🇨🇦 tunetardis @ tunetardis @lemmy.ca

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Storm surges can be insane. I've never been in a hurricane, but have witnessed the aftermath. My parents had some property in coastal Mexico that got hit. When we got there to assess damages, the town's main street was essentially a giant sand dune over 2 storeys tall. The surge had basically lifted the entire beach and dumped it 2 blocks in. The town square was likewise covered in sand with all sorts of debris sticking out of it. And by debris, I mean stuff as large as a fridge.

(Regarding the property, we kind of lucked out. About a year before it hit, a hotel went up between the house and the beach, which blocked the view but had a major silver lining in terms of protecting all the houses behind it from the worst of the storm. And then speaking to the hotel owner, he said he'd spent a small fortune to build a giant concrete foundation that stretched almost a city block's length under the beach. People thought he was insane to do that, but it was literally the only waterfront building still standing, so he clearly knew what he was doing.)

Heh yeah. I've asked her on a few occasions and she looks embarrassed and gives me a different answer every time. I figure she just needs a moment and so I've stopped prying.

I've caught my wife doing this on numerous occasions. The typical scenario is we'll meet after work someplace for dinner. I'm on my bike and she's driving. So we head home separately and she arrives first. But as I'm putting the bike away, I see a light turning on behind me and it's her climbing out of the car.

I've seen this also at fast food parking lots and it puzzles me even more. There's a guy just sitting there not eating or doing anything. Did he eat already? Was he not hungry and but his partner was so he's just waiting for them?

Last time I saw one of these guys as I was entering the restaurant. I ate my lunch and sat around for maybe 20 min because I prefer not to cycle again immediately after eating. Then I come out and the dude is still there, staring off into space.

I'm a musician. I can't afford top tier sound!

Tbh I can live with what I've got at home. A garden variety setup today still sounds better than something high-end did when I was growing up. Just give me some decent channel separation and I can zone out.

Where there is still significant room for improvement is in stage sound. Why do monitors always have to sound like sh*t? It's like bands spend all their budget on amps and PAs and whatever dregs are left over go to the monitors. And house sound. Don't even get me started. Maybe their gear was good once (probably not) but it's invariably seen one beer spill too many.

I got to tour Bruce Nuclear. I still remember entering that building and feeling like I was on the Death Star with so much machinery stretching on and on.

Dang, that reads like a commercial for pharmaceuticals.

Didn't kbin have a separate mechanism for supporting a post in a more public way? I can't remember how that worked now, but it was in addition to the regular voting I think?

I haven't done so personally. A lot of my old activity had to do with helping people with programming questions, so if it's still useful to someone on occasion, I don't feel inclined to remove it.

I left reddit a little over a year ago now, and I don't really care about what goes on over there. I made my statement of displeasure by simply ending all activity on the platform. I figure whatever legacy I left will eventually descend into irrelevance without my having to physically delete it all. At this point, that just sounds like work.

Oh man I have that same problem in Apple Music! I make a playlist out of my set list and have it repeat all week until I have everything down, and then the algorithm picks from it for months after that.

I'm starting to think maybe I should use one streaming service for learning and another for enjoyment?

Know better than to be in Kursk?

I have mixed feelings on this. I grew up in a secular setting as my father had long ago given up on religion and my mother seemed ambivalent about it.

As an adult, I moved to a new city with my wife who is religious, though non-evangelical. She never tried to push me into it but would disappear every Sunday morning. But after a decade or so of feeling like a stranger in my adopted city, I attended a service where I discovered they were in desperate need for musicians. So I wound up volunteering some time and in the process, met a lot of people, and one thing led to another. Today, I do have friends in the city, play in various bands around town, etc.

Yet I still haven't really bought into religion. I guess the value to me is that it gets my introverted ass out of the house and meeting people irl. As a community institution, it brings together people of varying ages and demographics. But it comes with a huge amount of baggage which I could frankly do without?

I just hope that if religion fades away, there will still be something at the community level that gathers together people regularly from all walks of life. There are all sorts of special interest groups, but many of these do not necessarily attract a wide cross-section of society.

Whatever the case, when a church closes as a religious institution, I hope that it can be repurposed to some other activity that is still community-building?

Ah thank you! I will have a look at those.

Are there any apps that support scaled? I've tried a few and no luck so far. I like the scaled view.

Nice. I had been using the analogy that an introvert at a party acts as a sacrificial anode consuming corrosive extroversion until they are utterly exhausted. But I like your take on it!

I've been on long flights where I wished there had been designated seating for introverts. But then I considered the implications of packing all the extroverts together in one place nearby and thought better of it.

I have tried to bury memories about my life as a student, but posts like this bring it all back.

Like say for a term paper, it usually went something like this.

1. Pick from among the Prof's suggested topics.
2. Attempt to find resources on said topic.
3. Fail at #2 and return to #1.
4. Finally find a well-covered topic and breathe a sigh of relief with 1 week to go.
5. Attend a lecture/TA session and discover to my horror that I've misunderstood the topic completely. Return to #1.
6. In desperation, try to find reference materials on all possible topics at once. 2 days to go.
7. Spend a day sifting through everything I've managed to gather hoping to find anything at all I could write 1000+ words about.
8. Final evening. Plunk down a 2L coke, heat up some Jamaican patties, and start pulling an all-nighter.

I guess for exams, there was less running around but more like #8 on repeat for a couple of weeks straight. After that, my mom calls telling me what great plans she has for Christmas. I'm usually just coming down with the flu by this point.

I have, if anything, been watching the Olympics more now than in the past. I think the change came about due to the fact that you can now stream any event at any time without commercials, annoying commentary, interviews, etc. It used to be that coverage would focus on events featuring your own nation's top talent, which meant that some sport that interests you but doesn't have much traction in your country gets ignored. And during a low time, rather than showing some sport where maybe your country has no medal prospects, they'd fill the time doing athlete profiles or whatever. I hated that.

But I get that there are downsides. The cost of hosting the games have spiralled out of control, the IOC has FIFA-scale corruption issues, and the war on drugs is going about as well as wars on drugs go.

One thing I have noticed with the Paris Games is that the venues are spread around a lot more across the country. The surfing was all the way over in Tahiti, which is about as far from Paris as you can get and still be on the planet. This opens the possibility that maybe one nation, let alone city, need not supply every facility anymore. Like do we really need another luge track? Just pick one that already exists.

I think with 50 acres, you should be able to do a lot to combat the urban heat island effect. I say this based on my bike commute which alternates between suburban subdivisions and trails over conservation land. The trails always feel noticeably cooler, even where there are no trees casting shade. The coolest spots do tend to be where have trees and/or water nearby, but even open fields feel cooler.

Tbh nothing lowered it for me until they put me on a statin. Genetics are a bitch. But maybe I wasn't trying hard enough diet-wise? I don't know.

Interesting. The article suggests the car would photograph others speeding rather than reporting itself.

Personally, I don't mind speeders so much except when they're weaving between traffic recklessly. I do really hate tailgaters though. So a rear-facing camera maybe?