Chongqing maybe? Because it would be a completely different experience that what I’m familiar with.

To “season” your oven, just cook a cheap frozen pizza directly on the rack. Some cheese will inevitability drip and burn, giving it that classic oven smell.

“hide in a corner”? You mean latibulate?

Same. Moving is social suicide. Ugh.

I’ve moved too many times, and now I’m in that difficult age where I have teenage children, and all my peers are too focused on their careers. It’s lonely, but I have four (or more) hobbies that I’m really passionate about, so I’m weathering it well enough… And I have my own career, but I work remote.

If any of you find yourselves in San Diego, California, and you want to get coffee/tacos/beer/whatever, send me a message.

claude, silly

Or farts, of course… perhaps decibels of loudest fart today?

Percentage of personal wealth donated in the last year to an org or person that they are not affiliated with.

Deepseek gives these examples of instances where socialist policies were implemented without violence:

• UK NHS (1948): Passed via parliamentary consensus post-WWII. No fighting.
• German Pensions (1889): Enacted by Bismarck as top-down reform. No violence.
• US Social Security (1935): Passed via legislation.
• Nordic Childcare: Expanded gradually via labor unions and coalitions.

I’m not saying that pacifist solutions are faster or more effective, but I don’t want anyone I know to to kill or be killed. It is possible to change the world without starting generations-long, unforgivable blood fueds.

I’m hoping for “AI destroys Capitalist system, so emergency Socialist safety net is deployed.” And then we pop out the other side and only have to work 10 hours a week, because AI does the rest…

Type O Negative’s version of “Summer Breeze” https://youtu.be/XNo7ZZryuSQ

I use XMPP. Don’t be hatin’.