My memories go back to about age 4-5, when I lived near/in the Phoenix metropolitan area. I remember rolling down this one grass hill a lot, a passing, irrational fear of this one riding lawnmower that often came near said hill, an asymmetrical, irregular-shaped pool, a red ball going over a brick wall, and Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory album on this CD boombox I had.

GMU’s Manassas campus has something like this; I think it has something to do with the pressure of the water within the basin resulting in an ultra-thin, low-friction “cushion” for the ball to rotate on.

I was listening to Hybrid Theory on a old CD player when I was 5, and for years Dad would often as not have the classic rock/heavy metal channels playing in the car.

The sci-fi equivalent of being shoved off the back of a moving boat.

I was 14 in 2016; I lived in a red town back then & all I knew was “funny old blonde realtor who says dumb memeable shit on TV & Twitter is gonna be president? PEAK COMEDY ROFLMFAOOL”

10 years later, I have since been thoroughly disabused of that immature, uneducated teenage mindset.

I go down to Manassas for class sometimes; GMU’s Sci-Tech campus is adjacent-to-if-not-surrounded-by a good half-dozen data centers. You can see them from I-66.

She’s actually an Albanian Brit, but I see where it’s coming from.

More like 75 MSS SIGINT transceivers.

Just woke up. Currently at my grandparents’ place near-ish the Outer Banks in northeastern NC for Independence Day weekend. Managed to dodge a hangover, far as I can tell, and that’s always a plus. Not quite Satan’s Nutsack like it is in the DC area where I ACTUALLY live, but still supposed to hit high 90s (F) here over the weekend. May fish tomorrow.

Overall…fair. Be good if I could find that damn water bottle.

Addendum: Found it. Life is good now.

Let’s get him to make one, then.

Nothing I couldn’t pirate right back, given time.

I’m in the US, but still, maybe getting booted off of there was the universe trying to tell me something.

From the US:

Nuclear power represents the intermediate stage between hydrocarbon/petrochemical/fossil fuels and fully renewable (solar/wind/geothermal) energy; an eventual full transition to nuclear power, even as a de facto stopgap until renewable energy infrastructure can handle the power demands of today, is ultimately the correct course of action, especially if the intention is to reduce and ultimately eliminate CO2 & other greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming & climate change.

If you give all the accounts the same name, the admins might catch on.

You CAN, like I did when first starting out, but it’s a bit redundant, especially on desktop; most-if-not-all Lemmy communities can be accessed/posted-in by accounts from most-if-not-all instances; the whole reason I’m based in Lemmy.zip is because Voyager seemed to be the most well-rated iOS interface app on the App Store when I typed in “Lemmy”.

They wouldn’t let me take my metal water bottle in with me.

Last year for the Army Expo I tried hiding my last one somewhere near the entrance, only to find it gone when I left.

This time I decided “Fuck that & fuck them” and found something else to do in the District.

Let it be neither slandered nor libeled that Casuls_Die_Thrice makes the same mistake twice.

I never thought I’d see the day when a major performing arts venue was doing everything in its power to put itself out of business.

🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Star-Spangled Banner earrape intensifies 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🫡🫡🫡

RPCS3 enables full PS3 functionality on PC; it’s how I’m able to play the OG 2009 version of Demon’s Souls, complete with online connectivity.

Ghazghkull called, he wants his Gretchin back.