Goddamn, that’s the third time now I’ve been stung in arm’s reach of Karafuto. They aren’t that bad (and I wonder that earlier might have just been my body’s first exposure to that toxin and it was reflexing to calibrate the response, this time I’m really drowsy and I wonder it’s not natural antihistamine) but their bite is worse then their bark, you don’t even see or hear them buzzing until there’s a few of them delivering like 6 stings.

Might have to get an exterminator, still dunno what they are of where, seem bigger than a fly but smaller than a bee. Wonder if Badger’s met them yet?

kontextmaschine:

If you know exactly what you’re looking for you can date the Portland residential blocks established contemporary with the early-20th century boom of Los Angeles from the influence on what trees to plant out front.

Meanwhile the fact that developers named one contemporary neighborhood “Hollywood” to build heat (which is literally how Hollywood was named “Hollywood”!) is a gimme

There were a lot of negative developments in American race relations over the 2010s, so the fact that Reputation was Taylor Swift’s worst album wasn’t in the top 20, but long-term it probably was in the top 40.

Seems to be some new source of friction in Darwin’s drive, maybe related to how it got hung up the other day? Oh well that’s why I got one of these 80s Toyotas, they’re like self-cleaning ovens, built for the undeveloped markets bordering the Indian Ocean: if there’s roughness for a while it’s because it’s spending some fraction of power grinding contaminants to dust.

kontextmaschine:

st-just:

I hear advice from the older generation that “buying a house is an investment”.

On one level, I get that. Buying a house is a better way to spend money than renting, because at the end, you have something. You have a whole frigging house.

On another level, I think that the idea that home prices should outpace inflation is insane and maybe has broken modern society.

-Andre Cooper, Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

This entire article is “a-HYUK, why would we expect homes to appreciate when the building’s obviously a depreciating asset? We’ve simply stumbled down a nonsense path that I just realized because I r so smart!”

Because even as the structure depreciates the property claim on the underlying land appreciates because it’s a finite good facing rising demand, dipshit.

This points at the question they really haven’t had to confront since the legal form was established in the 1970s: what are condominiums for?

If you know exactly what you’re looking for you can date the Portland residential blocks established contemporary with the early-20th century boom of Los Angeles from the influence on what trees to plant out front.

st-just:

I hear advice from the older generation that “buying a house is an investment”.

On one level, I get that. Buying a house is a better way to spend money than renting, because at the end, you have something. You have a whole frigging house.

On another level, I think that the idea that home prices should outpace inflation is insane and maybe has broken modern society.

-Andre Cooper, Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

This entire article is “a-HYUK, why would we expect homes to appreciate when the building’s obviously a depreciating asset? We’ve simply stumbled down a nonsense path that I just realized because I r so smart!”

Because even as the structure depreciates the property claim on the underlying land appreciates because it’s a finite good facing rising demand, dipshit.

thevideowall:

uglybelgianhouses:

Ceci n’est pas un arbre

And Yet a Trace of the True Self Exists in the False Self

thecollectibles:

Pixel Art by Ryan Haight

If I worked in publishing I would be doing a little Ignition (Remix) filk every time an author submitted a new draft: 🎶 “it’s the updates for revision, comin’ fresh out the kitchen” 🎶…

The Whiskey Rebellion was this great example of early American state incapacity, like sub-Colonial, medieval – there’s like no viable currency in circulation so frontier grain farmers are basically coining their own by distilling whiskey and refusing to cut the feds in so George Washington himself raises an army – which basically amounts to insisting an army be raised and threatening to impress stray farmers with a handful of regular troops until he eventually gathers a mass of nearby absolute rabble plus every local elite from the area who all insist on being in command in their own way. This mass then sets off under the sitting President’s personal leadership eating, looting, and likely raping its way across its own country, and is considered a testament to Washington’s leadership that it survives intact all the way to Western Pennsylvania, at which point the rebels have already dispersed (and further sub-military expedition attempts to apply federal authority prove largely fruitless).

It was a complete nightmare the Lewis and Clark Expedition was at-the-time understood as a recovery from, a proof of the ability of the United States to sustain disciplined operations across the continent.

(And then the Civil War, and then like every Western country in the world the executive branch restructured and modernized itself modeled off Prussia.)

Oh that’s nice, all this topsoil pitching is building up precisely the part of my shoulders I can squeeze and massage with the other hand, with the result of a net reduction in upper back tension

argumate:

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argumate:

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argumate:

is there an app for identifying dogs? it seems such an obvious thing to have! like the way the camera can detect qr codes, it detects dogs!

Which authority defines the borders between (/or positively, defining characteristics of) breeds?

The Kennel Club - Wikipedia

for the purposes of this app it wouldn’t matter, just match closest likely names to the dog in question, it wouldn’t be authoritative, just convenient for the interested amateur hound sleuth

The Royal Kennel Club is an obvious potential answer but that’s not a default it’s an active choice which will yield a different app than other possible answers!

I’m not expecting an app to be authoritative as I said, it’s about grouping dogs into the fuzzy categories with which we are broadly familiar and helpfully providing the most likely label

Is this some extended poststructuralist gag?

kontextmaschine:

Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons and Ramona Quimby from the Beverly Cleary books are both named for an honestly pretty unremarkable 20-block street in Northwest Portland.

It’s in the Alphabet District and it’s not bad for fitting between Pettygrove and Raleigh, but still.

argumate:

kontextmaschine:

argumate:

is there an app for identifying dogs? it seems such an obvious thing to have! like the way the camera can detect qr codes, it detects dogs!

Which authority defines the borders between (/or positively, defining characteristics of) breeds?

The Kennel Club - Wikipedia

for the purposes of this app it wouldn’t matter, just match closest likely names to the dog in question, it wouldn’t be authoritative, just convenient for the interested amateur hound sleuth

The Royal Kennel Club is an obvious potential answer but that’s not a default it’s an active choice which will yield a different app than other possible answers!

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

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kontextmaschine:

Jesus, I’m watching Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) in this bar and they are seriously still doing the first 15 minutes of origin story like an hour later.

Looked at through visuals alone this is like 2 hours of the same periodic threatening of the apocalyptic destruction of home and family and then a version of General Zod who is absolutely lifting design cues from Bizarro

Also neither A-10s or Chinooks move like that in reality, what the fuck? Don’t you have to take on military advisors to get that stuff for movies that keep it from looking ass?

Like, this woman with the insect-eye HUD helmet fighting the senior officer in fatigues is creating iconic moments but these are not at all Superman-brand Moments.

Christ, cut the fucking Snyder release

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Jesus, I’m watching Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) in this bar and they are seriously still doing the first 15 minutes of origin story like an hour later.

Looked at through visuals alone this is like 2 hours of the same periodic threatening of the apocalyptic destruction of home and family and then a version of General Zod who is absolutely lifting design cues from Bizarro

Also neither A-10s or Chinooks move like that in reality, what the fuck? Don’t you have to take on military advisors to get that stuff for movies that keep it from looking ass?

Like, this woman with the insect-eye HUD helmet fighting the senior officer in fatigues is creating iconic moments but these are not at all Superman-brand Moments.

This bar playing some pre-hair rock that suddenly makes very clear that the standard anime “UFO descending” effect was like a 1981 Yamaha keyboard synth

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Jesus, I’m watching Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) in this bar and they are seriously still doing the first 15 minutes of origin story like an hour later.

Looked at through visuals alone this is like 2 hours of the same periodic threatening of the apocalyptic destruction of home and family and then a version of General Zod who is absolutely lifting design cues from Bizarro

Also neither A-10s or Chinooks move like that in reality, what the fuck? Don’t you have to take on military advisors to get that stuff for movies that keep it from looking ass?

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Jesus, I’m watching Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) in this bar and they are seriously still doing the first 15 minutes of origin story like an hour later.

Looked at through visuals alone this is like 2 hours of the same periodic threatening of the apocalyptic destruction of home and family and then a version of General Zod who is absolutely lifting design cues from Bizarro

I am seriously impressed you can throw so many classic Superman aesthetics and signifiers together – Smallville cornfields! the Fortress of Solitude! Kryptonians! and yet so thoroughly miss anything Superman has ever been about.