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I just read some article about how Germany has supposedly been experiencing a decline in the club scene for some years, and how there's a word for it.

kagi

Not the article I was thinking of, but the word is clubsterben.

https://www.dw.com/en/is-berlin-in-a-club-death-spiral/a-70341859

Is Berlin in a 'club death' spiral?

I don't think that people need to go to a job interview if they don't intend to take a job

that's wasting their time and that of the interviewers.

But that's not what the parent comment is talking about. He's talking about no-shows. Someone schedules an interview and then just never shows up.

I think that it's pretty unreasonable to just no-show a job interview if you don't want the job. Call and cancel.

People who are interviewing are going to organize their day around interviewing you. It dicks with them to leave that block allocated.

When he's taking about ghosting the job, he's not saying that people should be obligated to not take another, preferable offer. He's saying that they never tell him that they're doing so after telling him that they're accepting his offer. Call and at least tell them that you're pulling out.

If the pathway from your coffee maker to your desk has sufficient width and structural support to accommodate a 70 ton tracked armored fighting vehicle, tank gun stabilizers can maintain pretty stable beverage platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzRfvgnS_s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_(character)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_van_Dyne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_van_Dyne

It looks like superhero wasp characters are generally female, I assume because most wasps

at least among social wasps, dunno about others

are female.

It’s rained every evening and we don’t usually get much rain save the beginning of Spring, which we didn’t get this year. Very odd.

https://denverite.com/2025/07/22/denver-monsoon-season/

Colorado’s monsoon season is right on schedule (and, as always, we could use the moisture)

The weather around Denver looks pretty familiar this week: highs in the 80s and thunderstorms in the afternoon, including the possibility of localized flash flooding along the Front Range on Wednesday.

It’s a sign that the summer monsoon is delivering rain to the Rockies on schedule.

“We’re still very much on the front end of it,” said Bruno Rodriguez, a forecaster at the local National Weather Service office. “But we've already seen almost daily showers or some thunderstorms for much of the mountains most afternoons, which is really typical.”

The North American monsoon is a seasonal shift in wind patterns. Instead of blowing from the west, some winds can come from the south or southeast, drawing moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes the Pacific. It is most prevalent in late July and August.

In Colorado, this means showers and thunderstorms during the summer months and an increased risk of flash floods. The effect is most pronounced in southwestern Colorado but can reach the Front Range. Denver saw mostly dry weather through the first half of July, followed by a spurt of rain last week and more in the forecast this week, according to WeatherSpark data.

This year’s summer rains have been strictly average in the metro, with Denver International Airport seeing about 8.9 inches of precipitation year-to-date. That’s right in line with the norm, according to data collated by Global Warming Cities.

I don't know where Jyrdano is, but easy to search for places that are:

https://www.iamexpat.de/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/when-will-summer-weather-finally-make-reappearance-germany

When will summer weather finally make a reappearance in Germany?

Summer 2025 is turning out to be a bit of a damp squib. If, like everyone else in Germany, you’re suffering from Wetterfrust (weather frustration), you might be wondering when summer might make a reappearance. The answer is: not as soon as you’d hope.

After what feels like weeks of changeable, wet and windy weather in Germany, it’s beginning to feel like summer will never make a proper appearance in 2025. While the forecast for the next few days is much the same, there is a small bright spot on the horizon.

According to Wetter.com, the reason behind this unseasonably wet weather is numerous low-pressure systems over Central Europe, which bring cool temperatures, frequent rain showers and generally unpredictable weather. They are essentially “stuck” over Germany and other parts of Europe at the moment because they are trapped between two high-pressure systems over the Atlantic and Russia and northeastern Scandinavia.

With the situation not expected to change for the next week or so, unfortunately rainy weather will dominate well into August. For Friday, August 1, the German Weather Service (DWD) is forecasting heavy rain, moderate winds and isolated thunderstorms for the entire country. The conditions look very similar over the weekend with what the DWD is describing cheerfully as “permanent rain”.

https://www.thelocal.at/20250730/why-is-this-summer-in-austria-so-rainy-and-how-long-will-it-last

Why is this summer in Austria so rainy and how long will it last?

https://www.lays.com/products/lays-stax-salt-vinegar-flavored-potato-crisps

https://www.amazon.com/Lays-Vinegar-Flavored-Potato-Crisps/dp/B00NGJM3D4

Your local store may not be carrying them, but it looks like Lay's still makes them.

The pictured coffee machine appears to have a 40 fluid ounce carafe.

https://us.moccamaster.com/collections/glass-carafe-brewers/products/kbgv-select?variant=41498100367523

This mug holds 52 fluid ounces:

https://www.amazon.com/Bubba-Classic-Insulated-Desk-Black/dp/B00YG9SQM0

EDIT: (52 fluid ounces == 1.53 liters)

These weren’t obscure, edge-case vulnerabilities, either. In fact, one of the most frequent issues was: Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-80): AI tools failed to defend against it in 86% of relevant code samples.

So, I will readily believe that LLM-generated code has additional security issues, but given that the models are trained on human-written code, this does raise the obvious question of what percentage of human-written code properly defends against cross-site scripting attacks, a topic that the article doesn't address.

First ad that comes out that bitches mouth, I’m taking a 12-gauge to every motherfucking one of them, patch the roof later.

"Further work from our user experience team has resulted in several recommendations, including revising the Google Mini for the North American market to add a Kevlar layer to the case and using data from the accelerometer to treat an abrupt, rapid acceleration with a threshold above a certain level as "undesirable behavior/behavior needs improvement" user feedback to Alexa+'s prior prompt response."

I feel like a piggyback ride should be a person riding on the back of a piggy, and a piggy back ride should be a piggy riding on the back of a person.

I do like the image, though.

It looks like the etymology is a corruption of "picka":

https://www.etymonline.com/word/piggyback

piggyback (adj.)

also piggy-back, "on the shoulders or back like a pack or bundle," 1823, probably a folk etymology alteration of colloquial pickapack, pick pack (1560s) "on the back or shoulders like a pack," which perhaps is from pick, a dialectal variant of pitch (v.1). As a verb, "to ride piggyback," by 1952.

I'd note that "federal land" is federal-government-owned land, like national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges, and so forth. It's not "all land in the US" or something like that. I'm not sure how many projects exist today on federal land, which I don't think are generally open to development, whether it's to sticking solar farms or whatever up.

thinks

Hmm. Maybe offshore wind. If I remember correctly, in the US, territorial waters are under state control up to something like a nautical mile or three out, and then the remainder of the territorial sea, which runs up to 12 nautical miles out, is under federal control.

kagis

It looks like it was the Submerged Lands Act of 1953 that set the line, and to three nautical miles. And there are exceptions for Texas and part of Florida, which managed to get ahold of slightly larger control.

https://www.bsee.gov/guidance-and-regulations/regulations/bsee-governing-statutes

The Submerged Lands Act (SLA) of 1953 grants individual States rights to the natural resources of submerged lands from the coastline to no more than 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) into the Atlantic, Pacific, the Arctic Oceans, and the Gulf of America. The only exceptions are Texas and the west coast of Florida, where State jurisdiction extends from the coastline to no more than 3 marine leagues (16.2 km) into the Gulf of America.

The SLA also reaffirmed the Federal claim to the lands of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), which consists of those submerged lands seaward of State jurisdiction. The SLA led to the passage of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act later in 1953 (OCSLA). The OCSLA and subsequent amendments, in later years, outlines the Federal responsibility over the submerged lands of the OCS.

EDIT: BLM land -- which is mostly fairly dry land in the West that isn't considered to be especially valuable -- is the one that the federal government permits the most free use of by individuals. Like, you can go do dispersed camping on BLM land wherever you want as long as you move every couple weeks, livestock can graze on it, stuff like that.

BLM land:

This page says that they do permit solar projects on some of their land, so I guess that could be significant:

https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/renewable-energy/solar-energy

Across the 245 million acres of public land it manages, the BLM maintains more than 19 million acres as open for potential solar development, subject to a variance process. Solar energy development projects on BLM-managed public lands are authorized as rights-of-way under Title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended consistent with appropriate BLM land-use plans. Regulations at 43 CFR 2800 identify requirements for solar development application and permitting. Applications for solar energy uses on public land are subject to paying cost-recovery fees and all proposals are subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act and other applicable laws and regulations.

EDIT2: The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility

which you may have seen an in-game rendition of if you've played Fallout: New Vegas, where it played a significant plot role, is apparently on public land administered by the BLM.