I had the privilege of having lunch with an entomologist once, and yes.

Also, some of them keep advanced databases for looking up cool bugs in case they can’t remember them later.

Neat! I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Yeah. One never can tell which way old men with possible dementia will twitch.

Hell, maybe he’ll have a stroke and wake up with integrity and a conscience. Weirder things have happened to nicer people, after all.

They are not all the same.

Measure the diameter of the hole at the bottom of the water holding tank. It’s the main difference between older and newer toilets in the US.

Any US toilet repair kit should list what diameter(s) it supports.

Depth of the holding tank will vary as well, but most repair kits account for this. Some kits may require using a hand saw to cut some plastic tubes to fit smaller tanks. Other kits have an extendable or collapsible tube.

Annecdotaly, a recent patch had notes that implied it fixes this issue. I got so tired of the dock being unreliable that I haven’t confirmed it, though.

// portability

Gave me the giggles. I’ve helped maintain systems where this portable solution would have left everyone better off.

Decent sometimes wins over indecent. And sometimes (certainly far too often) it doesn’t.

To those of us spared, when decency won, it was worth it.

The guarantee they enjoyed is no longer expressed in the constitution. Or am I missing something?

Yeah. I’m not saying it was wise, by any means!

As your question is answered, I just want to add here - the last couple of decades of progress winning hearts and minds have not been erased.

We had a black president and we almost had a woman president (twice). These good progressive events brought the many remaining shitheads out to vote.

But there’s a lot of us out there who used to be completely ignorant to LGBTQ+ issues who are now aware and are trying to be allies.

Another shithead in a fancy office can’t change that. (Though, yes, I’m sure he will try.)

A lot of people died who didn’t need to, in the United States, during the pandemic of 2020, due to a certain orange jackass making basic mask wearing into a political statement, instead of a matter of human decency to each other.

We’re here to post about it. Others are not (because they are dead.)

Voting in the United States has always been primarily a way to protect the power of already powerful people, and secondarily a way to ensure incremental social progress continues at a pace that doesn’t make powerful people too uncomfortable.

A lot of things about the way things are structured in US democracy make more sense with that context, including this, I think.

Specifically, 70% of people both eligible and motivated to vote, voted to ensure eligibility to vote is not extended. This has happened many times throughout history, and only seems odd if we accept the fib that everyone is represented.

In the context of gerrandering, first-past-the-poll “representation”, and various other forms of disenfranchisement; it makes sense that 70% of the people allowed to actually vote, votes in favor of continuing to restrict the vote (to themselves).

Also xmas trees are giant cocks. Yep. Huge phallic symbols.

Today I learned!

I’m going to enjoy Christmas trees even more with this knowledge. Thank you.

Though, when looking for a source for others to enjoy, it also turns out it’s complicated.

Edit: Caesar Borgia. Unsubstantiated…except by pretty much anyone who, you know, has a quick look at the various portraits of him.

Somehow they see him as more godly.

Well yeah. Jesus loves to “grab em by the pussy”, apparently.

I’ll admit I haven’t quite found that Bible verse…

Three different billionaires have each spent more than all the normal people combined.

To make it easier to see who out there is most invested in a Trump presidency:

https://news.yahoo.com/news/most-important-billionaires-backing-trumps-104802063.html

Big feelings are normal, but you gotta get out of your own head. You can’t guess what this relationship will be, and you don’t get to decide. There’s something between you, and you’ll both find out how much or how little with time.

It got a lot easier for me when I learned to frame every interaction with the understanding that it might be the last, for whatever reason.

Maybe their life gets busy, maybe they get a job far away, or maybe I get hit by a car. Life is capricious.

To help me replace fantasizing about everything we might someday have, I try to think hard about what I want them to remember between now and next time we interact.

I ask myself, “of the things I’m good at and comfortable being, which do they need today?”

People always remember how we made them feel, the most.

And sometimes I really do reconnect with an old friend and it’s like no time has passed. And sometimes I don’t, and just hope they remember me as fondly as I remember them.

And sometimes, rarely, friendship grows into something much more. But my approach tends to be the same, however it goes. I try to consciously invest in people I like being around, and give them space to get just what they need from our friendship.

so we’ll see if Vance is similarly loyal.

Yeah. Considering how Trump may have actually intended to have Pence killed during the January 6 insurrection, my money is on “not particularly loyal”.

I like to think there’s still hope that people around Trump and Putin will recognize the clear signs of dementia and not drag the world to war, this time.

I have both the official dock and some random USB C multi-connector. The random one is far more reliable, in my experience.

Historically, “nothing” is the label we apply when none of the things we are currently able to detect are present.

After we can detect what actually is there, we update our description to the much more accurate term “practically nothing”.

Large corporate donors decide, in a non-representative winner-take-all vote system.

Also, I think they meant to say “both parties”.

Yeah.

Annecdotaly, Dropout.tv has a good number of LGBTQ employees, seems conscious not to shit on people, and has a growing library of stand up.