Powderhorn

Powderhorn, 20 hours ago

She felt it was preferable to still having anything tying her to her father. For valid reasons.

The collar is just inexcusable. I hope for the sake of my neck that it’s gotten a bit duller over the years.

Powderhorn, 20 hours ago

I’m aware of the cliche. What is why I drove from Portland to Tsawwassen on Thanksgiving night 1999 to catch the ferry over to Vic and bring my Canadian girlfriend down for the rest of the weekend.

I just thought that would be the end of it.

Powderhorn, 21 hours ago

Worth noting: this is 90% effective for HSV-1, but not tested on HSV-2. That’s on their radar for research. It’s nonetheless a breakthrough, and the Hutch has pulled off some interesting things in the past, so I’d imagine they’ll get there.

Powderhorn, 18 hours ago

I’ve enjoyed milk for the flavour and texture only once: the semester I lived across the street from a dairy. To this day, in the weird circumstance I have milk in the fridge for cooking, I shake it vigourously.

Much of it is about sourcing and practices. Raw milk is not inherently dangerous, and we’d be out a whole world of cheeses if they had to be made from pasteurized.

Powderhorn, 21 hours ago

Sure as fuck happened to journalism. Except they had the balls to offer buyouts instead of just saying “your service counts for nothing unless I see the back of your head every time I meander around with a coffee mug.”

The truly absurd bit of it to me is absent Covid, already working remote for years would not have been a problem. I went remote in 2016, and there’s no fucking way I’d be like “oh, the recent grads you hire to chew and spit out are an issue for remote? Sure, why don’t I restart the pointless thing of driving for an hour and a half a day with concomitant fuel costs, having to choose my food for the entire day at 7 a.m. or paying four times as much, and generally being more surly in my personal life so that you, dear boss, can prove you have something to do?”

Powderhorn, 1 day ago

How impressive this is will hinge on whether there were any shenanigans behind the demos. I find it difficult to take breathless announcements at face value given recent issues.

Powderhorn, 1 day ago

If you know, you know.

Powderhorn, 19 hours ago

I’m not really aware of anyone still shooting porn after 15 years outside of HKJ, and if I’m being honest, I’m not entirely sure she was active yet … it was a different time.

It was also damn near impossible to monetize back then (self-host, find payment processor overseas that took 30% minimum, self-advertise), especially anything outside of male-centric boring shit you’ve seen a thousand times, which led to more of a discovery process and a tighter-knit community for those shooting or appearing in kink.

I’m glad she’s doing OK after just an event, but I never found myself wondering why she didn’t post anymore.

Powderhorn, 4 days ago

It’s only hubris when it leads to your downfall.

Powderhorn, 4 days ago

I was angling for a coding role in my last job search. I am not in the area code of a know-it-all there. But here, I just apply 26 years of experience to determine news value.

Powderhorn, 4 days ago

Dunning-Kruger applies when you aren’t already competent.

Powderhorn, 4 days ago

I have been trying for so many jobs, and I never qualified in tech. I’m trying to determine what this now looks like. Journalism is this sort of thing where there is a substantial wall at roughly Sept. 10, 2001.

From here, those aware of how shit worked up to there was not ideal.

Powderhorn, 6 days ago

Shareholders and journalism do not mix. All this prevarication on the part of the Times stems directly from wanting to goose numbers sted committing journalism. And goosing is a time-honoured first step.

Powderhorn, 6 days ago

It’s abundantly clear that we are not going to learn from history.

The really fucking ironic point is bin Laden’s stated goal was to destabilize the U.S., and boy, howdy. No need to enumerate the problems stemming from that.

Powderhorn, 6 days ago

We had a far more robust fifth estate 24 yeas ago, and that election is as much as anything what got us started down this path. Before 2000, election results were simply accepted.

Powderhorn, 7 days ago

Darmok and Jalad …

Powderhorn, 10 days ago

Always the sign of a stable democracy.

Powderhorn, 11 days ago

A genuine Bob Ross-level happy accident hitting the magma before.

I’m curious where full production at this new plant would leave the nation as a whole, given the 90% for residential usage and 70% of overall use of geothermal. That with extra efficiency is sort of the holy grail for renewables, since batteries are no longer central to resiliency (short of maintenance, of course). 100% uptime at constant output with zero emissions in excess of a nation’s needs would be amazing.