Anti-pigeon spikes and sturdy conveniently located nest weaving starter spikes have a lot in common

Buy a roll of those stickers they put on products that is basically impossible to remove without ripping it and always leaves behind adhesive residue. See how much you can cover.

You’re at no loss for it, I promise.

Red-green colorblind, here. I could only see the last one clearly and kind of make out the first one, but even just the last one alone was enough. I hate you.

Weirdly I’m thankful someone stole and changed my password to dbzboy19@hotmail.com when I was in high school. It prompted me to generate a new, more respectable, email address. Otherwise this would be a pretty unfortunate reality for me.

That being said, fuck that guy. feel free to send that email spam and gross images on my behalf to fill up their storage.

It’s the common legal term now. I am sorry for making you google it though.

That’s just not true, though. This case involves famous people, yes. But the first conviction under the TAKE IT DOWN act, which was passed in May 2025, was only passed down just two months ago in April. It involved no famous people at all. It was an Ohio man who was using AI to make pornographic images of local people in his neighborhood, adults and children, and posting them online on a CSAM promoting site.

Link to related article: https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/columbus-man-first-convicted-take-it-down-act-pleads-guilty-cybercrimes/530-fff42eac-4089-49ce-847b-0597c8a8fe39

Enforcement under this act is just getting the ball rolling. I expect there will be much more news of it soon.

You can if it needs it for baked on food. It’s not necessary for most washes though

First cycle of the dishwasher is just a hot water rinse to get a head start on removing debris that gets drained away. Then it refills and deploys detergent and spends most of the rest of the time in this cycle before rinsing and drying. So, I mean, I don’t recommend it, but it will be drained a few minutes into the cycle and the dishwasher will actually clean with detergents after with no pee left. So, it really won’t hurt anything besides your relationship with your family/roommates.

“It was dark”

That is Batman desperately trying to give them both an out. But he’s Superman. He has more vision-based super powers than I care to list here. “It was dark,” pfft. He could see just fine. And Batman knows it. Now he needs to learn to cope with the implications of a rapey Superman.

It’s because they are usually only soft guardrails. They almost never have an actual programmatic stop gap for responses. They almost never have a prompt-isolated agent filtering results. They almost never give overwhelming priority to their guardrails over user prompts.

Their guardrails are like telling a 6 year old not to leave their socks on the floor. They’ll often remember the suggestion and comply diligently. But sometimes… well, have you ever gotten distracted and forgot a thing? Like you have so many other things on your mind that the socks on the floor rule from a while ago just slips your mind or seems way less important now? Or someone you’re supposed to listen to keeps telling you to throw your socks on the floor anyway. That’s more or less how this works, though without even the higher reasoning and moral guidance of a 6 year old.

Why would it matter if you can’t afford jewelry to get married? If this were at a time where the husband is expected to be the sole earner, that could be a problem. But this is 2026. He’s working, she’s working, and getting married will not change that.

If anything, his and her individual financial burden will decrease by getting married by combining their finances and sharing bills, if they aren’t spending stupid money on diamond rings, big weddings, exotic honeymoons, etc. They’ll share a home, utilities, online subscriptions, etc. That will save them both money. If they can afford to live individually without luxuries, they can more easily afford to live together, maybe with the occasional luxury.

Stupid take.

You working with a micro twig? Sometimes trimming back the foliage can help make it seem longer.

gasp! clutches pearls

How dare you imply such vulgarity about my branch measuring device.

Misuse of the word “racist” aside, if you’re generalizing about the inherent qualities of the Russian people, that’s still bigotry. If you’re calling out negative aspects of their laws, government, or culture, that’s not bigotry, that’s constructive criticism. If you’re pointing out the mistakes of their history that’s education to bring awareness and hoodlums prevent recurrence. If you’re calling all speech that is negative in any way about Russia “russophobia”, or “racism”, regardless of the nature of that speech, then you’re a Russian apologist and stooge.

It’s pretty simple: speech that displays mistrust, dislike, or hate for the inherent traits of a people is bigotry. Speech that displays mistrust, dislike, or hate for ideals and actions is just disagreement/politics.

The correct way is to see how deep into a Pringle can it can go. For an accurate measure, you’ll need to prevent angled entry. You can help it slide in straight by using a couple guiding sponges on either side of a latex glove attached to the rim pushed up inside it. Put a bit of Vaseline in the glove to prevent tearing the glove with the rough bark. For maximum safety, put the jar of Vaseline in a warm water bath for a few minutes beforehand to make the viscosity better for smooth entry and exit.

Yeah I figured that that distance was wishful thinking.

200 light years radius is for radio signals to reach someone. 100 years radius for possibly receiving a signal back.

And that is if they received our signals, are able to identify that they are artificial signals out of the background noise of the rest of the universe because the signal degrades and gets weaker as the broadcast expands, they decide to send a reply back (even though they just recieve chatter at that point, not intentional communication to them), and then actually sends us a signal back. It’s no wonder that hasn’t happened yet.

There’s around 10-15,000 stars in a 100 light years radius. The chance that any of those stars have habitable planets with intelligent life with the technology to receive and send radio signals and is listening for extraterrestial signals and can discern those broadcasts from background noise and would reply to chatter… that’s a small chance. For context, we have only been explicitly listening for and sending signals intended for extraterrestrials for 64 years ourselves, so an identical civilization 100 light years away that received and replied to us immediately would still have 36 years of transit left on their reply.

Plato, famous for writing about his teacher, Socrates, and for the massive collection of thrift clothes in his closet. What a legacy.

Similar but reversed situation for me. My grandmother tried to guilt trip me into becoming Christian on her death bed by saying she wanted my soul to make it to heaven with her (I guess kudos to her for not saying the “instead of in hell where it’s going now” part out loud).