Wahots

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 10 points 4 days ago

Fuck Russia. Jesus, what a miserable, morally warped government.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 4 days ago

Not higher risk in this case! This should actually lower risk by raising the bar for everyone:

The new regulation excludes individuals who have had protected or unprotected anal intercourse with a new sexual partner in the past four months, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

This hedges against sexual tourism, with further restrictions on donors who have recently gotten tattoos or tick bites, which can be potential vectors for disease.

This is good, as blood-borne pathogens are on the rise in different populations these days, and this will keep recipients safer.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago

You are in good company. We are trying to fight off the yoke that autocrats are planning for our own country. Bastards just don't know when to quit.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

It's always people named Jordan Jackson or Peter Pierce, and they always have the visage of someone who worked in a Roundup facility for 45 years.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

Needs to take out the entire project 2025 team, all servers, anyone ever involved. Tabula rasa.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 18 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Pardon my ignorance, but why was Hungary added to the EU in the first place? How did it ever get to this point?

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 11 points 6 days ago

One of my buddies suffered from the same problem. He was left out and generally held at arms length until he was shown love, or at least understanding. He flipped almost overnight and realized how grave his mistakes were. He ended up becoming a teacher and hopes to help students before they made the same sort of mistakes he did when his teachers were shitty to him. Props to him for breaking the cycle.

He still regrets how far he pushed some people away, and the actions he took as a teen. But he is much happier now and we have mended our friendships with him.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Basically, everyone has a Mii/xbox avatar unique to them, like a physical username, called a persona/fursona. Some people get extremely expensive custom suits of their fursona. It's semi like anime fans, but not tied to corps, very decentralized. It got started in the 70s and 80s with sci-fi cons where people gathered for disney-esque animal cartoons and comics, and has roots in importing anime to the US.

The furry community is somewhat like a church with various chapters, you can join furry chats in various cities and countries to quickly form a social network wherever you go. In the US, there tend to be city chats, state chats, regional chats, and national/international chats. These cover a broad range of interests from coin collecting to mountain biking and skiing, but the common thread is that everyone is a furry.

Conventions occur and are like a cross between a family reunion, blackout party, and university classes where panels are taught on things like fursuit building, drawing, car meetups, pilot meetups, doctor meetups, etc. It's like a networking and party event on steroids.They are fun as hell and occur all over the world, ranging from a few hundred people to over 15,500 people. They have been growing dramatically since 2016. Cons usually partner with local animal charities and tend to donate tens of thousands of dollars each con.

It tends to be a very welcoming and open community, drawing a significant portion of the population that is LGBTQ. Last time I checked, this was about 2/3rds of the population.

 

There are geothermal solutions for geothermal features near the surface already. This article is about advances in deep geothermal solutions: 15,000+ feet of pipe, deep into the earth. Utilizing the falling cost of horizontal drilling equipment from the fracking industry, there are now solutions to drill 10,000 feet down, and 5,000 feet sideways to improve the likelihood of running into superheated rock. Currently, drilling will be limited to geothermally gifted areas of America, but may be able to expand to less fortunate areas as the technology improves and gets even less expensive.

 

Looks like critical thinking deteriorates above 72f/22c. Crime swings higher. Lowering your core temperature seems to help, even if you live in a climate with unavoidable heat.

 

For context, a water main blew, and the city of Calgary has been under strict water rationing for the past handful of days. The new pipe should arrive later this week from California :)

https://www.calgary.ca/emergencies/critical-water-main-break-june-2024.html?redirect=/16avewatermain

 

It's pretty cool that the government has a department that can delicately extract damaged money and return new bills to people. I wish this article went into the process of how they do it!

 

They found a plant thought to be exinct in the area, and got super excited when they found it. Seeds have been forwarded to a seed bank. The article is worth a read and is fairly short :)

 

They found a plant thought to be extinct in the area. The article and people involved are extremely excited about their work. Well worth the read!

 

It was a very unlikely win. Some, if not all players on this team have day jobs.

Paywall free version here: https://archive.ph/uQcS4

 

Sweet :)

 

Hopefully, some of these get added along dangerous intersections in south and west Seattle. UW could also use some.

 

Looking for more plants to keep a lid on hair algae! I do water changes, but I think more plants would help.

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