University professor urges white allies to mirror mass murderer American hero in activism

Fixed that for them.

Depends on the season. In winter it’s a vintage 1980’s shirt-jacket thing that I found in my dad’s storage closet: red/black plaid, soft flannel exterior, thinly insulated. My parents had matching shirts and dad’s old one fits me perfectly.

Pretty soon my favorite will be a thin blue cotton-linen button-down that’s perfect for hot summer days. And it goes well with my big straw shade hat.

Thanks for asking. 😁

Bring a decent bar of dark chocolate and compliment my shirt and I’m yours.

I’m no expert on sights, but Google suggests the auth right picture is an Aimpoint model designed for use with night optical devices. I found a Reddit thread full of pictures of Marines using it. So maybe it’s a nod (pun intended) to auth right loving the military industrial complex? I’m grasping at straws here.

Let him cook

But every once in a while it briefly changes to It’s Not Unusual.

I don’t have a comprehensive collection, unfortunately. If you Google around you can find partial collections on sites like this:

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/addams_charles.htm

I’m thinking of buying a book of his comics to share with my kids.

I woke up to a lovely rainstorm this morning and thought of this classic.

The article focuses on the Rockies and Sierra Nevada. The situation is marginally better but still awful in the northwest. As of today in Washington state:

• Snowpack statewide is at 54% of normal, down 10% from last week. (“Normal” being the 30-year average for the calendar date)
• 115% statewide water year to date precipitation, up 2% from last week.

So slightly above-average precipitation this winter, but it was largely rain instead of snow. And the snow we do have is melting fast. The reservoirs are full, but their total volume is nothing in comparison to the snowpack.

Everyone I talk to is expecting a bad wildfire year and widespread water use restrictions.

I think this is from a short-lived spinoff called Histeria. It was a fun show.

I had a drink the other day
Opinions were like kittens, I was giving them away

Fun fact: The disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut, USA. That’s where it was first identified as a unique condition.

It’s common enough in the northeast and north-central US that my public schools taught everyone basic prevention and symptoms as part of the regular curriculum.

This has worked for me for years. The only thing I would add is to try to position your bike such that it’s harder to disassemble. Wedge it between a signpost and a parking meter, or a bike rack and a bush. Anyone with a couple hand tools and easy access can strip off components quickly and quietly. Make their task a little harder.

Damn, somebody got more drip than Bill Cronin.

Medical device industry here. Some of our software and electrical engineers are using Claude as a sounding board for ideas, or as a starting point to find possible paths forward when they get stuck with a hard problem. Nobody trusts the model to give an accurate answer. Nobody is being encouraged to use AI models. At the end of the day, all work committed to a project is done by real humans with the normal review processes.

Management is cautiously looking at potential uses for AI in our products, but there is a healthy dose of skepticism all around. If your machine is displaying diagnostic data to a doctor there cannot be any question as to whether the machine is hallucinating.

Grumpy old guy moment: let’s just cut to the chase and start using the biggest wheels we can fit. The industry is great at constantly rolling out new standards with incremental improvements. It usually feels less like a service to riders and more like a way to bait people into buying new stuff.

Zing zing!

Yeah, it’s expensive. Any city that’s appealing to live in, has a lot of money sloshing around, and has limited housing is going to be expensive. You use what money you have to compete for housing so you can enjoy the amenities the city offers.

Lists of cities by their cost of living index typically put Swiss cities at the top. New York is #1 in the US, narrowly ahead of Honolulu, San Francisco, and Seattle. (https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings.jsp)

El Salvador made BTC legal tender in 2021, and backtracked in 2025.