Go to the “Filter lists” tab in the dashboard. At the bottom of the list click “Import” and paste the URL ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt ) in the box. Then click “Apply Changes” to save it.

Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis is a bacteria that’s really good at killing mosquito, fungus gnat, and black fly larvae. It’s harmless to everything else and it’s the active ingredient in “Mosquito Dunks”.

You can break up a mosquito dunk into crumbles and soak them in a pitcher of water overnight to inoculate it with BTI. Water your plants with it to inoculate the soil and it’ll kill off the larvae – I go a little further and sprinkle crumbles over the soil in my pots to keep them inoculated.

It’s my go-to for dealing with fungus gnats in plants and I’ve never had it fail.

One day as a teenager I was screwing around with the cattle prods they sell at the local farm supply store. I pushed the button a few times and nothing happened – no sparks, no noise. Clearly it doesn’t have batteries in it …

I learned something that day.

Ironically: the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem is the one place communism has repeatedly worked with minimal issues.

Turns out that “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” is super easy when the means of production and end product are open to everyone and cost nothing (other than effort) to create and nearly nothing to distribute.

… that and the consequences of failures or delays in a project are a little different when comparing software to basic human needs.

Modern trucks are so fucking ridiculous Ford added a fold out stepladder to the tailgate on their trucks.

What they have told us is true … from a certain point of view.

Westerners

TIL the Chinese people on Weibo that originally created and spread the meme are “Westerners”.

Oh boy, look at what rather unfortunately named character they compared President Obama to! I bet if we were evil imperialists we’d claim that was intentional and a disgusting example of racism. Can you imagine the kind of person who would make such a bad-faith argument?

Good thing we’re not like those guys, eh comrade?

It doesn’t require digging out a test strip or card, it’s impossible to misplace or not have immediately on hand, and it doesn’t scream “Hang on a second, I’m just checking to make sure you’re not trying to drug and rape me.”

They buy them because the “operators” they’re cosplaying as use them.

The police and the military use them because guns are loud as fuck and produce muzzle flash – which are even worse in a poorly lit building. With a suppressor they’re not being blinded and can actually hear what’s going on.

S tier

Only if it’s salmiakki

Isn’t census data used to determine availability and funding for social programs?

So the options are “disclosed personal information the government has no business knowing.” or “cause services important to your [group] to be underfunded/cut”.

Lose/lose.

cheating

We often forget some people do have lives before they “settle down” and get married.

There is a male loneliness problem. The meme is making fun of the toxic dickheads that are part of the problem and lack the self awareness to realize it.

“Why don’t the people I treat like shit like me?!”

“Different world views” isn’t a problem, the problem is users espousing repugnent “world views” and being assholes.

Pretending like we have to put up with other users’ repulsive, insane “ideas” and bullying behavior in our spaces is laughable. Bigots, fascists, and actual tankies can fuck off.

I was working with a buddy on a “startup” that was more of a hobby than anything (and didn’t go anywhere). The early prototypes were controlled by Arduino and Pis early on – ease of software development was key as we experimented with and dialed in the hardware. The later prototypes used an ESP32 though, because we’re aren’t idiots.

I’m a hobbyist at best: it kills me that there are well paid “professional embedded software engineers” out there that can’t work with actual embedded hardware. All I could think of was this article on electrical engineers that can’t solder. The complete lack of real world, hands on experience with the hardware blows my mind.