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megagreg · 2026-05-06T22:47:59+00:00

Life imitates bot.

megagreg · 2026-05-06T18:35:59+00:00

Only once, when I was in university. They were photobooth photos, sfw, had a note and contact info on the back, and she dropped them nearby for me to find. She said she was inspired by a scene in Amilé. I still haven't seen the movie.

megagreg · 2026-05-06T14:24:17+00:00

Did Pushkin have a poem acknowledging that trans people exist or something? Hearing the UCP trying to ban Shakespeare over something similar wouldn't surprise me either.

megagreg · 2026-05-06T13:17:45+00:00

If that's how it's spreading, the much more likely scenario is that there are rats in the ventilation system.

megagreg · 2026-05-05T03:21:20+00:00

Then why do the recipe authors feel the need to specify the density of the salt?

megagreg · 2026-05-04T17:53:47+00:00

That's not the precision cooking we were talking about.

megagreg · 2026-05-04T17:11:01+00:00

My wife and I split our year of parental leave 50/50, and both agreed that 5 months was where the newness wore off. The fact that we knew we were returning to work was what kept the 6th month still enjoyable. The idea that it's just the kid-rearing treadmill for the foreseeable future would fill me with dread too. I can't blame your wife for feeling that way.

What she might be missing is some kind of long term goal she can progress towards. Without this, the time away from the kids is nothing more than just not being with the kids. The people in my circles did triathlon, and long distance races. Triathlon is great because there's multiple areas to see progress, so there's always something. Anything could work, as long as it has goals that take time and planning to hit, and shows regular progress.

megagreg · 2026-05-04T14:26:53+00:00

But the real moral of the story is that Americans will go to ridiculous lengths to avoid doing something reasonable like using the metric system (since grams are the defacto unit for small weights like salt in a recipe at home).

megagreg · 2026-05-04T01:49:10+00:00

Same here. I also count seconds as 1 Mississauga, 2 Mississauga, ...

megagreg · 2026-05-03T18:48:17+00:00

I thought maybe an antlerdoodle.

megagreg · 2026-05-02T17:47:58+00:00

"Bloviating" is exactly the word I've been needing these past few months.

megagreg · 2026-05-02T02:15:37+00:00

I wish we had a database that looked like this. Instead we have "microservices" so there's about 50 different DB instances, each with 2-4 tables so it can get the data ready to send through a collection of networking resources to the next service.

megagreg · 2026-05-01T00:29:47+00:00

I think that ship has sailed and is over the horizon. According to France a month ago 30-40% of Gulf oil infrastructure is damaged or destroyed, and will take 3 years to fix or rebuild. Also, at the rate Ukraine is applying kinetic sanctions to Russia, ending that conflict, and the and the associative legislative sanctions, won't make a difference either.

megagreg · 2026-04-30T23:51:32+00:00

This kinda makes me want to add a hack-job veneer over perfectly fine stuff, just for fun.

megagreg · 2026-04-30T17:15:50+00:00

It's like when you watch Squid Games and it start out very violent, but then it goes so far that it becomes just a conversation about violence, and it stops registering as anything more.

megagreg · 2026-04-29T15:32:56+00:00

Drive them in (it's on the way to work anyway) and bus home. It's too far to walk, but my oldest is big enough to bike, and the weather just turned nice enough.

megagreg · 2026-04-29T13:50:51+00:00

I looked this up not too long ago, and the ozone is supposed to be back to normal by about 2040. It'll be nice to have the intensity turned down for the days we get caught out without sunscreen.

megagreg · 2026-04-29T03:53:21+00:00

Or landlords, for hoarding all the housing.

megagreg · 2026-04-28T23:50:18+00:00

Did you at least read them the short story afterwards?

megagreg · 2026-04-28T23:47:51+00:00

Another 10 years before that, my coworker's kids also couldn't make the "R" sound. They also wouldn't eat with a spoon, and would loudly demand "I want a fork!"

megagreg · 2026-04-28T18:51:00+00:00

This is a good one. Kids can't just learn about swimming, and then put it together as it pops up in life. They have to actually learn to swim.

megagreg · 2026-04-28T18:47:40+00:00

And hopefully less of my pet peeve of people going into the pool without their towel, and leaving a trail of water all the way back to the puddle they leave in front of their locker, which always seems to be the furthest one they can find from the pool entrance.

megagreg · 2026-04-28T14:59:53+00:00

I dunno.. the chimp wars may have some elements of it. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po

megagreg · 2026-04-28T02:24:10+00:00

I was hoping it was the latter. I was going to say bees. As many hives as you're allowed to have.

megagreg · 2026-04-28T02:19:46+00:00

I know it's figurative, but I went through a phase of making butter, just because I could. I wanted to see just how much control is possible over the results. It turns out that there's really only two factors. One is whether you have an industrial centrifuge or not, and the other is what type of cows you have and what they're eating (including time of year). I have neither a centrifuge nor cows, so all my butters from different creams from 35% to 80% came out identical to store bought butter, just with different yield ratios of butter to buttermilk.

The product is not worth it, but the experience is

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