…nope, we installed ours on the full water supply: it’s essential here or plumbing fixtures will fail…a properly designed softener won’t add significant salt to your potable water since the brine flushes clear after each recharge cycle…

…i don’t think you should drink that; it looks bad for you…

…softeners are essential in aquifer country; our zojirushi served us well for a decade but after our whole-house filter blew out a couple of years ago i’m starting to see iron deposits despite the softener…

…for those distances we’re talking hundreds of millions of years at relativistic velocities, even billions…

…i work with mostly first and second-generation immigrants from all over the world, and a common pattern i’ve noticed among established first-generation immigrants is strong anti-immigrant sentiment; a little bit that they emmigrated to get away from those people, a little bit f*ck-you-i-got-mine…

…to quote my boss from my third professional job: “i may be a whore, but at least i’m not a slut: sluts don’t get paid”…

^{(i actually thought this was ammunition from an old disc gun)}

…all my turntables have included 45RPM adapters for the spindle; never needed anything separate for the records…

…i have a 5" adapter ring for 3" compact discs, though: that has seen legitimate use in all my slot-loading players, although drawer-loading players always included detents for smaller discs, and of course portable players snap directly onto the spindle…

…yeah, the first thing coming off are those shoes + pants…

…that was a significant theme in 2061: oddysey three…

…oh his administration’s acts were absolutely malicious but the cabal were playing him mostly in service of rational self-interest…

…by contrast, emperor f*ckhead’s coalition are a train-wreck of kleptocrats, irrational conspiracists, incompetent sycophants, and opportunistic capitalists all competing to yank his strings in whichever direction the winds might serve their interests for the next twenty minutes…

…while both were played, i think bush-the-lesser’s intentions bore little agency in his performance versus the gleeful declaration with which our current narcissist-in-chief shouts whatever the last person in the room told him to think…

…i wonder if the red button has something to with sending to or clearing the public display?..

…also, jiggle it to check if you’re in neutral, then jiggle it again just to be sure: ooh, now you’re stopped at a light, better jiggle it…

(okay, that’s an easy tease, but as a compulsive habit it really does help cultivate kinesthetic proficiency through tactile feeback)

…those are what i use, but whereas i can avoid touching anything with my hands until using a towel and any residual dampness air-dries between my fingers and skin, hopping across the bathroom to a towel one foot at a time is awkward and best and my feet are pretty much going on the ground immediately after mostly-drying them…

…what do the money detector and red buttons do?..

…i have not thought about wingman’s hangar for a long, long time…

…maybe he only protests on factorial dates so the signs stay manageable…

…you gonna write out that whole f*cking integer?..factorials make for snappy handheld signs…

…nah man, they’re just itching for an excuse to roll out deadly force and mass voter suppression…

…washing my feet in the sink is trivial; drying them well-enough not to track around slightly-damp feet afterward is a hassle…

^(marshall)