Appreciate the link! And thanks for your work knocking on doors for democracy.

and why put the entire AWS control plane in US-East-1 ?!?! DECENTRALIZE, PEOPLE!

One that occurred to me a while back that I had, and which I'd only seen one economist ever talk about, is the idea of opposing the profusion of unimportant variety in consumer products, e.g. 40 flavors of the same chip. Reasoning is it likely keeps cost higher on everyone w/out increasing pleasure.

I don't think it's a coincidence that it went from something special to lets-drag-this-out-and-do-spinoffs after Frank Darabont left / was fired. His involvement was the entire reason I started watching, and I stopped not long after the second season made it obvious the magic was gone.

i woke up this morning and randomly remembered kuro5hin and everything2, two websites i spent vast amounts of time on in the early 2000s. i was a slashdotter too, of course, but k5 felt more organic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

(2) lighting. we have a lot more blue-toned LED lights now that make those warmer colors look a sickly green. yellows worked great under sodium, halogens, incandescents, but are terrible under fluorescents & LEDs. cool colors look great under LEDs & screens that emit blue light though!

We did, but it's been 18 years. We got it as an add-on from a travel agent back when that was a thing. Wound up being useful, as we needed to use it when our passports were stolen and we were stranded in Spain.

The claims process was through the travel agent, and worked, but took awhile.

Picked up this awesome print from Chico Sierra! Flagship Books carries their stickers too!

www.chicosierra.com

Strawberry Hill local band True Lions starting off the evening!

www.manorrecords.com/roster/2020/...

#TrueLions #KCK #ArtWalk

man, i really love birria

Third Friday Art Walk in downtown KCK tonight! Looks like some rain is moving in

If KU signs this, they aren't getting another dollar from me, ever.

The land was exempt from property taxes as-is, being part of the University. So this was seen as a way to both promote development, and eventually (in 22 years) provide property tax income.

I'm not a big believer in CIDs and TIF, but Kansas is using them a lot lately.

my camellia sinensis (tea plant) is blossoming!!!

Ah, i should have kept reading - it's both property and sales.

Yeah, I'm not sure either - previous coverage said it would be a property tax TIF, while this article describes a sales tax TIF.

Either way, it appears KU Endowment gets the money to reimburse them ~$25 million for infrastructure improvements.

lawrencekstimes.com/2023/03/15/l...

For the sake of privacy let’s call him James C.? No, that’s too obvious. Let’s call him J. Cameron

I'm curious what justification Brewers stadium staff had for ejecting Fosado.

Joking in your Young Republican group chat about the mass murder of 6 million people who'd been scapegoated for decades as morally degenerate ethnic/religious outsiders is just locker room talk. Speaking lightly of the murder of Charlie Kirk to your 400 friends on Facebook is a fireable offense.

BIRRIA!

braising liquid is just ancho+guajillo+arbol chiles with beef stock, oregano, cumin, coriander blended together with diced tomatoes. onion and garlic with the beef, then combine and into the oven we go!

#birria

it's birria day at the matt household! the best part is smelling it braising for 3 hours before it's ready to be taco'd

"KCPD said the driver stopped and stayed at the scene to cooperate with the investigation, which is ongoing"

Phrasing like this pisses me off. The driver ran a red light and killed a nine year old girl. How about "the driver has been taken into custody and charged with vehicular homicide"