Tailscale is a private treehouse. Everyone gets an official member badge, has their name on the roster, and can walk in anytime to hang out, share toys, and see everone else in the club.

Tailcat is two tin cans tied together with a string. There is no club, no badges, and no rules. You give one can to someone, whisper a secret through the string, and as soon as you hang up, it’s gone.

I chuckled the other day when I heard that the planned attack on the UK airbase used by the US for attacks on Iran, is being blamed on Iran, and also being called terrorism.

I don’t think it’s terrorism when it’s a legitimate military target that takes place during war time. While it is possible for terrorism to exist during a war (you know, something like bombing schools, hospitals, residences, etc), an attack on an enemy’s base doesn’t fit.

Agreed, I’ve had a lot of fun watching this series, including season 4. I can understand why some people don’t like it, but I really appreciate the silliness with this series.

Those look nice, but they don’t look all that comfortable or functional.

They might be raising the price, but at least they are also adding ads to all subscription levels.

I’m thinking more like Coruscant fashion:

I have no hair on top of my head, so I’m always wearing a hat. A Tilly in the summer and a toque in the winter. But I don’t wear them for fashion purposes, strictly functional.

What I do wish would come into fashion are robes. So comfy and functional!

Buyers in the US would definitely give a shit about buying EVs… if there were more to choose from, and there were cheaper options. Basically just open up the US market to Chinese vehicles and we’d get there in no time.

Right, but the sensors can be designed for semis, and the trailers should have the sensors just like they have brake lights.

Eating horse is actually very common across the world… it’s really only places like US, UK, Australia and most of Canada where it’s taboo. I don’t think it’s kosher either.

Honestly I wouldn’t have a problem eating horse, as long as it’s being honestly sold as horse and it is safe.

I’ve often wondered why every new passenger vehicle sold in the US over the past decade or so has sensors that let you know if there’s something in your blind spot, but semis are not using this technology even though they have much larger blind spots. I would think you’d see trucks adopting this other safety equipment before they go full self-driving.

Now they can burn through more of the expensive diesel than before!

I was a deckhand on a tug boat for 1 year when I was 18.

Among my coworkers I had the most teeth, the least number of arrests, the least number of ex wives, and the least number of tattoos. I also was involuntarily involved in a felony that ended with one of my coworkers attempting to rape me. Also, working on the river during winter really sucked. Oh, and part of the job involved cleaning fertilizer out of empty barges, so now I have periodic chest scans to look for cancer. One of my other coworkers also tried to light a cigarette whole we were sweeping up the fertilizer dust.

I understood the value of a college education after that year.

I grew up in Kentucky in the 80s and I grew up calling it a racial slur… and there was no shame around my neighborhood in calling it that because that’s just what it was called. I had no idea what the word meant until years later and now looking back on it I’m disgusted at all of the adults in my neighborhood who let us call it that.

Last week I watched O Brother Where Art Thou with my almost 10 year old daughter and at one point in the movie after it had been said a few times my daughter turned an looked at me and asked “What does ‘negro’ mean?”… and with that I feel like I’ve done a good job at stopping institutional racism in my family line.

A koi is ok, but if you want the best living fleshlight you’ve gotta get a rattlesnake. Just be sure you have the fangs removed first, and then use it before the next set of fangs come in, otherwise that’s a VERY embarrassing trip to the ER.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines sex as “physical activity between two people in which they touch each other’s sexual organs, and which may include sexual intercourse”… seeing that the koi, despite being hapless, is not a people, and it doesn’t sound like the pervert touched the koi’s sexual organs, I’m going to have to say that they did not have sex.

Also, is 51 considered a senior citizen in Thailand?

I’ve had so many enjoyable hours of playing NMS, and eventually it does get to a point where I’ve completed the current missions and I’ve done everything multiple times and it gets repetitive… and I stop playing it. Then they have a release, and it’s an exciting game again.

I love that it’s still getting updates because it keeps me coming back. I can’t wait to check out this latest update!

Not music, but the movie Fight Club is very much a pre-9/11 feel… specifically when Tyler is talking about how his generation has ‘no great war or struggle’. That line hit hard the first time I heard it, then after 9/11 it felt very nostalgic of as time when shit wasn’t so crazy.

It’s not so much the that drinking soda caused kidney disease as the lack of ever drinking water.

I attribute the sugar from the soda as helping to cause the diabetes though.

I was raised drinking soda as the default… water was never something we’d willingly drink. In middle school I noticed that every day I’d get home from school with a splitting headache and I’d take a couple of aspirin and wash it down with a Coke and the headache would go away. My parents realized that it was likely caffeine withdrawal… so instead of cutting out soda, they started getting me caffeine free soda.

It wasn’t until my older brother was in his late 30s and experienced kidney failure and required a transplant that I realized I needed to make a change. I switched over to water and unsweet tea as my defaults. Even after his transplant my brother still would only drink soda… he didn’t survive Covid. And today my mom routinely has kidney issues but still refuses to drink water.

Everyone in my family, except for me, has diabetes and kidney issues. I’m sure my 30+ years of daily soda drinking will catch up to me, but I do credit cutting soda out of my diet as having a major positive impact on my overall health.