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Apparently I had thought the over and any longer were implied, heh. But yeah, stuff like that seemed to be what alway was getting at.

E:

Trump's first possible Hurricane emergency is coming right up, served on a platter named Harvey. NOAA page: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?cone#contents

Ah, just noticed that. Yeah, it seems like we're gearing up to potentially see south-east-ish texas turn into new orleans. Best of wishes to tex folks, and in complete selfish honesty, I kinda' wish this had ended up somewhere that didn't have a lot of our oil and chemical refinery/production areas. If it doesn't turn out gentle and/or the gov't's reaction isn't on point,* we're looking at good odds to get to see a nice big ol' gas price spike rolled up into a bundle with economic slowdown. Plus, y'know, buncha' dead and homeless people in texas that weren't there last week. Probably somewhere in the range of important, that.

* And I think everyone that's paid the least bit of attention as the executive's tried to dismantle its operational capabilities over these last months is aware how likely that is going to happen. Let's hope it's just not a disaster on top the disaster, bleh.

E2: Incidentally, what seems to be some recent predictions. They're currently expecting some places to get hit with upwards three goddamn feet of rain. 30+ inches. Tex looks like it might be kinda' fucked

Outside, why.

Out there for sub ten minutes, putting gas in something. My legs now have around a dozen swelling bug bites. Didn't even step in an ant bed or something. All flying bastards come for breakfast. Quite possibly the worst I've had that happen in years.

It itches ;_;

^{_{also obligatory fuck this state
goddamn florida
bloody swamp after my bloody blood and precious bloody legmeat}}

I will instead blame english. Apparently we still haven't ransacked the languages of the rest of the world hard enough everyone passively accepts as fact whatever butchered spelling we use is part of our actual language.

Uh. Believe, yes, but most everything that gets out your head is a bit more on the limited side. I'm pretty sure we'd still be mostly fine with applying some sort of censure to people saying they want to murder people. Since we already do, and it sees, ah. Notably less use for suppression than it does, y'know, stopping homicidal/temporarily insane folks from managing to reach a weapon and start killing people.

No particular need to protect genocide advocacy, really. Particularly once the advocate in question has started trying to do what they say they're going to do before they start actually murdering people. The trick is what happens when you take someone saying they want to kill people seriously, as they start taking action claimed to be aiming for it, y'know? Law's pretty okay with you reacting to death threats somewhat more than verbally, last I checked.

Toaster why.

After years of using that thing, today I noticed how nonsensical it is. About 1/10th up its settings will toast bread, most toaster pastries, bagels... just about everything you have interest in toasting that will fit in a toaster. 2/10ths up will toast basically everything that doesn't. Anything over that leaves whatever you put in it a variable amount of charcoal, with only "mostly" burnt black stopping around 3/10ths and everything else after that leaving ash and hardened burnt whatever it was.

Which is 7/10ths of its setting range. A bit over 2/3rds of the appliance's capability is functionally useless, because if you use it what comes out isn't edible unless you're very desperate, don't buy into the medical findings that char can increase the risk of cancer, and can actually stand the taste of, say, half-charcoal bread.

And, like. Today it finally hit me. Why even build something like that? You have a toaster you could conceivably liquefy metal in. This is house-fire level overkill* for a kitchen appliance. Exactly what principle of device engineering lead to this being considered a good idea?

* Incidentally, what brought about me noticing was someone else in the house momentarily losing their mind and putting it about 2/3rds the way up. The fire alarms went off. Dunno if it actually caught fire 'cause I was in a different room, and for some ungodly reason the person it was cooked for decided to scrape like... half the piece of toast away and eat the still half-blackened remains... but. Yeah.

What's the sarcasm font again? Georgia?

Yup.

Also the racist shitbag one! Can't forget that. Arpyboi rolls those two up into a nice little why-the-hell-isn't-this-bastard-in-jail package. Though I think it's less cop worship in that case than criminal hate.

Can't recall any particular connection between them, though. Arp probably endorsed him last year, but near as I remember that's about it.