I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that it took me ENTIRELY too long to figure out that pushing the left stick up and down accelerates/decelerates the ship. :( I had been using the boost to go anywhere and didn’t know how to slow down.

Remember when instruction manuals were a thing?

As a cat owner, this doesn’t even look like a real print. It’s too deep. Most likely a manufactured print done as a gag by whoever made the bricks.

Legumes are a type of vegetable.

The hill I WILL die on is that mushrooms, as a fungus, are not.

This is immediately obvious to anyone who followed the timeline of events.

Removing Shokin didn’t STOP the Burisma investigation. It allowed it to move forward! Shokin was the guy slow-walking it.

https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/

Note to self: To avoid hurricanes, move to the equator.

Dining out is CRAZY now.

My wife and I were out and about last weekend and needed to eat so we hit a Burger King.

Meals for 2, nothing crazy, was $30… at freaking BURGER KING. We don’t even have a sales tax here.

Not even SEEING. Just HEARING it.

http://www.greater-yellowstone.com/animals/beavers.html

“A beaver’s desire to build a dam is very instinctive; they seem to not be able to tolerate moving water, as it must be stopped. Beavers in captivity will build useless dams just so they can build. In the wild, scientists have observed beavers making repairs and additions to human-made dams. Beavers hate the sound of running water. It makes them think there could be a leak in their dam. If they hear running water, they will often work day and night to find the leak and repair it. A Jackson Hole rancher, Chancy Wheeldon, one day built a pond all, but the spillway, which he would complete the following day. The following day he awoke to find beavers had finished his dam that leaked the perfect amount to regulate stream flow.”

Another good one:

https://auduboncnc.org/beavers-and-beaver-deceivers-by-jeff-tome/

"They seem to be motivated by the sound of running water and dam up areas to stop that sound.

Researchers, both in zoos and in the wild, have played the sound of running water for the beavers. It only takes a night for the speakers to be covered with mud and sticks until the sound could not be heard."

Cat:

“Workers could be liberated from this experience by seizing the means of production…”

Clearly that explains the nudity then… ;)

As a diabetic I feel your pain. Happens all the time… “There are no more refills left, please wait x business days while we contact your provider…”

Like I’m going to just stop being diabetic one day…

A lot of it has to do with insurance companies, they just don’t want to pay to keep us healthy.

On instagram it’s @thebluehousepdx.

I’m waiting on some last bits before it’s all set out.

Depends on the size of the bookstore. ;)

I was gifted a Little Free Library for my birthday. Total cost for the whole kit was about $800… Without books.

I spent about another $350-$400 populating it, getting business cards, an Instagram account, etc.

I’m not running it as a business, it is a Free Library after all, but I already have one bookstore donating stock in return for cross promotion.

Had a cat who hated whistling, she’d come out of nowhere and slap you in the face!

The hardware architecture on the PS2 and PS3 was so radically different, it effectively makes emulation impossible.

The change made in the PS4 and PS5 makes the transfer of those games relatively trivial, but attempting the replicate the now abandoned Core processor of the PS3 is the hold up there, as is the PS2 Emotion Engine.

The reason the PS3 was so expensive was including PS2 hardware to handle the backwards compatibility. They weren’t going to repeat that mistake with the 4 and 5.

Meanwhile, on the Xbox side, Microsoft never had that problem.

Population is soooo much lower, but that’s not necessarily a BAD thing.

I tried searching for a Comic Books group and it doesn’t exist. There’s one for Comics but it’s a ghost town and populated mostly with web comics. :(