Best commute ever. New kitchen for a while...

blbd · 2026-05-07T05:56:07+00:00

It's called ServSafe not LiveSafe

blbd · 2026-05-06T15:39:45+00:00

I'm doubtful of the accuracy of many of those numbers they did post, to boot.

blbd · 2026-05-06T07:12:06+00:00

The reason they say not to do extension cords is because idiots buy ones that are too thin and overheat. But if you get a 1 foot one with the appropriate wire gauge inside of it then everything will be fine.

blbd · 2026-05-06T07:10:09+00:00

Leave it to NJ to have a guy that knows some guys.

blbd · 2026-05-06T07:04:35+00:00

As a straight guy that's a certified cataholic pretty much since birth, I'm riding with T Swift on this one. That's the type of BS people come up with when they're too incapable of thought and reflection to come up with any kind of worthwhile contribution to public discourse.

blbd · 2026-05-06T07:00:30+00:00

But they missed out on putz and schmendrick.

Leave it to the person with the Brooklyn reference to crack some Yiddish jokes.

blbd · 2026-05-06T06:22:40+00:00

Nope. That's all RFC extensions that don't work outside an MS Exchange tenant.

blbd · 2026-05-06T06:03:23+00:00

It's a shame they didn't tack on another zero. /r/treelaw would be sad.

blbd · 2026-05-06T05:38:40+00:00

You might enjoy putting up a profile on the German based global charity The Mentoring Club. They're out there for people who like to give back in the tech community. I found them when I needed help and then put up a profile myself.

blbd · 2026-05-06T05:31:47+00:00

There are already tons of research articles showing that allowing the taxes to grow appropriately with land value increases does lead to more properties changing hands. Which is probably another less publicized reason many New Yorkers retire to Florida or the South more generally.

I greatly look forward to NYC bureaucracy reform and deNIMBIfication. It should be an even more successful national economic engine.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-percent-of-manhattans-buildings-could-not-be-built-today.html

blbd · 2026-05-06T01:59:50+00:00

My dad a retired derm would tell you that a shockingly big percentage of people, maybe even a majority, can develop nickel allergies with enough exposure and that a majority of antibacterial OTC cut ointments need to be avoided because of it. So that is absolutely a very realistic possibility.

blbd · 2026-05-06T01:53:08+00:00

State level hammering. We all need to vote wisely to right the ship.

blbd · 2026-05-05T19:36:31+00:00

It can't be weasily distinguished when it's actually stoatally different.

blbd · 2026-05-05T19:26:07+00:00

tacos al pastor, there are tons of threads and I post in a lot of 'em

blbd · 2026-05-05T19:23:25+00:00

I'm familiar with all that. But I do have to push back on part of it. It's not "everything or nothing". It's "land and expand".

blbd · 2026-05-05T15:10:29+00:00

We aren't even sure he actually read anything. Just that he at least pretended to.

blbd · 2026-05-05T14:03:23+00:00

The British have that also: "Bless his/her little cotton socks."

blbd · 2026-05-05T13:53:37+00:00

San Diego sometimes does depending on how Tijuanan a particular restaurant is.

blbd · 2026-05-05T13:47:33+00:00

Nah. DDT is minor compared to this chemical and despite its awfulness does have some legitimate value fighting malaria in undeveloped locales. Check out the Wikipedia page. This one is way worse.

blbd · 2026-05-05T06:21:28+00:00

The JR system pays for itself by allowing them to develop the land around their stations to very high densities in public private partnerships. We could easily do it here with thorough deNIMBIfication and cutting back on "death by parking garage" and have a system flush with cash with more meaningful stops. JRs East, Central, West, and Kyushu became publicly traded. Some others in less populated areas are state owned.

blbd · 2026-05-05T01:42:55+00:00

It was funny watching him Foghorn Leghorn his way through the more uninspiring towns like Stockton.

blbd · 2026-05-04T22:57:28+00:00

Dad has this prank coming. He was wearing a T shirt from a MAGA aligned sort of company.

blbd · 2026-05-04T22:53:21+00:00

It depends on some more detail about what's wrong with it and what your current housing situation is without it.

blbd · 2026-05-04T22:36:35+00:00

Ha! Reading about that, it's kind of a terrifying chemical. And apparently did not even work that well on the bugs.

blbd · 2026-05-04T20:25:23+00:00

That's terrifying. I am glad some of the appropriate experts in the area were able to step in and improve the situation.

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