I hike a lot^‡ and yeah soggy socks suck but the level of suckitude isn’t high enough to overshadow the bliss of a rainy hike. But that’s living in the PNW, you either hike in the rain or get used to not hiking for 4 - 6 months out of the year.

‡ I’ve had a fairly tame year in terms of hiking, I’ve only done about 350 miles since January. I should be able to pass 400 before New Years if the chaos of the year levels out a bit but given we’re heading into the holidays, I’m not going to hold my breath.

There’s a special bliss from camping in the rain, hiking in the rain, and just standing in the rain.

It’s hard to capture the feeling in words really but I’ll give it a try.

The calming drops dancing their frigid feet on your skin as you spread your arms and turn your face to the sky, washing away your worries with each cold step on your eyelids. The drumming of the rain on the canopy above sauntering into your body, shifting it to the rhythm. Calming bliss flows through your body from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. You are there, right then, alive.

It’s very universal, you can plug it into any port that is USB C, whether it does what you ask it to or not is a whole other story.

Not rate limited‽

Holy shit that’s one hell of a security oversight

Hell just making it so after 3 failed attempts it can’t be retried for an hour would have made your efforts take over 7000 hours rather than 5 minutes.

You know what they say about someone who represents themselves in court?

They have an idiot for a client.

Oh absolutely, but it does do something that I’m not sure people realize: it normalizes the idea of a government agent holding the keys to all of your stuff.

I still love the fact that those TSA keys are all available online as 3D files and likely as metal as well

No magic wands‽

Truely a terrible place.

Warning for everyone: that’s a tvtropes link, don’t get too sucked in. It’s like a black hole.

Once I read it aloud it clicked for me

Puns are the best

Yeah people are dying but won’t somebody please think of the share holders!

NGL I misread that at first

And it’s a bottle opener

Because nothing screams manly like alcoholism

Slight correction about the Spongebob one: it does tell us quite a bit about his thinking.

He thinks firmly in the box no matter how he appears on the outside. Given the free opportunity to let his creativity flow he chose to simply make a derivative work that’s a near copy of another famous work. And when he receives negative feedback on it it breaks him.

Spongebob’s lack of creativity screams incredibly loudly in his version of David.

His pile of rocks from when he actually tried to be creative is a painting into his mind in a beautiful way.

Thank you for attending my TED talk

BTW your link is broken

Some people are experiencing things for the first time everyday (lucky 10,000)

And here’s a extra (frightening) reminder: there are people on the internet who didn’t exist 2 decades ago

I was literally talking with someone the other day who didn’t even exist when I graduated Highschool. Made me feel fucking ancient.

NGL I was confused for a moment wondering if it was the anniversary again

Still one hell of a powerful image

Once you work with the public long enough you’re no longer surprised by such things.

The saying “There’s substantial overlap between the dumbest tourists and the smartest bears” is very true even though it was never said by someone in the National Parks Service.

I’ve met plenty of people who I believe would be outsmarted by the average bear let alone the smartest bears.

People would walk up and pee directly on the sign and because it was laminated the pee would blast back onto their pants and the floor

When I worked at a bar our urinal stopped flushing, so I put the laminated “Out of Order” sign over the bowl. We had a lot of customers walk out of the bathroom with a line of piss on their pants from the splash back from pissing on the sign.