Because I live in Texas and being outside in the summer for extended periods is dangerous.

My recent experience with my phone is I tell it to set a 5 minute timer and it sets one in the fucking Google search browser, and if I page away I lose the timer.

Don’t research the sequel.

If he’s verbally abusive, violent, and keeps you locked up as a prisoner, he isn’t necessarily evil.

You can change him! Just be patient, accept him, and love him!

This is a bill to arrest people trying to prevent climate change.

I can’t speak for the modeling regarding the amount of rain, but I’m was published in college for watershed analysis and now work in municipal development and review drainage plans.

When use LIDAR to update watershed maps and can estimate the amount of water rise that will occur at a specific location with a specific amount of rainfall. One thing that makes predictions in central Texas is the heavy development and vast difference in development standards.

Some municipalities are very strict, and only allow 15%-25% impervious cover, while others don’t care. And with tree coverage it’s hard to tell from serials if the ground is sod, mud, gravel, or concrete.

More importantly, many local jurisdictions don’t require rainwater detention, and counties typically don’t have the resources to inspect stuff installed without their knowledge outdlside of cities, so as development increases runoff into the watershed increases, as there’s less pervious cover and what cover remains is more quickly saturated. Also, the grading of land and removal of vegetation leads to less friction, speeding up runoff. If upstream water is flowing faster, then the water rises higher and faster.

They massively missed the amount of rainfall. They expected a fairly typical flood event, not 20 feet of water in an hour.

Believe it or not, we’re not living in the 1850s. There is no path to victory for a third party in our system. Not in 2026, and not in 10478. We live in a 2-party system.

New York just nominated a true progressive that pissed off the corporate Dems. If they can do it, so can the rest of us. We should be riding that momentum instead of working hard to get Republicans re-elected by telling people not to vote Democrat.

Trump’s first impeachment was about withholding military aid from Ukraine. Nothing came of that, and nothing will come of this. Republicans don’t care about the law.

Same thing happened to me recently. Super fun loop.

1. Have panic attack
2. Symptoms mimic heart attack
3. Panic more
4. Mimics heart attack harder
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until EKG, X-ray, and blood test come back clear, and doc gives benzos.

At least now I know it’s a panic attack so it doesn’t feed itself as aggressively.

As long they can send people to torture prisons without due process or evidence, we do NOT have a First Amendment.

The primary voters in New York City just selected a leftist. The establishment is passed, but he’s their nominee.

You know why Bernie didn’t get nominated? Because he lost the primaries. It wasn’t swung by superdelegates. They didn’t fix the vote. Yeah, they clearly preferred the corporate dems, but all the “interefering” they did was getting the party establishment (that had been selected through primaries) to push for their preferred candidate.

Trump wasn’t an establishment Republican until he won the primaries, and then the establishment who opposed him was primaried. He transformed the party in just a few years by getting his base to show up and vote in primaries.

The left needs to learn from that.

I had a Fold 3, and while I loved the form factor, the battery was shit.

The screen got broken, and I decided to upgrade to a Fold 6 so far I’m very impressed. I took it off the charger in my car at 100% on Wednesday night around 10pm, and put it back on the charger at 11:30pm Friday with 15% left.

48 hours with moderate usage (including some gaming and YouTube) is pretty good.

But non-tech people aren’t buying Faiphones, but whatever they’re pushing at the Verizon store.

You change the party in the primaries. You choose which party wins in the general.

When your choice is between a shit sandwich and fascism, you eat the fucking sandwich.

When your main issue isn’t on the ballot, it doesn’t matter in the election.

Unless you have an older machine, probably the Coke guy.

Coke wants to control what drinks are in the machine and what percentage of the take Coke gets, so they refill the machines.

We used to have an older machine on an old contract, and since we didn’t really care about the income from it we let Coke swap it for a new one they’d service.

About 2 months later, they said we weren’t selling enough drinks and took the new machine away.

Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.

Buying studios wasn’t stupid.

Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.

The big deductions that hurt was removing deductions for items people bought for work. The idea is that the employer should be providing that stuff, but that’s not always realistic.

Without a doctor’s note, lots of businesses aren’t going to buy an employee an ergonomic chair because it costs 10 times as much as the Amazon special. They also aren’t going to buy you a wardrobe of business suits that you’ll only use for meetings. Being able to write that stuff off was huge for some of us.

I had to convince my side gig (teaching scuba and underwater photography) to change me from employee to contractor because I suddenly couldn’t write off my gear.