Oh wow, I hadn’t thought of day of the triffids in almost 30 years… And now looking it up it seems I missed a 2009 movie. Superb!

Thanks for the catalyst that lead to me not having to decide what to watch tonight :)

Thanks for the note.

It should also be noted that while they are invasive, they have been established (in my part of Canada) since at least the early 1700s. I wouldn’t go importing mullein and planting them on purpose, but I will also not destroy them on my own land. They are like a mini-ecosystem all of their own. And when the bees are done with the clover they can be found on these mullein more than any other plant in our ‘yard’.

And while technically invasive, they are neither aggressive nor hard to manage ( if you are not trying to manage a million square KM of national Park ;) )

In which way am I complaining? I am explaining why calling a valid solution a bandaid might be construed as belittling their very real knowledge of this process. And how that is a regular pattern in a lot technical fields.

And don’t give me this shit about ‘I’m not the person you were talking to’ This is an open forum not a direct/private message.

You can’t expect people who are knowledgeable about this stuff to just forever accept that someone asks for advice, gets told the solution, and then ignores/belittles the person with knowledge.

This is our daily life experience. We get hired to be experts, and get told by non-experts that our solutions are not tenable every single day. Only for that solution to eventually be accepted when the user in question figures out their idea was not useful and the expert was correct.

We have to put up with it at work, we are not obliged to accept it here.

That the folks in IT have any sway over microsoft or facebook’s ui plans.

NO Karen, I can not make Teams go back to the way it used to be. No matter how many times you ask.

I don’t know if I would go that far ;) But thanks for the vote of confidence.

A leftist who can’t see how the tea party emboldened and created the proto-maga movement just in time for Trump to take it over.

I will once again call bullshit.

You are cute. How far into the shit-filled rabbithole do I have to go into libertarianism before I find your specific flavour of bullshit? Somewhere between rand paul and ayn rand? Or do we go deeper?

Libertarians man. What a fucking joke.

ideas that are objectively similar to maga bullshit.

Fair enough. I lived there long enough to know that some of them definitely did it purely out of spite, I just can’t imagine it is a majority.

Hey now. Alberta has a ton of morons, and slightly more than their fair share of assholes. But Hanlon’s razor* still applies. I don’t think anybody put a hitch on their truck with the express intent of causing harm somewhere. They are more likely just stupid and/or lazy.

* “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

In other words: some bad things happen not because of people having bad intentions, but because they did not think it through properly. Or at all.

I probably find the question weird because I spent my whole life around heavy equipment, trailers, and other towables. Every time a trailer was hooked up, part of the job was grabbing the hitch from wherever it was stored.

Grandpa used to say ‘just don’t be an asshole’ and being an asshole includes someone who doesn’t watch out for everybody else’s shins.

I didn’t insult the person asking or anything stupid like that. I explained exactly why the hitches are made to be quick release for removal when not in use.

When I lived in Edmonton my neighbour once asked why I remove my hitch when not using it. Such a weird question.

I use one from a random site I googled last year when I was playing with a rope style bubble wand.

Credit to - https://rainydaymum.co.uk/bubble-mix-just-like-your-mom-made/

* 2 cups Washing Up Liquid (dish soap in the USA my sister-in-law recommends Dawn Dish Soap)
* 1 tablespoon of glycerin
* Few Drops of vegetable oil
* 1 cup Warm Water

I’m no lightologist - But I think the two different colors and inversion is seeing the reflection on the outside of the bubble on one hemisphere, and THROUGH the bubble to the inside surface of the opposite side.

So very cool.

Bonus pics from the same session:

You need to get your brain checked so we can all learn how to think the way you do :)

I should mention that we also really enjoyed the back streets and small neighbourhoods. They made up for a lot of the disappointment.

I wanted to visit Paris my whole life. Pere Lachaise cemetery, the Eiffel tower, the museums, the food.

When I got there the cemetery was filled with lying grifters trying to sell bullshit stories about the people interred there. The tower was full of pick pockets and scumbags ripping off tourists for thread bracelets. The museums were filled with influencers blocking access to a lot of the displays with their stupid duck lips and tag-along ‘photographers’ with their iphones .

The only thing that lived up to the dream was the food. Oh my the food…

Oh… And the experience of seeing a woman shitting in the seine in broad daylight. That was kind of exciting too…

I love every one of these articles that mention biden by name in the title. The idiots and bots come out of the woodwork and mark themselves as ‘safe to block’.

Keep em coming!

The yellow wallpaper is a master-class in short story writing. A must-read/listen.