Nathan J. Williams

if I were going to explain America to a baby I'd say they feed you bagged sponge bread your whole life then when you're 19 you go to a slightly too expensive date restaurant and they bring out actual bread. You never saw actual bread before. That's what everything in this fucking country is like

Isn't he kind of explicit about that? Spilled gasoline being the smell of progress?

Time change is tonight, that's the traditional time to replace them.

you'd think for how maha these guys are they'd be more concerned about seamen retention

Says something about the demographic of the show I'm at that someone ahead of me is compulsively solving NYT mini crosswords while we wait for the band to come out.

Sandra Boynton Cinematic Universe send skeet

Say what? There is so much kooky interest in gold that we have a whole word for it - and conversely, an interest in investing in gold is somewhat suspect.

The decision to move to central bakeries for Dunks is an international war crime and we should bring them to the Hague

Now tell this to the office building managers that don't have stairwell access at the ground lobby level.

Yeah, reading this thread I was thinking "slow, simple aircraft: didn't we invent AA rounds for tougher targets than that?"

Tickets here in Boston tomorrow (Friday) night are "only" about $100 resale. That and Greyhound is still cheaper than $250...

Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.

do brewers have a speaking group called oastmasters

I'm jealous of him too! It's an incredible gig despite the downsides if you can do it, I just get to respect it instead of resenting him because I'm not a fucking weirdo.

There were lots of problems in my Big Tech career that amounted to "we can't make them do X, they'll quit", but for values of X like "do the grunt work to make it compatible with our other product".

When things were hot in tech, it felt like any random employee could leave and just get another fine job immediately, and management knew that.

The whole "and then 30 or so years passed" that the books do right where the show ends is kind of awkward, though maybe you could just pretend and put a couple of wrinkles on the actors?

I generally agree with this, though as a combined power+dimming interface it leaves a lot to be desired for something without the... glowing inertia of an incandescent filament. Flicker, or weirdly complicated guessing at the intended dimming level.

A white square.

Live view of Boston, Massachusetts.

Smart plugs with power monitoring have been the way I get laundry notifications for years now. Works with dumb and smart appliances alike.

the legend of zelda: a link to that ass

I feel like this is personal retribution from the Weather Lords for having been on vacation in the tropics (just got back this morning).

SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SNOWTOTES MAP SUNDAYNITE MONNITE ISSUED 20260221 1808 MAP SHOWS MOST OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS & CONNECTICUT & ALL OF RHODE ISLAND IN A PINK 18-24" ZONE A RED STRIPE 2 THE WEST IS A 10-20" ZONE THEN IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS A ORANGE 6-12" ZONE REPENT REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS SUMTHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES OH NO

/ FOLKS
/ THIS IS IT
/ THE BLIZZARD OF 2026
/ READY 2 BLOB U UP
/ READY 2 BLOB U DOWN
/ UR GONNA GET ALL BLOBBED UP
/ STARTING SUMTIME AFTER 6 PM SUNEVE
/ & LASTING IN2 MONNITE
/ THIS WILL BE THICC HEAVY WET SNOWBLOBS
/ CHARGE UR BATTERIES AS POWER OUTAGES R LIKELY

I'm mad at how quickly I get that rhythm.

YouTube video by Benjamin Staffin I just want to serve 5 terabytes.

The automated announcements at PHX airport are made with the same speech synth that was used for Broccoli Man and it's kind of freaking me out.

youtu.be/3t6L-FlfeaI

@volts.wtf Alysa Liu is also a Transit Queen.

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DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

This but medical questionnaires.

Looks like there's places to hang things up, which is my current complaint about a hotel room bathroom.

Literally this with Zelda II. I even got the family camera and took a (terrible) photo of the TV.