My even-more-pedantic take is that poisonous is correct, but imprecise. There’s lots of ways to be poisoned. Ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact, and, yes, injection. But it’s all poison.

A poison is a harmful substance. A toxin is a poison created by a living organism. A Venom is a toxin that’s delivered subcutaneously.

Poison is the parrallelogram to venom’s square.

Android has a feature you can turn on that adds “lockdown mode” as an option if you hold the power button, which requires a password. I just tried taking a screenshot, but I don’t think I can while in the power menu.

You can also just turn your phone off. Biometrics don’t work on a fresh boot.

Yes, but blue (Mercator) preserves direction and shape, which were all that really mattered for navigation by sea, so Mercator was a fantastic projection for centuries.

And we still use it today for smaller scale areas, since it does a remarkably good job at preserving all 4 features (shape, area, distance, and direction) close to the map origin line. Universal Transverse Mercator is a system that has 60 zones of Mercator turned sideways.

The reason it’s Transverse is because, unlike lattitude depending on a defined equator, longitude has an arbitrary meridian, so by turning the map sideways we can move the distortion point, and any map area that doesn’t stray too far East or West will be very accurate.

Think of trying to map something like Chile or Florida, where the area of interest is pretty far North to South, but not East to West.

My GIS rig is different than any of those.

Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.

Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.

I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it’s a big TV on the wall of my office that’s usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I’m meeting with people in my office.

Reminds me of this:

Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.

The city I work in installed Flock cameras. City Council was clear they were only to be used to flag license plates for active felony warrants, silver alerts, and Amber alerts.

In less than 48 hours they were using them to give out tickets and track people who had turned in Open Records requests regarding the police department.

That’s true almost everywhere these days. Climate change and pesticides did a number on them.

I used to see hundreds floating around at night. Now I’m lucky to spot one a year.

Also, lovebugs. There were so many everywhere it was difficult to drive sometimes. I haven’t noticed any in years.

And then there was quantum.

You can’t just pick up an instrument and sound good. That’s not how they work.

If you want to just be able to make music in a pub without having to work at it, use a phone. Otherwise, you’ll need to put in a great deal of time and effort.

That being out of the way: guitar. It’s an instrument with loads of resources on how to play, doesn’t need to be accompanied by other instruments, and is very controllable when it comes to volume.

And you don’t have to be amazing to play something fun.

As a percentage, forklifts always way more incidents, and the incidents they can cause are BAD.

An F-150 isn’t gonna make a warehouse’s worth of product domino onto workers because someone leaned on the wrong lever.

Because the corporate Dems are scared when people actually show up to vote in the primary. That’s why we need to keep doing it to replace the Democratic leadership.

Why are you trying so hard to keep people from doing that? Are you an idiot, or are you a troll and actually want things to stay as they are?

You know what causes more harm than Democrats? People not voting for them because they’re not far enough to the left, and therefore moving the entire country to the right.

What teaches the Dems to move to the right is that those on the right actually get votes.

The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”

I think it would still techically be more hole since a larger total area would be hole.

I would be fewer holes, though.

3000 meters is pretty fucking deep.

Like - 6 times deeper than the deepest hardsuit dive in history.

There’s only a few ships in the world that can salvage at that depth, and they’re not fly-by-night pirate operations.

JJ Abrams aimed the camera.

I dread calls at work more than anything in life.

Just send a fucking email.

Well at least there’s not a fuckton of methane hydrates on the ocean floor that are now releasing a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than CO2 refrom the ocean floor as the water gets warmer. And that isn’t a self-feeding loop that means it’s probably too late to save ourselves now.

Because that would be bad.

So the coconuts migrated, but the majority population of many of the islands were taken there as cargo?