“Illicitly obtained” is a weird way to spell “Musk gave them the damned things”.

Because everyone thinks of themselves as normal, so if they do it, then everybody must do it?

multilevel marketing professional-turned-Christian “apostle” Jenny Donnelly

Trump, Musk, Carlson, Jones - grifters gonna grift.

Google free paper shredding and recycling events in your area?

pokes at internet. If my random poking at the internet is right, the mom had her when she was about 20, and later married a new guy who became the stepfather. The new guy was about ten years older than the mom (they were about 36 and 45 when Amanda disappeared). He died of covid in July 2021; I couldn’t find anything on whether the mom is still alive today (she was alive in 2021).

The interesting thing to me is Amanda disappeared in 2005, and the house was sold in 2013. I’m not interested enough to pay for the sequence of ownership, but it means that either the parents moved into that house and brought the freezer with them, or that someone bought the house from the parents and didn’t touch the freezer for over a decade. Or they opened it, ignored what they found, and kept living there for another decade? This is weird.

I subbed to SuperbOwl as soon as it got posted in the new communities community :)

I’m always on All (my subscribed communities show up here as well), but I block any community I have absolutely no interest in, which alters the experience a bit.

We’re currently at solar maximum, which means we’ll be getting the most solar storms for the next few months, then they’ll start tapering off before the next solar maximum around 2035 (it’s roughly an 11 year cycle; they’re not entirely sure why, but this one is a few months early). FWIW, here are my aurora links:

Dark Site Finder: shows you where there’s historically more or less light pollution, so you can try to find a better viewing area. https://darksitefinder.com/map

NASA’s Space Weather Center: this is the link to their aurora dashboard page; you can also open up their animated prediction map, to help you figure out if you’re likely to be able to see it in your area. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental

Space Weather Live: a site with more data, useful if you know a little about what you’re looking for. It includes a helpful moon-phase indicator, because I always forget that’s something you may need to account for, depending on where you live. https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity/.html

National Weather Service: enter the place you’re thinking of viewing from then, on the results page, click on “hourly forecast” to see how likely it’ll be to have cloud cover, rain, what temperature it’ll be, etc. https://www.weather.gov/

Aurora Borealis Forecast: has a nice predictor saying things like

in 1 minutes, the Geomagnetic Activity level (Kp number) will be 8 – at STORM LEVEL! in 9 minutes, the Geomagnetic Activity level (Kp number) will be 3 – Active.

Those are the actual current numbers. If it’s cold where you are, you don’t necessarily want to be outside all the time (though if you’re in a marginal area, staying outside will help your eyes adjust and you’ll see better). I’m around Kp-7, so I can hang around outside for a few minutes, and when it fades, I can go inside for warmth or at least stop staring at the sky for a bit, then pay attention when it perks back up. They also have a 3-day predictor (less accurate the further out it is). You can also pay for their aurora alert service, if that’s of interest. https://cdn.softservenews.com/

Google News Alerts: Or you can sign up for a Google News alert for things like “solar storm”, “Corona mass emission”, CME etc - those are the things that create the aurora on earth 24 to 48 hours later. (You can set the frequency of the alerts; I’d suggest once-per-day.) That’ll give you enough time to figure out if the weather and moon are likely to cooperate. As it gets closer, you can check NOAA and SoftServeNews to see if it’ll be viewable in your area, and Dark Site Finder to find the best area to view from (I have different areas, depending on how strong the storm is vs how much time I can afford to be away from home). https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en

Happy aurora hunting!

“We are all domestic terrorists.”

I’m on fedia.io, but I still miss kbin.social. :/

Do you have a microwave? I put lightlife’s in my microwave for 90 seconds on rotate and they come out okay. Or you can boil and then pan-fry to make the skin crispier, or you could just pan-fry.

Do you have chopsticks, or can you grab some? Chopsticks would be better for a toaster.

That’s fantastic!

The Mars Climate Orbiter crashed because some fuckwit programmer at Lockheed Martin programmed their tiny piece of software in freedom units, instead of metric like they were required.

Musk put up a PAC that pays non-voters in swing states $47 to register to vote (because the next president will be #47). I’m not sure if he has restrictions on his thing, like maybe you have to live in a red area in a swing state or something. Anyway, I think CAH has set it up so you can redirect that money to them instead.

Last I heard, you weren’t supposed to give people money to register to vote or promising to vote or anything like that, but trump was filmed giving out hundred dollar bills last week, musk is handing out money for registering, and now this. I’m not sure what’s going on except everything’s really fucked.

And then they’ll just do like everyone else does, nag screens every five minutes with no “No, and don’t ask me again” option, you can only say “Not now” and then it’ll ask again in five minutes. Or you can have the car, but you can only use the speedometer if you agree to them monitoring your speed and you can only have headlights and windshield wipers if you agree to them recording everything you do, etc.

lmao:

Is there some way I can force Elon Musk to pay $47 to Cards Against Humanity PAC?

Funny you should ask! If you’re a registered voter in PA, GA, NV, AZ, NC, WI, or MI, just type your name into this dumb website for his PAC, put “[email protected]” as your referrer, and they’ll be legally obligated to pay us $47. The more people who do this, the more Musk money we’ll get to un-fuck America. . If he doesn’t pay up, we’ll sue him again.

Edit: source page: https://www.apologize.lol/

When the air turned orange from the Canadian wildfires last year, I had massive, massive headaches from the smoke. On the recommendation of Wirecutter, I bought a Coway, and my headaches cleared up.

I’ve been very happy with it. The low and medium settings are quiet, while the high setting is a bit noisy for me. When the wildfires were running, I had it on low or medium all the time and it was fine. Since then, I mostly have it on Eco mode, where it samples the air periodically and kicks on at whatever speed it thinks is necessary. Mostly it just quietly pops on at low speed for dust or pollen or whatever, and I rarely notice that it’s done so. It always kicks in at high speed for a few minutes after I’ve changed the cat’s litter, and once it noticed that the bread was starting to burn in the oven before we did, lol.

Anyway, I got a Coway based on Wirecutter’s recommendation, and I’ve been very happy with it.

Edit: I got the 200m, which covers like 1700 square feet.

The channel announcements and news segments and other stuff that made MTV actually MTV was a lot harder, lol.

Did you look at the internet archive?

lmao:

List of fictional ducks

You read that right; edit warring over nonexistent waterfowl. Page protections, admin interventions, accusations of vandalism and sockpuppetry fly like … well, like things that fly, anyway.