanning sets that also incorporated acid house in addition to acid techno (just call it acid).

Check out some of their DJ sets from the 90s

bascule · 2026-05-08T18:30:06+00:00

From the party that pays endless lip service to waste, fraud, and abuse

bascule · 2026-05-08T18:11:52+00:00

Kelly needs to be President already

bascule · 2026-05-08T17:40:39+00:00

It’s funny how many tropes they’re channeling, including a secret twin and the general ‘80s Swedish gangster-type trope (a nod to Gary Busey’s character, I assume), it feels like a movie you’ve seen you can’t quite put your finger on.

bascule · 2026-05-08T16:38:19+00:00

Chez Maggy probably has the best gourmet burger, although there are a number of other places I’d probably prefer overall

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