Enjoy! Sounds like you have your shit together.
The five steps to a satisfying sex life:
Know what you want
Accept what you want
Learn how to communicate what you want
Actually communicate what you want
Don’t be too quick to decide who can and can’t give you what you want
Every one of these is way harder to do than say though.
I’ve both held and been on the leash at clubs.
“Can I introduce my pet to you? She really likes ear scratches.”
People are WAY nicer to each other’s pets than to other humans. It’s nice to get that.
Out in the street, yeah more people aren’t going to get it, but then again, fuck the haters.
You don’t like the idea of having someone gently pet you and scratch behind your ears while they tell you how pretty and nice you are and how they’ll take care of you?
Cause it’s pretty fucking nice even just as a game to play for a couple of hours.
Agreed.
Thanks for the exemplary embodiment of mastodon’s attitude toward alt text.
Bluesky was built to be a Valley bigotfest and data vampire from the very beginning.
The lead dev of mastodon is kind of a jerk sometimes, but he doesn’t run the instances.
I’m pretty certain that my Masto home instance isn’t going to turn into corporate trash because the the people running it have been running queer servers for decades and are community-funded.
And suppose mastodon does turn into shit? My home instance also supports other fedi protocols.
Companies founded by Jack Dorsey or taking VC money, though? Guaranteed hellsite, just a matter of time.
Hell you don’t even have to be funny on mastodon.
What we ARE picky about is posting images without descriptive text or asking for a volunteer caption.
All my life I’ve been hearing propaganda tarring all Jewish people as being murdering racist colonizers.
It’s very strange that that propaganda is now coming from the government of Israel and wealthy Jewish people in the US.
Seems like a really stupid and counterproductive move, but I’m sure they know what they’re doing.
Seriously I’m jealous of his hips
Guy in the middle definitely didn’t skip the tactical snack.
I imagine this is like a dozen people, but good for them for having the guts to go against the rest of the country.
That isn’t both-sidesing.
I said that Harris was clearly better overall. I have a preference and I acted on it, which is the opposite of what both-sidesing is trying to achieve.
However, on the particular issue of genocide in Gaza, I only see differences in rhetoric, not differences in behavior.
I’m neither a man nor a Christian tho.
Dude you’re either thinking emotionally or being disingenuous. Take a step back.
I voted for Harris.
But can you explain exactly how things would have gone differently in Gaza other than the rhetoric if Harris had won? She was all in on the genocide just like Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, etc.
Just because Harris was clearly the better choice overall doesn’t mean she (and Biden) wasn’t and isn’t dead wrong about their fealty to Netanyahu.
Distributed rooftop isn’t supposed to be about feeding the larger grid so much as topping off local demand right when it’s needed.
I’m kind of eccentric so I got a humongous array; even then at peak production I was running the A/C for 3-4 houses in my cul-de-sac other than my own. Most installations around where I live are like 1/4 of the size I put up and rarely feed much back.
And home-scale batteries are getting cheap enough that excess won’t necessarily need to get fed into the grid anyway.
They’ve got economist-brain and view everything as a money thing, which is fucked up and a problem.
But negative net demand (the thing “negative cost” is signaling) is a pain in the ass, because you either need to shut off the panels from the grid, find some very high-capacity and high-throughput storage, or blow out your power grid.
Like some hydroelectric dams in Germany get run backwards, pumping water back up behind the wall. I think there are pilot projects to pump air into old mines to build up a pressure buffer. Grid-scale batteries just aren’t there yet.
Solar is good for things where the power demand is cumulative and relatively insensitive to variation over time (like, say, salt pond evaporation, but you don’t actually need panels for that). It’s also good for insolation-sensitive demand (like air conditioning).
Turns out distributed rooftop solar makes more sense given our current grid than big solar farms out in the desert (California built one, it was not a good use of money).
It’s not great, but we need to bite the bullet and use fission+reprocessing in a big way for the near future.
The Navy really really does suck at procurement.
Eh, he still fucking hated trans people. They kept their core values.
He must be really sticking to his fitness routine, he’s lost a ton of weight!