Apathy Tree

They’d have to focus on getting rid of their smell… that’s probably why foxes didn’t win the dog/fox pet battle. They smell very strongly.

https://helpfulhyena.com/what-do-foxes-smell-like/

But agreed on ferrets/cats :)

Except they aren’t just visible from a single location, so almost every time they are over an accessible place on land. Not for the whole thing, sure, but visible all the same.

This might be helpful for reference. It’s maps of where the next 50 years worth of total eclipses fall. The first one that isn’t really visible by people is 2039 in Antarctica. There’s a few like that. Other than that, there’s at least an island you could go to for it, and see one every few years. Eclipses being totally unavailable to view is actually far more rare than seeing one :)

https://time.com/4897581/total-solar-eclipse-years-next/

Speaking from experience, it functionally ruined them, at least the early macs -exact os/model unknown- we had (school computers well behind the curve and all). They’d need to be reformatted after. It would delete, then iirc just crash and you’d reboot into errors (my memory of this is spotty, it was a very long time ago)

I used to do that in the computer lab when I was supposed to be doing typing practice. Fucking hate typing “properly”.

Note: I am not a verifiable source, this is anecdata.

Eclipses happen every year like clockwork (it basically is clockwork, but on a huge scale). Eclipse seasons are spring and fall, around the equinoxes. You could very easily fly to see a total eclipse every few years if you want to, because we know when they are going to happen and where will have totality - it’s very routine stuff. There’s literally nothing special at all about the one that just happened, except that a lot of people haven’t seen one before because it hasn’t happened -at that location- in a time.

So no, absolutely not something you’ll never get a chance to see again, tho you won’t be able if you go blind like a fucking moron.

That was sort of my thought too, but nowhere in nature would our brains be exposed to vibration over long periods of time, and I know that concussions that don’t meet the clinical definition lead to brain damage.

I couldn’t really find much on the impacts on the brain of vibration specifically, but I have seen experiments where vibration was added to a semi-solid, and it liquified because the weak “cell wall” analogues dissolved. I know that’s a totally different mechanism, but it got me curious :)

Legit didn’t realize until this news came out that windows didn’t have that same sort of “lawl, yes, I know what I’m doing and accept it might break my shit if I’m wrong” override access… but then I stopped using windows at 7 and only started again with 11 when my Linux beast died. (Temporary and migrating off already!)

I never really used cmd on windows, everything was gui… but I prefer terminal to gui on Linux (idk why, maybe just because it’s different and feels more in control. Also verbose logs are sexy).

Me too. I could have sworn I relocated after my tour of duty, but I guess not…

Wait, is dental care health care? (I mean obviously it is health care, it’s literally part of your body… but it’s never counted as such, and that’s where 30/50 of my problems are…)

Maybe some of those foam chunk pillows with adjustable loft. Basically the case has a zipper in it and you can move fill from one to another.

I bought a pair of these and some waterproof zip cases and ended up with 3 pillows I like instead of 2 because they both needed to lose about a third of their volume to be right for me.

The most logical answer to this that I’ve come across is production value.

There is a lot of porn out there, and a lot of it is not very good quality for one reason or another. Now go back a decade or more, and remember it was worse then.

Niche fetish porn, however, was typically pretty high quality because that’s what people were paying good money for. It never started out as free.

Because you can, if needed, just skip the talking bit to ignore the incestuous plot lines, it’s basically just straight vanilla porn, that was what people went looking for. It was the closest to vanilla you could get with the high production quality of fetish studios.

Not understanding the why, production companies saw the spike in that specific result and started making more of it, then it started getting memed, and here we are.

Idk if it’s true, but it makes the most sense to me, considering when it started to gain popularity.

Pretty sure you can disable that in the browser itself though.

I think it’s just the way the extension works. Not really a list, but the extension is designed to click the decline link on anything that would lead to setting tracking cookies, like those notification requests.

Either way, I’m glad it worked!

Give it a try again and see if it gets rid of that top popup. I never get notification requests like that.

The subscribe one will probably still be there though.

If you are on Firefox, the ghostery addon is really nice as well. It blocks ads, trackers, and cookies, plus gives you information about what’s actually on the site (what the cookies are, how many it wants to shove on you and why, etc.)

It won’t block all the popups, but it does auto-decline some stuff, so you don’t get cookie notifications, for example.

Never-Consent Clicks you out of all consent dialogues in favor of never tracking. This unequaled feature adds convenience to each website visit and acts like your globally active privacy advocate towards content providers.

https://www.ghostery.com/ghostery-ad-blocker

Except that you have to use the drugs around him, which I imagine runs the fun entirely.

Ah, so that’s not a lightsaber between them, then ;)

You could always sell it to someone in the market for a used phone.

Yeah, I had that in my comment originally (we have people living in Antarctica, but not too many volcano explorers) but it was getting a bit wordy and didn’t seem to fit terribly well because, I believe, “too cold” takes that into consideration already. It would be planets without any liquid water at all because it’s all completely frozen (at those temps it could be a real struggle to produce enough heat to prevent equipment seizing, depending on the heat source, and it may cause batteries and such to freeze up). But NASA believes even snowball planets completely covered in ice shells which are outside the habitable zone may have liquid oceans beneath the surface ice, as long as they have internal heating, like Europa and Enceladus do. And we can probably work with that the same way we do geothermal here.

When I was writing that comment I went looking for stats on rocky planets considered too cold, and there isn’t much. A few papers about land masses/liquid oceans/geysers on snowball planets, one paper about what makes a planet uninhabitably cold (spoiler, it’s a lack of atmospheric co2, to the surprise of absolutely no-one), and a ton of articles that have nothing to do with too-cold exoplanets, just the habitable zone generally. It’s sort of a weird gap, but I think it’s because snowballs tend not to be in the habitable zone (and were likely booted out of it, so less common) so we aren’t really looking for them for habitability, we can handle cold better, and we know how to warm a planet… :(

I think the idea here with not mentioning too cold is that rocky planets (at least those we can find) are usually relatively close to the stars they orbit (unless there was a realignment event in the solar system that knocks one to a larger orbit), and can have a lot of strong tidal forces and radiation that heat up the planet.

Within the range most rocky planets fall, too hot is much more common than too cold, and models and data indicate that even snowball exoplanets can have some far-from-ocean land regions that host liquid water, extending the range even further.

Just look at our own solar system for an idea of the possible spread, assuming we are relatively average (which so far seems to be the case). We have 2 uninhabitable hot planets, two not too hot and not too cold (mars may not have atmosphere, but there’s evidence of liquid water, maybe even somewhat recently, putting it in the “not too cold” category.) and none that are too cold (moons yes, rocky planets no). Where we would commonly get “too cold”, on the outer edge of the habitable zone for that star type, we usually see gas giants, just due to how solar systems form.

(When solar systems are forming, there is a cloud of dust and gas that starts to rotate, and collapse toward the center. The disk of material outside of the center will mostly become planets, and the rotational energy eventually turns into the orbital momentum. When the star finally amasses enough material to ignite, a wave of radiation goes out in all directions, pushing the gas, but not as much of the dust and rock, outward, to right around the edge of the likely habitable zone. Planetoids out where the gas wasn’t blown away form gas giants, those within the wave form rocky planets.)

I was just thinking about that myself, and how I wish I wasn’t already medically fucked to the point of not being able to do this…

I already speak passable Russian, tho I would need a heavy refresher so wouldn’t be super difficult to swap to Ukrainian… and I really don’t have anything or anyone here…

I don’t think I’ve ever intentionally clicked an ad, with the very very infrequent exception of product results that come up in searches. It’s literally never been to buy the product, though. It’s to see if I’m interested in doing more shopping around. Ads are never for the best priced or highest quality product, but if it’s something you’ve never looked into before they can be informative, and it’s easy to access.

But since I started running a pihole years ago, I don’t even do that, because it gets blocked when I click it. Rightly so, it was a bad strategy anyway.