Between lone star tick disease and deer prions I am not really all that interested in being in the woods proper anymore.

Myst vibes

Chupathingys are real

Ticks.

My only complaint on these is that they are rough if you use them to water plants. Otherwise they are the superior choice for everything.

I just meant blending the last of one batch/bottle with the beginning of the next like in a decanter.

Critically, this does not work with iced coffee. It does work with whiskey though.

If you have not listened to their 3 most recent albums you really should. They are all excellent!

Did I stutter?

Don’t worry, I am sure Ted Cruz and John Cornyn thought through the logistics just like they did when saying they were going to steal the space shuttle from the Smithsonian.

That they are “donating to his presidential library” afterwards… Because… reasons…

Unrailed! Is also a great one. Excellent music and chill but still tense vibe.

Very close to an AMC movie theater that opened in the lat 90s or early 00s near me.

Cries in Texan

I think about the Lucky 10,000 XKCD comic all the time.

The education system as I lived through it in Texas was actively hostile to saying you didn’t know, it was treated as being worse than being wrong or guessing. You can tell by the results allllllll around us.

I have worked with a few gen z interns/fresh grads, and some younger millennials (I am a 1990 kid) and its interesting… Some of them have been very successful at passing the tests but have no mechanical aptitude at all. Some have been technically literate on first glance, then proven to be just confidently incorrect. In general though, it seems they just didn’t grow up being interested in how things worked like I did. It could be isolated to my small sample size or it could be a general trend. They also don’t seem to make connections across disciplines as easily either but again, that could just be a time in service thing at this point and not a generational trait.

I have not been super impressed with the new ones we get when we get them, some of them have been quick learners though and have impressed me with their adaptability. I am a huge proponent of proper mentorships or rotational programs and that is something that seems to get overlooked with younger grads in my experience.

One thing that really annoys me though, is that when prompted with something they don’t know, they will spit out some randome bullshit rather than say they don’t know. Saying I don’t know is a completly acceptable answer as long as it is followed up with “but I will find out” or “can you help/explain it”. Falling back to a first principle approach and talking through it is also valid but just making up some shit doesnt fly with me.

I can count very few things I use as much a my water bottle on a daily basis. It comes with me everywhere I go.

When you have years and years of lack of accountability and things like qualified immunity, why would knowing who they are matter? We have already shown there are no consequences for being a bad apple… To be clear, I am utterly against this, as a public servant, you should be beholden to the public, badges, body cameras, id numbers, marked cars are all critical to that.

It is one of my biggest semi-irrational fears but I had never considered that you could have antibodies for them.