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@itsme_urstruly This one 👇 cheezburger.com/8991211008/soon

This is such a specific question, but do y'all have that one meme that has no business making you laugh as hard as it does? It's not even that funny, but for some reason, you cannot control the giggle it brings out of you.

The college experience gocomics.com/fminus/2026/05…

Direct water withdrawals for cooling all U.S. data centers in 2023: 17 billion gallons. That's 0.014% of national withdrawals. Even it’s grown by 32x, then that would only be enough to match golf courses. I had to increase the slices so they could be visible:

@sharonrketcham @luxemiaa This exact thing has happened to me. Twice. One was a long international flight. Both feigned they mistakenly sat in the wrong seat. Sorry, but it does happen...

@luxemiaa Yeah, I don’t think this happened to you. But you needed some attention, so….

I was flying home with a massive migraine and all I wanted to do was sit in the window seat I had paid extra for, close the shade, put in my earplugs, and sleep. I got to my row and found a little girl sitting in my seat next to her mom. I politely said that was my seat. Her mother waved her hand and said, “Just take the aisle.” No. I did not pay extra for a window seat so a stranger could assign me to a different one. So I stood there until they moved. The mom put her daughter in the middle seat, which immediately triggered a full tantrum. Crying, whining, kicking, the whole performance. Then the mother looked at me and said that if I wanted the crying to stop, I should give her my seat. Again, no. At that point my head was pounding and my patience was gone. I turned to the child and said,..........

@FishkinSykes @TheGuyIsAmazing @gnomologia @mattbramanti Not sure of your "local data center". Could it be one of the ones that use geothermal cooling?

@TheGuyIsAmazing @gnomologia @PaleStreak @mattbramanti So why is my local data center developer securing an injection well to dispose of closed-loop coolant? Maybe someone just forgot to tell them that they could save time, money and effort by simply recirculating it forever?

serious question what is the mechanism by which a data center makes tap water brown

@itsme_urstruly This absolutely works. Connections. Observations. Seeing things outside of your bubble. Especially effective if you are just naturally curious.

I saw someone say "the best thing you can do for yourself is to actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cafes, take a new route home go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you." I've been thinking about that every day since.

@paularmenakis @KobeissiLetter Thats not a car loan, that's a mortgage!

@PaleStreak @KobeissiLetter Psh, 4 year loans are so 2010. 9 year loans are the new thing!

The US auto loan crisis is accelerating: The average amount owed by underwater car borrowers rose to ~$7,200 in Q1 2026, the highest on record and the 4th consecutive annual increase. Over the last 4 years, the average amount owed by negative equity car borrowers has risen +71%. Overall, ~30% of car buyers who traded in a vehicle in Q1 had negative equity. This comes as pandemic-era vehicles, bought at peak prices, have lost value faster than borrowers can pay down the loans. This compounds existing pressure on auto buyers amid elevated vehicle prices and interest rates. Auto credit stress is spreading.

@danmmeyer Yep.

Accurate.

You must not live in Florida

Me, on every call with a service provider

Nuff said...

@mask_bastard I don't know for sure, but Mr. Clean probably doesn't fight dirty. It's in his name. Can't really say that for Brawny.

If Mr Clean and the Brawny man had a fight who would win?

Honest question: How is it that it is a chargeable offense (insider trading) for him, but not our federal legislators? Special forces soldier charged with making bets on U.S. capture of Maduro share.google/Q4YFMROHnMiKCv…

@autumnsdad1 I have to go with "Wish You Were Here"

Best Pink Floyd song you ask? I’m going with Us And Them How about you?

@ckitty33forkag @BCFPresident @MarcLeahy3 Honest question: are poll observers identified and approachable by voting citizens?

Then report her! There should be election observers there. If there are two call the registrars office. I worked the polls as an election official for 10 years and they most certainly do have to have ID! There is a list that must be hung on the wall for the types of ID one can use. Their address that’s on their ID must match with the poll book, otherwise they don’t know that person voted in the right precinct.

This morning I went to vote NO at the HOPE WAY polling site in Alexandria. While checking in, I mentioned I may need to grab my driver’s license from my car. An election worker (Robin is her name) told me, “You don’t need your ID, we can verify you, you’ll be fine.” I responded, no I need my ID. After finding it, I checked in and said clearly that everyone should show ID. That’s when the worker began arguing, saying “not everyone has ID, some can’t afford it, there are many reasons why.” That’s not just inappropriate, it’s electioneering from a poll worker. Totally unacceptable.

Accurate. Not covered: place hot plates on the floor all around your bed, and upon waking (see above) quickly do shower shoes. Raise the temperature in your bedroom to at least 92 degrees, and periodically have any air circulation turned off. Add a few drops of fuel oil to your coffee grounds before brewing.

SIMULATING NAVY LIFE ASHORE PART 4 Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the door with a curtain. Four hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble, "Sorry wrong rack". Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to your chest level. When you take showers make sure you turn off the water while soaping. Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "high". Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one. Leave your lawnmower running in your living room for 24 hours a day for the proper noise level. Wake up every night and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. Optional: canned ravioli or cold soup. Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed, get dressed as fast as you can, then run into your backyard and break out the garden hose. Once a month take apart every major appliance and then put them back together again. Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5-6 days before drinking. Install a fluorescent lamp on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books. Raise the threshold and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through. Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "man overboard, ship recovery!", Run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots, pans and dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea". Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go stand in front of your stove. Say (to no one in particular) "stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3-4 hours. Say (once again to nobody) "stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put it away. When it rains. Get two empty coke bottles, tie them together, and hang them around your neck. Go outside and stand in the rain for four hours. From time to time look through the coke bottles and observe the horizon and lightning. Put on a clean white suit, then go change the oil in your car.

Could not agree more. I've been on this path for the last 3-4 months. Moderate weight loss eclipsed by the other benefits: complete loss of inflammation, all day energy, elimination of brain fog, and best sleep I have had in years. Not to mention the excellent blood work indicators at my recent physical.

Carnivore is not a weight loss diet. That framing is the smallest possible way to understand what's actually happening. Yes, people lose weight. They also lose the bloating they'd had for a decade and assumed was just how their stomach worked. They lose the brain fog they'd written off as ageing. They lose the joint inflammation they'd been managing with ibuprofen every other day for three years. They lose the 3pm crash that had become so reliable they'd built their day around it. They lose the anxiety that spiked after every high-carbohydrate meal and that no one had ever connected to the food. These are not weight loss side effects. These are the body fixing problems you had stopped noticing. That's the thing about adapting to dysfunction. The dysfunction becomes the baseline. You forget what the absence of it feels like. You don't know the joint ache is abnormal. You don't know the fatigue is optional. You've been told that feeling rough after 40 is just how it goes, and you believed it, because everyone around you feels the same way and they've been eating the same things. Carnivore works because it removes the variables. Not the fat. Not the protein. The things that came in the last six minutes of the evolutionary clock: the seed oils, the refined grains, the antinutrients in the plants that evolved specifically to not be eaten, the lectins, the phytates, the oxalates, the compounds that bind to minerals and prevent absorption and irritate the gut lining of animals that did not evolve eating them. You remove all of that. And the body, finally running on the substrate it spent 2.5 million years developing the machinery to process, starts doing what it was built to do. It is not magic. It is not a hack. It is not optimisation culture or biohacking or a fad. It is the most conservative dietary decision a human being can make. You are eating what your genome expects. You are removing everything it doesn't recognise. You are giving the body the one diet it has spent the entirety of its existence learning to run on. The improvements are not the body responding to something new. They are the body responding to the absence of something wrong. Everything you need. None of the baggage. So maybe don't call it a diet. Call it a factory reset.