lemons are great for this. You don’t need all of it, just the skin. press the lemon and enjoy the juice, put the skins on the glass rack and you’ll have a fresh lemon flavor when opening the door. needs replacing every other wash or so (they get hard and stop smelling)

Finished watching this earlier, great video. I really like this newer wave of more collaborative content with so many voices in conversation.

Reads like some exec went “how hard can it be” after firing the entire writing staff

Am I getting this right, they’re letting you do the ad targeting for them and they’re selling it as a privacy feature?

and its discontents

It’s a riff on Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. You can check the overview, the ideas will probably seem pretty familiar because they were so influential at the time.

You could probably classify all of the guys on the podcast as discontents of Solarpunk, in that they are somewhat critical of it as a genre, as an aesthetic and as a movement towards revolutionary change. In a lot of ways, because Solarpunk often reifies those modernist conceptions of Civilization, while painting them green.

Look at this round-ass owl bear

Forced empathization treatment for class war mongers:

You will experience a day in the shoes of a landlord until you display considerable empathy to the propertied class, brutish scum

Now put on the glasses and pay your rent

Yea, and also, like - the human eye is incredibly good at noticing any deviation from perfectly flat, especially if you’re talking about a semi-reflective bare-metal surface. Any little imperfection will immediately draw your eye because light bounces off it weird. There’s a reason every car manufacturer ever only evokes the sense of flatness, but usually incorporates some more complex bends, light lines, stuff that both serves stability functions, helps when the panel will inevitably contract or extend due to thermal differences annnnd makes you not see little imperfections in the geometry as easily.

Flat panels are the easiest to model and render

they gotta be the easiest to manufacture too, right?

Listen, maybe I just want every single part of my car to be a slightly differently oriented fun-house mirror, ok

Do Not Confuse The Mind, Citizen!

Howdy! JT from Second Thought did an AMA here a while ago, if you wanna check it out

Hope you’re having a good time on here

Thanks a lot, that’s gonna keep me fed for a while, I believe - Fermentation as Metaphor sounds super interesting, going off the title alone.
Definitely still here for any of the shorter stuff you may remember too

The old woman raided during this died shortly after. I read a statement by the paper that strongly suggested the stress of the raid was too much for her. (Can’t seem to find it right now tho, sry)

“Get out of my house!” Meyer, 98, repeatedly told officers while using her walker to navigate around the home she shared with son Eric Meyer, publisher of the newspaper.
At one point during the search, she challenged an officer and questioned whether his mother loves him.
“Did your mother love you? Do you love on your mother? You’re an a–hole,” the late newspaper co-owner said. “Police chief? You’re the chief? Oh, god. Get out of my house."

[from nbc]

At least here it’s that you can totally ride bigger e-bikes, you just need a licence and insurance. Which sucks, but does make some sense, I guess.

Sounds interesting, I’ll check it out. Thank you!

Yea, looks like they do only custom bikes for mostly heavy duty applications. One of them looks like it’s made to transport sheets of glass for example, looks like a lot of their business is building custom bikes for craftspeople that need to transport more than a few groceries. They are definitely heavier than a normal cargo bike, but you’ll probably not notice much of a difference thanks to the whole electric pedal support (as far as I know only speed is regulated, not torque or acceleration, so this thing will easily get to and cruise at about 25 km/h just like a lighter cargo bike will)

there’s disc brakes on all wheels though?

and I don’t think it’s a render tbh

I had one single food cultures class in uni and it changed a lot about how I see my own cooking; finally opened my eyes to the social function of food, really. I have always liked good food, but more from an egoistic-hedonistic place than anything else.

Food is great, but more great is eating it with other people, the whole getting together and enjoying as a community part of it. And it does nourish us in ways that caloric value doesn’t do justice as a measurement.

Anyways, any great food culture media you wanna recommend maybe? I’m open for reading or anything audio-visual, podcasts, whatever really.

Just nice and uncontroversial double taps of hospitals, weddings, groups of children and other miscellaneous collateral