She was killed in a traffic accident senior year.

I’ve said it before, I think Cinnamon is a middle ground between Gnome amd KDE. If you almost like both, go for Cinnamon.

The word “decent” is doing a lot of work there. As for all the dishes, if your old ones are good enough to keep, why buy new?

Transformers: Dumb blockbuster movie that somehow received high praise. I think I understood the assignment.

Maybe if you aim for the absolute bottom, but…I inherited my grandmother’s house and belongings when she passed away. I own at least 90 towels, 20 sets of bedsheets, 6 sets of dishes including the sacrosanct “We don’t even serve meals to god himself on those plates” “good china”…There’s a lot of shit you can do without, or without as many of.

Aeons ago, I came across a picture of a young woman in a “steampunk Elsa” cosplay. It was “steam punk” because she had brown leather straps with brass buckles everywhere and she was wearing a pair of goggles like a hat. It was “Elsa” because the cloth parts of her bustier was cyan.

Feels reductive, right? That a genre of fiction with themes and ideas to explore, and a main character from a major motion picture, both get boiled down to some leather straps and colored cloth.

That’s what Disney did to Star Wars. It’s not a story anymore, it’s a cosplay aesthetic.

There’s also the really stupid “high G burn around the moon” scene, which I would love to see Scott Manley try to replicate in KSP.

I’m reliably informed there are people who like Michael Bay’s Transformers movies. The most interesting part of the entire series to me was watching a Camaro get into a literal fist fight with a Mustang. Otherwise my memories of the movie were having eye rollingly childish catch phrases boomed down at me, or visuals that are basically just technicolor television snow.

I had a college teacher that did homework right. It was a math class. You know how some math textbooks have the answers to the odd number problems in the back of the book? She would “assign” those as homework, and every morning at the beginning of class she would ask if anyone had any questions on the homework. “Yeah could we work number 15 on the board?”

She never took up “homework” for a grade, it was our opportunity to practice on our own time. This was optional, if you were keeping up you weren’t required to waste your time.

I’m also 100% fine with reading assignments for homework. “Read chapter 7 of the textbook before our next class.” As a flight instructor I NEVER had trouble getting students to read their textbooks. There was a bit of an eyes glazing over issue with the FARs because a lot of it is written, well, like federal laws. So we’d start going over Part 91 in class, we’d get about a page in before we hit the rule about jettisoning objects from an aircraft in flight, have about 5 minutes of fun talking about when and where you can just randomly chuck a brick out of the window, and from then on I could trust their ability to read the FARs.

Slow ridiculousness day apparently.

Possible partial solution: Just minimize the shit you own.

You put the peeps in the chili pot and make it taste…bad.

Is ABS a thing with air brakes?

Move sting ray a half mile to the left.

I would imagine it has to do with traction and ability to apply braking forces without skidding the wheels.

Even in a pickup truck, it’s easy to skid the rear wheels (antilock brakes aside) with the bed empty because the brakes can easily overcome the traction of the tires. This is why pickups have height sensing proportioning valves.

I wrote a thing about this earlier: Fedora has apparently been infected with an advertising department. Their website has a lot of branding and buzzwords and wanketeering and very few technical details. It never says the word Gnome anywhere. You just have to know “Workstation” and “Silverblue” mean Gnome.

I didn’t have nightmares until becoming an aviation maintenance technician.

This is kind of backwards in the aviation world: There’s a whole separate certificate for flight instructors which involves training in psychology, lesson planning and all that in addition to stuff like flying the plane from the right seat, spin training and all that. Thing is, it’s often baby’s first aviation job. A lot of flight instructors are freshly minted commercial pilots and their first lesson is their first revenue flight. You don’t get to go fly jets for the charters and airlines without experience, and where do you get experience? flying smaller, less expensive aircraft. What’s the single biggest demand for pilots flying smaller, less expensive aircraft? Flight schools.

There is no requirement that I am aware of for college professors to have any training in the fundamentals of instruction, and it SHOWS.

Based on my experience migrating from Mint to Pop!_OS, the next step is migrate back to Mint.