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Yeah, it’s under the bug for sure. It’s funny because I struggled being unsure about the banana instead.

Man, the Red-lipped Batfish is weird. It looks like someone made it in the Spore Creature Creator.

The Tonkin Snub Nosed Monkey is cute. It’s sad they’re critically endangered.

It’s been years since I watched a nature documentary and it’s nice learning about animals I was unaware of before today.

I like this a lot.

The monster at the top reminds me of Randall from Monsters Inc.

I switched over to NewPipe a couple weeks back after consciously tolerating ads on the official mobile apps for years. This is what pushed me over the edge:

I was watching a 30 minute video a friend had shared and a (skippable) 4 minute ad played probably a little before the 10 minute mark. It was a variant of an ad I had seen before, but I’ve been interested in the product, so I let the ad play all the way through. But now for the rest of the video, all the ads I was getting were several minutes long and all were unskippable. The interval of actual video content became shorter as well, so I was effectively watching more ads than the content I was trying to view. I decided to finish the video just to experience how ridiculous it was. Immediately installed NewPipe afterwards.

I have a hard time thinking it wasn’t a coincidence that the ads became unskippable partway through the video after watching one ad all the way through. Obviously, I can’t say that for sure. But I sure as hell am not tolerating that ratio of ads to content. I feel guilty for not sending ad view pennies to the creators I enjoy, but this YouTube “experiment” made the platform unusable for me.

I have no experience agriculture patents, but couldn’t Monsanto make it illegal for someone to modify “their product” without their explicit permission?

They don’t really make the STI at all anymore. Supposedly Japan will see a 4-door with the STI badge later this year (Sport#), but it sounds like it’s really just a manual WRX.

There’s demand for sure, but Subaru really doesn’t seem to care at this point ☹️

Have: a stage 2 '05 Impreza WRX STi in moderately good repair.

Want: a stage 2 '05 Impreza WRX STi in good repair with an ethanol sensor and new tune to enable selectively running E85.

The non-stop flood of bad things happening makes it very difficult to keep up with anything, even the topics that are most important to us. Which makes it all the easier for new local laws that strip away our rights to be slipped past the citizens who care enough to stop them.

The information overload is the system working as intended for those who seek to exploit us.

Hi from Interstellar on Android

And yet still cannot be bought with food stamps.

Although the festival will not take place as an official event – and will not be promoted under its usual name on tourism platforms – officials expect visitor numbers to remain high when cherry blossoms bloom in April.

Preparations are underway to handle the influx, with officials planning to step up security and establish temporary car parks and portable toilet facilities to reduce pressure on neighbourhoods.

You’ll hate me for this, but I semi-frequently write my extended no as nuuuuu to specifically target a rhymes-with-moo read.

That’s very close to spider in Spanish, araña.

West Coast perspective:

• Siskiyou Pass is both the biggest change in elevation and steepest grade on I-5
• the grass is literally greener on the OR side. CA is known for its golden grass that is much dryer (hence the Golden Gate. As a child I was disappointed that it is painted orange and not gold)
• Agricultural Inspection Station mentioned in another comment (only when traveling into CA)
• not a huge cultural difference between upper NorCal and Southern Oregon though

Further north…

• crossing the Columbia, the biggest river in the region, also has one of only several interstate draw bridges in the US. Prepare to be stuck in traffic if you’re remotely close to rush hour
• No sales tax in OR means there are large malls immediately off the first OR exits. Likewise there isn’t a single Best Buy in Vancouver because everyone drives across the river to dodge sales tax for big ticket items

The inspection station I pass by is still there, but it’s been literal years since I’ve actually been stopped or even seen it manned. I don’t make the trip regularly and have always been in a sedan, so maybe I’ve just been lucky. Though my guess is that funding cuts have hit them badly.

One family not buying tickets is not going to put a dent in Ticketmaster’s bottom line. I understand the principle, but a total boycott of the majority of live music isn’t feasible. This situation isn’t getting fixed without anti-trust getting involved and since it doesn’t fall under the umbrella of big tech, I highly doubt the current administration will do anything.

And you cut the quote before they explain they have no other choice. People aren’t choosing to buy tickets from Ticketmaster over another competitor. If they want to see their favorite artists live, there frequently is no other choice. Ticketmaster maintains its monopoly by threatening to blackball venues that provide tickets through other providers, and many of these large spaces can’t afford to fall out of Ticketmaster’s good graces.

Sure, live music isn’t a necessity, but blaming the consumers for feeding into a broken system instead of the monopoly that enforces it is incredibly disingenuous.

Literally just rewatched this episode (S1e3) a couple hours ago. Yeah, Bill is a survivalist and has the truck’s battery disassembled and stored in a fridge in the garage. Reading some comments online, this was likely to reduce lead oxidation, the plastic degrading, and keep the sulphuric acid powder dry.

Unrelated, this episode gets me good every time 🥲