The Final Peckening

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A lot of those were built in the 80s, then replaced in the 2010s because they'd begun to rot. There's also been a move away from pressure-treated lumber and toward heavy timber, because the pressure treated lumber is full of arsenic.

When we lived in Goleta they built two playgrounds with kid-sized climbing walls! I never had anything that awesome as a kid.

A four-panel comic strip featuring Llewellyn (a dragon) and Ozy (a fox child wearing a top hat.) Panel one: Llewellyn: "Of course, spring's arrival is not without its little inconveniences. Take daylight saving time." Panel two: Llewellyn: "People think it was created for farmers, but of course that's wrong. It's a remnant of an old dragon conspiracy." Panel three: Llewellyn: "The plan was to deprive mammals of an hour of sleep, then use their dental floss while they were too tired to notice." Panel four: Ozy: "That seems kind of unambitious for you guys." Llewellyn: "Well, we were out of floss."

Be sure to guard your vulnerable dental floss tomorrow!
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The Rescuers

The library I frequented as a kid had VT-320s for their Dynix library catalog system, so I have a soft spot for them.

By far the best of the dumb terminals.

That was my experience with IT support. The routine stuff you automate, so what's left is long-term upgrade projects, putting out the occasional fire, and reminding otherwise smart people how scan-to-email works for the third time without making them feel dumb.

This reminds me that I interned at a railroad and quickly learned the reason track crews seem to stand around so much is dispatch is making them wait for a train they don't want to delay.

No, they exist. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris had two of the best funded campaigns in history but they still lost. It isn't all about money.

I've been complaining about that since the 90s. There's no other job like that. "I don't want a plumbing INSIDER to fix this leak! Bring me someone who has never touched a pipe before!"

Not at all. It was one of the old ones with mechanical injection. It would happily run on anything flammable with roughly the right viscosity. It liked B99 biodiesel best.

I once ran out of fuel while driving a Mercedes diesel in the middle of the night, and got out of it by dumping a spare gallon of motor oil into the fuel tank.

I'm old enough to remember InvisiClues booklets, but that's not very practical to reproduce now. ;)

Louder for the people in the back!
"You have no allies in the world" is one of the most corrosive messages you can send to someone thinking of coming out.

It's weird because I feel like society was generally getting less prudish, then suddenly GenZ came along and it started swinging hard the other way.

It really trivializes serious topics like suicide when we use cutesy slang to talk about them.

There's a guy on YouTube who does medical videos that I had to stop watching because it just felt so absurd to hear him constantly use euphemisms like "unalived" and "emptied their stomach." I'm like, "you're a LICENSED MEDICAL DOCTOR and you can't bring yourself to say 'vomited?'"

I heard there was a secret cord
You plug it in, and you see the lord
But you don't really care for UL, do ya?

You'd think if that conspiracy were true Bernie or some other left wing hero figure would have brought receipts by now. Or is he supposedly in on it too?

Album cover for "Spartacus" by Triumvirat.

1 like = 1 favorite album

I don't do many memes here, but I'll give this one a shot.

There's a lot of areas on cars that are meant to shed and drain water rather than be waterproof. A leaky sunroof, for example, is usually caused by plugged drains, not bad seals. I had an older car where the sunroof seals were made of *felt* and only existed to block wind noise. Didn't leak at all.

Cleaning out the cowl drains seems to have fixed the leak under the dash on the van. I also fixed the windshield washer squirters. They're on the wiper arms, and the hoses had gotten brittle over the years, cracked, and been broken off by wiper movement.

One was a farmer, the other was a not-quite-WWII Navy vet who worked for the city water department. I say not quite WWII because his ship was en route to the Pacific theater when the war ended.

Look at that big smile.

You know other Democrats have been practically run out on a rail for meeting Trump in the Oval Office. Crazy how Mamdani is always graded on a curve.

Yup, Mamdani sure is sticking it to the establishment...