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  @thomasfuchs can I get a Winnebago if I use ‘no more secrets’ enough times?

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  @thomasfuchs I live on Vancouver island, famous for temperate climates as such things exist in Canada. In the last week of June 2021 we had a “heat dome” with temperatures 20min degrees higher than normal in most places. For a day a little town in the interior of BC was the hottest place on earth, months after nearly being washed away in record setting floods. We didn’t have AC or central heat. We’re also quarantining after an international work trip. The thermometer in the sun where our front...

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  Summer

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  It’s been a hot minute since an AskMe dug me out of my RSS reader to comment but this one was pretty much designed to: https://ask.metafilter.com/390513/What-fun-movies-blew-your-mind-this-century

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  Ready to throw down, these little assholes are pretty … antisocial

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  @thomasfuchs @zrail so I can imagine all kinds of difficulties with that proposition and the likehood (or otherwise) of follow through. What I do have direct experience with is estimating concrete construction projects. Think sidewalks, paving, airport runways. But not on bridges or overpasses. Locally industry standard for sidewalk is a 2 year holdback for warranty work. After two years you correct any deficiencies to collect the last 2%. Municipalities will require bonding to be eligible to...

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  @thomasfuchs nope. It just feels, to me, all downside for the reasons you’ve mentioned. I have cause to pickup my phone regularly and am not going to be fussed with positioning it just so just to get inefficient charging. That being said I do use a wireless charger everyday…. Because I have an old set of AirPod pros and my last remaining lightning cable died and I refuse to buy more.

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  After some unseasonably warm weather we get some unreadably cool. Not raining yet but #birdsofmastodon appear to be hunkering down. #Photography