Me after reading the secret life of trees

Bookshop.org is a great spot. Directs money to small independent book stores from your purchase and you can even choose which book store gets the money.

Out of curiosity what is in the approved list of attire that you think is okay for “grown men” and what is in the unapproved list?

And posting it here will…?

This is pretty close to one of Denver’s larger intersections, a cross between two major east - west and north - south routes. It’s had cycling groups of migrants for 6ish months but as far as I can tell it hasn’t been a static group. They mainly offer to wash windshields for cash but otherwise are no burden whatsoever on the neighborhood. The surrounding neighborhood is pretty wealthy as it’s close to Denver’s museums and largest parks. This sign is literally in front of a sprouts farmers market.

It’s unfortunate that we’re not doing more to get them more stable housing and employment but they in no way are causing problems. The only people upset about it are just upset about such a visceral confrontation of the inequality when they drive through these intersections. I’ve seen dudes in $100k Audis yelling at the dude just trying to get some money for food because he’s been legally barred from working for his first six months of being here.

Denver has a decent mutual aid network that is doing a lot to help, if you’re interested check out https://www.denvermutualaid.com/

It’s Colorado Springs. It’s always a safe bet to lower whatever expectations you have as soon as they get involved.

Fun mixture of military, religious, and rural folks make it a hell hole

I build multiple listing services for a living. It’s been fun watching all of the different parties involved freak out about this change.

I’ve been removing commission fields from APIs and removing constraints from databases for weeks

It won’t have anti lock brakes and that’s at least a few parts. A few extremely important parts when it comes to stopping in emergency or non ideal traction conditions.

In what world is a tow truck going to tow a car for parking on the side walk? They’re gonna tell you to call the cops or parking enforcement and the cops don’t even show up for gun shots

Sounds more like you dislike bad water. I think well filtered water at this point is table stakes.

Especially if you live in the US where you either have a leaf service line or more PFAS than you’d believe

A 2001 ford ranger isn’t even a large truck. I assumed it would be some post 2020 monstrosity

I don’t know, still sounds like a skill to me.

Not sure where you draw the line here, 20 minutes of training, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year? What interval of training inherently makes someone’s labor magically “skilled” and therefore more valuable and worthy of better treatment?

We could just decide that all labor is valuable and treat people with dignity. The “skilled” and “unskilled” workers have significantly more in common than “skilled” workers do with their bosses.

There is no such thing as unskilled work. That is pure classist bullshit.

Yes, because I can tell the difference between a canonical community name and a vanity name. If you look at the url for the community, what does it say?

That name can’t be changed while the “interesting global news” vanity name can.

It literally isn’t. Douche bag

Yeah, it’s probably one of the best out there. I don’t love that with their newest pump it’s 100% phone controlled (literally no screen on the device) but there is no way in fuck I am ever trying a Medtronic pump again. Had one for a day because my insurance wouldn’t cover a new tandem pump. It was such a piece of shit

Yeah there is a reason recumbent bikes have giant flags on the back. No one can see you that low. Especially with the newest giant monstrosities on the road

What a world where two city’s are suing each other over a trademark.

You aren’t taking into account the resources required to train the model. You clearly have very little idea how much goes into it other than running software someone else wrote.

It’s not nearly as small as you think it is.

Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/

Even better when you take into account the scale at that these run at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/07/ai-data-centers-power/