Courtney (she/her/they)

But they get to be super unique to people on the interwebs though, and that’s more important than some random unknown person’s differing abilities.

They really aren’t unless it’s a solid brick/concrete internal wall.

Even Americans, who are surrounded by guns, do not understand just how much a bullet can go through. I don’t expect people who aren’t exposed to guns every day to know.

About 15 years ago, my Minecraft server admin lived in Columbus Ohio, and a stray bullet from a car chase went through his car door and went through his abdomen and seat, and almost went through the opposing door.

My grandparents had a bullet go completely through their house, both exterior walls, and 3 interior walls, before the bullet got lodged in the brick wall of the church across the street.

I myself have attended events that demonstrated the penetration power of pistols, rifles, and shotguns.

Protip for anyone who wants to have something for home decence but is concerned about neighbors, use a shotgun with either target shot or birdshot. Drywall won’t stop it, but it will seriously limit the damage it does to anything on the other side of the wall.

My plan is “I’ll probably be dead” but if not, I have enough parts to cobble together a solar charging station, and keep my laptop running for a few days between needing to let everything charge back up.

I have one off-site backup on an hdd inside a faraday bag and waterproof case that I back up once a week(ish) and after every project. I have local backups daily, one in a faraday box.

I have never once needed any of them and honestly if shit hit the fan hard enough, I will likely never be in a position where having backups for digital information will matter again. I’ll probably at most have my old phone/battery/solar charger combo that’s in a case in the garage, I keep a ton of survival references, maps, and things like that on it.

Does your country not have federal agents?

For the same reason someone would have asked “why is building a large, complex and hard to produce solar panel more economical than churning out an equivalent number of coal plants?” decades ago.

It’s improving the tech, which could eventually far and away outpaced every other energy producer. Maybe not now, but in the future. Some are just gung-ho about trying to produce a bunch when they’re not quite ready.

“we really dig your vibe”

And then you wake up in a bathtub filled with ice while they’re getting the scalpel ready so you book it nked down the hotel hallway. Your wallet is gone.

You are now the main character in an action comedy movie.

Just convert every biofuel field into a solar field. Boom, year round power output and way more efficient than growing plants to burn.

Then work on replacing every car with electric.

Eventually it will be more cost effective to retrofit old structures.

Even the worst, most pollution inducing motorcycle on the planet doesn’t hold a candle to my 90s truck.

Hell, even most modern trucks are better despite being massive, considering the improvements to fuel efficiency and such…

Arguing a motorcycle is worse because one specific area of its carbon footprint is slightly higher than cars depending on model of both is weird to me.

And I don’t remember the last time I saw a motorcycle without the obvious cat hugging the engine before it winds to the muffler. Note: usually the motorcycles I get to see close are people who are more environment conscious than your average redneck. I’m sure the shop down the road specializes in removing them. I KNOW they offer “diesel tuning services” to let people “roll coal” so it wouldn’t surprise me…

I, too, enjoy gobbling goth girl meat.

It’s the best kind!

I have a couple friends who have issues with making their food. Idk how many times I’ve been talking to one, they mention feeling like shit, and I asks aht the last thing they ate was and it’s some shit like “I had a coffee yesterday around 2pm”

So now, since I love cooking but hate all the prep and cleanup, I have them buy the ingredients the day before I plan on coming over, then I spend the day making meals for the next week and a half. It all has to be able to heat in one container, preferably the container it’s stored in to assist with ease of heating.

It’s still a toss up, but now at least when they hit a wall they can grab a box out of the fridge instead of sitting paralyzed trying to figure out what to eat or deciding to just stay hungry

I also have to label the meals with binary choices. Things like “LUNCH MONDAY OR DINNER WEDNESDAY” so they have variety and an option for if they don’t want a specific one right now. Otherwise it’s “too many options” and instead of just grabbing whatever, they close the freezer/fridge.

Ah yes, hacking by self medicating.

Adhd and drinking amounts of caffeine that would explode a gorilla’s heart. Name a more iconic duo

Having bought 3 whole pairs of boots in my life, and one of them actually expensive, I have no idea what this means.

Based on the context of fluffy tops, I’m guessing snow boots, and impregnating in this context is impregnating the boot material with a waterproofing agent of some kind.

You can quit if you want to

You can leave your friends behind.

If you rage quit, be sure to make a splash!

That’s quitter talk, I believe in your ability to become a mystic mountain/forest/cave person that people hear rumors about when hiking the trails during a full moon.

Be the eldritch horror you want to see in the world.

You seriously need to stop following me. Imagine having the gall to tell a woman to calm down while talking about men being shitty about women seeing makeup. Fuck all the way off.

Edit: meh. Blocked

I’m sorry, that sounds awfully close to whining about women wearing makeup.

“man develops app to discover women are cute without makeup, more at 11”

Any man that whines about women wearing makeup in any way is just signaling to everyone he’s a waste of their time.

Well, for starters get out of bed.

Then once you are out of bed, drink some water.

Boom, first two items off the list! It’s that easy!

… I’ll let you know when I get to step one for today lmao

Lmao no, just autistic fascination with space and many thousands of hours of listening to astrophysics lectures and hundreds of hours listening to edu-tainment type videos from people like Dr. Becky Smethurst.

Thanks for the compliment though, I’ve heard the balloon explanation since I was a child, but the ant-splanation of light speed just popped into my head.

Without trying to explain things even in not sure I grasp, no. The atomic forces keep atoms together, and expansion of space is only noticeable on long distances. Like light-years and parsecs kind of distances.

Also fun fact: the rate of expansion is not only INCREASING as space expands, last information I saw suggested space is expanding faster in some directions than others, which is fascinating for a number of reasons.