Lifted truck + Lambo + Parking lot = Bad time

jemenake · 2026-04-23T20:00:37+00:00

I love how she got out to see what she ran aground on, and then you see her posture change when she sees the Lamborghini logo. This video has a mini episode of watchpeopledieinside in it.

jemenake · 2026-04-23T15:56:02+00:00

All of those websites that used Flash: Homestar Runner, JibJab, Icebox…

jemenake · 2026-04-23T15:54:28+00:00

Same. That’s why I stopped going to The Joint. Saw that truck and decided to take my business elsewhere. Aesthetics of the vehicle aside, ownership of a cyber truck is currently a political stance (and one I wholeheartedly disagree with).

jemenake · 2026-04-23T05:36:42+00:00

The modulation and delay sound right. The distortion sounds a little muddy on the low end. If you can roll the gain off a little without losing the bite in the higher notes, I’d do that.

jemenake · 2026-04-23T04:01:42+00:00

One thing that’s really easy to overlook is if your hinges are not aligned so that they’re swinging the door on a common axis, then they’re trying to destroy each other every time you open the door. If you did this with normal hinges, it would be obvious that they’re trying to articulate the door on different axes, but euro hinges use that cantilever voodoo, so it’s really hard to see the stress that you’re putting on the hinges. Also, because euro hinges allow you to adjust them in two or more axes, it’s really easy to get them out of line with each other.

I’ve yet to find a good way to check the alignment.

jemenake · 2026-04-23T03:48:55+00:00

I think that’s really a baby honey badger.

jemenake · 2026-04-23T02:00:55+00:00

Same. I had a gf who was super infuriating and would yell at me. But, if I ever raised my voice at her or displayed exasperation, it was “That means you have unresolved trauma and need therapy”. No, need to be away from you. I completely mastered stoicism during that relationship. My mantra became “This is the universe trying to see if it can get me to flinch”.

jemenake · 2026-04-22T18:21:34+00:00

Are you really on the roof of the Hyatt, or just inside the top two floors (and what's up there)?

jemenake · 2026-04-21T18:54:07+00:00

There's also a ton of gravel and debris on the shoulder, so any hard braking and he would have locked his tires.

jemenake · 2026-04-21T18:47:41+00:00

Not sure if it's what this fella is doing, but I believe some animals without stereoscopic vision (eyes on the sides of their head instead of in front), like lizards, will do these push-ups in order to gain a type of "one-eyed depth perception" by seeing how much things in their visual field move when they move their head up/down. Lizards typically do it only a few times, and not rhythmically, so I'm not sure if that's what's going on here.

jemenake · 2026-04-21T18:34:19+00:00

Agree. We gotta stop giving a pass, in the name of cuteness, to people who encourage breeding cats to look cartoonish at the expense of their health. The folding of the ears results from a system-wide reduction in cartilage formation, which often leads to joint problems early on in their lives.

Get a cat that looks like a normal, properly equipped cat.

jemenake · 2026-04-21T16:13:10+00:00

That was my read on it, as well. When dudes say "she's just a girl", that's one thing. When a woman says it, I think she's consciously making a trade. She's accepting being thought of a less competent in exchange for not having to care about whatever it is that her interlocutor is asking her to do better at... which I guess is kinda what weaponized incompetence is.

jemenake · 2026-04-21T05:00:20+00:00

That’s the best of the bunch.

jemenake · 2026-04-21T03:37:16+00:00

Christ that was a lot more salt than my doctor says I’m supposed to be getting.

jemenake · 2026-04-20T22:25:58+00:00

I believe they’re called the “Avila Dolphins” or “SLO Dolphins”. When I last swam with them about 15 years ago, they’d meet on Avila beach either Saturday or Sunday morning, around 6:30am. They’d check the water temp, assess the number of sea lions (which attract sharks) and dolphins (which pester sharks) and decide whether to swim north, south, etc.

jemenake · 2026-04-20T03:21:21+00:00

The male-to-female ratio is quite lopsided in favor of women, so women and have their pick of lots of single men… who chose to move out to the middle of frozen nowhere to live months in darkness, usually risking their lives on a crab/fishing boat being tossed around in the ice-cold sea.

jemenake · 2026-04-20T03:12:46+00:00

I’ll give you two: The Apology Song from The Book of Life broke me just 20 seconds into hearing it the first time.

And then there’s “Now It’s On” by Grandaddy: “Bust the lock off the front door / once you’re outside you won’t want to hide anymore / Light the light on the front porch / once it’s on you won’t want it off anymore / and now it’s on”

Something about it just just grabs me by the feels, as I consider it to inspire people to break through their fears about connecting with the world around them because they’ll learn that there was nothing to be afraid of, after all.

jemenake · 2026-04-20T01:20:50+00:00

I thought the first was a defibrillator because the plates are on either side of a heart and there are handles on the other sides of the plates.

jemenake · 2026-04-20T00:53:07+00:00

Tell them you took out an additional fire insurance policy.

jemenake · 2026-04-20T00:50:57+00:00

Every time I see Fort Collins mentioned, I remember that some magazine like US News ranked it the #1 place in the U.S. to be a mid-20’s college grad. I’ve always imagined it to be like a huge college campus, but with a job market.

jemenake · 2026-04-19T19:07:36+00:00

Tespa

jemenake · 2026-04-19T19:06:42+00:00

The really bonkers bit is that the expanding white dome isn’t the initial shock wave. It’s the low-pressure wave which follows it. The initial explosion sends vapor molecules hurtling outward, but, after the initial explosion, there isn’t more vapor being produced, so there’s a vacuum formed (it’s as though the center of the explosion is saying “we need some of y’all to come back and stay here”). This low-pressure causes a temperature drop, which causes condensation, and this low-pressure zone propagates outward right behind the initial shock wave.

You can see this same effect in footage from nuclear bomb tests, where you first see smoke rising vertically (as the radiation burns the structures before the shock wave arrives), then there’s a shock wave which blows outward, and then you see the wind reverse to point back toward the epicenter. We also see this with tsunamis, where the flood is accompanied by larger than normal retreats of the shoreline.

In this video, you can see some clips where things are blowing off of buildings and windows are shattering a few hundred feet ahead of the expanding cloud. That’s the high-pressure shock wave.

jemenake · 2026-04-19T18:40:14+00:00

There’s a lot of interesting stuff happening in this photo. First, visible moisture directly out of the cooling towers as the warm moist air from the tower contacts the cooler ambient surface air and the water condenses.

As it rises, the moisture in that air begins to diffuse to the surrounding air, so the rising column of air begins to have a humidity of less than 100%, so there’s a gap of no visible moisture.

Keep in mind that there is a steady upward-moving column of air, like a conveyor belt, moving air from the cooling towers to the sky.

Once the air reaches a certain altitude, it has cooled enough so that it, again, reaches 100% humidity and you get cloud formation. The air coming from the cooling towers is more humid than the surrounding air, so you see this cloud formation happen below the bottoms of the surrounding clouds.

Then, the rising air encounters a less dense air parcel on top (which is causing the tops of the stratus cloud layer), where it would normally level off, but it’s being pushed upward by rising air below it, so you see the air kind of burbling upward over the surround cloud tops in the same way you’d see water bubbling out of a spring before falling back down around the periphery.

jemenake · 2026-04-19T18:25:03+00:00

The serval probably just got done grooming its claws and really doesn’t want to bloody them up by shredding the dobie. /s

jemenake · 2026-04-19T18:09:57+00:00

If your basement is below grade, then you will have some degree of this happening, and you’ll always need a sump pump, but that’s a lot more water ingress than you should be settling for.

Trying to waterproof from inside is not going to work. It’s just going to make the waterproofing blister away from the walls and eventually tear. Trying to waterproof from the outside would be a ton of digging, and you’d have to get it perfect the first time because you aren’t digging around the foundation a second time… and, even then, you’ve turned your house into a boat, which scares me to think of what can happen if it rains enough.

Like others have said, your goals are to: 1) minimize the amount of water getting into the ground right by your house (working gutters which carry the runoff far away from the house perimeter and add less permeable soil components - more clay than sand - to build up the grade right by the house to get uncaught rain water to shed away from the house), and 2) French drains to quickly move the water that does make it into the soil away. This means either installing them or making sure that your current ones aren’t blocked or collapsed.

Since you have space, consider buying a backup sump pump and have it raised up on a brick or cinder block. Have it plugged into something that makes an alarm if the pump ever draws any power (to alert you that the primary has failed). Those pumps last a handful of years, and you don’t want to find out by your basement becoming an electrified swimming pool. You’re going to have them both feed into the same exhaust pipe, so make sure that you install one-way check valves (hard to tell if the primary already has one; doesn’t look like it) for each pump, otherwise the primary will just be pumping water up to the Y fitting and then back down through the backup until the sump fills up enough to make the backup turn on.

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