There’s frequently a lot more to homelessness than just giving someone a place to live. Many of these people are mentally ill or addicted to something and cannot function or take care of themselves. There’s additional costs above just providing a place to live - like food and clothing and healthcare.

Inmates are supposed to be provided with services like meals, showers, uniforms, and healthcare so that’s part of the reason for the discrepancy in costs. I doubt there’s much addiction care or mental health care in prison though.

These people really need a better place to get help than jail. But we don’t have socialized medicine in the US, and that’s probably a huge contributor to homelessness. Just think if you couldn’t drown in medical debt, or could walk in to any clinic and sign up for addiction care or mental health assistance how many homeless people might not have ended up homeless.

Also I’m not aware of any major US city where rent or mortgage is $10k per year. A lot of cities are buying up old motels and providing support services and temporary housing. That seems to be a good start, but it probably costs more than $10k per year per person. And without free continuing healthcare a lot of people are going to end up back on the street.

Hey Ladybird — get off Xitter and use something else like Mastadon.

“We cut down all the trees. But hey, we planted a spattering of moss. Totes the same!”

Needs more toolbar buttons.

I’d say the reboot falls apart about 2/3 of the way through. The last cylon reveals felt very Lost/Lindelof where they’d painted themselves into a corner and hadn’t planned out the ending.

Shiny.

Portal! Wish I’d remembered that one for my list. Such an inventive game.

• Yars revenge on Atari 2600.
• Kaboom on 2600.
• Pitfall on 2600.
• Myst on classic Mac.
• Dark Castle classic Mac.
• Diablo 1.
• Star Wars Dark Forces.
• That weird Ayn Rand utopia in the sky Bioshock sequel on any platform.
• The Star Wars Battlefront game that came out around rogue one on Xbox until the developer started tweaking with it and it became a griefer’s paradise.
• Gauntlet arcade and home versions. So fun to play as co-op.
• Ms Pac Man arcade.
• Tempest arcade.

And a shout out to Arashi, which was a great classic mac homage to Tempest.

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I use one of those Sun thru Sat pill containers. I have one color for morning, the other for night. I keep all pill bottles I am currently taking in one box/basket and I use them to refill the dispensers once a week.

Anything I am not currently taking is in a separate box in a cabinet on the top shelf. Or, if it’s expired or I know I’m not taking it ever again, I dispose of it at the local Walgreens that has a “secure pill trash can” just for this purpose.

Lenses also gave us telescopes and microscopes. Pretty amazing discovery.

Depends on the part of Texas you’re in. Texas is a very large state.

You’ve obviously escaped the Old Spice full body deodorant for men commercials running perpetually on YouTube.

We have some of those, but that’s not what I’m referring to. We also have these right turn lanes that curve off at the intersection, but don’t have a parallel ramp to get up to speed. They just throw you into oncoming traffic. It’s dumb.

Because each state has different regulations for what’s acceptable for road design, and a lot of them are lousy.

My favorite trend is the “right turn on ramp” where you’re angled in such a way that you can’t turn your head far enough to see oncoming traffic, and you can’t see it in your rear view mirrors either. And if you are sideswiped or rear ended, you’re going to break your neck from straining to see if the coast is clear.

Start with a book called “Tog on Interface”.

The book “Design of Everyday Things” might also provide some good background.

And then there are the endless Human Interface guidelines put out by Apple and many other companies that usually try to explain the “why” behind their decisions.

A couple of strains of mosquito. We don’t need the two or three that bite humans. There are plenty of other strains that the bats and birds can eat.

🤷‍♂️ if gaming helps to subsidize news coverage, that’s a good thing.

No. But I did learn that if you put your sunglasses over one eye and look at it, it makes a trippy 3D motion effect.

Cellulose. Wax paper. Stuff made from seaweed and mushrooms.