Evan

Basketball stadium at the conclusion of the UA women’s basketball game. Final score: Arizona 75, Houston 67

YES.

Great game, I’m glad the last home game of the season ended on a high note.

they did that to me when the number was exposed in some store’s massive security fiasco (home depot?)

“for the person, too” 🤣

💯

the emojis look weird on different platforms, too.

no big deal when you have ONE smile emoji, but a problem when you have, like, 5 “smile” options and don’t know how the nuances will come across

continvouc integration

Yes! And, for adults, the public spaces that are open later into the evening are mostly alcohol-centric. If you want to do something social after work, it’s probably at a bar.

And that both requires spending money and is not ideal for people who would rather avoid alcohol.

My partner was a pole vaulter in college and then got recruited for skeleton

Luge is a skill you have to start developing younger, though, which is why you hear about a lot of those athletes having parents or siblings who did luge. They were raised in the right place to learn the sport.

Yup! iirc there are about 20 bobsled tracks in the world, so most people don’t grow up doing sliding sports.

They have to recruit athletes from other sports, and track athletes already have the necessary explosive strength.

It really annoys me—this would be weird and hostile body language from a human, and robots shouldn’t be programmed to act rude.

And, like other motorized vehicles, they should yield to pedestrians and stay off the sidewalks (where they always cause traffic jams between classes)

I’ve never seen one retreat. They’re kinda aggressive tbh, like they assume you’ll get out of their way (I refuse to do so as a matter of principle)

The ones on my campus tend to zoom right towards you, then stop abruptly a foot or two away from you and turn 90° to go around you.

Having arrived at the point where next steps involve torches or angle grinders, it might just be time to buy a new washer.

No point in cutting apart the basket, replacement parts (if even available) would probably approach the cost of a new machine.

Eye protection is CRUCIAL if you followed previous advice to pour in boiling water—that’s still sitting in the outer tub (now mixed with rust penetrant and any other chemicals you’ve tried), and it’ll splash up through the holes of the inner basket, high enough to get droplets on your face.

Still no luck with these alternate strategies. Now I’ve moved on to advice like “hit the driveshaft with a sledgehammer as hard as you can (careful not to chip the porcelain coating of the tub!)”

And it’s more convenient to eat before you have a cartload of purchases to park and keep an eye on.

washing machine repair tutorials are full of lies, always using nice new machines with no calcium or rust.

“lift the inner basket straight up out of the machine” the guy says, demonstrating with ease

meanwhile, diy forum guys are using boiling water, 2x4s, and a car jack to get one unstuck.

And why are they still using it if they feel bad about it?!

That’s hypocritical at the best of times, but *especially* in a podcast criticizing GPT.

Southern California. English. Fire truck.

I wouldn’t be surprised or confused if I heard/read “fire engine” but it isn’t the phrase that comes to my mind when I’m speaking.

Mayyybe it could have a deterrent effect, but idk. I doubt that porch pirates are doing that much risk assessment.

Even if it doesn’t solve the real problem, I bet video evidence is THRILLING to the kind of people who like to start drama on Nextdoor.

I don’t use one, though.

I’m not convinced that having video of a Delivery Problem In Progress would actually help get the problem resolved, though.

And idk where people find the time to monitor the neighbors’ activities. I am the opposite of hypervigilant about that kind of thing.

One use case seems to be monitoring deliveries (especially when not at home)

Who stole your Amazon package? did the FedEx driver drop-kick something fragile? did UPS *actually* ring the doorbell to try to get a signature?

Also surveilling the neighborhood.

yeah, it’s usually *somewhere,* but it can take some doing to find it

2-panel image. first photo: OTC pill bottle label with warning text, manufacturers info, and then a little “peel here” arrow pointing at the label’s corner (circled in yellow). But the warning text on the outside of the label looks like it ends before the manufacturer info starts. It’s not obvious that critical info can only be found be peeling off the label second photo: the pill bottle with the label mostly peeled open to show the warnings and drug info continuing on the back side. dosage info (circled in yellow) is at the very end of the text, where you can’t see it until you’ve peeled it all the way open.

to be fair, sometimes this is the bottle :-/

people shouldn’t be asking chatgpt, but manufacturers really should put dosage info somewhere more prominent

I’m not usually a sports person, but we started going to my university’s women’s basketball games a couple of years ago and I’ve gotten surprisingly into it!

while driving, i sometimes find myself holding the steering wheel more between my thumb and the BACK of my hand instead of between my thumb and palm.

i have hypotheses about why it’s comfortable, but really i should just stop doing it

Like, I’m happy for everyone who’s made it there.

But I’m also happy that this year’s host country isn’t the US.

2028 is going to suck for athletes who need to choose between their personal safety and THE milestone that so many people use to define their athletic careers.

my face is so itchy but it feels like too much work to go shave.

Yeah. I know a lot of Team USA athletes don’t support the current administration, but I’m still leaning harder on my Swiss and Italian heritage this year.

My family’s kind of eccentric in our Olympics viewing habits anyways (like generally choosing to watch the women’s events over the men’s)

Awww, she’s so cute! I love her stripes

it'd probably help to put their devices in airplane mode when they're not actively trying to send/receive messages.

and batteries don't do well with cold, so trying to keep it warm-ish could help (think inner-layer pocket instead of in the cold air, NOT handwarmer warm. they don't like heat either)