working in embedded software fucking sucks if you don't want to work for a weapons manufacturer, don't do it folx
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Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. Cacti are native to the Americas, and are well adapted to arid climates; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. The plant has been introduced to parts of Australia, southern Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa.
Prickly pear alone is more commonly used to refer exclusively to the fruit, but may also be used for the plant itself; in addition, other names given to the plant and its specific parts include tuna (fruit), sabra, sabbar, nopal (pads, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nΕpalli, nostle (fruit) from the Nahuatl word nΕchtli, and paddle cactus. The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus. The fruit and leaves are edible. The most common culinary species is the "Barbary fig"
Opuntia is regarded as an aggressive invasive species.
Distribution
Like most true cactus species, prickly pears are native only to the Americas. Through human action, they have since been introduced to many other areas of the world. Prickly pear species are found in abundance in Mexico, especially in the central and western regions, and in the Caribbean islands (West Indies). In the United States, prickly pears are native to many areas of the arid, semi-arid, and drought-prone Western and South Central United States, including the lower elevations of the Rocky Mountains and southern Great Plains
Opuntia species are the most cold-tolerant of the lowland cacti, extending into western and southern Canada.
Prickly pears produce a fruit known as tuna, commonly eaten in Mexico and in the Mediterranean region, which is also used to make aguas frescas.
Prickly pear fruit for sale at a market, Zacatecas, Mexico
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Realizing that my bare minimum effort at work is apparently above and beyond what other people are doing? So glad I stumbled ass backwards into basically working alone instead of having to work with these people regularly and fix their fuck ups.
Just what I learn from being forced to sit in on their meetings makes it sound like a constant shit show.
Had a liberal tell me that I am "purity testing" Bernie Sanders for not calling whats going on in Israel a genocide. I really feel there's no point talking to these people unless its in person or you have a relationship with them 
I really feel there's no point talking to these people unless its in person or you have a relationship with them
I mean, pretty much, yeah. Think thereβs a circle of trust effect, where people close to you are easier to sway even when they differ greatly from your view, and people online tend to be impossible to move from their position. At least if the discussion is at all formal, passive consumption of low effort content does seem pretty effective in shaping opinions online.
got passed over for yet another job, very cool and not at all pissing me off!
Sitting down in front of front loading washing machines with a big foam finger that says GO LAUNDRY hootin' and hollerin' watching the clothes spin around getting washed
Forming a fan club around which laundromat we like the most
You think any sounding enthusiast clowns have ever put a string of handkerchiefs up there?
can someone ping me in the news bulletin when the US formally enters the war, I'm stunlocked refreshing the thread and i gotta take a break
Periodically I think back to a forum I was on over a decade ago, where someone had as their signature a political compass style 2x2 diagram. X-axis was technology, Y-axis was freedom. Lower left was "Egalitarian Hunter-Gatherers", upper left was "Medieval Theocracy", upper right was "Orwellian NWO", lower right was "Resource-Based Economy", with a historical trajectory in that order.
Though it always felt contrived, with a couple of changes it would be a lot more rigorous. Axes of "social development" and "material development", with stages of primitive communism, slave society/feudalism, early and late (financial) capitalism, and advanced communism.
Washbear Studio is thrilled to reveal their next game: Railborn. Be ready to survive on a planet criss crossed with railroad tracks, building your mobile train base piece by piece.
hexbears infiltrating game studios now huh
Liberals are just conservatives now, claiming that free bus service will cause violence.
I got the job evening be excited
feel like blippi
Anyone have firsthand experience with the RCA/IMT?
I took a prickly pear from someone's front yard a couple weeks ago. Highly recommend gloves to avoid the million tiny needles. It was seriously good!
I did that on a bike ride and wasn't prepared for all the seeds, so I just rode around spitting them into a dozen yard Yoshi-style
broke: 2020 never ended
woke: 2003 never ended
i want to complain about my job in enough detail that itβs an actual good vent but not so much that my job is identifiable, the shitposting depressed wage slave dilemma 
Opps all look like blippi
Funny, i just remembered when Felix went on a podjohn podcast and said to a live audience, to let Iran have a nuke.
They cut that haha
I can't stop thinking about Deltarune.
I may be about to partake in the darkest ritual of fandom... fanfiction!
I have finished Chapter 4 today on the pacifist route, was great
got the blippi on me
When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore. 
Heh heh
Our next door neighbours since a year ago or so are obviously such super fucking cool people, I really want to be their friend and hang out with them, maybe invite them over for dinner and listen to some music, stuff like that. Unfortunately we are cursed with living in a country where interacting with your neighbours is considered fucked up, I hate it. I feel more awkward about approaching them than I would texting a crush for the first time or something. Likely a skill issue too.
I found a ~meter long piece of rebar in the woods yesterday and swung it around like a sword for a while and it was DOPE
Tfw you're having a nice dream where you're at a big gathering with friends and family and then suddenly you realize, "Oh fuck, I'm not wearing a mask," and then you panic internally about COVID for the rest of it 
I genuinely don't know why people don't like me why is every interaction with other people such a chore what kind of super-social animal would I need to be to be happy
You need other neurodivergent friends
I'm not neurodivergent I wish I was maybe I should get a diagnosis so I could tell other people "please be nice to me I'm autistic" and then they would need to be nice to me and not be disgusted by me because I'm a white cishet male who is just slightly nonconforming in too many awkward ways and has acne and is kinda fat (but not really fat that would probably be ok again)
Neurotypical people dont have those thoughts you are describing in my experience. I wouldn't know though. The diagnosis doesn't usually help treat you better. It usually helps you know what you need better and gives you the confidence to assert your needs to other people who go along with it out of basic social decorum. Find some neurodivergnet friend and see how the vibe is.
I'm gonna get "I'm lonely and need friends" tattooed on my forehead
Pretty neat that Deltarune tracks secret completion globally, so you only have to get each secret once and not even on the same save, making it easy to go back and look for scenes you missed without worrying about it.
The funniest mass Internet joke is green day getting harassed In early October.
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