Notices by Ross Andrews (randrews@somewhy.net)

@kaia Aw, bummer. I'll miss you!

@kaia Oh no, spoke too soon, I did find a torrent for it, on a private site.

@kaia It's apparently also known as "first spaceship on venus." I found a torrent for an MST3K episode mocking it, but yeah, not one of the normal movie.

@kaia Kind of like the repeated "walls are closing in" headlines about Trump, during his first term.

@kaia Where did the whole "Dubai chocolate" thing come from? I mean Dubai, obviously, but why did everyone overnight decide that regular chocolate wasn't good enough? What even makes Dubai better at that? Anything?

@kaia To a Texan who carries both a gun and a knife everywhere, the whole thing sounds crazy.

@sun Texas has some of the highest property tax rates in the country, because we have no income tax. This would affect the homestead exemption, so only the taxes on the house you actually live in, not investment or rental properties. And houses have gone up massively in value (and thus tax appraisal) in the past five years.

@kaia What about, like, cooking? Or for that matter, eating?

What if you have, say, a cake?

What if you get a box in the mail, and want to open it?

I read this thing recently that the left is anti-gun because what they would do with a gun is murder, and the right is pro-gun because what we do is protect people. What exactly are these cops doing with knives?

@kaia The one time I've ever lost money investing it was in precious metals. In 2011 I told my 401k to do conservative stuff, they put it in gold, and gold dropped in value.

@sun This was sorta-kinda a degree requirement for mine. It was nearer the "calculator" than "computer" end of the spectrum, really just designing and wiring up an ALU.

@kaia Speak for yourself. I've been entirely nuclear powered since yesterday morning, not paying anything: 😁

@kaia @hfaust Looks very different without the short tomboy haircut.

@kaia I have one of these, it terrifies the cats. They also have a little robot bird that chirps and flaps its wings though, and they love that.

@sun That the shooter was MAGA.

@kaia

@sun Wasn't this being a bad idea literally the plot of a movie a few years ago? Like at first I thought this website might be a marketing thing for that movie...

@kaia It's over 100F outside every day. I can't wait to be cold again!

@sun A lot of people I follow are from your server, just because my account is on my own instance doesn't mean I don't appreciate yours existing.

@kaia Does the Uber one count? I would argue telling someone exactly what it'll cost is less manipulative than only telling them at the end.

@twinspin6 @kaia Lots of Trekkies at NASA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_Observational_Research_Facility#/media/File:WORF_Patch.png