In the US our colleges and universities typically have what they call extension offices that can tell you all about the local environment. Anything like that where you’re at?

From Gemini, but it’s factual:

A local extension office, often called a Cooperative Extension office, is a branch of a land-grant university that provides research-based information and educational programs to the local community. These offices are staffed by experts who offer guidance on various topics, including agriculture, gardening, food safety, natural resources, and 4-H youth development. They act as a bridge between academic research and practical application, helping individuals and communities solve problems and improve their lives.

Lots of great advice here! I’ve learned the most just by getting out in the woods and swamps and looking. Still so much I’m ignorant of! A great project for you, that I’ve been slacking on, is putting events into a calendar or tracking app. “May 15th, dragonflies are back.” “June 1st, banana spiders back.” Stuff like that.

Let me rant a little on the TSA. There are strict rules for flying with guns and ammo, clearly spelled out on the TSA site. Great! As it should be!

Pensacola didn’t give two fucks, just made sure I had dual locks and asked if my ammo was boxed. Yep!

I get to Tulsa and the agent wouldn’t check my ammo because it wasn’t in this exact box. It was loose in the fucking box it came in.

Small arms ammunition (up to .75 caliber and shotgun shells of any gauge) must be packaged in a fiber (such as cardboard), wood, plastic, or metal box specifically designed to carry ammunition and declared to your airline.

(And no, your magazine or clip does not count as packaging. Don’t play like that.)

I said fine, throw it out, I gotta go. Nope. “Sheriff has to take possession.” Fine! Give it to the cops when they get here. Bye!

Now here’s the rub: You cannot argue with a TSA agent. They have total authority to make any call they like. Orders conflict with what’s on the TSA site? Too fucking bad, their call. I get the rule giving them discretion on the ground, but fuck me it turns some of them into little Nazis.

I’m particularly salty because this was during COVID, which mom died of while I was waiting at DFW, and ammo was unavailable at any price.

If you had to deal with the public all day long, particularly a stressed out public, you’d look at people at idiots as well. Just look how customer service and tech support views their fellow man. :)

Voodoo! I had no idea.

I so admire your passion! Could I borrow a bit? Feeling pretty down.

My favorite all-time insult was laid upon me by my soon-to-be ex:

“Well look at you! You ain’t nothin’! You’re scrawny, you’re an alcoholic and if you didn’t have such a big dick you wouldn’t be worth nothin’!”

Never had an insult shut me the fuck up, instantly. I mean, that really hit home.

All that destruction to provide a couple of hundred jobs. These dumbass politicians think Meta is bringing in a factory, like the old days.

I loathe that woman’s goddamned voice. I think she’s trying to channel Barbara Walters. Second I hear it, off she goes because I know bullshit is coming into my ear canal.

Sometimes it’s a good sign, at least in politics. The 99-1 Senate vote to kill the anti-AI-law ban of the latest bill was telling. Same goes for unanimous SCOTUS decisions. If both liberals and conservatives overwhelmingly agree on a thing, it’s almost certainly a good call.

in minecraft that is

satire or mockery

What about fair use?

No lie. If anything, this site reminds me that ChatGPT might handle a task for me.

That’s my understanding and experience.

Suspected as much. NOAA and the NWS aren’t falling off a cliff this fast. They’ll get there!

For almost everyone, the straight-up phone call has become an intrusion.

I feel like everyone, in America anyway, has forgotten that telemarketers weren’t allowed to call cell phones.

This court always has been. For a long time I was collecting SCOTUS stories where the rulings could be regarded as liberal, or, gasp, even woke. There was about double what’s pictured here.

Love seeing top predators back in the wild. Maybe too late as we’ve killed off the bottom of the food chain, but I’ll take what I can get.

If OP got his last paycheck, done deal. Yes, he surely signed for it, but no laptop is worth the legal cost of a lawsuit.

SOURCE: Issued hundreds of laptops, of all varieties and prices, for multiple companies.

This is not happening in the wider world, not on any appreciable scale. Here comes lemmy:

“NOAW! People ARE switching in DROVES!”

LOL, the vast majority of people can’t spell Linux.

Pornhub requires a VPN or other workaround in many states/regions. So yeah, the more tech literate do that thing. See also: Steam Deck.