It was for the best. Neither man nor beast should ever see the things poor Raggot saw…

I might be getting overly sensitive, why does it read like Claude to me? 😭

This reminds me of one of the OG memes.

“In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil,” Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.

Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew “Kiki” Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. “I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in,” he explained. “As usual, Kiki shouted out ‘Armageddon,’ my cue that he’d had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn’t come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him.”

At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. “The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Mr. Tomaszewski’s hair and severely burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil’s fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball.”

Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract

Valid points, and I agree that the “packaging” of vices into this format of “7 deadly sins” is traceable to early Christian origins.

You’ve also conceded that this format is clearly rooted on the earlier Hellenistic vice/virtue framework, so I’ll call the 7 deadly sins a “dark age one pager”, meant for monks and other people of simpler minds.

On national TV? That’s being brave.

They can be. The cabin crew will communicate to the flight crew when the interior is ready, they won’t takeoff without it, and someone refusing to sit down or buckle up definitely counts as not ready.

If a passenger gets up and causes a disturbance later, that would also get communicated to the flight crew and, shot of the plane having started its takeoff roll, there’s a good chance everyone is going back to the gate to remove this person.

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Ah yeah makes sense. Nothing against the Score, but Queen lends itself more to the proposed activity.

That’s a joke I cannot afford to make…

Could I swap in Queen’s “Don’t stop me now?” I feel it would help more with the gobbling.

I’d hate you too if you were trying to clog up my tailpipe.

No, I’m pretty sure it’s not the size. If I take my car and drive from Lisbon all the way to Moscow, that’s about the same as going from NYC to LA in terms of distance.

I’ll grant that it might be related to “free land” though, as I think it’s mostly a matter of organization. But first there’s this “single use” zoning mentality in the US, which forces people to travel for everything by design - in Europe ground floors were traditionally businesses, and upper floors housing - mix is the norm, cars didn’t exist back in the day and people still had to get to things. Then there’s the way cities grow - most places in Europe you can’t just build swaths of single-family houses in the periphery of existing cities, either because it’s already reserved land (parks/ecological reserve/farming/other uses) and because the access would be awful (already crowded highways) - so instead usually it’s the existing town centers that already have good mass-transit connections (train, subway, …) that see an increase in density: old single-family houses give way to apartment buildings or mixed use buildings (commerce, offices). So it kinda grows in “nodes”, not as an ever expanding ring of single-family houses.

But this is simply a mater of policy - build a train line that connects a few several small towns in the outskirts, connect that up to some mass transit inside the city proper (subway ideally, if it exists) and boom, the density in those small towns that now have a good connection will skyrocket.

European here. That concept is really alien to me: if I drive 1h in some direction (assuming I’m not just stuck in traffic) I’m somewhere else, some other city, region, maybe even a different country.

Maybe the gaps between the towns/cities have closed, and it’s just buildings everywhere now, but they were separate at some point and that still shows in how streets, schools, etc are organized - like smaller hubs that expanded until they fused, but not like some tree where every year there’s more and more rings around the central core…

“1h from the nearest city”

“suburban area”

What? How? I has questions…

They might not have gotten a girl, but at least they got a wookie at #9.

Never messed with arduinos specifically, but I’ve built a few projects throught the years with ESPs, those things are dirt cheap and very fun to work with! Nothing with motors though - mostly attaching them to sensors and batteries to collect data, or control lighting (LED/RGB strips, etc).

There’s just *way * too many interesting things in the world, and so little free time! It’s a tragedy really… :)

Hope you can find the time and life conditions to embrace the projects you love. Have a great day!

Damn that’s brutal…

I’ve jumped out of ladders as I’ve felt them starting to fall a couple of times, never more than like 2 metres high though, and it’s scary.

I wouldn’t climb anything higher without strapping my self up to something, it’s just asking for a quick grave…

You’re doing it wrong brother, if you’re doing it IRL that’s work, good riddance…

But for real, that’s really cool! You hooked up a motor and photo resistors to a controller you’ve programmed? Bonkers. Do you have any write up about it? super curious about how you did it.

Could you live without learning a made-up assembly-like programing language just so you can have your solar panels track the sun, only to find out you know very little about “azimuth” and “elevation” and now your potatoes aren’t growing because you can’t power that grow light.

I mean, you could, but are you even living at that point?

Did you mention how fun it is to find out you got your gaseous fuel stoichiometry wrong? It’s a blast.

Oh. Good point.

Unrelated, but anyone deep enough in the comments to read this, you might consider checking out the game Stationeers - a brutally complex base/space station/colony building game that will eat years of your life if you let it, stay away. Huge fun.