You can drink what you want to.

“Hey, you know that project you poured your heart into for months? We want you to make fun of it on live TV.”

If I were an anesthesiologist I’d be a funny guy at work. When people were going under I‘d be like, “No no no! Wait wait wait!”

– Demetri Martin

Depending on the field, later in your career you can often skip the spreadsheets and get away with just saying, “That looks close enough,.” If you have enough seniority people will assume you know what you’re talking about.

That’s cool! Though (and I don’t mean to make light of anyone) all I can think of is the old TV test pattern…

Works every time. Nobody ever hears the Velcro.

Fixed! Thank you.

I Googled “queer pride flags” to better understand this, and I feel like I have gone down a rabbit hole. There are so many flags…

For boxing specifically, it is absolutely part of the fighters’ marketing strategies.

For sports in general, trash talking during a game is “real.” Extended beefs that get major media coverage might be intentionally played up for publicity.

Also, you might consider a 2-wheeled box bike (search for “bakfiets” or “long john”). I have not ridden one, but I have seen a few in the wild and their owners all gave raving reviews. They are less stable when stopped but ride much more like a regular bicycle.

Simplicity: One rear wheel makes the drivetrain much simpler. You do not need a shared axle connecting the rear wheels, or a differential. (Correction: Trikes with 2 wheels in the rear usually don’t have a differential. They simply drive one wheel and let the other freewheel. That means the bike always wants to turn one direction.)

Safety: Two wheels in front reduces the rollover risk when turning at speed.

Try the soda can design next! I made a few with my kids as a craft project.

Note that these stoves are often banned in the western US during wildfire season. Allowed stoves generally need to have a sealed fuel system with an on-off valve.

Trump finally realized Putin has been playing him, with some not-so-subtle help from Melania. Trump did an abrupt about-face on Ukraine policy over the last few days and the US is going to start shipping them weapons again.

I noticed a very minor typo: the login button labeled “I’m already apart of the fediverse” should read “I’m already a part of the fediverse.”

Otherwise it was great. The canvas size and cool-down period both felt right. The final artwork looks good. Thanks for putting on the event again!

Heck yeah. I miss my giant orange Coleman. It was ugly, heavy, and slow, but super stable and borderline indestructible.

For example, using absolute numbers from Wikipedia…
South Africa: 27,272
Haiti + Philippines + Ecuador: 28,509

That map would look very different.

You’re right that using absolute numbers in the first place is bad practice.

The choice of regions feels cherry-picked to inflate the blue area on the map. Why else would they include Mongolia, or include only the least-dense regions of the US and Russia while excluding the major population centers?

While South Africa certainly has a lot of murders, both absolute and per capita, this map could easily be draw with a lot less blue on it.

I wish the chart included more countries. I found the source data at Pew Research, and they only include 24 countries, unfortunately.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/us-image-declines-in-many-nations-amid-low-confidence-in-trump/

“Everything will be better if we just feed a fifth of the population to the alligators!”

Absolutely insane.

That sounds like an awesome trip!