gay bar no. 7: Lipstick Lounge, Nashville TN: this is one of the few lady bars left in the land, and it’s thriving and very sociable! I got roped onto a trivia team?? and we won?! and the chicken parm sub was pretty OK so snaps all around
gay bar no. 8: Trax, Nashville TN: this one is very literally encircled on all sides by frantic construction à la the house in UP (2009) so I definitely was not sure it still existed until I was standing right by the door, but it’s there! karaoke night, and as is distinctive of gay bars with a large Black clientele folks were picking some real polished gems from the soul and R&B catalog so I could have stayed much longer than one tonic with lime if I wasn’t so sleepy
From overhead, the Bath County Power Station in western Virginia just looks like two mountain lakes, but shift perspective a bit and see something really wild
This is the world's largest "pumped storage" plant. It acts like an enormous battery for the Mid-Atlantic grid -- when demand is low, power is used to pump water to the upper reservoir, and when demand is high, they open the tunnels in the opposite direction so water rushes down through miles of tunnels and turns peak 3,000MW of turbines
@taber@motoridersd oooh I was just looking at keychron yesterday. I already have 2 mechanical keyboards... One is Ducky and the other I don't remember the brand, but I was thinking, I need to get a Bluetooth keyboard to type on my phone! I hate tapping out messages on a touch screen.
@jeawhiz@motoridersd this is my second Keychron board and I really like how they make these! Even their less expensive options are extremely nicely made
plz know that when I say things about XML the subtext is always "gaze upon this declarative, self-descriptive, and lightning speed parsable with absolute guarantees of correctness markup and think of what fools we have been taken for in being made to do all these sloppy YAMLs"
If the thermostat in your Hilton looks like this and doesn’t do jack shit, it’s because it’s configured to only run when its extremely faulty presence sensor detects you doing light aerobics in your room - it’s easy to fix though!
Remove the cover screw with a Philips head
Hit the CONFIG button and switch modes with the F/C button until you hit something like “E-5” which is Bullshit Mode
Flip it down to E-0 to disable the presence sensor
Hit on/off to save then turn it back on!
@taber That document says it detects occupancy, but I'm 99% sure the thermostat would only have a basic PIR sensor, which just tracks motion, not occupancy. Misleading documentation!
I have a very dear very beloved very long term friend who lives far away and we text every day, and recently he has claimed he is on an unbelievably extravagant work trip, has been reporting to me incredible daily activities for days on end, but keeps sending me pictures I can reverse search on Google Images that do not match e.g. the current weather and I am genuinely at a loss for how or whether to ask "sweetie I love you but why are you doing this"
@taber it sounds like he's really investing hard in convincing you of the material reality that he's creating, so maybe something that could be effective would be focusing more on the immaterial things he's experiencing? gently asking about his feelings, his thoughts about his "experiences," or other things going on in his life before this started could help to ease him back into a more grounded headspace.
was reminded today of the utterly batshit, surrealist satirical 1976 prime time soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" which started off the series with this and only got more unhinged as it went along
in episode 25 of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" we find Loretta, fresh out of emergency surgery after crashing into a station wagon full of nuns, telling us how she wants to give back to the community once she's a superstar
@copperred mine took 3 separate 40a circuits. Whenever we'd turn the hot water on, all the lights in the house would dim, lol. It also took a long time for the water to get up to temp. I'm sure it was all calcified. @taber@aphyr
@andthisismrspeacock@taber oh my god, my weird ass uncle and his wife did that with my grandfather. "oh he loved these vanilla wafer bars that have a cardboard texture, let's throw a sleeve of those in". So fucking strange.
@cenlapup@andthisismrspeacock the Pharaoh’s Tomb method (we have beef with Egyptian customs for reasons so lol unsurprising we have not adopted this or embalming)