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Also really enjoyed it and echo these execution questions.

It's not lupus!

Not yet, but I'm trying to leave retail marketing web development to work at a local water utility. It's difficult to find a position I'm qualified for, though. If it pans out, it'…

This topic resonates with me, because I'm currently building a horrible marketing static page with images and videos that top 150MB, prior to optimization. It causes me psychic pai…

Back when I grew up in the 80s and 90s there was a child abduction scare due to high profile cases like the Michaela Garecht case in Hayward, California. In fact, we lived in the s…

Adding this to my list of favorite April Fool's pranks -- my favorite being the recently featured islands of San Serriffe.

Our family used to attend Newman Hall Church in Berkeley, California back in the '90s -- a very brutalist building of a church. Although religion never took for me, I had fond memo…

This, exactly. We Americans have very little knowledge base on how to build HSR, so it's as much a workforce training and proving ground as it is a functional line.

Well, DC to Chicago sounds like it would allow me to catch up on podcasts...

The folks at CD Projekt Red certainly haven't forgotten about them for their "very special" edition of CP 2077: https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/50098/introducing-a-limite...

Normally, yes, you would be correct. But in the case of the Shinkanzen, it rolls to a stop, carefully opens it doors and allows the elderly to depart, gazes at the natural beauty o…

Arlanda is my favorite major-city airport. I'm not as well-traveled as many, but I've been to dozens and it's my favorite. I've transited between Stockholm, Norrtalje, and the airp…

A journalist acquaintance of mine in NYC was in touch with the orthodox community there, who were somehow associated with the Temple Institute, the organization working together wi…

Wait, that's not the downvote button? I always thought that's how posts gained their light grey status.

A real Life of Brian moment. https://youtu.be/0lczHvB3Y9s?si=tbyIauh3fBCdLWi4

Hearing your description really makes me want to visit and experience the...dread? Similarly was a motorcycle ride I took through the Searles Valley and the town of Trona, much fur…

Sweden has a similar right to roam called "Allemansrätten" that allows people to go cross-country through private natural lands as long as they follow a handful of guidelines. I th…

Gush on! This is the kind of thing I love to occasionally see here. Wish I could live on the water, but slip fees are pricey and limited where I'm at. Best to you!

The companies that told me I was a rejected applicant via email, I was disappointed for a short while, but moved on. The companies that left me hanging and never said a thing, I st…

Yup, Aeroflot 593. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

I've seen more than one video from the Mentour Pilot channel on YouTube (where he covers air accidents, fatal and not) where the pilots experience spatial disorientation and input …

Thank you: this is exactly the game I was looking for in the list, but forgot the name. It, too, was my first introduction to Moai as a kid.

The remains went into orbit around the sun, as I understand, not a crash landing into the moon.

Yes, I definitely second this recommendation. I used to do IT for a couple architects and got turned on to these kinds of pens, which they use professionally for blueprint markup. …

Ha, truly! I read his comment, refreshed the GitHub repo and saw the "changes made < 1 minute ago" flag.