Massive Hotdog Recall
Local band that identifies as "Midwestern trashcan trombone rock".
Volunteered at a local repair cafe, it's fun to fix things. And having a clear goal and purpose helps (instead of collecting ewaste at home and "I will figure it out one day").
You get a few slobs and weirdos, but that's par for the course.
IDK about quieter, but lately, it seems way more irritating. Slop, same lazy questions posted nearly daily, useless comments like "wow", and same jokes repeated endlessly. And I don't even follow any of the large subreddits, mostly some hobby/interest and local ones.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, necromantic sci-fantasy. About 2/3 of the way through, and I am pleasantly surprised and really enjoying it.
Saw it on recommendation lists several years ago, and, honestly, expected boring YA with annoying characters. I mean, Gideon is cringe, and Harrow is a bitch, but it's tolerable and does not get in a way of the story.
iFixit for repairing electronics. Even if it does not have your exact model, you can get good ideas from reading/watching teardowns.
By "undercut" do you mean these communities would sell their own produce? Local farmers can sell to decent grocery stores and co-ops.
But either way: massive gardens would require massive amounts of labor. If you wish to reduce labor, you need machinery, which is expensive, and organized fields, which requires some management and oversight. And crop management. And so on. I don't think any small-scale farm can "undercut" a massive conglomerate that produces enough potatoes a year to fill Ohio three layers deep. (Exagerrating of course, but you get the idea)
Misommar was meh. Yes, it had a new and unusual aesthetic for a horror movie, but that's about it. Cults prey on the weak and traumatized, we get it. I don't remember there being much of a plot, just weirdness and violence for sake of weirdness and violence.
But then the bigger issue is all the ignorant people who start associating flower crowns and Nordic (and even Slavic) traditions with "just like Midsommar!!". Same happened with Kazakhstan (" very naice!") and Eastern Europe (after "Hostel")
Loved Outer Wilds, but yeah, some clever "time dilation" could be applied while exploring inside of planets or particularly complex segments or close to a goal. So many times I had to go into Ash Twin to try to finish a puzzle before the sand rises. It does help that translator pauses time though, and options let you pause conversations too.
Liked Witcher 3, but absolutely hated Gwent that most people seem to love. What do you mean players use their own cards? How could this be even remotely balanced? I ended up simply running out of cards three times I tried to play.
(The sentiment applies to IRL card-hoarding games)
Does anyone remember Dendy? (Famicom/NES hardware clone common in post-soviet countries)
33 years later, Russia's hardware still only good enough for NES games. Incredible progress.
I love forced illiteracy. Instead of educating people (whether about scams, using computers, or anything), let's just make everything "easy".
Awful tax burden for who? I pay less total tax in NY because they do not collect local income taxes. And property tax and sales tax are pretty much the same as the state I moved from.
1 bed apartment for 2-3K statewide? Where are you getting this from? A nice 2/2 with a garage in a desirable neighborhood of Buffalo is $2K.
Finally built myself a nice 3D printer enclosure from IKEA cabinets.
Basic idea is to take a shallow (20cm) and a deep (40cm) cabinet frames and to stagger the bottom/top panels and wall panels, making a nice single-piece 60cm cube. A bit more info with a short how-to and a few ideas and nuances.
Found this in my box of desk trinkets, and thought to share.
From what I remember, my father was given this demo print at some tech show in mid-2000s. I am not sure of the material used for it. The surface is rough, dry, and porous, slightly discolored, but does not appear to be crumbly, flaky, or brittle even after 20 years. My friend suggests it might be made with powder sintering.
Just a neat, theoretically-eternal circuit.
