I’ve had a lot of wildlife encounters, including bears, wolves and moose, but seeing a wolverine is the only time I’ve ever removed the safety from my bear spray, and one of the few times I’ve started to psych myself up mentally to fight an animal.

Luckily it was pretty much a non story, I was hiking up a forest service road in western Montana on the Pacific Northwest Trail, and heard a noise behind me. I turned to see what looked like a 4ft tall badger trundle out of the bush about 40 feet back. It kinda stood or sat up on its back legs and we locked eyes for moment as I drew and readied bear spray. The moment passed and it slumped back to all fours and just ambled away down the forest service road away from me.

Trades did well for me, and financially nearly all my close friends who went trades are doing better than nearly all my close friends who went to college.

Oh that’s what’s freaking them out?

“Freak”

Is it really next to no maintenance, or is that just ad copy?

Have you noticed much ride feel difference between it and a chain?

Do you know much about different belt drive systems / if they are really materially different from each other? Seems like its kinda between gates and veer for options?

As far as Internally geared hubs, I’ve only ever ridden old sturmy archer, I’m guessing modern ones have come a long way, but how do they perform?

Electric skateboards seem cool but terrifying. A friend of mine broke both their legs on an electric skateboard like 3 or 4 years ago and is only just now starting to be able to do real physical activity again. They weren’t new to electric skateboards either, it’d been one of their main modes of transit for like a decade at that point.

World class conciliator

What is the swim shuffle??

I already mainly write with #1s

I’ve seen some mentions of AM2R, which I love, but also wanna shout out the romhack Super Metroid Redesign.

Its hard for me to pick an absolute favorite, but Fusion probably gets it today from me.

When ya said oddball pick I was half expecting metroid prime pinball to be it haha

Bivvy sacs are just that style of shelter, you can put different sleeping pads and bags in them to get setups that will be comfortable at different temp ranges.

Innovative??? It’s a fucking bivvy sac

If anything, DeepSeek maps a better AI future for those concerned about censorship because it was released as an “open weights” model, meaning people could modify it to talk about Tiananmen Square and whatever else they want.

2nd to last paragraph of the article addresses exactly that

I’m not sure it’s logistically feasible even if they really wanted to at this point.

This video is less than 10 mins, and uses pretty rounded off numbers, but it’s very illustrative of the magnitude of guns in america. Even going beyond any other problems that enforcement would have like non compliant sheriffs and organized resistance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaWQd4njB0

Another common Jaime L

The Eye of the Heron, by Ursula K. LeGuin

The Expanse Series, by James S.A. Corey

The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Eggs aren’t a large part of my current diet, mostly because I am not cooking in the morning often right now, but there was a time when they were very cost effective. Where I was living about a decade ago they were about $1.70 per dozen, and I ate probably a little over a dozen a week. If I was still in that mode; seeing a dozen eggs for $9 would definitely stop me buying them, throw my meal planning into a bit of chaos and tick me off.

Sadly, even there; it would’ve been better if he didn’t

money bottlenecks

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