In the southwest, if you’re on roads that have at least 2 lanes each direction there should be cell service on the road, but it’s less guaranteed for smaller roads. Not sure about other parts. Bring water, and remember to drink it a lot. Sometimes there are hills on a freeway where the sign says to shut off your AC when you’re going up. It’s probably a good idea to follow those unless you’re very confident in your van not overheating. If your vehicle is going to overheat, turning on the heater increases airflow to the engine and can make it not overheat.

When I was a kid, I had a water spray bottle with a fan that was really nice for the summers, though I think this only applies in dry heat? A spray bottle + a separate fan works great too, or even just the spray bottle. But the combined form factor is nice if you’re walking around outside at all.

Roads also might have signs saying “last gas for [x] miles”, check your fuel whenever you see one!

Enjoy! The southwest is beautiful in its own way.

I think Republicans use spoilers when there’s something somewhat unpopular but it’s gonna pass anyways. Like if there are 54 would-be votes for something in the Senate but it’s a controversial issue, you can expect a no vote from Collins, Romney, Murkowski so it passes 51-49 and they can look better to their constituency. If it’s closer than that, they rotate who votes no, but the three of them never actually block anything

Tough race between r/Seattle and r/Portland

Parenti stopped being friends with Bernie after the Kosovo vote afaik

Do you have any other recs for like animated sci-fi shows aimed at older audiences like this, especially ones with leftist themes? I enjoyed watching Pantheon and want to find more vaguely similar media

Can you please recommend me some recipes from that book to try? I have it and made one thing from it (I think it was a kabocha squash stew) and I was very underwhelmed, but if there’s better stuff in it I want to give it a go

Vegan who loves to cook here, and I’ve got some recommendations for you! As a quick note, I’m vegan for the animals but also interested in healthy eating, so my recommendations are generally for things that taste indulgent but nourish the body and soul as well.

• The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook is easily my favorite that I have currently. The author, Nisha Vora, is the person behind the recipe website Rainbow Plant Life, which is by far my favorite vegan cooking website. She also has a new cookbook called Big Vegan Flavor that I have ordered but not yet received; I can’t recommend it for sure but knowing Nisha I’m sure it’s going to be excellent. In particular, Nisha is my go-to for Indian cuisine, but she has a wide variety of cuisines she covers well. The hummus recipe, the West African peanut stew, and the broth part of the pho recipe in the Instant Pot cookbook are particular standouts, and from her website I can’t recommend highly enough her Palak Paneer with Tofu (follow the boiled tofu recipe, except you don’t actually have to boil the tofu) and and her Chana Masala. She also has a YouTube channel that is also quite good. If you don’t have an Instant Pot, I highly recommend getting one, they can be gotten on Craigslist or Marketplace for ~$40 usd where I am, and they’re very worth it if you have the space.
• The Vegan Middle Eastern Cookbook by Noha Elbadry-Cloud is another excellent one. The recipes I’ve tried so far have been very flavourful and tasty. I like also that the woman who wrote it provides recipes from all over the Middle East and North Africa, and also includes her own twists on things that are not necessarily traditional but still very good. She has recipes for dishes that are vegan by default as well as good vegan takes on traditional meat-heavy meals, complete with good recipes for homemade imitation meats.
• I’ve heard good things about The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, which is written by the woman who runs The Plant Based Wok (cooking website). I haven’t used the cookbook myself, but friends say it’s good and I have enjoyed the author’s recipes I’ve tried from her website.

Hope that helps! I’ll let you know once I receive Big Vegan Flavor if it’s good, because it seems like it’s going to become my Bible of cooking.

(Also ADHD, maybe undiagnosed autism) This is so relatable, I’ve been getting very good at restructuring sentences mid-speech because I forget the exact word I’m looking for. Either that, or my brain hyperfixates on remembering the specific word I was looking for and I interrupt myself to try and get my conversation partner to help me remember the word I was looking for.

Have you seen that TikTok video that was like a 3 way split screen of Yellow Parenti, someone playing Subway Surfers, and one of those visual ASMR videos? We need to make more of that type of content

/r/trueanon is probably on the shit list unfortunately, gonna miss those nerds

“anticapitalist pokemon fanfic” is a set of 3 words describing something I didn’t know I needed until becoming aware of its existence

Every day carry

Lotion, deodorant, hand sanitizer, umbrella (most days), water bottle, battery pack for phone, headphones, bike lights, Kindle, phone, keys, wallet, clif or lara bars, n95 equivalent masks, shopping bag for groceries, hair tie, fidget toys. I carry a backpack for all this stuff

I should get the presta to Schrader adapter

I recommend the book How Not to Age by Dr. Michael Greger, he has a lot of recommendations about what skin care ingredients and chemicals are actually backed by science. It cites a lot of research, and I think it’s a pretty comprehensive overview of the subject. It also has other information on aging, not just skincare. Definitely don’t hit me up if you want a digital copy of it (epub, also available in the usual places)

I feel like there are a lot of Bernie Sanders style left liberal who are not ready to be deprogrammed on China yet but would appreciate Blackshirts and Reds, at least in my experience talking to people in USA and Canada

I can’t imagine that that’d happen, they need to maintain some level of “we’re trying here” in order to effectively rile up their base to vote. Not appointing someone to the NLRB is much less noticable than Supreme Court justices stepping down. I think that the optics are best for both parties if the Supreme Court is basically always a 5-4 split one way or the other, or it is always 5-4 ®. That way the line is that it’s always this close to {getting the Supreme Court back,the other team getting the Supreme Court} to mobilize voters.

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I think CloudFlare uses lava lamps because it’s a cool story, but there are ways you can get truly random bits from other things, like this. Generally, you want to have some sort of physical process going on that provides random entropy, because CPUs by themselves can only produce pseudorandom numbers. For example, random.org uses atmospheric noise, which is random and unpredictable when you look at very tiny variances. You can also use, e.g. a super sensitive Geiger counter to measure random bits of radiation, or if you shoot photons at a semi-reflective surface, sometimes they go through and sometimes they reflect. For the type shown here, though, the most common kind of noise they use is from quantum effects relating to transistors, as far as I know. This is an actual source of randomness, so if it’s done right it can be just as good as lava lamps or Geiger counters or whatever.

I might be wrong about this but my understanding is that on Linux you’d pipe the output of this in somewhere and tell the kernel to use it for entropy, and if it gets insufficient entropy it realizes this and starts producing random bits slower. So like normally the Linux kernel samples mouse movements for randomness, and so it makes more random bits the more you jiggle your mouse. These hardware RNGs are best used for headless servers that don’t have as reliable entropy at their disposal.

PDFs are hard because you need a big e-reader screen. Text only formats like Epub or Mobi are much easier. If you think you can find epubs for all the PDFs you want to read, I’d recommend getting an old Kindle. I’m partial to the Kindle Touch (which can be jailbroken easily). You can often find them for around 20 USD on eBay, which is the cheapest you can get something like this.