Independence day celebrations are not unique to America.

I wonder what environments Americans dream of like maybe more like large roads or suburban type environments. Maybe more rural/warm nature type environments. (I guess it also heavily depends where you are from like city vs rural)

Here I am, as an American, dreaming of smaller roads and walkable cities.

Grass is always greener, maybe.

With the help of gravity!

The only reason I started using cases is because they made the latest Pixels so low friction that they refuse to stay put on most surfaces.

I’ve been on the receiving end of these. It’s such a monumental time waster. All the reports look legit until you get into the details and realize it’s complete bullshit.

But if you don’t look into it maybe you ignored a real report…

Contributors is my favorite metric. It shows that there are lots of eyes on the code. Makes it less likely of a single bad actor being able to do bad things.

That said, the supply chain and sometimes packaging is very opaque. So it almost renders all of that moot.

Square, because otherwise the dimples wouldn’t be uniform.

Also, square plates are better.

It was good and had potential but was cancelled way too early. The finale was a montage to try and wrap the story up. Very frustrating.

That’s just chaos.

Pizza is primarily a bread first. Toppings are only an enhancement of said bread. And if the bread sucks, the whole pizza sucks and no combination of toppings will save it.

The only real change was how open those assholes felt they could be. Doubt they increased or declined at all. They just got platformed.

Kind of. All you need is fat and lye. Some experimenting would need to be done but I’m somewhat confident I could figure it out.

And you could make a living selling it. Assuming you can convince people of its benefits.

I’d make some fucking soap.

That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like “do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?” and “do you like more freedom or less freedom?” All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.

This was in middle school so I wasn’t even politically engaged yet. I didn’t realize how crazy this was until years later.

Electrical circuits are ridiculous. And it’s just interconnected circuits upon circuits spanning the globe. A device in Montana is physically connected to a device in California through an unbroken (ignoring transformers) series of wires.

The fact that we got materials to move electrons from a hundred miles away to do things like calculate 3d shapes for entertainment is insane.

Another way to frame this is that, you can’t just magically create a singular being that’s a new species because it wouldn’t have anything to breed with. So it’s a long term gradual change of a complete population into what we know as a chicken today.

Also a bunch of other issues with small town living like lack of privacy/anonymity, entertainment, restaurants, government services, etc… And these problems get more severe the smaller the community.

But people really did spread out to smaller towns during COVID. Property values went crazy in a lot of small towns around me.

You can use any temp, really. There’s a pretty good window of a minute or two for being able to touch them. Just don’t leave them in too long and always use a potholder to pull them out just in case.

There is no one thing. Democrats have floundered for… decades. They did a thing during Obama but largely as a party they’ve done nothing for most of America except maintain.

Then there’s MAGA which is kind of a new thing. It goes beyond ideology. I’d argue there is no ideology, beyond maybe a few wedge issues that are just used to build ranks. To me it kind of looks like useful idiots being wrangled by those that control information. But the idiots are at the top and the bottom of the chain include the politicians and the electorate so it’s confusing.

People also got soft, complacent, and poorer. Lots of people just completely checked out of their civic duties. Either because they can’t be bothered, or because they’ve got more important things to worry about.

There’s probably also lots of other topics leading into the current political climate that I haven’t even touched on. Trying to explain it away as one thing doesn’t really work.