Once they know you sure. Strangers, hardly ever.

Jim Crow and the KKK maybe. There’s always a backlash when civil rights are gained.

We’re living through one right now. I hope we make it.

The proof is sort of in the lifespan of the milk.

I haven’t noticed it going bad sooner yet. It’s possible that other adulterants start showing up, but there are still lawyers that can sue companies if they find them fucking around.

That said we need to kick the fucker who are enabling this shit, out of the government ASAP.

We put out nog and cookies for Santa (me I’m the dad now) and carrots for the reindeer.

Boston is like 30% tourists, and 69% college students from out of town. Unless you’re in maybe Dorchester or whatever is left of ungentrified South or East Boston.

I used to write html, JS, and CSS on long flights and saw some side eye looks, but then I’d have to test load the website I was working on for mom jeans and the jig was up.

The weather in New England and upper New York is very much like German weather, and sometimes worse. We’ve had snow on the grounds since the 30th of November and it’s only barely reached 0C in the last week.

It was -15C a couple nights ago at roughly the latitude of Rome, next to the ocean too. And only about 50km northwest (inland) it went down to -25C.

This has been a colder December than average for the last decade, but we have mountains that regularly get meters of snow each winter, and they are way lower elevation than the alps too. Also as we all know the last decade has been stoopid warm.

Mt Washington has measured the highest wind speed in the world.

I used to work in advertising and it was already a soul crushing career 10 years before AI tools arrived.

Even then it would be most likely seeded by a probe from so distant that they’d never be able to travel here. Think Voyager probe, but maybe faster. If we’d sent one with a bio seed package and sent it right at the best life supporting planet we could find it’s still gonna be 10s or 100s of thousands of years before it even arrives, then a couple hundred million years for anything to evolve there.

It would be sorta hilarious if we were a distant science experiment though.

I haven’t been, but I thought the long hike limited the amount of visitors, or possibly tour ticketing as well.

I don’t think the matted grass is too bad considering that really any minor traffic in a limited area will compact the soil too much for grass to grow.

At least they have an erosion control in mind.

You mean like a Carriage. Where the term car came from?

Shared scooters end up being a mess for cities to clean up though. See Lime, Bird etc.

Many people don’t seem to want to take care of things they don’t feel invested in, or that are used by other people. It’s why we can’t have nice things.

Pretty sure the Trump team would have plastered that all over the media if it had happened.

Good choice and those wheel weights aren’t too expensive either. Plus they stick in place. I’ve got a bunch left over from replacing rusty ones on my snow tires too!

I was working with the education division about a decade and a bit ago when they had an open source platform with sensors and motors. Then iRobot abruptly killed that division too, right as our project was getting going.

I haven’t felt good about that company since.

I live both north and east of NYC, I want the later sunlight in summer and winter. The first hour of light is wasted on me and many others. Farmers maybe not, but around here that’s pretty much over by late October anyway.

I’ve also lived at the most extreme opposite end of the Eastern time zone in Michigan, and like the late evening sunlight even more!

In printing it’s a little different, but if you need an exact color you can add it to the process, much like adding a varnish or other fancy finish.

Orange was always a problem when I was a designer. It had to be specific, you had to send a Pantone chip along, hope it hadn’t faded or changed color over the years (or buy new ones constantly) and then it still came out different than planned.

We had a legit swear jar in a vocational class in HS (in the 90s). It was 25¢ per swear unless is was at the teacher, then it was a dollar.

We had pizza at the end of the semester from the proceeds.

The teacher later got canned for throwing a hammer at a student, but it was after my time there.

They’ll probably just force you to use an app that gets removed from the app stores when the next breaking OS change hits.

My wife and I have said the same thing about our son when he’s had a cold. But never when he could hear us.

It’s a bummer that he’s such a good kid, but winds up when tired after school. Except when he’s sick, then he’s a calm dude who just wants to sit and read, and is happy to wash hands, eat dinner, and head to bed without thinking.

He’s even said he’d rather not play games or screen time. It’s too bad he’s feeling like shit those times though.