Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • I didn't wreck the climate, honest! 🥵

    I only had a very vague idea of how to drive economically until I got a car that displayed the miles per gallon from moment to moment. I learned a simple rule: "drive gently". The nearer you foot is to the floor, the worse the fuel consumption is. I thought that changing gear would make a difference, but it's surprisingly small. I thought that going fast would be uneconomical, but it's nowhere near as big an effect as starting and stopping.

  • Why do kids get all the cool stuff?

    ones for adults looked. Black, white, maybe a high-visibility fluorescent yellow.

    But the shelves with the kids' helmets? Oh boy. They get helmets in a whole bunch of colours and patterns. Some even have attached cat ears or spiky mohawks! I'd totally wear one of those if they fit me. It would look garish and I would be proud of it.

  • lost in Mariehamn

  • I'm afraid Benjamin just won't be reclaiming his property any time soon

    I think I have to resign myself to perpetual confusion over people not knowing their own email addresses [1] (and I could have picked easily a dozen other posts about this). This case, it's not some other Sean Conner not knowing their own email address, or a person attempting to mail some other Sean Conner not knowing the proper email address, but a non-Sean Conner not knowing their own email address. This time it's a Benjamin who is attempting to reclaim some property while signing up for rent assistance who also has an Electronic Arts gaming account.

  • Coffee

    went out with some friends i haven't seen in a while & took an evening run after - my cup is full again. i did drink coffee today and did not regret it (yet).

• Politics and World Events

  • Trump seizes control of Washington DC police and deploys national guard

    Donald Trump placed the DC Metropolitan police department under federal control on Monday, deploying the national guard while describing a “lawless” city in ways that are sharply at odds with crime statistics reported by the police.

    Invoking section 740, of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, the president vowed to allow police to “do whatever the hell they want” in the face of provocations. “That’s the only language they [alleged criminals] understand.