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currently playing people playground. essentially its a game for psychopaths, the ksp of torture.

here be dragons. that sounds hot.

keep saying we should just do ribs on christmas. having turkey two months back to back is kind of redundant.

i got a bird in the oven. i put surfin' burd (sodom version of course) in the christmas playlist, should come up around the time its supposed to come out, i want to see if anyone notices. unfortunately since its just me, mom and the cats, nobody will notice.

great success leads to epic showboating.

kilopower could barely power a modest plasma thruster array. for spacecraft its not so much the power output as the power output to weight ratio. for a base reactor you can just throw mass at the problem. you also have a problem with getting rid of waste heat, otherwise you could run a power plant much like we run on earth. finding a cold sink on the surface of mars should be a lot easier than finding one in space. not sure what a fan and radiator can do at low pressure, but ground source may be an option, especially if you can tap into an underground ocean for coolant. if you are at the poles you could use the waste heat to extract co2 and water, but you have to keep production going while running your reactor. you might end up with a lot of surplus with no option but to vent it into the atmosphere (making new tankage for storage is bound to consume a lot of power).

its not so much the ads but the 300+ items they want to run in the background. i take my cyber security seriously. i have no proiblem watching the sponsor ads that youtubers inject, and i can skip them if im not interested. id rather support the content creators directly instead of through an evil empire company. if its about cost of doing business they could just limit higher resolutions to premium subscribers, moderate bitrates for ads, and dont force the issue at lower bitrates. they farm personal info and make money off of it, that ought to pay for something.

i wish it was over, mom's temper tantrums over holiday papercrafts are going to give me an ulcer.

last time i had beer i had heartburn so bad, and i only had four. wine can be deceptively potent and is good if you have problems drinking other things, but i dont think im that far gone. i also drink with extreme moderation these days.

these days i only drink single malt bourbon. im not in my 20s any more and tequila is no longer for me.

looks like youtube relented, i can watch videos again.

looks like youtube finally committed seppuku. now blocking after 3 videos. ball is in your court adblockers. i will not watch youtube again unless i can block ads. especially when my adblocker is blocking over 300 items. thats a lot of script i dont want running in my browser.

there is a local custom why by local businesses and organizations put free snacks and sometimes booze out for their patrons in the prelude up till christmas. a custom i usually avoid like the plague for its uncanny ability to draw uncomfortable crowds. turns out today there is such a thing across the street from the place i for for my weekly therapy session. at first mom wanted to go to it. and initially im fine with it, its only across the street and a minor diversion from my usual routine. i told her i could drop her off and join her after my session (she has a mobility scooter, she could go to any of them by herself if she wanted). then she decided she didnt feel well and that she wanted to stay home. then i said in that case i probibly wouldn't go at all, as extra snacks are not worth the anxiety (not to mention the calories, i just lost 10 pounds, i dont want them back). then she changes her mind and decides she wants to go. its up in the air whether she goes or not. but it bugs the hell out of me that me not going is not an option.

so putting today's lego star wars advent calander model together imposed a challenge. a cat was on my desk. i knew if i dumped the parts out of the bag, the cat would scatter them to the four winds. so i did the only thing i could do, i assembled the ship in the bag without opening it. looks like yoda's ship from the clone wars. now i have to stand up all my minifigs that the cat fell with its tail. no jedi can resist the power of the cat side.

i can imagine a system where you bore out a vertical shaft in rock, and cap it with a prefab dome, sealed with concrete or whatever and an inner coating to make it air tight. you deploy some prefab metal decks and walls to create compartments. you put your farms and water reclamation at the top, these provide shielding from what makes it through the dome. this also works on lower gravity worlds, except scaled up and using an internal conical centrifuge to supplement local gravity.