Curious_Canid

u/Curious_Canid@piefed.ca
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I understand the concern, but there are some low-impact options. Take a look at the Seeed SenseCAP T1000-E. It is thicker than a credit card, but it has the same length and width. It can serve as a tracker. It also works just fine as a personal Meshtastic radio.

The main issue with using a Meshtastic tracker is that there are places where there just aren't enough nodes to make it practical. It generally works quite well in urban areas.

on Right? · c/sigh_fi · 2 pts · 6d

Michael O'Hare, who played Commander Sinclair, suffered from severe schizophrenia. It became steadily worse during the first season, causing delays and other complications. Straczynski was willing to work around it, as best they could, but O'Hare chose to step aside.

Sinclair had been intended to carry a lot of the story arc. He was supposed to become "The One" who would unite the younger races to fight against the Shadows. There were various things in the first season that built toward that.

Without Sinclair, most of that had to be retconned to fit Sheridan instead. It was carried off surprisingly well, but suddenly having two messianic characters complicated the storyline in some odd ways. It felt a little awkward at some points.

I think the bigger problem was the network jerking them around. The Great War and its aftermath were supposed to be the series finale, but they ended up rushing to finish it a season earlier than planned, thinking they were being cancelled. When they were actually renewed, they had to come up with something to do for season five. It didn't feel like the same show, to me.

Overall, the series was still a triumph. It told an original story about a large ensemble of fascinating characters in a way that had not really been done before. I just think it could have been greater if it hadn't had to make so many adjustments along the way.

on Right? · c/sigh_fi · 9 pts · 6d

Babylon-5 was sometimes brilliant. The combination of getting jerked around by the network about renewals and having a central actor with a major medical issue were disruptive to its pacing and development, but it was still mostly very good. A lot of what it did was groundbreaking.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 3 pts · 7d

Your formal writeup on your dog's language is wonderful. I'm trying to learn Husky, but I'm not far enough along to formalize it yet.

I pulled into an intersection, with the light, when a car that was screened from me by a row of stopped cars ran the light and t-boned me at around 50 mph. The rolled two full times. It only quit rolling then because it bounced off the side of a van that was sitting on the other side of the intersection. It settled upright. I remember watching the world rotate in front of me and I remember my head bouncing off what would have been pavement if not for the curtain airbag blocking the shattered side window.

The outside of the car was completely shredded, but the passenger compartment was intact. Between that, and a full set of airbags, both I and my passenger came through it unhurt. Not even so much as a headache. The car was a 2016 Subaru Outback. I replaced it with a 2018 Subaru Outback. A couple years later my passenger replaced her car with a 2020 Subaru Outback. I don't expect either of us will buy anything but Subaru for the rest of our lives.

The funny part of the incident was the immediate aftermath. We live in a very friendly large town where a lot of people walk. The car had barely stopped when we were surrounded by a crowd of people offering help. I had a nurse on my side and my passenger had a doctor on hers. They talked us through a basic evaluation. Less than two minutes after the impact, paramedics arrived in an ambulance and took over. (I wouldn't have known the timing, except that the nurse had checked and mentioned it.) After more thorough evaluations we were released.

The guy who hit us did have some injuries, but none of them turned out to be too serious. He had a lot of bruises, a few cuts from broken glass, and a stiff neck. He was horrified at what he had done and took full responsibility when the police got our statements. Apparently he got distracted trying to find his turned and missed the light changing.

No one else was hurt. The light had been changing when it happened and everyone had, amazingly, stayed where they were. The van we bounced off of had some minor damage on the side we hit, but it was still perfectly drivable.

It was the worst situation I've ever seen that resolved so well.

on Charlie girl · c/cats · 9 pts · 23d

She's beautiful!

And that absent-minded look is because she's working to prove the Riemann hypothesis.

I was mostly being facetious. My point was that the overall crime rates are enough lower in blue states that ICE makes a disproportionate difference. Also, fuck ICE.

I understand why you want to go out there, but it is scary and dangerous in all kinds of ways you don't know how to deal with. Trust your human and stay inside where it's safe unless they tell you otherwise.

Note to the owner: We got a pet stroller at a local thrift store. We take our cat on "walks" in it when we go out with the dogs. It has a fully enclosed mesh compartment that lets our cat see out without being able to run away.