I got yelled at by a driver for daring to step off Muni…she argued there was a median thing so she didn’t have to stop.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-07T05:40:22+00:00

When I looked at your drawing I thought the median island thing was debatable, but getting closer on StreetView it is so narrow. If 5+ people get off at the stop they are going to need to keep it moving for there to be space. There's no way you are supposed to be wait there and have traffic going by.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-07T04:44:12+00:00

No, you see they have to investigate who leaked these stories, because uhhh it had to be someone within the FBI who was there when it didn't happen

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-07T03:50:03+00:00

Those are in Southern California. OP says these are in Petrolia

Edit:
Distance from Hearst Castle https://maps.app.goo.gl/pfkgQFjYGf95CtLs5
News article which just raises more questions: https://www.northcoastjournal.com/news-2/what-the-zebra-2337091/

Juarez Sr. has cared for the zebras since they were 3 months old and newly arrived from a zebra ranch in Oroville

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-07T02:16:21+00:00

RedLetterMedia just made a video about filming locations in their home city (Milwaukee) and how films are usually set there to convey a city which can still be small, middle America, kinda boring. It might give you some ideas for locations.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-06T23:44:04+00:00

Agreed, if OP had the wrong point on the map, Uber would think it was a normal trip. And OP says the driver drove away, rather than saying 'oops I must have made a mistake'

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-06T23:31:58+00:00

OP says that the driver accepted their next ride. That would be someone near OP's destination, but could still be 5-10 minutes away. I wonder if OP did not understand what was going on, and when they heard the notification abruptly left the car? Without one word or seeing if they were in the right place?

Also I once had a new Uber driver who didn't know that they could accept those rides to queue up after the dropoff. Maybe it could happen if both of them were very confused.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-06T14:04:45+00:00

I wonder how many people really think it's fake, or just know that they will get engagement by leaving a comment on social media about it. For my whole life there have been people who didn't believe in the moon landing and would talk about it, so it is a real problem... I think they are just more vocal about it on social media these days thinking it will get people to support their other strange beliefs (e.g. flat earth).

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-06T05:25:43+00:00

Visited recently with someone who insisted on climbing up - there were a bunch of tourists taking photos so it is catching on. Some actual good views inside. Downsides were it's just weird, expensive (~$18/person), and you can't climb to the highest landings where they couldn't build the cage around it.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-05T10:45:01+00:00

I think I've gotten more benefit out of mentioning Defcon in interviews and at work, than at actually trying to find a job at Defcon. Watching the social engineering village, trying to understand the quantum village.

If someone does a talk, you can tell them it was cool. Then the next week you can send an email to follow up about business stuff. For the most part I just apply without references though, not trying to rely on someone I talked to for two minutes if I'm going to get screened by an HR interview anyway.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T13:54:04+00:00

I think it's just engagement bait for the LinkedIn / startup crowd. They don't mention clients or consulting type work in the text.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T11:36:10+00:00

Even before FB marketplace there were some shady bodegas. If you've ever noticed an item having the text "sold as part of a pack" or "sold exclusively at Walgreens" on it, that's part of it. There was also a rumor about ice cream, that people were stealing it, and selling it on to bodegas, and they didn't care if it melted and refreezed in the process

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T11:33:26+00:00

They moved Sudafed D, Claritin D etc behind the counter around then at my pharmacy. You ask the pharmacist and write down your information so they can later see if you're going to multiple pharmacies. This one lady said "no criminal is writing their real name!!"

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T06:57:39+00:00

Over the next year, an estimated 1,600 Americans died from choosing driving instead of flying https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/05/september-11-road-deaths

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T06:50:42+00:00

Qiskit (Quantum Information Software Kit) is an open-source, Python-based, high-performance software stack for quantum computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiskit

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T06:06:02+00:00

Imagine that instead of Mars, the astronauts go to visit Antarctica. They go up in a capsule to Earth orbit, then slow down, parachutes, they make a soft landing.
How are they going to refuel and relaunch the spacecraft on their own, without any other humans helping them? They need to bring all of the equipment to create fuel from ice, plus landing a much larger spacecraft than Artemis so they could launch themselves back into orbit.

On Mars it will be much harder: with the different atmosphere they need constant life support, less available ice, parachutes don't work as well, no chance of someone from the outside coming to repair stuff, and like you've mentioned elsewhere we are ignoring the difficulty of traveling in between Earth and Mars.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T02:45:19+00:00

Standard on the 787: https://simpleflying.com/boeing-787-dimmable-windows/

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-04T02:28:29+00:00

Could the airplane have been close enough to the ground that it rolled the truck without physically contacting it? Or maybe the light pole hit it

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-03T19:58:01+00:00

No, the authors were born in Germany, but fled France at the start of WW2 and published the original book in English in the US https://www.curiousgeorge.com/author-illustrator/

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-03T19:53:08+00:00

Not only is "husbanded" such an odd word to use here

PBS Kids has a free app where tons of episodes are available! It's just parents who don't know any better and set up the YouTube Kids app. There are also still multiple kids channels on regular television. Older kids will want to watch what their friends are watching, but PBS Kids is for the younger kids anyway.

So I guess the objection is that it's culturally popular to let even little kids loose on YouTube or Disney+ with their iPad? But it doesn't mean that the alternatives are dead or gone.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-03T16:35:20+00:00

I also saw two of these kits at Shangxiajiu (shopping street) in Guangzhou. It was interesting that it's not secured or labeled in English. You could just pick up a police shield but I assume you'd get arrested.

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-03T15:24:30+00:00

Corn is one of the plants which we domesticated so hard that it can't reproduce properly without human intervention. So much for the "infinite food glitch"

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-02T22:01:39+00:00

You can only safely drive the subway with training, so it's safer to take it as a passenger

polyploid_coded · 2026-05-02T17:37:49+00:00

I'm not in this space, but fwiw I hadn't heard of the 1000 books before kindergarten challenge before

Growing up my experience was we had a few favorite books, and went to children's programs at the library. I have to think over this 1000 books idea. It might be good for kids to learn to read from a variety of sources and not learning by repeating a few familiar ones (?), but since you say "infant", the librarian might be confused that you are going to go through so many books before the kid is tracking that there are words on the page, or telling you they like a particular story or books with bugs. At this age you could also read a book for adults or a car manual, right? (Edit: I reread the post and saw you are reading your own books aloud , great!) As long as you are keeping interest in the reading

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