@JailTheTrumps two threads with tight loops continually reading and updating the same variable protected by a semaphore.

@sheseala the roof seems to be made of cake frosting though.

News about ITER and other scientific advances seem to be the only bits of news that bring me a sense of hope for a better tomorrow.

Exactly where does this radicalized garden gnome get off? Why wouldn't you let atheists escape?
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/05/15/Kadyrov-asks-Erdogan-not-to-evacuate-murderers-atheists-at-Azovstal-plant

"It's true for me" is the timid little brother of "alternative facts". As a species, we need to improve the way we form and challenge the things we come to believe.

Homemade kettle chips.
Would do again.

An interesting look into our future.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-southwests-drought-and-fires-are-a-window-to-our-climate-change-future

Learning Norwegian Wood by the Beatles on the guitar. Lovely tune, but the song seems to be about a guy getting invited back to a girl's house one night, but because she didn't have sex with him, he wakes up in the morning and sets fire to her furniture.

It just occurred to me that the reason I'm happy with a tiny number of friends is that if I had more friends, I'd need to spend time with them, but that would mean spending less time with my wife, and she's fucking awesome.

‘We’re a republic, not a democracy’: The origin of a weird talking point
https://onlysky.media/mjohnson/were-a-republic-not-a-democracy-the-origin-of-a-weird-talking-point/

@carmen I honestly can't see myself living in a state other than California.

@dauphin87 mine are all still rolled up in their cardboard tubes

@ThisNameWasntTaken there's a story there, I'm certain.

@Hardasamother I'm not aware of them being grouped in a particular area. You'd likely have seen them at the blockades a couple of months ago.

@anita_rotheram now that's going to be the kind of salad that makes you hungry.

@Hardasamother true, but isn't the point about them that they don't care about rules that they think don't come from their god?

@SurvivedChaos sorry to hear that. How about tinctures? I find my dropper bottle allows me to dial things in nicely.

Your regular reminder that faith is neither a virtue, nor a path to the truth.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/09/church-exorcism-kidnapping-san-jose

The Supreme Court should stop taking religious beliefs so seriously.

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/the-supreme-court-should-stop-taking-religious-beliefs-so-seriously/