Bennet's Blog

Born & raised by science in the year-of-our-devil Bush, 2001. Certified TumblrUncle™️ I believe the youth can save the world. Philosophy, culture, and nature photography is my true passion-- but my life's experience is mostly in the other direction so far. I offer business (&life?nah) consulting for mostly free (he/they) (blog started Dec 2023 when I lost my last bookkeeping/consulting client) Wanna know how to connect with me? My interests are limitless. I grew up on adult cartoons like other Gen Zers, watched Naruto & internalized every word, and then branched out into every possible page of Wikipedia I could. literally AMA i probably wanna talk endlessly about it. I also did business stuff for the past 4 years but thats lame

[daemonfiend]

Top Surgery Fund

Hi everyone!

I am getting top surgery (finally) pretty soon! Next month, actually. I thought I could just put myself in more debt and get a care credit card to pay for it but, unfortunately, my credit seems to be too fucked for that. So I'm here to ask for help!

I created a GoFundMe to help raise some money for my surgery and I am saving every penny of my paychecks that I possibly can. If you want to donate I greatly appreciate it! And if you can't/don't want to that's okay too! It would be super cool if you could share this though!

Here is the link to my GoFundMe and the link will also be in my bio. My goal is $8,000 but every little bit helps. Thank you so much for reading!

https://gofund.me/fb51ea00

[angelnachos]

Help my friend pay for top surgery if you can!

I would be eternally grateful and give you a high-five.

It's a good deal. 🌈❤️👍🏾

[thepowerisyouth]

When youre setting your DSi down to charge but the cord only works in that one spot

[angelnachos]

Salmonberry pictures (Rubus spectabilis)

I love these berries because they make such good jelly, especially when mixed with strawberries. These guys are also cool because they can vary quite a lot in color. (Orange, red, purple)

[thepowerisyouth]

Charts like this can be hit or miss (so many ways to make a bad graph), but I think this one is a great visualization of the inflation-adjusted cost of renting vs buying.

The gap between the two lines is most telling, to me. If the gap gets too high, demand for buying falls (even though renting is still expensive, its cheaper than buying a home outright most of the time). Rent is almost an anchor to housing costs.

In my head, I think it makes more sense for mortgage to be pricier than rent payments in general. Thats because you can lock in the mortgage payment, which saves on the long term, as well as build equity in the asset. Rent on the other hand is destined to rise every year in most economic environments (maybe not this one)

Looks like it was common for mortgage to be higher for most of this chart except after the great housing bubble burst

(and it looks like the very beginning of the chart was cheaper mortgage but that was the early 70s during high inflation and low interest rates before Volkner stepped into the Fed and raised interest rates to stop the inflation)

Looking forward to the next pop.

[angelnachos]

A couple of Dunn's Salamanders out on a late night stroll.

These little guys live in humid forests, hiding under rocks or logs during the day.

These guys are lungless, meaning oxygen passes through their skin from the moisture in the environment. (Frogs do this too but have lungs.) This means they must stay in permanently moist areas, usually near flowing water. Unless it is the rainy season. During that time, salamanders can wonder further away from bodies of water/other moist areas. 🦎💧

[angelnachos]

Ensatinas (Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis)

A couple of Ensatinas on the move now that spring has come. These guys are cool because they are lungless and change color as they mature.

The picture on the top is the juvenile coloration, black with white speckles. When they reach adulthood, they are purple with orange sides/armpits.

These guys spend days under rotting logs or other forms of wooden debris. They are usually only out and about at night. To avoid predators.

[just-my-insufferable-existance]

The Internet was once a great source of information, now

- It's cluttered with AI regurgitation. (This is particularly infuriating to me. If anyone is interested, I could make a post about my thoughts.)

- Old sites are dead and gone.

- Reddit destroyed itself. (I can go on a rant about this too.)

- Too much marketing bullshit.

- Ads! Ads! Ads! Ads! Ads!

- Stupid paywalls.

- Search engines suck at getting you what you want. SEO is a cancer.

- People trying to make a quick buck. I don't mind paying for some things, I'm talking about the 0 effort get-rich-quick crap.

- Propaganda, psyops, scammers, etc.

See enshitification and dead internet theory.

It's hard to filter all this crap out! It's particularly worse for people with conditions like ADHD, Depression, Autism, etc.

It also makes it harder for me to do my job. Sometimes I need specific, slightly in depth information. Due to SEO, I get surface level AI regurgitated crap. Multiple websites, all the same. They also come with a torrent of adverts. It's a user hostile experience. (Maybe I could write my own, better search engine. One that might allow me to blacklist and greenlist certain websites for certain searches. Or one that detects AI generated content and filters. Actually, a browser extension that detects AI generated content might be pretty helpful.)

I think I've run into webpages that just have AI generated recipes. It's awful. I'm at the point where I just want to use physical cookbooks. Those also don't have a novel about some irrelevant backstory and 69,000,000 ads obscuring the recipe. (Now that I think of it, maybe it would be useful to write an app that can convert a physical recipe into a digital one ...)

I don't know what I want, what really needs to change, or how to fix things. All I know is that I am passionately upset.

[thepowerisyouth]

I did SEO for a while as a marketer. Since then I can read SEO-speak written into nearly every page I find when googling. Its cancer

[thepowerisyouth]

Far out duude

[thepowerisyouth]

Cocoa bean futures-- what the hell are you up to right now?? Nobody's talking about the great choco price boom (bubble) of 2023-24. $3,000 to $10,000 per metric ton in a year to buy imported cocoa beans (varying origin)

[calmdowngorgeous]

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

[anarchist-aquarius]

@certifiedlibraryposts

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[headlinesdontsellpapes]

Thanks for the tag @thelastplantagenet 😊💚

1. Do this uquiz.

2. Do this picrew.

3. Tag people.

feel free to play if you’d like :)

@buncha-angry-kids-with-no-money @thatoneandlonelyemo2005 @with-the-words-all-wrong

[thepowerisyouth]

Lol I had trouble with the picrew but thats normal when I make characters on fallout or skyrim I just click a default, change 2 things and go, to save the trouble

@angelnachos @daemonfiend @just-my-insufferable-existance

[theerraticace]

Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.

[possums-against-cops]

this post must be reblogged by everyone

[sleepy-bebby]

Camera falls from a plane and lands in a pig pen.

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

Pacific Aerospace PAC P-750 XSTOL

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

If you go through the video frame by frame you can see the outside of the plane.

Then I looked up a list of planes commonly used for skydiving and this was the only one that matched the description of a single-engine, low-wing plane with fixed landing gear and a slight mid-span bend in the wings.

[lonestarflight]

Honestly, respect

[rslashrats]

im so sorry to add this but these tags are a little funny because i went to view the actual video on youtube and the description says it was actually uploaded by the person who owned the pig pen and i do not think those guys got their camera back

[egberts]

companies are delusional if they think consumers don't notice shrinkflation. less food in the package, less medicine in the jar, less whatever in the wherever, it doesn't matter where and it's almost always noticeable. like i just finished one box of medicine and we opened another allegedly identical one that we just bought and lo and behold, the four middle medicine segments were gone from the package. they took out four pills from the same sized box and sold it at the same price without any indication on the box other than the small number in the corner. ridiculous

[fabricdragondesigns]

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

[thepowerisyouth]

I like the way this person's thinking. Gold is a lie. History of monetary system is a huge story thats too long for me to want to get into.

Chocolate is a tremendously large, tremendously private industry that has humans hung by our collective ballsacks for profits

Watch the prices/ounce in the future. Only time will tell. My bet is that cocoa prices will outperform gold on a 2-10 year timeframe by far

[thepowerisyouth]

Cocoa bean prices are up over 10% since I posted this on March 18th lol

[thepowerisyouth]

I've been periodically updating my profile photo to show the increasing price of corn 'futures'. Just cause