Quality, human factors, gardening, denominators, late-stage dadops. Lego, LLAP, LLTBTB.

Boise, Idaho
Joined March 2008
No longer fighting fire with fire.
Tesla’s Cybercab has NO pyro fuse. Instead, fast contactors can cut battery power in a crash and keep working afterwards. This avoids replacing a blown pyro fuse after a minor crash, reducing repair costs. Tesla has filed a patent application for the design.
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oh i thought Nick Kroll and that dancing weatherman were the same guy
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Free idea: popsicle/ice cream bar where the stick doesn't gag you when you're trying to get the last bit. Too much stick, there must be a better way.
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I'd say don't shove so much stick in the bar, but I have a feeling ice cream couldn't handle it.
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Popsicles have those ridges, which works for them in a way it wouldn't for fluffy ice cream. Food starch structural reinforcement to the rescue?
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sir this is a wendy's
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'
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Honestly any purple or blue HTML text should be subtracted from the data side of data/ink even if there is data in there. Bullet is bad, same bullet three ways is extra bad.
I'ma ask my claude to make a slideshow with black-and-white bullet points, janky arrows and SmartArt, or maybe just trash it all and use only photos I took in the woods, like back in the day.
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Asking duper intelligence to add extremely not-garbage backpressure so I have time to block the earlier garbage out that I know is garbage in to seven other things already but we need to ungarbage before we continue
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I'ma ask my claude to make a slideshow with black-and-white bullet points, janky arrows and SmartArt, or maybe just trash it all and use only photos I took in the woods, like back in the day.
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I want to know more about Boise's Arid Club's cave!
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(I suspect people were hanging out by bank held up by roots, like anyone does at any given spot along the Boise river, and this got telephone-gamed into "a cave" by those afeared that trolls may be real.)
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also me whenever OS doesn't automagically fetch the TOTP from messaging for some reason
Replying to @AlexGuichet
turns out the CA was typing those into the computer every 108 minutes as required, but caret was in the wrong window
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"President Dumb", try it on for size please.
BREAKING: President Trump calls for New Mexico to immediately be renamed to “New America.”
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I didn't realize how extremely derivative of The Orville is. It's fantastic, because I miss TNG, but every little detail and story is TNG very slightly rotated. The notable exceptions are the sitcom tint and the romance with present-day music and topics - nothing 80s, 90s, and Now was worth remembering in TNG I guess.
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Ok making potions is officially one of my hobbies now
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Smoking these meats
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The Internet Archive has an entire museum dedicated to the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It's called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first generation of the internet. Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that somehow survived the decades. 💾 Go find your perfect retro GIF. gifcities.org #ToolsYouCanUse
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I want my Halloween candy 100% bug origin, but a little confectioners' glaze and honey in candy corn will have to do. 🤤
The shine on candy corn is bug resin. Brach's calls it confectioner's glaze. The bag reads sugar, corn syrup, then 2% or less of salt, dextrose, confectioner's glaze (shellac), gelatin, honey, artificial flavors, sesame oil, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and Red 40. Shellac is what a lac insect leaves on tree branches in India and Thailand. It gets scraped off the bark, cleaned, dissolved in alcohol and tumbled over the candy, and it dries into the same hard coat that goes on a hardwood floor. That's the shine, and it's why the pieces don't glue themselves together in the bag. The gelatin is pork or beef collagen, there for the chew. The honey Brach's puts on the front of the bag is under 2%, behind the salt. Bags on shelves this fall list Red 40. Last year's listed Red 3, which FDA pulled from food in January 2025 with a 2027 deadline. Brach's says it makes about 7 billion kernels a year.
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Well sure You Can See Everything with a creepy Momo eyeball like that. Steering well clear of that peep show!
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FIRST WAVE OF TREEFORT ARTISTS HAS LANDED! 🛰️ Celebrate 15 years of Discovery at Treefort Music Fest! Catch indie legends @modestmouseband, groovy soul from @TheeSacredSouls, country outlaw @orvillepeck, and indie darling @courtneymelba. See you in the Treefortiverse! 🪐
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