human bean

she/they // owns 2 purple dog shirts // own posts @ #alice.jpeg

[alice-jpeg]

i know I don’t have to walk on my knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting but like I think i will anyway

[alice-jpeg]

like yes I could let the soft animal of my body love what it loves, but this is easier

[eggsaladstain]

GO OFF BESTIE

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[liberalsarecool]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

[shaiko-system]

i've stood next to one, 5'3", its sheer presence genuinely fucking intimidates me. that thing should not be on the road.

[shofarsogood]

This is also a problem in the US because

These cars don't fit into parking spaces and make pulling out in parking lots impossible

The weight of big cars is causing additional stress on roads and bridges

The number of big cars and trucks is directly linked to the number of children struck by cars because the drivers can't see over the hood!

These cars should be banned. They're not even useful for hauling because the truck bed space keeps shrinking.

[doomhamster]

...please don't be telling me there are Even Wider Cars that we aren't seeing in Europe? Because the humongousness of some of the cars people are trying and failing to cram into our parking garages here in Sweden already causes disasters, frankly.

[thebiscuiteternal]

Doomy, I am so sorry to tell you this, but Ford put this thing on the market last year.

And this is its even worse sibling from this year.

[doomhamster]

...well shit.

[valtsv]

it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"

[trufflesmushroom]

[senatortedcruz]

Wonderful photo

[bobbole]

Otama Shimai

[klapollo]

you are not a "femcel" you are not a "foid" you are not a "hon" you are a woman worthy of respect and taking up space and being happy and the world is yours for the taking you're ALIVE!!!!!!!!! you're a HUMAN!!!!!!! FUCK what they told you!!!!!!

[chongoblog]

fuckin bee brother thats a big ass bee

[mayorgearsolid]

fuckin bee brother thats a big ass bee friday

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[freakoutgirl]

Anyone who cleans public restrooms should automatically make $100/hr

[hellenhighwater]

Oh noooooo due to my late night corn escapades Mayhem went to bed without me and I had to wake her up to take her foot brace off! I'm sorry, Maybe!!! You can go back to sleep!

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Roman bronze sculpture of a wolf's head. Artist unknown; 1st cent. CE. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA.

[cassie-darlin]

“nobody likes abortion” i do. i think its awesome actually.

[pangur-and-grim]

alright I'm almost finished Project Hail Mary, and I have to say, I don't get why people are shipping the guy with Markiplier when he's already in a perfectly healthy queer-platonic relationship with the alien spider made of rocks

[pangur-and-grim]

that's insane. we need to change this

[gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain]

god this mailing list rules

[hellenhighwater]

I came across this wall tent for sale on facebook for $75 and while it looks somewhat battered, that's an absolute steal for a canvas tent. I went to go buy it, and the guy selling it said that he'd camped in it as a child--and he was currently 92 years old. So. Yeah. It's an old tent.

It's actually in decent shape, though, so I'm going to see about getting it into usable form as a backup/storage tent for historical and fantasy camping. And I've been wanting to experiment with dyeing a tent, but haven't wanted to risk ruining an expensive one--so this is perfect as a test.

I used a clean trash can, 30 gallons of water, and half a gallon of flat interior acrylic paint to get this robin's egg blue. It's still drying--I wanted a pale color to use as a base, with the intention of either painting darker stripes or contrasting patterns as an accent. I dunked the whole tent into the trash can of paint water, and spread it out to dry. It is a bit splotchy, but it's probably close to 80 lbs dry, so with the added weight of water saturation, and a 12x14 normal footprint, it gets pretty hard to maneuver by myself. I am going to have to reapply waterproofing to this tent, due to its age, but for now it works to my advantage while dyeing it. I will update as this process continues, but for now it seems like a good way to get non-manufacturer color onto a natural fiber tent.

[hellenhighwater]

It's morning and color is holding as the canvas dries!

[sadmortician]

look at us now