This is cute. It's a stone house in El Paso, TX called Casita Yandell and it's a Duplex with an extra 3rd unit in the back that can be a little retreat or rental income. 3bds, 3ba, 1,888sqft. $298k (Zillow's est.: $294k)
Entrance to the main residence.
Door to the alley way to the other units.
hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok
It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.
This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.
Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.
You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?
forget cannibalism it bums me out that i will probably never be able to ethically eat like, a flamingo
Penguin flippers, Kiwi breast, elephant trunk steak, that kind of stuff?
you jest but now I'm genuinely curious what penguin meat would taste like under all that blubber. would it retain any "bird" flavor or would it be more similar to marine mammals??? i don't actually want to eat a penguin to be clear, you've simply sparked my curiosity
My grandfather reported that they taste like fishy rubber boiled in motor oil. So bad that he only tried it once despite being on a ship in the Antarctic ocean for months on end. 1940s dry rations were preferable to fresh penguin.
Ok so I tried something similar today during work.
Pretty much most marine birds who mainly have fish in their diet taste pretty similar.
I tried a number of auk species (those include things like puffins, little auks, guillemots, razorbills ect.) And when boiled they both smell and taste kind of like wet Catfood and have dark meat.
Pretty gross and not reccomedable.
I could imagine its fair to assume penguin meat will not taste much different, though I can't give first hand accounts.
BUT i live in a place where people used to hunt and eat young gulls and they supposedly tasted good ( biggest lie ive ever heard).
I think with most of these marine bird species you really only eat them when you NEED to or go through a longer process of trying to get rid of the fishy taste by keeping them in milk baths or vinegar.
The joy of cooking has a similar suggestion for eating varmints who tend to eat garbage, such as opossums: Keep them alive for a week or so, feeding them oats, cereals, and honey.
Can confirm, makes for tastier varmint
THE JOY OF COOKING????
Lets hear it for Malicious Compliance
*filming literal mold* “There is a bit of a damp problem…”
The signs saying “DON’T BUY THIS” are a beautiful touch.
saw an Online Man (tm) whining that he went into Barnes and Noble for the first time in years and it was all romantasy catering to stupid icky women and it’s like, dude. Do you need me to take your large, soft hands in mine and explain in itty-bitty, dulcet words HOW THE FUCK CAPITALISM WORKS???
And like, not to argue with a dude who isn't here, but does he understand how SHELVES work?! Because I also went into a Barnes and Noble recently, and while yes, there were romantasy shelves and displays, John Grishom alone took up almost a section. Manly man books about manly men doing man things in a manly way with their manly manness are still available. They still get PRINTED. Romantasy is an "also" not an "instead of."
Once upon a time, Google "wasn't evil." Now it's too big not to be. When a company has this much power—too embedded to boycott, too rich to punish, too essential to regulate—it becomes a monster of itself, mowing down anything that stands in the way of profit.
This year we switch. We know, we know: deGoogling's a chore. But, like cleaning your room, we promise you'll feel much better when it's over. (The difference is, cleaning your room could never, you know, save the world…)
As motivation, we'll be showcasing Google's (staggering) assortment of evil deeds this month. From privacy and data misuse, to environmental and social malfeasance. It's all good (bad).
Today's post asks... Did we ever really choose Google? And when did it get so… gross?:
Read the full post over on the blog.
- the Ellipsus Team xo
So many characters should be permanently disabled in multiple ways or AT THE VERY LEAST have severe chronic pain but everyoens a coward so no one writes the effects of the injuries they inflict </3
The idea behind surveillance capitalism is super simple: 1. collect as much data as possible. 2. fashion behavioral predictions from said data, tied to user profiles, 3. sell the predictions as a product to interested parties (advertisers; governments; whomever's buying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
To extract this data, Google has developed an elaborate system to track who you message, what you buy, and where you go. Every click is accounted for.
It started with Search: Google logs every search you make, and every URL you visit across its platforms.
No log in, no prob: Google can track you by your IP address and its slew of cookies. On top of that there's Google Analytics, the largest cross-site tracker on the internet. Google's embedded trackers collect data on every page visit, the length of time, and what you click. (Not even incognito mode is... incognito.)
Next came Google suite—Docs, Gmail, etc—a veritable goldmine of metadata (or "data about data"). Meanwhile, Gmail tracks the sender of every email and its receiver, timestamps, and so on.
(And we don't have to tell you how we @ Ellipsus feel about Docs... 🫣)
Phew—ok, that was a bit much. But if we're going to de-Google, it helps to look at the whole mess at once. There’s a lot to unpack. Wishing you strength and speed on this most important of journeys. 🤞 Onward and upward (and out of the Googleverse).
- the Ellipsus Team xo
