Sand walls can collapse suddenly, especially when water levels change (like, with the tide). If you make too deep of a hole, you can find yourself buried with little warning. Knee-deep is a good height that even if it does collapse in you, you’ll still be able too get yourself out. Hip-deep, you might end up stuck as the wet sand keeps filling up as fast as you can dig it out.

Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan may not agree with that thesis.

The one thing that upset me watching the Artemis II mission broadcast was the constant use of imperial units.

NASA uses metric units internally. They had to intentionally translate than back into imperial units for the livestream. Please, folks. Use the better units.

Economy tickets and hostels also cost money.

I mean, the earliest known currency is almost exactly as old as the earliest known cities. Farmers would deposit a large amount of grain at the local temple (which were effectively the tax collection sites of the time) and were given clay tokens on exchange, which could be used in place of actual goods at tax time.

This system was set up because of the nature of farming: you make a lot of product in a short time, but most of the year you’re just waiting for your crop to grow. These tokens allowed farmers to pay their tax duties up front, and then have physical proof that they’d done so when paying taxes outside of harvest season. But it was only a matter of time before people started trading those tokens amongst each other. “Give me a goat and I’ll give you these tokens so you don’t have to pay tribute next season.”

Before that, villages were pretty much just hand-to mouth communities of just a few families. Surviving, sure, but not in the kind of complex society where one needs to draw equivalence between extremely different forms of labor.

Also, lsd lasts a LONG time, and it’s easier to find a whole day to fuck off into space when you’re younger. I’ve got a kid, I can’t get 12 minutes of free time at once, let alone 12 hours.

Two outlooks, neither work?

Glad everything is normal aboard Orion!

Fuck, I only pat it twice.

My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees’ home offices.

A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.

They use the same banks as us, they just have a VP’s direct cell number rather than talking to a run-of-the-mill teller during business hours.

JP Morgan didn’t get all their assets by exclusivity serving low net worth individuals.

Sometimes hiring managers aren’t allowed to provide any feedback because it can create legal liability.

But usually they just don’t want to.

It’s also the French word for rooster (though spelled “coq” in that language). If these kids are learning multiple languages at once, that could cause some confusion, given how often French and English overlap.

“Weird people are more fun to hang out with”

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Like, fuck Microsoft, but this is just adapting to a world where people regularly have multiple computers on a network. ESPECIALLY business computers, which are the bread and butter of Microsoft’s income.

“It’s called cocaine. It turns ago your bad feelings into good feelings. It’s a nightmare.”

Ctrl+Z

Honey Dipper.

As long as you spin it (along the axis of the handle), the honey stays on the stick and doesn’t drip all over everything. When you stop spinning, it drips all over your food.

It’s a niche tool but 11/10 at its one job.

Synology, with QNAP as a close #2. There are other decent options, but they aren’t quite as polished so they may require more “actual computer knowledge” to troubleshoot from time to time.

Joke’s on you, all computers are autistic.

Lead pipes are less of an issue that it would seem, as the pipes quickly develop a layer of calcium salts on the inside, preventing the water from actually coming into contact with the lead.

By all means, they need replaced. But they’re nowhere near the contributor that leaded gasoline was. That stuff probably fucked up 6 distinct generations. If you lived in a city, you were inhaling lead constantly.