Wait. What…?

On second thought….

this is one time I side with the NIMBY’s.

fracking is awful and we need to kick the oil habit anyhow. it absolutely fucks up the local enviroment, and destroys the water table. the full name is literally hydraulic fracturing… because the process is basically taking something you can’t normally get oil out of, pumping in a shit load of water until the bedrock shatters to fucking hell.

it lets you get to the oil, sure, but it also releases the oil (and all sorts of other shit, like gases) so that it gets into wells and everything else.

Basically the only people that are pro-fracking are the assholes that are perfectly okay fucking over every one else, and the assholes that take their money.

You could always put them in a co-orbit with earth or something and then just use solar sails to provide the delta-v

But I also like the idea of certain peeps having time to understand the error of their ways before slowly falling into the sun faster and faster.

And before some one says “well, there’s still plenty of time for that with a rocket…”

Naw. We’re talking about a truly idiotic person. It’s gonna take them a while,

Does it have to be used correctly? If not, i could thusly use it incorrectly, possibly?

I saw it. But huh. If you use knuckles/phalanges you can get to 12 without any multiplication. (With multiplication- each knuckle is worth the last finger- you can get to 81.)

The wood chipper scene in Fargo was inspired by a thing in Connecticut.

That’s about as accurate as it really is.

I’m similar, spiders and the centipedes with the creepishly long antennas…. You’re good as long as you stay over there.

Though I have to admit, the spiders that set up shop on the patio are incredibly considerate- they probably don’t want to keep rebuilding their webs when we take them down, but they’ve learned where it’s a “nope” and build them out of the way.

Cross orb weavers are cool.

But…

(which is good, what with that name; they’d be failures if I’d seen them),

For the record brown recluses are typically seriously venomous. Like. They’re on par with black widows. Here, they’re rare enough, but them and the northern black widows are the only two that are potentially deadly.

Santa Domingo Airport probably isn’t as well.

I dunno. Never been to Venezuela.

Kind of an unfortunate airport code, though.

I can do stick figures pretty reliably.

My guess is they mean, one capital letter, one lower case letter, a number, and a special character

what’s always amused me about these rules is that they exist because people are dumb. Technically, they lower the difficulty of the passwords slightly. ( for example, knowning that one character is a number reduces it to 10 options in stead of 10+26+26+whatever set of special characters)

anyhow. people should use password managers. just saying.

There’s an entire field of science projecting shapes from the surface of a sphere onto a planar surface going back centuries.

Suffice it to say, I don’t know you’d have to talk to a map-nerd.

Doing this is the kind of advice Boston Consulting Group would give shortly before Citadel cellar boxes your company.

It’s a seriously bad idea. pay shit, get shit employees. It will see OP’s company providing shit service, cost more in both turnover and having to fix the shit that their shit employees shat all over, as well as driving customers away.

It’s also immoral.

“I dunno. I suck at this. what do you think?”

don’t do that at the cheap joints… but otherwise it usually sets up a good discussion.

protip, if you’re wanting a men’s style… go to a barber. usually less expensive, and usually much better at men’s style. (Also, most barbers don’t care if your a man or woman or non binary. they still won’t charge you extra the same way a stylist will charge some one passing as a woman women’s rates for the same thing. it’s pretty absurd.)

that’s not why.

The bibles are donated in a feeble attempt to convert the “wicked”. In any case, mostly the free-bible programs are a grift scamming the well-meaning people who donate funds for it. The bibles aren’t quite that expensive, and the people soliciting the donations are taking a cut. The grift offers ‘feel good’ vibes with little effort to the donors.

same as the people selling tracts for people to hand out, really. The tracts are useless. nobody ever saw a tract and was like “WOW I’m a heathen! I should repent!” (at most, people get a chuckle before littering on the street corner.) but the people selling the tract make a lot of money.

fun fact: the typical gideon bible isn’t a complete bible. Cuts out a lot of the “And god smote that asshole for being an asshole,” and “God smokte that asshole because he smote his brother, and the guy refused to get his brother’s wife prego”; also the child rape. the genocide. the collecting foreskins. Oh, and the other genocide. The incest. And that other-other genocide. and. uh. well. basically all the stuff that’s likely to get people to go “huh. that’s pretty fucked up.”

Have you considered finding events at your local public library?

they may not have anything necessarily furry related, but mine at least has a lot of incredible events and social meetings. Yours probably has something that piques your interest.

What you’re looking for is a “Third Space”- and libraries are a great third space.

alright. So.

I gotta ask…

how high are you (were you?)

also, just to actually answer the question, if it’s played as an instrument, it’s an instrument. Anvils have been instruments (See that thing in Andor. that’s an instrument.) Saws, too. Wine glasses. (both, by playing the rim, as well as breaking them as a sort of percussive instrument.). Even your desk when you’re bored out of your skull waiting for that one email to come in so you can do your job. (rapatap tap, smack rapatap tap, thunk.)

you also forgot the coke-leaves extracts. (“natural flavors”)

Even a single overwrite process is sufficient to stop most attempts at recovery- the only people who might be able to reconstruct that data are… like top FBI forensic labs, and similar.

Even then, most of the data would be coming back corrupted and mostly useless.

2 or 3 overwrites are sufficient to prevent that as well.

For SSD’s, a single overwrite renders it impossible, simply based on how the data is physically stored- there’s no residual “footprint” or “ghost”- the NAND flash memory used floating-gate transistors to store the data. Either the gate is flipped or it’s not, there’s no way to know if it was previously flipped, only what its current state is.

Physical destruction is usually only recommended for extreme cases, where that drive held extremely sensitive data- where the consequences of any amount of that data being recovered would be catastrophic, even then the process begins with overwriting data. (Also keep in mind just breaking the platers aren’t enough- they have to be shattered into ittybitties.)

She was quite disappointed.

It really was only 5…

Chemlight batteries, too.

Left handed wrenches.

It’s a weird aisle.