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Swimming! The summer heat is here (it was 98F/36C today) and the neighborhood pool is open, so there is no better place to be in the afternoons.

Debbie Jellinsky: [meeting Gomez] Isn't he a lady-killer!

Gomez: Acquitted!

Hey, no kink shaming.

I like Sky Map. Originally developed by Google, open-sourced in 2012.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Map

Competing standards and clueless sellers are bad, and then the tire marketing makes things even worse.

Marketed for road? That's 700c.
Marketed for mountain? That's 29".
Marketed for ebikes? That's 28".

But all three tires fit on the same 622mm diameter rim.

This is the answer right here. Hook up with a local sailing club and take classes. If you love it, make friends with other sailors and rent the club's boats.

If there's interesting stuff to see near shore, and the tides are manageable, then kayaking is also great. It's cheap and easy to get into, and great exercise.

Homeopathics, though sometimes even a placebo can have beneficial effects.

I'm expecting ponies. So many ponies.

Yeah. Though now that you mention it, I never found out the name of his other leg.

Thanks for the heads-up. They're gone now.

Despite my best efforts to get away from computers, I still find myself attached to them in one way or another during most of my waking hours. Lemmy is my computer time that acts as a mental break from other computer time. Connecting in an even more intimate way sounds horrible.

Apple DOS on an Apple IIe in school.

First Linux distro was Debian.

I was rougher on pillows back then.

There's a story here, I just know it.

I know what my Cub Scouts are doing at their next meeting.

For that bolt, I'd say give it 5 ugga-duggas and call it good.

Yes, the first link is combatants only. I think the numbers in the second link include civilian deaths, but it isn't explicitly stated on that page.

You might like this graph of global war deaths by year from 1800 to present:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-wars

World War 2 vastly overshadows all other conflicts. Something like 3.7% of the global population died. Some individual countries lost more than 10% of their populations. No other conflict, or group of regional conflicts, comes anywhere close.

I wish the graph in the link had an option to normalize by population. I bet a graph of war deaths as a percent of global population would look very peaceful over the past 50 years.

Edit to add a link about my 10% population number:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351638/second-world-war-share-total-population-loss/

Since becoming a parent my nightmares all involve my kids being harmed: crashing their bicycles, getting hit by cars, falling and hitting their heads, etc. It's awful.

I thought this was the thread about the force-sensitive wookies?

Saab 35 cobra maneuver for the win.