This is why you can spin up your own personal lemmy instance as a backup to use if your main goes down.

Jfc the lollipops are the first thing that comes to mind

Hey I can check off at least one thing from that list

I can’t even grow plants on purpose, I managed to kill one of those mini cactuses that you’re not supposed to water very often. I literally forgot about it and it dried out entirely into a husk. But the plants outside that I don’t even care about? Those things are all growing like weeds and they’re annoying

Yes

Haha, sounds similar enough despite the different lingo.

I still cringe at the mission planning that went into this (minimal at best)

The main excuse is that this is done on a frequent basis elsewhere, like on the east coast. Biggest difference there though, is the shell trajectory.

Most of the time this is done, the shell is very high up in the air, so even if it did prematurely detonate, the resulting shrapnel is nowhere near the highway through any part of flight.

This time around though, the target the shell was meant to hit was much too close to the highway. So minimal deviation from the projected flight path would result in high risk in hitting the highway.

That minimal deviation meant that premature detonation meant the cone of possible trajectories shrapnel could fly at intersected parts of the highway.

I can only hope that someone took serious note of this and updated whatever risk factors is accounted for when calculating collateral damage. Otherwise this is the new normal of risk taking that is being actively encouraged by the current administration. You might find out something risky worked, or find out the hard way that it didn’t and pay in blood.

Maybe we behave differently when observed because some of the electrons within us are being observed

Generally I start with an end goal, and break it down into logical pieces. For instance I recently wanted to make a custom soundboard for discord. First thing I needed to figure out was how to play sounds. Next was playing those sounds to a specific sound device so that it can be routed into the audio input for discord. Then I needed to figure out how to play the same sound at the same time through the audio output. Then I needed a form to interact with so I could click a button to play a sound. Then I needed to be able to load a config file so that I could update that form when I wanted to add or delete sounds. Then I needed a way to choose files to add to the sound board. And conversely a context menu so I could right click a button to remove it. Then I needed to figure out how to save and load this config file from the filesystem. Then I needed to be able to search for and update the form so I could now quickly find sounds if the list got too long. And then once I had all that working, figure out how to play the same sound multiple times before it finished resulting in a multi threaded soundboard that can interact with any sound device on the machine and saves and loads sound lists all in Python.

Happy birthday 🥳

lmao this is hilarious

It’s Bender, catchphrase: Bite my shiny metal ass.

This happened to me when I used to trim the nail too short. That let the nail dig into the skin and caused all the issues. After letting it grow out long enough that the nail wasn’t able to dig into the skin did the problem go away. It’s a little weird looking having longer big toe nails but it beats the pain of accidentally stubbing your toe and living in agony.

Neat, I was visiting the area last September and took a photo!

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I miss these old green texts

Sometimes my brain picks two dialog options at the same time, so when I try to say them, the word that might link the two together comes out pronounced wrong as if I didn’t know how to say a simple word.

What’s a melty cookie? Like temperature warm so the chocolate is melting?

This is a case of being the change you want to see in the world. The fediverse contains content you subscribe to or create. It’s trivial to block content you don’t want to see. It’s still small enough that you can effect visible change on it. And if you’re not seeing content you want to see, are able to post that content.