MoonMelon

I just remember it being really expensive. I think it was $4 to rent? Plus the looming potential late fees. Whatever it was, at the time it seemed like a fortune. So you couldn't really fuck around and rent "Mansquito 2: Womansquito" just for laughs because it really was a huge ripoff when a movie sucked, or was damaged, or something. Also the popular movies were never in stock. They would put hundreds of empty boxes on the shelves to make it seem like it was there, but the actual tapes were always gone.

I never noticed how caked up Neo's podneighbor is. Pretty good for having never used your ass muscles.

The marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often pretty wild. Just my personal theory, but I always thought it seemed like one of the places where the artists could inject a little of their own ideas, elaborating on the subject or drawing parallels, using symbolism, maybe little in-jokes for the client (hours books were made for one person), etc. Sort of like the extra panel of an xkcd comic.

Can osmium-tool do what you want?

For example if I go here and export an osm file as pittsburg.osm: https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18%2F40.440748%2F-79.999822

Then I run osmium tags-filter pittsburg.osm n/amenity=library -o out.osm

I get an out.osm with a bunch of libraries in it:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<osm version="0.6" generator="osmium/1.18.0">
  <bounds minlat="40.438994" minlon="-80.003256" maxlat="40.442501" maxlon="-79.996389"/>
  <node id="367964200" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:41:15Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4417942" lon="-79.9973275">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="227"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2429945"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Downtown and Business Branch Carnegie Free Library of Pittsburgh"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="367964584" version="4" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:41:32Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4397308" lon="-80.0008734">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="223"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430651"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Point Park University Library"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="367964938" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:42:16Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4392024" lon="-79.9972654">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="233"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430211"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Carnegie Library of Allegheny"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="2127151495" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:45:12Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4407273" lon="-79.9997963">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="224"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430637"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Pittsburgh Downtown Branch Library"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
</osm>

I don't live in the UK but I got pulled into the UK camper van / canal boat / bushcraft segment of youtube. The recommended videos are often something like "London has FALLEN" on a video featuring a normal street with people walking around, but I guess not enough of them are white. It's a whole subgenre, each channel full of people with St. George's Cross profile pics agreeing wildly in the comments that its all gone to shit now.

It really is a tragic parallel to what you see on algorithmic "media" in the USA. Every comment section is a gutter where terminally online people circlejerk with fear and hatred as lube.

Anyway I'm thinking of starting a peertube channel where I upload art videos.

I'm not sure I buy the McDonald's worker story, the whole narrative of the arrest seems really bizarre. (Not that I eat their shit food, one way or another.)

The dialog pushing AI media seems to start from this assumption that I consume media just to have colors and words and sounds enter my face holes. In fact, I consume art and media because I like hearing, seeing, and reading about how other humans experience the same world I do. It's a form of communication. I like the product but also the process of people trying to capture the bonkers, ineffable experience we all seem to be sharing in ways I would never think of, but can instantly verify.

What's funny is, due to the nature of media, it's kind of impossible to not communicate something, even if the artwork itself is empty. When I see AI media I see the communication of a mind that doesn't know or give a shit about any of this. So in their attempt make filler they are in fact making art about how inarticulate they are. It's unintentional, corporate dadaism.

At some point in my 40s I started doing that medieval "first sleep" and "second sleep" thing where my eyes just blast wide awake at 2am. I don't have to pee, I'm not uncomfortable, I just wake up. I read, take the dog out, brush my teeth again... After awhile I go back to sleep and wake up at the normal time.

I guess it is kind of nice to do a patrol around and make sure everything is cool, and the dog loves it. It's just kind of weird.

Scythes require more specific wind and moisture conditions compared to sickles (as do combines), but they do save a ton of work. My favorite scythe fact is that there is an even faster but more dangerous version called the Flemish Scythe, that is one-handed. From "The Scythe Book":

...John Gerard, in his seven- teenth-century Herball, recorded an accident wherein the mower:

made a wound to the bones, and withall very large and wide, and also with great effusion of blood; the poore man crept upon this herbe (Clownes Wound wort or All-heale), which he bruised with his hands, and tied a great quantity of it unto the wound with a piece of his shirt, which presently stanched the bleeding, and ceased the paine, insomuch that the poore man presently went to his dayes work againe, and so did from day to day, without resting one day until he was perfectly whole, which was accomplished in a few dayes.

Fucking hardcore.

Hic tamen vivit.

It's from here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British-Library-Arundel-127_Le_trois_morts_et_les_trois_vifs.jpg#/media/File:British-Library-Arundel-127_Le_trois_morts_et_les_trois_vifs.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Dead_and_the_Three_Living

Something like this maybe? https://www.katom.com/338-C2RHC.html This one is massive, you could get a smaller one and a chest freezer and still be at or under $3500. Maybe something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085489JZ2

The only downside is they are a little louder and use a bit more power because they're meant to be opened 100 times a day and cool down food really fast (for safety). You also have to measure your space because these come in a lot of shapes and sizes compared to residential models.

When I needed a new fridge I went with a "garage" model for similar reasons. It's meant as a second fridge people keep in their garage, so it doesn't have any extras. Not even an ice maker, which was fine for me since those commonly fail.