jubilationtcornpone @ jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works

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German engineering memeing.

I remember my dad telling a story about my grandpa (his dad) holding on to his shirt collar with one hand and repeatedly hitting him in the face with the other. My dad was probably 13 or 14. It was bad enough that he returned a punch and knocked his dad down. He felt guilty about that for decades afterwards. He probably still does. I don't know how someone feels guilty for the one time they defended themselves against a father who brutally beat all of his children on a regular basis.

That's a sad story. I know lots of sad stories. I've lived some of them. Long ago, I made it a life goal to write happier ones. When I discipline my kids, which I sometimes have to do, I try to use it as a learning opportunity. Just ask my oldest how many times she's had to do community service because she made poor choices.

The moral lesson I hope she's learned from those experiences is that you should contribute positive things to the world instead of negative things but if/when you fail, you're obligated to rectify that to the best of your ability.

It's my job to teach my kids how to be good people and I won't be able to do that if they fear me.

ASP.Net Core is a phenomenal backend.

One of my favorite memories from growing up in the North woods is standing in the middle of the forest, watching big fluffy snowflakes fall where the only sound was a gentle breeze blowing through the pines.

It's the closest thing I can relate to experiencing "magic".

MAGA intensifies

I take enough that I have an organizer for them.

I had to come back here specifically to thank you.

We have a "rainfall" showerhead that has been a huge disappointment since we installed it. Your comment popped into my head today as I was about to jump in the shower. All I had to do was remove a little o-ring and now it works fantastic! It also cut my shower time in half.

This is just an educated guess, but since there doesn't appear to be a meter attached to it, I'm going to guess it belongs to the electric utility and is part of their AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) network.

There's a device at the substation that can read all the meters fed from the sub. Some utilities use AMI over power lines, some use a wireless mesh network, and some use a combination of different technologies depending on a few things.

Source: used to run the department that handled the AMI system.

No one in the recording industry has ever considered how stupid their plans are. If they did, they would stop constantly giving piracy free advertising.

Cook's Venture (an Arkansas poultry processor) went bankrupt practically overnight. Then the state came in and killed all the chickens at each farm, leaving the farmers to deal with all the dead and rotting corpses.

What did our wonderful governor do? Well, as I recall, her administration refused to declare a state of emergency and pretty much told all the poultry farmers to go fuck themselves because it's "not the government's job to bail out private businesses" or some bullshit like that.

Doesn't feel so good when you're the one getting told to fuck off. I hope all the people who voted for Trump and Sarah Sanders are happy since this is exactly what they voted for.

It's "Mister Falcon", thank you.

According to the old TBS edit of "Die Hard".

Shit. I didn't even think about that. That's only for the first one though. After that the months just kind of blend together.

Have kids. You'll be so busy you'll forget what day of the week it is until 5 minutes before you're supposed to go pick your new car up.

...I'm kidding. Don't do that. Kids are very expensive.

You know what's funnier? I mean, it's not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants. Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it's less than 20%.

Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years. So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they'll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.

All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they've been whining about for years. Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.

Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure. You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.

After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.

My wife is like the literal definition of a "quiet and gentle spirit."

She could beat this guy's ass with a tire iron but I guarantee she would do it without saying a word.

No better way to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord than by not tipping some waitress who makes $3.00/hr.

I'm glad someone got that.