“Digital” dictatorship? The qualifier is unnecessary.

Barn owls seem to sleep in groups, at least, so I get it’s not universal. That makes sense about territory and feeding, though.

Most owls are solitary, aren’t they? At what age do GHO stop being OK with being in an enclosure with other owls old this?

15mph is certainly reasonable, and not “as fast as a car.” A parked car, maybe, which in city traffic may feel the same.

But yeah, 15 is reasonable; humans can run that fast. Sharing a bike lane with a motorized bike going 25 is where it starts feeling dangerous, and where it starts to be in car range.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I’m lucky. I live in a place where stonecrop is native, and it grows like a weed. Except it doesn’t spread (quickly), and I love the look.

We had some landscaping done and they moved some stonecrop and forgot to move one back. it wasn’t even planted; it just grew right there where they’d left it!

Great plants.

Also, biological monsters would overheat very fast.

That’s why they tend to breath fire n stuff.

Old Godzilla movies got it right. He did look like he was walking on the moon. Not bouncing, but he probably had atrophied muscles from being in the water all the time.

Poor guy. Overheated and tired, no wonder he was grumpy!

Sometimes it do be like that

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That’s brilliant. The thumbnail spoils it… at least, it shows me the punchline.

I don’t know why; it just popped into my head. Maybe because the float would just make snacking easier for the sharks?

Edit: because my home server insists on rewriting all image URLs to proxy requests through that server, and it often breaks things. I gotta re-home.

https://files.catbox.moe/6awpqm.gif

LOL. Op walks around town, leaking Razrs and building their own mesh network.

I know my limitations. One of them is patience.

Alternative title: I got my wife an electric motorcycle. Here’s why.

What almost impresses me most is the architecture of the Parthenon in Athens. Nothing in it is perpendicular. There’s a rise in the middle of the floor of about 6.5cm over a span of 30 meters that makes the floor bowed and prevents it from looking like it’s sagging in the middle. All of the columns are just slightly tilted inwards. They’re not straight-sided, either, they’re bowed. The whole danged thing is an optical illusion to make it appear perpendicular, because it’s so big that if they didn’t, it wouldn’t.

https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/6e7osxbhye9libjdlmb8std5b77rs9

Enshittification is probably a large part. However, I can see it.

Our’s are plastic, 25 years old, and look like crap. Wash them all you want, they just look dirty all the time. I’d replace them except for the absurd cost for a piece of molded ABS.

I take them off to wash them. I can imagine someone having an accident with one, like washing them in dishwasher and having one fall down onto a heating element. Those are big, but our’s are small enough to get knocked down onto the garbage disposal - it would’t be easy, and would require an unusual sequence is events, but I’ve fucked up even more unlikely sequences of events in my life.

I really wish I could get decent aluminum replacements for our’s; it wouldn’t make the range any newer, but it’d make it look nicer than the black plastic shit that it came with.

This is exactly what establishment Democrats and AIPAC were afraid of. Not Mamdani himself, as mayor of NYC, but a normalization of more progressive candidates.

I love it. Be prepared for the massive media campaign though. If we thought the smear against Mamdani was bad, if he wins the general it’s going to be a frenzy.

Good luck finding a 2G wireless network in the future.

Any strong alcohol has to be purchased at a state run store.

So, like 5/6 of the states I’ve lived in. California was the only one where you could fill up your car and buy a bottle of Everclear at the same time.

5% ABV beer can be found in grocery stores

That’s better than 3/5 of the states I’ve lived in. PA has liquor stores, and beer stores. A few years ago they started allowing grocery stores to sell individual bottles, but it had to be in a closed-off section with a separate cash register. Minnesota precludes all alcohol sales except in liquor stores (and restaurants). Georgia - at least when I lived there - also only allowed sales in custom stores.

So Utah is actually more liberal with alcohol sales than many states!

hard liquor or wine or stronger beer goes through the state. Even restaurants

I think that’s the rule in the States. California is the only one I know if where you can buy hard liquor from a 7-11.

This was (basically) how it worked when/where I grew up in Washington

I lived in WA too, Vancouver, but I was too young to be aware of liquor laws.

2. No ordering alcohol at a restaurant unless you also order food. Not sure what other states do.

Before the law change, this was the loophole in PA. You could pop down to a pizzeria and buy a couple of beers. It was a necessary loophole because, ironically, the one place you could buy beer - the specialty beer stores - you could only buy cases or kegs, no singles. But, yeah, that’s changed.

There were rules about bar areas in restaurants having to be more ‘hidden’ from the main dining area, but I think that’s a thing of the past.

I heard about that - a curtain, or separate room. But that changed a decade ago, because (as I mentioned) you could sit in the main room in a burger joint on the main street of Park City and order a beer (or martini) with lunch.

I think all us non-Utahans need to reevaluate our stereotypes for Utah. it seems to have become more liberal (alcohol-wise) than many other states.

Is there an ELI5 version of the laws? Because I think a lot of us non-Utahians still either think I’d entirely illegal, or have only a vague notion that things have changed at least for tourists.

C.f. OP’s post