Best of luck to Alaska in fighting them off.

In Washington state, fishermen are required to kill any northern pike they happen to catch. Live release is illegal. The Colville tribes offer a $10/fish bounty in Lake Roosevelt, too.

I’m at a loss.

The article is focused on money, equipment, and industrial capacity but misses the bigger picture. Where is the consideration of strategy, terrain, logistics, geopolitics?

The US jumped into this war with the expectation that they could simply buy their way to victory via fancy equipment. Never mind that nobody in the administration thought to define what “victory” would even mean in this case.

Meanwhile, Iran is using the local geography to their advantage. They are using drone weapons that are inexpensive, both in terms of money and the risk to their soldiers. Iran has home field advantage, meaning easier logistics. Iran definitely understands the political and industrial landscape of the Middle East better than the US. They are in a better position overall to succeed in this war, regardless of how many F-35s and Patriot missiles the US may be able to produce.

First time I read The Catcher in the Rye at 14 or 15: This kid is a whiny bitch. Wtf is his problem?

Second time I read The Catcher in the Rye in my 20’s: Oh, this kid is battling depression and is getting zero support from anyone. I’m in this book and I don’t like it.

Let him cook

But every once in a while it briefly changes to It’s Not Unusual.

I don’t have a comprehensive collection, unfortunately. If you Google around you can find partial collections on sites like this:

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/addams_charles.htm

I’m thinking of buying a book of his comics to share with my kids.

I woke up to a lovely rainstorm this morning and thought of this classic.

The article focuses on the Rockies and Sierra Nevada. The situation is marginally better but still awful in the northwest. As of today in Washington state:

• Snowpack statewide is at 54% of normal, down 10% from last week. (“Normal” being the 30-year average for the calendar date)
• 115% statewide water year to date precipitation, up 2% from last week.

So slightly above-average precipitation this winter, but it was largely rain instead of snow. And the snow we do have is melting fast. The reservoirs are full, but their total volume is nothing in comparison to the snowpack.

Everyone I talk to is expecting a bad wildfire year and widespread water use restrictions.

I think this is from a short-lived spinoff called Histeria. It was a fun show.

I had a drink the other day
Opinions were like kittens, I was giving them away

Fun fact: The disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut, USA. That’s where it was first identified as a unique condition.

It’s common enough in the northeast and north-central US that my public schools taught everyone basic prevention and symptoms as part of the regular curriculum.

Damn, somebody got more drip than Bill Cronin.

Medical device industry here. Some of our software and electrical engineers are using Claude as a sounding board for ideas, or as a starting point to find possible paths forward when they get stuck with a hard problem. Nobody trusts the model to give an accurate answer. Nobody is being encouraged to use AI models. At the end of the day, all work committed to a project is done by real humans with the normal review processes.

Management is cautiously looking at potential uses for AI in our products, but there is a healthy dose of skepticism all around. If your machine is displaying diagnostic data to a doctor there cannot be any question as to whether the machine is hallucinating.

El Salvador made BTC legal tender in 2021, and backtracked in 2025.

Pardon my ignorance, but are you talking about liberation theology? Or does “Christian liberationist” mean something else?

Registering a protest in advance is standard practice in the US and Canada, too. Cities can and do enforce basic rules for crowd control, rerouting traffic, etc. For example, you might be allowed to organize a protest in a public park during daylight hours, but if you do it at 2am in the streets of a residential area the cops are going to arrive and shut you down.

https://www.aclu-wa.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-guide-protests/

https://theccf.ca/learn/know-your-rights/

No one hits like Gaston,
matches wits like Gaston!
In a spitting match, nobody spits like Gaston!

I’m especially good at expectorating!

[Spits] Ten points for Gaston!

https://youtu.be/pC7aPpY6jPQ

That hits the nail on the head.

I’m at a point in life where money isn’t the issue. The bottlenecks are always time and energy. Someday I’ll have time to focus on music (and skiing, and backpacking, and drawing, and …).