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"build your summer home somewhere else."

Or in the case of the Osmonds, put your entertainment complex somewhere else.  Not in Provo Canyon. Come on, really? I practically live up there. The peace of my summer Saturday long runs up there is one of the few things that's kept me going the past few years.  I didn't even know there was a "gravel pit", but it doesn't matter. The construction and traffic will ruin it. Hopefully, the groups keep fighting. Holy hell I hate politics.  Previously my opinion of the Osmonds was "yeah, they exist I guess" and now it's "who the hell are these people? Get away from our canyon." 

The All About Animation facebook page is UNHINGED

We interrupt my final coding block of the night (and I really need to wrap this up, I'm wiped) for a quick WTF moment.  Dude has been whining about TADC for weeks, but whatever. I love animation. I can tolerate it. I like the page overall.  Finally, this person watches the finale at the theater -- so they've watched all of TADC -- and they freak out about it. They hate Gooseworx, they hate the voice actors, and apparently it's a show for white queer people who don't care about anyone but themselves.  My brother in Christ. You watched the whole series. The entire show. You are just as bad as those of us who you are slamming.  Also, you're not progressive if you mock queer people. It doesn't matter what race they are. You cannot mock queer people as a whole, for being queer, and that's what you are doing.  LMAO  Unfollowed.  And I'm still a TADC fan and I like my little Gummigoo keychain plush.  What the hell? Unhinged. This person needs a job. And ...

Airlearn DROPPED, HeyJapan time

I dropped Duolingo Japanese because they didn't integrate kana well. I hated having it as a separate tab. I also wasn't learning any grammar. I kept duo for Spanish though.  I tried Airlearn and thought it was good at first. Actually, it sucks. It advances too quickly and does NOT review well, if it reviews at ALL before testing. Terrible design.  Now I'm trying HeyJapan. So far, it makes sense AND you can watch anime clips, and I'm only on the free version rn too. 

The average person's risk assessment is confusing to me.

First off, re Oliver Tree: I never had a strong desire to ride in a helicopter and I'm probably just going to avoid them forever now, barring a medical emergency.  I love airplanes though. Well, maybe not how cramped economy is, or how dry the cabins are, or how people always close their windows now, or that one time I got stranded overnight in Vegas.  But generally? Planes are enjoyable to me. I like when they drop in the air! And I like the uninterrupted study time (unless the person in front of me almost destroys my laptop by putting down their seat while I have my tray table up. Dude, really? Breeze extra legroom, here I come.).  I also love roller coasters, water slides, and carnival rides...obviously.  Carnival rides are actually statistically just as safe as fixed rides. Why? They've got to be inspected, by LAW, every time they're constructed. People blow out of proportion the rare incidents of negligence.  Two helicopters colliding? Miss me with that cra...

Lobste.rs over LinkedIn

Think about the type of people who post deeply within coding communities. Not just lobste.rs (hell, I don't even have an invite and I'm just focused on lurking) but even stuff like Freya Holmer's YouTube channel, or open source projects, or various code forums.  Now think about LinkedIn bros. It is impossible to log into that hellscape of a site with your desire to live intact. Increasingly, Hacker News too, though it tends to have both types.  I'm with the lobste.rs crowd all the way. I would unironically rather get paid less and never climb the ladder at all, even stay at L2 forever (though I should HOPE I can become a senior) if it meant I got to dive deep into code every single damn day of my life.  I'm never going into management, unless it's designing and building my own theme park resort. I want to forget that LinkedIn even exists. I want to be so wrapped up in whatever I'm coding that the outside world fades away. 

is 200mg caffeine really the solution to Saturdays?

or is it just not going out for dinner? Lol though. Not giving that up. If my friends are going out for food, so am I. They just weren't today so I doordashed some Rancherito's and DQ.  Ghost at 5:20 AM today. 100% daily value vitamin C and yep, 200mg caf.  But seriously, I studied engineering for 30 minutes, did Yoga with Adrienne for 6 minutes, lifted at the gym for about 45 minutes, then ran 18 miles with the last 2 miles under 7 minutes, then went to Lindon Aquatics Center for 2 slides and the lazy river, then went to Oremfest with a few friends, then studied cybersecurity on TryHackMe and did a few clarinet scales, then went to the church to practice piano for church tomorrow, then did Duolingo, then did art for 90 minutes, then did an hour of reading/cleaning and writing, and now I've only got two work blocks left, one which is 10 minutes of mind work and the other is coding, maybe an hour MAX, probably more like 30 minutes...ending with gaming.  And I haven't fal...