ApathyTree

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[–] ApathyTree 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, the bad news is that some tech firm wants to convert the relationship you’ve built with your favorite cashiers into something inherently suspicious. And it wants to do this because retailers are claiming people engaged in theft generally head towards employees willing to help them engage in theft

Yo I didn’t know I could just get help with my theft, wtf? Groceries could have been so much cheaper this whole time!

What stupid logic.

[–] ApathyTree 7 points 9 months ago

Same boat, but executed the sterilization much earlier (2014 or so when they were starting to really push the TRAPP laws). Saw the writing on the wall and want nothing to do with any of it.

[–] ApathyTree 2 points 10 months ago

That guy was also a super basic bitch with no taste ;)

I mean don’t get me wrong, I don’t really like tomatoes either. But I’m not a giant tool about it, and just say “I’m not really a fan of fresh tomatoes, but I’ll try it”

What a weiner. People are so weird.

[–] ApathyTree 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Absolutely universal because garlic and onion are amazing for any tongue.

And people who dislike garlic or onions are always super sus, because no the fuck you don’t. You just think you don’t like it.

I knew someone who said she was “allergic to onions if she could see them”… that is not how allergies work dumbfuck, you are just a super basic bitch with no taste.

[–] ApathyTree 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So they mostly come from the asteroid belt, which itself is likely a few large bodies that got ripped apart by Jupiter and each other.. This isn’t surprising at all, just confirmation of what was assumed already.

The speculation that “most” of the ~17,000 meteorites that fall each year come from just a couple specific asteroids within the asteroid families seems like overweighted nonsense to me, though. They don’t really seem to have a way to verify that, just modeling of an event 470 million years ago, and composition. They just know that they likely come from a few asteroid families, which can contain thousands of individual asteroids (though it’s also entirely possible that portions of the asteroid family were ripped away and obliterated in a separate event), possibly with very similar or identical makeup, so to then assert they “may” or “very likely” (both terms used in the article) come from a singular asteroid within the asteroid family is giving this research way way more weight than it should have, imho.

Unless they are trying to say (it’s early and I just woke up, so that may be it) that the original large body that was broken up is the source, but that’s so intensely “no shit, Sherlock” as to be basically meaningless. After all, the entire belt is a result of those large body breakups, and the asteroid families responsible for the meteors are quite sizable (three of the named ones, Flora, Massalia, and Koronos, contain a combined ~27,000 bodies)

[–] ApathyTree 2 points 10 months ago

Tangental: your comment made me curious where, in global terms, hurricanes are even able to form. Surprisingly (to me), a lot of areas.

https://www.thoughtco.com/global-hurricane-basins-3443941

[–] ApathyTree 7 points 10 months ago

In what way, exactly, does ignoring people with shit takes hurt them? Butthurt? That’s a chance I’m willing to take.

[–] ApathyTree 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I used to have a cat named gin, but not named after the alcohol.

Her name was 銀 (gin, pronounced geen like green) which is silver in Japanese.

She passed this time last year, quite unexpectedly, after 16 years with me, but your post brought some happy memories :)

[–] ApathyTree 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do they not have to pay for the privilege? Or is this not referring to academic publishing? (It’s not super clear, but context indicates academic?)

[–] ApathyTree 12 points 10 months ago

A new apartment building is going up in the middle of my small town. It’s “luxury” apartments.

Big black “stylish” (see also: identical to every other luxury apartment building in the last 5 years) building on top of a hill in the middle of a low-cost and simple rural community. It’s so ridiculous. It stands out horribly, and looks terrible. And it’s right next to a gas station.. so it looks even more ridiculous. I doubt they will get a lot of renters for it.

About a decade back there was a push to build luxury apartments in the town over. They built them all (few hundred units) right next to the landfill. I’ve driven past said landfill in summer and nearly throw up. I can’t imagine living next to that, and calling my place luxury..

[–] ApathyTree 2 points 1 year ago

They lowered the safe temp limit, actually, so.. might want to try reading stuff instead of making assumptions based on the headline. :)

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