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Thanks for the PSA, now we know how to identity the mangy Elmos in the wild 👍

Hope they don't have rabies...

It's not bad engineering, it's a feature!

/s

I can already see that becoming a problem, especially if you carry it around in your backpack or laptop case regularly. Magnets love finding every last magnetic fragment of dust around, so the mouse will eventually start scratching your desk and laptop and stuff if you don't make sure to regularly check and clean off the magnets. And have you seen how people treat their stuff and how dirty their stuff gets, and it seems almost nobody makes a point to properly clean their devices...

Basically any of the team ball sports. I mean I'm not exactly dumb, I get the basic gist of most of the sports, but I don't know enough to actually be qualified to play any of them without accidentally making some wrong move and somehow get accused of cheating or some shit.

And people take their sports way too damn seriously for me to care to get cussed at for making a mistake, so I just said fuckit and stuck to single player sports like tree climbing and BMX flatland, where the only real rule is all moves are valid moves as long as you don't get hurt.

Gym class. It was like they literally didn't know how to actually teach the rules of the sports, the coaches just expected that parents and siblings had already taught their kids. Well I didn't have any siblings, and my parents never knew either.

Like, what defines a fumble, a foul, a touchdown, etc..? What the fuck does 3rd and Down mean? I'm 42 years old and still don't know most of this shit.

They didn't teach us any of that shit, they just expected all students to somehow know all those things. And they actually had the nerve to ask me, as a math nerd, if I would keep score...

Like seriously what in the actual fuck? How am I supposed to keep score on games I don't even know the rules and language to?

Edit: I wasn't exactly a lazy kid either, I loved climbing trees and riding BMX flatland, but those are simple to score. You gain points by completing the climb/trick, and you lose points when you fall and bust your ass, and there aren't even any official points when playing on your own.

I found Timeshift to be a disappointment. I tested it as I was setting my system up.

• Install Linux Mint, obviously.
• Install most main software I want.
• Do a Timeshift backup.
• Install more software I might want to try eventually.
• Restore the Timeshift backup.

Result: The system still thought all the extra software packages were installed, but none of them actually worked. Like, if Timeshift is gonna uninstall packages that weren't present in the last backup, shouldn't it also unregister those packages as well?

To fix all that crap, I had to force reinstall all packages, which takes about as long as a full OS reinstall, but I was already happy with the rest of the configuration, so I ran...

sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

Damn, you nailed it!

Magnolia flower bud!

We're actually sitting under a Magnolia tree right now and I just looked up and saw one still on the tree, so this is now 100% confirmed.

I just did, it's filled with a whole bunch of seeds alright, but they're definitely not fluffy.

They are soft however, they measure around 15mm long and about 2mm wide, and are mostly the same color as the outer layer once the peel is removed, except the end of the seeds attached to the core is red.

I tasted one of the little seeds and almost immediately spit it out, it tasted about like pine sap, and had a very green smell to it.

If by chance it actually is a milkweed pod, it has to be an unripened one. Or just something else altogether. 🤷

Hmm, I just looked those up online, plus just cut this one in half for comparison. Unless what I have just happens to be a not quite ripe pod, I'm not totally sure, but it does contain many many packed separate mini seeds inside, similar color to the outer layer after removing the peel. The inside ends of the mini seeds where they attach to the core is red.

Given that there are cooking recipes for milkweed pods, I went ahead and tasted one of the micro seeds (which measure about 15mm long and about 2mm wide), and honestly it tasted about like pine sap, and the inside smells very green.

Perhaps its an unripened milkweed pod, or perhaps it's something else, I dunno. But I'll tell ya this much, I ain't in any hurry to eat it.

I'd like to change my password from hunter to hunter2

You spelled butt licker wrong.

You can download Wikipedia as a backup for offline use...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

This is rather unfortunate though, like why fuck with Wikipedia? ☹️