KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

Here's to automatic soap dispensers that take just long enough to respond that you figure it must be broken or out, so you'll use the other one, but as soon as you move your hand, it squirts soap on the floor.

I don't think they really need the key to all those different types of melons right now.

Burgers and chicken nuggets are the particle board of meat.

I mean, I get that the point of a subtoot is to *not* call attention to something specific when you feel you just have to say something, and figure those who know about it will understand.

But when it's clearly commenting on a problem with the platform or community, I kind of struggle with:
- Is this something I should be aware of?
- Is this none of my business?

Over on birdsite, I just read a thread about people not bothering to look outside their bubble to see the general discourse* that the OP was complaining about.

Over here, I've seen a few complaints over the last day or so about *something* in the general discourse here...but because of the way Mastodon is structured, I don't know *how* to look for it other than to ask.

(*Also, I'm not sure I'm using the term "discourse" right here. I mean the overall conversation on each platform.)

Inventing or instigating a crisis, then taking emergency powers to solve it, is *literally* a tactic from Palpatine's playbook.

Also, it's right next to a flood control basin. That's... not a good place to have a sink hole.

I'm getting alerts from two cities on a road closure due to a sinkhole along the boundary between them

It's kind of amusing that each of them is giving a different set of cross-streets, because it's also the place where two grids meet. Gotta use the cross streets in *our* city for the notice!

A clay tablet reveals:

1. How cleaners did laundry in ancient Mesopotamia.
2. The trope of customers who think they know how to do your job better than you do is really, really old.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/at-the-cleaners-ancient-mesopotamia

Update: Today I got a message from The Nature Conservancy about the Senate renewing the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which is part of this bill, and asking me to contact my representative to support it when it goes to the House.

And to be fair, I do remember the LWCF coming up in a lot of mailings from various groups. I suppose that's just the one piece of this that they all decided to focus on?