Her losing was due to the fact that she was the rightmost candidate the DNC could find in their ranks. People keep saying that Hillary and Kamala lost because they were women. How about we try running women who are at least slightly left of Regan before we say the problem is just that people are sexist.

You do know that this is the internet and you can just watch porn, right?

Exact opposite here. My mom is riddled with auto immune disorders and my dads genes look like a ransom note, but here I am perfectly _physically healthy.

What, you don’t want your keys to crunch when you press them?

Assigned customer at birth.

Eh, I just use neutrals on everyone. I have a hard enough time remembering names and nobody should be offended by they/them.

Fine. Everyone around the world sets their clock to noon when it’s noon on the summer solstice in Greenwich. No more time zones. Just change the times you do things depending on your area.

If it’s that important to certain people then those workplaces can just have different seasonal hours. Why fuck with timekeeping because of a few peoples personal preference?

Walz won’t even be at retirement age by 2028. That’s practically an infant in terms of a presidential candidate.

We may not last 4 years. It’s only been 2 months.

Overthinking has to be my favorite hobby.

Mine is a ball python. They seem to prefer basking under the heat lamp after eating. Also they haven’t ever pooped in their water dish that I can remember, but I have had them horf up a partially digested rat in there before. That incident was made even more pleasant by the fact that I had their heat lamp positioned over the water dish at the time (to try and keep humidity up) and it happened while I was sleeping so I didn’t catch it for several hours. So I awoke to my entire house being filled with the miasma of a partially digested rat which had been stewing under a heat lamp for several hours. The smell was indescribable and beyond the imagination of any sane individual.

Unfortunately I don’t think the $20 I have in the bank right now will cover the cost of the test rig.

Oh yeah, basically the easiest way to do it would to pump water out of each basin, through a heat exchanger, and then back into the basin. That way you could have your whole temp control aparatus located outside of the terrarium. Plus that would also easily enable automatic water level management to keep the water levels identical. For your heat exchanger you could just use a CPU water block and a peltier device. You regulate the power going to the peltier device by monitoring a temp sensor in your water return pipe and just pulsing the peltier device on and off at different rates to control the heating or cooling rate. Plus with the peltier device you can just reverse the polarity to switch from heating to cooling to enable the shuffling of the basins. All of this would be controlled and charted in a csv file by a raspberry pi. Additionally you could connect a simple motion sensor so the pi could flag the times the snake was using one of the basins to make it easier to read the data.

Rather than monitoring ambient temp or humidity you would probably be better off just keeping them tightly controlled and constant via other systems. That would further reduce variables for the initial test.

Snake tax. Here’s the little turd the one time they decided to get stuck in my couch. They were perfectly fine but I had to partially dismantle my couch to get them out.

That’s an interesting point. I grew up with well water in MN where our ground water temp is about 43F (6C) so I am used to practically ice cold water just being on tap. It makes sense that what you like is going to vary based on what you’re used to.

I have been thinking that all day. But to do it properly I need a bigger terrarium and some more supplies. You can’t have the dishes be different sizes or that’s an additional variable. But I also want to keep a big enough dish that they can soak in it. They never actually do because I keep the humidity high enough but they should still have the option.

So I need to have a large terrarium with several identical water basins all in the same area. 3 basins would work (warm, room temp, and cool) but ideally I would have several set to various specific temps. Each basin should be able to be heated and cooled to reach a set water temp and which basin has which temp of water needs to be shuffled ocasionally to eliminate selection based on exact basin location or similar variables. That heating and cooling could easily be acheived with a peltier module and a temp sensor on each basin linked to a controller. You would also need a camera to view which basin the snake actually uses.

Of course I already know what would happen. I would spend a couple hundred dollars setting all that up only to learn that my single braincell possessing snake would only ever use the closest basin.

You know it’s honestly more believable that she was bought than that the dems just accidentally ran a campaign that was so heinously out of touch.

“…or as I like to call it gnu plus linux…”

Still love the truck though!

To be fair on that last part, I’ve owned some actual dogshit vehicles that I loved to death. Hell, I’ve still got my old 1991 Mazda B2200 pickup that I take for a drive ocasionally kind of like taking a geriatric dog for a walk. The carb hasn’t worked quite right since I had to rebuild it and the whole truck sits at an angle after I overloaded the bed a few too many times. Ocasionally it’ll start spontaniously flooding out and I’ll have to pull over and quickly pull a vac line off the carb and plug it to keep it running but when I do that is starts pinging like hell so I’ve gotta fuck with the ignition timing so I just keep the nutdriver for that strapped under the hood. It leaks oil, it rides rough, and the headlights might as well run on D cell batteries.

But it’s a good truck. It’s loyal and we care about each other. Whenever my main vehicle breaks down it is always there for me. Whenever I need it, it always runs even if it doesn’t do so well or happily. It always starts on the first try even when it’s -20F outside and it has never left me stranded. That truck has been rode hard and put up wet for over 3 decades but it refuses to give up. It is a member of the family and at this point I am determined to keep it going no matter what happens to it in the future. I owe it that much.

Now, at the same time, despite it being over 3 decades old, it is still more reliable than a cybertruck fash barge. My truck has earned it’s love and respect. I have no idea how anyone could love Teslas roll off dumpsters.