US south. Weed eater or weed whacker, but the second is much less common. It’s also the name of the thing you’re doing. You use the weed eater to go out weed eat the yard

Ooh, I’ll try that one. Tbh, nuke isn’t said for the funny. It’s just what it was called when I was a kid. I never really considered it as a term until I was well into adulthood lol

Generally “nuke it” but occasionally zap make an appearance, microwave as a verb, and sometimes me-crow-wa-vay if I’m feeling extra

In addition to this excellent point, during the outage I saw several people asking which server to switch to from .ee, and the replies made me realize how much I love it here. My fellow Slrpnkians didn’t get all bent out of shape and pissed about things the admin just simply couldn’t control at the time. From what I saw (maybe it’s different in private messages/behind the scenes, iunno) any people talking about the skrpnk outage from their alts were all being very reasonable, understanding, and just being generally decent netizens. I love it around here.

Full disclosure: haven’t read the linked article yet.

My biggest gripe with the anti-metric folk is when they say it’s too expensive, because we’d have to change all of our signage. That’s bullshit. We replace our signs constantly already. Just set a date for the change, start teaching folks the system, and then on that date going forward any sign that needs to be swapped out anyway gets a new metric equivalent. We work with both systems, clearly marked, in the interim. This would be an excellent time to also switch to the vienna conventions on road signage and bring us more in like with much of the world. Set the date far enough out that anyone with a driver’s license will have to renew before final metrication, and just have us all do a quick refresher on the new signage and speed limits and such before our renewal. Fairly low cost, as things only get swapped when they would get swapped normally.

Fucking love this

Whenever I’m talking to someone in person or over voice chat/on the phone that I know has a strong opinion on the pronunciation of GNOME or GIF, I pronounce it with an initial glottal stop or a sort of “zh” sound (like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s name) and insist that’s how I always pronounce it and it’s the natural pronunciation of it.

Once told a boss “with all due respect, and I do mean all the respect you’re actually due in this moment, I won’t be doing that”

Most of the dudes I’ve let inside me have been clowns

I’m imagining it like some sort of vaudeville slapstick skit, wherein the doctor just keeps pulling things out, starting like dice and a neckerchief, and ending with an entire clown car full of clowns

My first instinct was to hate you for this.

Then I realized I could send it to so many people, and I became the monster I feared most.

I’m 34. I don’t think I need to schedule one yet, I’m not particularly high risk family history-wise. But I’m worried about scheduling it when the time comes.

That doctor gonna know I’m a bottom, and that’s gonna be embarrassing.

Had to Google that. In my day we would have called it the Masturbatorium

Neither a programmer nor from California. I’m a rare southern red

Write, travel

Do they deposit the cecal pellets in the litterboxes, or do they just do them any where they please and immediately munch on em?

One would assume by feel during excretion…

I’ve always wondered if the people who keep pet rabbits and teach them to use litter boxes are hurting the bunnies by preventing them from doing this. Or will the rabbits just eat clay-covered cecotropes?

If you can afford them (they can be shockingly expensive here in the states!), actual wooden shutters are very attractive and work quite well at cooling a home.

But, if you’d like to keep your view and stay cool, awnings are another option. They keep the window in shade and prevent heat from entering the home nearly as well as just blocking the window, while allowing the window to, y’know, keep on windowing.

If you’re somewhere without a ton of regulation or nosy neighbors, awnings can be made super easily with just some poles and tarps, or even a sheet of plywood depending on how much you care about appearance.

Dont forget that time the hurricane hit Tennessee and it fucking flooded the mountains

Everything is totally normal