Yes, but no need to be extreme about it. Are you familiar with local plants you can forage? If things get real rough, that’s important knowledge to have, and it’s low cost and low risk to check out some books from the local library and go on some hikes. Do you know how to store food without refrigeration, like dehydrating, canning and fermenting? Learning to make jerky or sauerkraut is fun and easy, and you’ll end up saving money rather than spending extra to prep. Plug-in solar and batteries might make sense at some
point, but when it’s comfortable for your finances, and when you can get a setup going where you use it daily to charge your devices and reduce your electricity costs. The world probably won’t end tomorrow, but it might end someday, so put a little time and money into being prepared each week or month or whatever, and focus mostly on things that will help you even if hackers don’t destroy everything.

After all this time, I still think Koçulu was justified in unpublishing left-pad. I can’t think of a coherent ethical justification that allows the unpublishing of his kik module for copyright reasons, but forbids the unpublishing of left-pad for personal reasons – if it was valid to unpublish kik because Kik wanted it, than it was valid to unpublish left-pad because Koçulu wanted it.

MGM’s jailbreak goal that led to our win over the Fleet last season was absolute cinema

Seattle Torrent – Mikyla Grant-Mentis

Mikyla Grant-Mentis has been a player seldom talked about in the media and hasn’t reached the highlight reels, but her game has been very underrated and constantly improving in my eyes. She plays a gritty style that lasts whistle to whistle and covers the entire rink. She has mostly played a depth role on the three teams she has played for and has stayed in the single digits in points, but I think that changes in 2026-27.

I think Grant-Mentis has found a real home with the Torrent, a squad looking to reload and build off an unfortunate first season. She’s the kind of player you want in those long overtime games where energy is at a premium, and this is the season her offence will finally take the leap it has been pushing for. We’ll see how she fits into the lineup post-camp.

This is the end of the road for Czechia, bounced in the quarters, and in a largely empty arena

Through 23 games, the Women’s Worlds in Denmark have drawn an average of 649 spectators per game.

Oh they had a bit of a romp in Denmark’s barn

During the USA’s 14-0 route over host Denmark in the quarterfinals, the Americans hit a mark no team in IIHF World Championships has ever reached. USA registered 85 shots in the game, breaking their own women’s IIHF World Championship record set back in 1997 when Team USA fired 82 shots in a 10-0 win over Sweden. The most in a men’s game came in 1978 when the USSR pelted Team USA with 78 shots.

When I was on my mission, my companion and I went over to a бабушка’s house one time to do some service of some kind (it’s been many years and I don’t remember what exactly we were helping her with). After we finished up, she said something like “thanks! I really appreciate it, maybe I’ll ask you to come help again sometime” or something to that effect. Being a millennial, I would always answer “thanks” with не за что, which means approximately “it’s nothing,” like “it’s no trouble at all” or “it’s my pleasure.” My companion was newer in country and didn’t speak Russian particularly well, and instead said ни за что, which in an American accent sounds almost exactly the same, except the stress is moved, which instead means something like “not for anything” or “under no circumstances.” Luckily, I caught what had happened pretty quickly and smoothed things over, because she positively blanched when he told her we’d never come back to help her again no matter how much she paid us.

edit: I’m pretty sure he was the same companion who said he was sterile (я холодной) when he meant he was cold (мне холодно).

Me? I dunno. I was trying my best to play along but I never quite figured out what the idea was. I dropped by their discord and the people who run it for other platforms were similarly puzzled. The whole thing was kinda weird.

We tried this in !simdemocracy@lemmy.world and the community’s completely dead so…

🥰AMR🥰

I’m big into sports but this seems like a reasonable take – it’s already the case that none of the good youth soccer leagues are affiliated with schools, and it’s easy to see how you extend that model to other school sports. Also, having the NCAA be the minor league for the NFL is enriching NFL owners at the expense of our university system. The downside, of course, is that we’ll exclude children whose parents can’t afford to pay for club sports, which generally I’m in favor of moving public goods (like getting children active and learning how to cooperate) to be paid for by government rather than private enterprise, but I get it. I’m not sure how it relates to trans athletes in sports, though – you’re just kicking the can down the road to a bunch of laws and lawsuits about discrimination and participation in club sports rather than school sports.

I delete comments pretty frequently. Sometimes you just realize you’ve said something that’s gonna lead to a bunch of unpleasant interactions, and you’d rather just everyone have a pleasant day.

This would be better than the current nickname “Husky Women” we have for UDub women’s sports.

Here’s the contact form for Mayor Katie. I dunno if she’ll love to hear from you about this, but I’ll love that she’s heard from you.

I’m pretty sure OP means people don’t talk out loud as often. On average, people have been speaking 338 words per day fewer for each consecutive year since 2005 (source)

I’m super biased because I live in Ballard and will absolutely go on the sip and stroll to look at the new murals in the brewery district, but opponents tried this same angle on Mayor Katie, that she was rigging bus lines as a personal limo service, and I just don’t foresee it working. Like, yeah, Dan Strauss wants to take the bus to work, and that means extending bus service? That seems good and fine and correct? We need a lot more public transit options? And I don’t know that I would describe the 17 as “largely redundant” with the D — iirc, once they left Belltown, there were no overlapping bus stops

The most contentious item on this list will probably be Strauss’ proposal directing SDOT, to spend $2.5 million from the voter-approved Seattle Transit Measure restoring bus service to the North Beach neighborhood in Ballard, where Strauss lives. This would involve asking King County Metro to either resurrect the Route 15 Express to Blue Ridge or expand service on the 17 Express to Sunset Hill.

The 15 was eliminated, and the 17 saw reduced service, after King County Metro opened the RapidRide D line, which is largely redundant with both routes. Strauss’ proposal would use a one-time budget proviso, or restriction, to direct the spending, but if Metro did agree to restore the service (any change would require.a separate King County Council vote), the spending would undoubtedly be ongoing, not one-time.

You’d have a hard time convincing me to support most of these (because that is how humor works), but lemme tell you I would wholeheartedly and enthusiastically support an entirely serious campaign to rename Washington to Obama. It would make talking about where I’m from like 84% less confusing.

I think the most likely scenario is that the affair with the Chinese spy is much worse than has been revealed in the press so far, so NVIDIA is trying to get ahead of that story by revealing this and ousting Jensen for it, even though it’s fairly uncommon to fire a CEO over an affair.

The Guardian was more careful about their diction; I was more colloquial

Scott Colom makes history as first Black US senator ever chosen by Mississippi voters

Looks like they updated the feed since you posted: Colom is the first Black senator to ever be elected in Mississippi

To start in the more distant past, Colom will be Mississippi’s first Black senator since 1881, when Blanche Kelso Bruce, who was born into slavery, ended his single term during the post-civil war Reconstruction era.

But Bruce was elected to the US Senate not in a popular vote, but by Mississippi’s state legislature, in 1874. He then held that seat from 1875 to 1881.

I am also a happy Mela user, and I second this recommendation