Lurking n Reading

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

There is a finite amount of memory on any given device.

No matter how good your game is, players will want memory for other things on their devices.

He’s so honey husband

He cannot see you, sitting in the grass with the Princess Mathilde and your lovely Robin, which makes what he says all the worse. 

“I couldn’t believe it when she took my hand. Really, our soulmarks turned white as a snowdrop before she even could touch me, and the light was brighter than anything that’s been seen for decades.” Steve leans back in his chair, grinning. “Or, so they said.”

“Your Prince exaggerates,” Prince Tommy says. 

Eddie fakes a gag. “I wish.” 

Steve is quick to remark upon your beauty, your intelligence, and your courage. He says it all without shame nor hesitation, laying down tidbits about you like they’re the law. How sweet you are for loving oranges so much, how humble you are for insisting they walk to the city market when there are carriages oiled and waiting for your perusal. “But the best of it,” he says, his cheeks gone pink, eyes swimming like a boy drenched in the sap of the aphrodisiac Amora tree, “is how soft she is. Softer than any princess born royal, I’d wager.”

“And her kisses?” Eddie asks in a tone that demarcates how horrifically hilarious he finds Steve’s lovesickness, and how pleasurable it’ll be for him when he holds this over Steve’s head for the foreseeable future. 

“Like heaven.”

You lay steaming in the picnic blanket and beg Robin to put you out of your miserable embarrassment while Princess Mathilde fans herself briskly. And minutes later, when Steve is worried you’re suffering heat stroke and pressing a cold compress to your forehead, you’ll wonder if he’s as lucky as he thinks he is, or if maybe the soulmarks were giving you the heaven you’d craved so badly.

“Okay?” he asks, stroking your cheek with his knuckle. 

we have our own power grid, separate from the rest of the country, because our state government decided that avoiding federal regulation from the united states government was more important than anything else.

this decision has caused numerous deaths, most notably in recent years in the 2021 texas power crisis, which led to the deaths of 246 people, although there are some estimates saying that number could be more than 700.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

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They were heckling the actors in Ford's theater on the day Lincoln was shot.

They heckled the first reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

They heckled the first lifeform to crawl onto land.

"I can tell."

"How so?"

"Because this show is a waste of it!"

"Us? Oh, of *course* our Dachshund sleeps inside- we just let him out in the morning and make sure he comes back for dinner. He just does his own thing, no worries."

"Um, you know it's not humane to keep a chihuahua confined to an apartment? They're dogs, they're natural predators. They need to experience hunting behaviors or they get depressed. No we don't leash ours, he absolutely hates it, we just let him come and go whenever."

Yall get how fucking stupid that sounds, right? So stop letting your goddamn cats get eaten and attacked and infected and hit by cars

A toddler would probably love full unattended access to the neighborhood too, but we don't do that either, do we