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Very cool! The highly glossy abdomen threw me off for a second until I saw the fuzz.

That's sad to hear :( we live in Northern US - not all the way north, but reasonably close. We had more bees than usual earlier this season, but it's not really bee season yet. Our yard has a lot of clover and pollenator friendly plants. In a few more weeks we'll have a ton of bees around.

Great success! gmail flagged the order e-mail as spam, but all is well. It ain't much, but I purchased three total knifes in two orders - one for a friend in another state and two for me.

Re: photos. I have a metric crap ton of photos going back to my first DSLR. I keep all the unculled photos in a photo hoarding directory on my NAS. That's changed since moving to mirrorless (yay bursts), but I still have > 1 TB of photos spanning about 15 years in a... very messy web of directories. Layer in another 15 years of smartphone photos between my wife and I and... yeah.

Ah, yes. Photo organization. I can relate. Pictures are back! But now that I've escaped purgatory it looks like the cart is broken. I tried both Firefox and Safari and clicking the I Want One! button redirects to an empty cart.

Your progress across a number of projects and disciplines is impressive! I never adjusted to the reality of life with kids, so my projects have been piling up for a while. Thankfully the kids are reaching the point of wanting to participate in making things, but they don't have a great attention span yet.

One of the (many) projects is a more modern take on WinISD. I have it in my head that I want a desktop application, but you know what's nice about web? It doesn't care about OS.

In some cases, for me at least, the best projects are the ones never started.

Long time lurker, very occasional poster. I will probably snag something later tonight once the kids are asleep.

I'm giving the site a decent once over while waiting for said kids to go asleep and found a bunch of broken image ref. Figured I would let you know.

For some reason lemmy is throwing a 400 when I try to upload a bigger screen shot, but all the listings below also don't have thumbnails.

Trucks are way easier to load and unload

Older trucks, sure. I could lift stuff over the sides of my buddies S10 and place them on the bed while standing on the ground. I can't do that with a modern Colorado, let alone a 1500 :(

I am not in the market for a stuff hauler, but a euro van seems like it would be a ton more practical.

"Icky" loads like poop or towing? I totally get a truck here but I still contend modern beds are too high.

When you frame it that way you make it sound like slavery was not the most pressing factor on everyone's mind.

If this was unintentional, go read either speeches from the time or the declarations of succession from the southern states.

Our new government is founded upon . . . its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery – subordination to the superior race – is his natural and normal condition.

• Alexander H. Stephens, VP

An increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution ... For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,” and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.

• South Carolina's declaration of succession

She was always too small for her breed. Not sure why she was sick.

Sounds like a runt, which is fairly common with cats and dogs. That's where "the runt of the litter" came from. It also applies to farm animals with singles litters (cows) and larger litters (pigs). I have not seen it get applied to a bird before, but it make sense.

A runt is just something with a low birth rate. It turns out that there's a very strong correlation between birth weight and health.

Goodhart's law in action.

This is how an entire generation escaped having to carry floppy disks to school

But let's only do it in some English speaking countries and not others! I am joking, but this is one of the reasons why American English has diverged from British English.

Relevant xkcd:

I bought an ally x about a year and a half ago. At the time it commanded a substantial premium over the OLED deck, but it had the specs to back it up. Since then the price gap has closed and Asus has released another version of the Ally. Asus isn't the only other handheld maker in town and you can install Bazzite or Steam OS on most of the deck alternatives. Unless you want an out of the box experience that doesn't involve windows, I am not sure the price point for four year old hardware makes any sense.