Reminds me of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. They have an exhibition that has a long rail with metal coil wrapped around it. On one side, the coils are warm to the touch. On the other side, they’re cold to the touch. In the middle of the rail, the coils alternate hot-cold-hot-cold, and when I first touched it, my reflexes yanked my hand away because the nerves interpreted it as “so hot the ‘burned nerves’ feel cold”. Took a few attempts to be able to hold my hands there, and the sensation was very confusing. Would recommend+

Me but with maples

Lmao are they born fully grown?

One in a thousand to even get a chance to talk to someone, what an encouraging system

Well yeah, NA counter-strike is a joke

CNN and NYT were the major perpetuators of Levy’s lies; this is not just a Republican problem.

Related reading

Absolutely disgusting. The damage of these lies is already done.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on”.

You used to be cool, Sweden

Leaving my rocket parts on the roof to avoid detection

Red Scare 3

People who have to work outdoors in inclement weather, like road crews and electrical linemen, are unsung heroes. What a miserable, dangerous necessary job to keep society functioning. As the PNW ends a tough week, I see the east coast is about to get another storm. Stay safe and thank you for your service.

Billy Crystal did it for a long time, he counts as a comedian

Illinois getting doubled up this year

Came here to say electrician. Or anything related to utility (gas, electric, water, Internet, transportation) maintenance. These are often “we need someone 365 days a year” jobs, because they are literally the ones maintaining infrastructure for the rest of us, but those jobs also pay well and are in demand everywhere there are people.

If you’re not qualified for that stuff, consider starting with something like Flagging/traffic control. You’ll start as the poor sap holding a sign in the rain, but you can study and eventually become the person who designs/approves the traffic control plans, etc etc. Pretty much all utility work requires traffic control.

Surveying/Right of Way/GIS, if you’d rather work in a cube

That doesn’t seem like world news

O7

Suburban psychosis. People are cooler in cities. I was out on New Year’s in a major American city and saw at least a dozen high school aged kids out and about unsupervised, doubling up on rental bikes, riding the bus, etc. By comparison, I work in a white, conservative suburb of the city, and the amount of coworkers who are absolutely terrified of stepping foot in town is sizeable. A younger coworker (gen z) is mortified at the thought and is constantly repeating crime stories she heard/read.

When I was 23, I moved to North Oakland after a lifetime in white suburbs hearing the same constant racist/phobic drivel from everyone I grew up around. It was rough around the edges, and you could get in trouble if you were looking for it, but mostly it was just working class people trying to get by. Everything since feels like Disneyland by comparison

It sucks for kids now, more than before, but it sucked back then, too. The media plays a huge role. It’s a symptom of suburban whiteness and fear of outsiders.

Good way to not be ignored. Delay a few flights on the week between Christmas and New Year’s, rearrange several thousands people’s schedules, fuck up the air traffic schedules, cost millions in delays and reroutes. Next time one of these pops up, there will be about 10 vans of riot cops waiting

I feel like a spectator at this point. Fully aware of how the system operates and powerless to affect change without grave consequences. Materially, I’m secure. Not reproducing, so I don’t have offspring to care about their future. Fuck this timeline, maybe I’ll get to return at a cooler time.

was good for a few days of hope