That's astoundingly adorable

Does she stay in there all the time?

Yeah, I guess it's pretty gneiss.

Geologist

The Outsider by Stephen King. A kid is horrifically murdered in a small town, and the local near-celebrity Little League baseball coach is publicly arrested for the murder with multiple eyewitness accounts putting him around town and interacting with the victim that day. Except the coach has an airtight alibi because he was in a city 70 miles away with 3 other teachers at a conference. Was the murder committed by some kind of doppelganger? I need to keep reading to find out

Oh yeah, the subject matter is extremely dark. I haven't watched the show yet (didn't even know it existed). It's pretty typical King though. He isn't exactly known for his warm and fuzzy stories.

Ah, that's unfortunate. I've only bought relatively common items from there, so it's been reliable

Try looking on RockAuto.com? They typically have OEM or close to OEM products for the vast majority of vehicles.

Licensed Professional Geologist here, and licking is a totally valid method for distinguishing between mineral hand samples that have very similar properties otherwise. For instance, halite (NaCl, aka table salt) and sylvite (KCl) are isomorphous, which means they have the exact same crystal structure and are very difficult to distinguish using traditional methods. Halite tastes like salt, but sylvite makes your tongue tingle when licked. Our mineralogy professor told is it's the only reliable way to differentiate the two without actual chemistry analysis.

Got convinced by someone I very much trusted to join an MLM as a 19 or 20 year old. After my parents learned about it, they were able to talk some sense into me, and I realized I was part of a pyramid scheme. I got out and basically broke even, which was honestly the best possible outcome of that whole scenario. It unfortunately degraded my relationship with the person who convinced me to join, and I never really could fully trust them after that.

Yeeeeaaaahhhh, I'm going to go ahead and stick with a one time payment for proven 250+ year old technology instead of what would very likely be a subscription based privacy nightmare that can revoke my access to clear sight whenever they update their T&Cs. Hard pass, get fucked with a splintery utility pole.

I have a project at a former surface mine/quarry and saw an area where recent rain eroded away sediment surrounding the gravel but not directly under it. Each rock was supported by its own column.

Short answer: Get an evaluation by an audiologist, if possible, to determine if something can be done.

Long answer: Depending on the personal cause of tinnitus, solutions range from nothing to getting hearing aids with specific software that provides tinnitus relief. I have genetic, moderate to severe hearing loss in higher frequencies and have very noticeable tinnitus. The complications from hearing loss with tinnitus can vary, but personally were resulting in increased sensitivity to noise throughout the day, irritability, and diminished ability to communicate (I couldn't hear what my spouse or kids were saying when there was any kind of background noise present). It led me to never want to go anywhere or do anything outside our home because I couldn't hear or enjoy anything.

I went to an audiologist, had a bunch of tests, and was prescribed a set of hearing aids. Said hearing aids play soft ocean noises in addition to boosting the frequencies I have diminished hearing in. The ocean noises allow the brain to train itself to treat the tinnitus as a routine background noise instead of a panic inducing "danger" sound. Over time, it has helped in significantly reducing my attention to the tinnitus. It will never go away, and I have to sleep with ocean sounds playing so I don't go insane.

I have worked in environmental consulting for the past decade and have routinely dealt with Ohio EPA on both hazardous waste investigation/remediation and NPDES permitted discharges. I have been part of teams preparing and submitting antidegradation and NPDES permit renewals, as well as maintaining compliance with existing permits. After reading through the news article and then the actual draft permit, the news article is very sensationalized. I am in no way defending the data centers or operators. The news article correctly states the discharges are untreated but fails to mention the strict monitoring requirements that would in place to maintain antidegradation and conform with Ohio Water Quality Standards and public water supply standards. There is also a Notice of Intent that requires the applicant to meet a list of requirements to even be considered for discharging under the general permit. NPDES permitting is a federal program that is also administered by the states. Ohio EPA is setting some pretty stringent limits under their authority in their draft permit, and the public and news organizations are cherry picking and/or don't have the background to understand the permit requirements.

Draft permit and fact sheets here.

Man, I see this hot take pop up repeatedly, and it's so easy to say from the outside. Americans are doing things. Why do you think the fascist pigs just murdered another person? Beccause he was doing something. There were crowds of thousands of people marching in protest in Minneapolis today. What's the next step in "doing something" to you?

America is a large country, where most of the states are as large or larger than most European countries. People are organizing locally, because that's what they can do. Labor strikes are great, but there are no protections for that in this country. Many employers can fire employees at any time for any reason. Paid time off is not guaranteed, healthcare is not guaranteed. State governments typically do not provide those benefits, and the federal government does not provide those benefits. People striking risk losing their jobs, homes, and healthcare, and many cannot afford to go without income for any period of time without risking homelessness or being unable to affort basic necessities. People are so ground down from the burden of simply existing in this environment.

So what's the next step? I'm truly, genuinely asking, what can Americans actually do about a federal government that is utterly poisoned from the inside?

I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out what kind of backpack you are wearing, thinking to myself, "why are the straps so uneven?"

They've been building it openly in the public for years and giving statements and interviews about building a surveillance state. I guess now it's official because there's a report?

My wife was bent over the end of the bed. While I'm going at it, she says something, but it's muffled because her face is in the bed, and I'm hard of hearing. I ask what she said, and she turns back and screams, "I said fill my pussy with your cum!" But it was summer and our windows were open with people walking by on the sidewalk. Bet they were really jealous.

Man, when the fucking LAPD is concerned about civil liberties, you know it's pretty damn bad.