chekov's engine light

Ahhh I was overthinking it!! That was the first thing I thought of and then for some reason was like "nawww that ain't it". Thank you lol

a diagram titled "Cycles of Political Revolution," referencing Polybius, Anacyclosis, Histories, around 160 BCE. It illustrates a cyclical theory of political evolution, with six forms of government in a repeating sequence: Monarchy (rule by one), Tyranny (rule by cruelty and oppression), Aristocracy (rule by nobility), Oligarchy (rule by powerful rich), Democracy (rule by many), and Ochlocracy (rule by mobs). Each form of government is shown with a downfall leading to the next, such as despotism under Monarchy, revolution of the nobles under Tyranny, corruption under Aristocracy, revolution of the people under Oligarchy, populism under Democracy, and moral panic under Demagogy. The cycle suggests an eventual reversion to Tyranny from Ochlocracy

I’m not saying this maps 1:1, but for something written in 160BCE it’s a pretty damn impressive take

A bunny with a piece of buttered toast in its mouth hops on all fours down a footpath in a city. Rounding a corner, it is about to crash into a different bunny, also in a hurry.

Daily bunny no.3255 has a meal on the go

someone who knows textiles, what is this being described here as cotton on the inside, polyester on the outside? is it just a blend like we have now or was this something else?

long day was long. i finally got to sit the hell down with some supper and my lungs are doing that thing where they feel too small and i have to fight my own muscles and bones to get a full lungfull

Always Sunny Mac fireball when they're selling roadside gas

These guys had a more coherent plan for managing the gas crisis than the current administration

does anyone have recs for e-ink readers that take epub and are affordable? I don’t need backlight or anything fancy but I want it to be comfortable to hold and compatible with libby etc.

woman making disgusted face at text Electing Republicans woman making intrigued face at text Electr*cuting Republicans

it's delightful what a machine can do when the operating system prioritizes operating over telemetry

social problems don’t have individual solutions. in the extreme case, no matter how well you adjust to being in a death camp, the environment is inevitably going to take its toll

i asked my therapist what we’re meant to do when the causes of our stress/anxiety/anger/depression are inarguably real, material, and beyond our power to change or escape, and he was like ‘yeah, as a profession, we’re still working on that one’

The staging is so half-assed, I never saw a listing photo with a wet rag on the tub before. I'm not saying this house deserves better, it definitely does not

21 Elmwood Ct, Destrehan, LA 70047 | MLS #2538091 | Zillow This 3750 square feet Single Family home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. It is located at 21 Elmwood Ct, Destrehan, LA.

New groverhaus just dropped www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Oh yeah no, I blame store management all the way up the chain for failing to handle food adequately or safely. And same for shipping, the people who really do the work are rarely the ones at fault

The bottom of the bluesky mobile website in safari iOS 26. The URL bar at the bottom is minimized to a dumb little capsule/pill shape but the space it occupies when expanded is empty. It actually gets even worse because when I scroll the bluesky nav bar stays fixed but the empty space where the safari nav bar should be turns into a transparent window and so there's a useless section of screen where you can see partial view but nothing is laid out where it should be. Minimizing the URL bar does nothing useful, because the ability to interact with it is gone. You have to first tap to open it, then do whatever you wanted to do. This is literally just a waste of space and time.

Same bottom section as before but the safari nav bar is fully open. It still has absurdly rounded corners that waste a lot of space and look bad, but at least it's useful when it's fully open.

it's great that safari chose to minimize the URL nav bar thing but this just wastes screen space because websites don't display any differently?

it's infuriating, we work so hard and get screwed every possible way

yeah i think that's the most likely thing, it's not being held at the right temp on the journey from the dairy to the store shelf. i've tried three stores and it's a problem with milk from everywhere 🫠

i'm glad it's not just me but i'm annoyed this is happening to us, food is too expensive

yeah like i store it in the main part but it goes off within a few days of being opened, or it's noticeably unfresh on opening. i suspect stores and dairies aren't storing it at proper temps throughout production, shipping, and stocking cuz like what else would it be

That would fund almost 6 weeks of SNAP, which actually helps people.

does milk spoil faster than it used to or am i just unlucky

oh fuck i forgot the ball game was at 7! did italy or mexico win

once again in the grips of i can't do anything right in my parents' eyes

if you need any more proof we have lost the baseball culture war, the tokyo dome has bidets in all bathrooms

nothing makes me irate faster than having to call 800 numbers and suffer through voice recognition menus that can't distinguish coughing and background noise from human speech, and also somehow can't understand my typical american voice???

love to get a notice that my electric will be shut off in a week and i have to call to remedy this, but i can't get to a human because i personally don't have an account and the person who did is dead

"pooldude" yeah which pool would that be?

This came up at my one job, town is considering pre-emptively removing fluoride from the water supply because they're worried if they spend thousands to replace aging equipment and it gets banned at the federal level, they will have wasted ratepayers' money. Who really needs teeth amirite

Yes!! They came up with this grotesque caricature set and it hasn't changed in 25 or whatever years. It feels like paint-by-numbers storytelling and character design

sequels are an indicator of rot. unrelated, pixar movies are fugly and formulaic