mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Inventor building an environmentally friendly all-iron rechargeable battery. #ttrpg #dnd5e Writer/Nerd @ http://limitless-adventures.com
USPS total budget $90 Billion, shortfall last year $9B. $80B was self funded, no tax dollars required.
Cost of the Iran war so far: $30 billion, $1B/day estimated going forward. 100% tax funded, no self funding.
Postal Service and the Armed Services are both government services required by the Constitution.
With properly applied swearing and 40 flights of stairs cardio (well, second floor bathroom and basement workspace - over and over and over) you too can fix that leaky shower. Not pictured: Several hundred dollars in parts and about 10 hours of labor. Sometimes, maybe it would be easier to hire a plumber. I'm tired boss.
There are 10 kinds of people,
those who know binary,
those who thought is was base 3,
those who thought is was base 4,
those who thought is was base 5,
...
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
I started writing this years ago, and a couple years ago an old friend started helping me turn it into an audio book. I figured I'd start releasing what we did, and if enough people dig it, I'll see if we can continue.
I just realized Weird Al has been dressing up like Kurt Cobaine longer than Kurt Cobaine dressed up like Kurt Cobaine.
Fire and Ice (1983): Ass cheeks. So .. so many ass cheeeeecks,
Rock and Rule (also 1983): this is delightful. You should see this. Lou reed, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick, AND debbie harry. yes.
'noun' is a noun. 'inuendo' is.. (or can be ) an inuendo. Is there a word for things that are the thing they define? I guess neologism I guess was a neologism ~1772.
A Judicial "hearing" was common because literacy wasn't commonplace - the evidence, the witnesses, deposition was about establishing truth via spoken word and memory. Over time photographic and other evidence became more and more important, but now the barrier to forgery of those things is so low, I wonder if we'll return to human witness / hearing / discussion again. Not saying its better, or we wouldn't have introduced those other ideas - but I think our justice system needs to reevaluate.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
#SuperbuildSunday .. anybody building/writing/creating anything cool?
What does on do when the pumpkin guts spontaneously ferment overnight in the bowl you were gonna take out to the compost in the morning? Sourdough incoming.