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@atonal440
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Got some photos from the DSA summit I attended last weekend and I don’t think I’ve ever had a picture of myself I liked this much.
#InvisibleNetworks #13: the invisible side of the cube atonal440.net/writing/invi...
Despite (or perhaps because of) this, Germans rarely engage in spontaneous wordplay. You can become the funniest person they know with puns that would be pure groaners in the anglosphere.
One of the best nonfiction books I've ever read is Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. Because it was written in the 1920s, before antibiotics were invented, it captures a certain terrible awe and respect for disease that we have almost completely lost.
I like when an LLM emits a (contextually correct!) CJK token in the middle of an English sentence. I'm finally living in the cyberpunk future I was promised.
I didn't really think my "year of getting stronger" was going that well but it turns out if you do landscaping work all year you end up with actual muscles?
Didn't really catch a lot of election results tonight, because I was sitting through a city council meeting waiting to make my three minute comment on my town's trans sanctuary city resolution. Worth it.
Watched The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie last night. Brilliant movie, but my fundamental takeaway was that I should really get myself some round, tortoiseshell glasses.
I could cheat and use, like, hiking selfies but that feels unfair to my past self, who usually shaved and had access to a shower.
The problem with this genre of comparison photos for me is that I had adopted the dykey haircut far in advance of the realization of why I liked it. It mutes the distinction quite a bit.
Also I have tits now, but that's really just the simplest, most straightforward part.
Attention New Hampshire: this does not count as a trail! Stop calling this bouldering problem "the twinway" like you're actually going to travel along it on two legs.
Oh come on, this has such clunky narration and dialogue because at every possible point she is using jargon from abolitionist literature. It's obviously intended to argue for something.
And, most importantly, it's already lasted one lifetime and shows no signs of stopping! They don't make 'em like this anymore, for real.
Part of that is its squat shape, better surface area to volume ratio, but the most important thing is that the heating elements are exposed. Most kettles have flat bottoms so that they're easy to clean, but this means less efficient heat conduction.
It's also faster to boil than any other kettle I've used. Yes, all kettles on our wimpy 110V power are slow, but this one makes the best use of it.
One thing that it doesn't have is a baseplate that it sits on to get power. It just takes a standard IEC cable. This is a little less convenient but on the upside it doesn't wobble on its baseplate as it boils like many kettles! Image
This is just an ordinary, teakettle-shaped kettle that you plug in instead of putting on the stove. Why aren't more kettles like this?
Recently, there has been a trend of fancy goose-neck kettles, which pour much better but limit the flow rate. Good for pour-over coffee, frustrating to fill a teapot with. Image
The best feature: It's shaped like a kettle. Kettles were shaped like that for a reason! The spout helps them pour fast and cleanly with minimal change in rotation angle. Most electric kettles are these carafe shaped things that pour terribly.
Appliance appreciation thread: my grandmother's old Russell Hobbs electric kettle.
I'm so close to having reliable Internet: the fiber installers came today but not the tech with the ONT and router. No idea when I'll see him. Tantalus has got nothing on me.
Discovering that all the babytran selfie technique cliches exist for very good reasons.
So I went back and watched this again and it turns out I'm absolutely the space elf princess struggling to uphold familial traditions of excellence and honor, I don't know how I missed it before.