There’s tons of possible reasons for this:
Did you recently hit maybe age 35 or older?
Drinking more in the evening?
Working out less?
Stressed out in general?
Too much screen time before bed?
Thin curtains and not realizing the sun comes up earlier every day as summer approaches?
Birds?
Something you can hear outside that’s waking up, like a loud car that drives by at the same time, people talking, etc.?
Impending sense of doom overall?
Rice and black eyed peas, cooked with some millet leaves for color. Fry slices of onion in about 1 T of oil and pour it over the top. Then sprinkle a mix of fine crushed red pepper, bullion, and salt over it.
Most of West Africa has this in one form or another on the regular.
Feta and watermelon
Cantelope and prosciutto
Anchovies in Ranch dressing (make it fresh, you animals)
Goldschlager and Cuervo Gold tequila as a shaken shot (tastes like snickerdoodles)
Pancakes topped with yogurt and honey or pistachio butter
Georgian pesto is walnuts and cilantro, 10/10
Peanut butter in a tomato stew sends it in an African direction, and it’s amazing
Deep fried olives filled with cheese
Salmon marinated in bourbon, touch of soy sauce, and brown sugar, baked.
Anchovies and capers on your pizza if you wear big boy pants
Red wine and coca cola if you’re 14
Candied pine cones and creme brulé is 1 million percent magic
Cheez-its and canned whipped cream tastes exactly like if you asked ChatGPT to describe what cheesecake tastes like.
Kiki Riki?
What’s funny is that’s ginger, onion, amd garlic away from West African peanut stew as a bread spread.
It was such a good troll at first. I heard the episode of Art Bell when the first fax came in… Just enough detail to lead people on, not too much to be disproven immediately.
After a few posts online it all got just…wobbly, and that’s when he stopped posting. Which was a good call on his part. The fact that nothing from that timeline ever got close to happening left him years of doubt, but by now…
The easy solution is to stop engagement on Lemmy. Cool. Cool cool cool.
As a vampire, he has to drink the blood of a pontif to remain a daywalker.
He should now sparkle in the sun for another…6-8 weeks before needing to feed again.
Like… In the back like I just picked it up from the side of the street to take it home and plug it in and see if it works?
Just boot to a USB for a low-risk test.
I was thinking more like the end of Month Python and the Holy Grail, but sure.
The fully formal version is “private military contractor.” Which is someone who risks their life for money to fight as an at-will defensive soldier, under the assumption that they might get some of the same or similar-enough legal status of the military of the government hiring them (if it’s a government). But no long term benefits, hence the usually high pay and short term contracts.
It’s usually seen as sketchy, though there are a few companies that specialize as being a sort of grey market species forces. Erik Prince used to run Blackwater, a mercinary company that changed its name to Xe (and later sold to another company) after controversy in Iraq. According to the Geneva Convention, mercenaries can’t do offensive fighting in a war zone, and one group had IIRC.
If it’s relevant for future people who found the thread the same way I did, sure. It’s like of you were looking for a treasure in a network of caves, and you see writing in the wall from previous treasure seekers saying “beware of bats.” If I add “left cave has dragon” it might help someone else.
Also, if the OP or other accounts are still active, they might get still a notification.
I don’t hate the “art.” The AI can’t do much about it.
What I strongly dislike is people who manage to draft literally 40 words or less and think they “created” something.
You didn’t. You a mathematical model to do something for you. You therw 175 tokens into a whirlpool and got am 87% what you wanted image out. If you even had an idea of what you wanted before hand.
Aerosolized lead likely would smell like something, which is ultimately what we’re taking about. A machine shop has a distinct smell because there’s aerosolized steel in the air.
Can’t smell something that was so pervasive in the environment that an estimated 660 metric tons are frozen into Antarctic ice. Humans only smell changes in things, our brains are wired to grow to ignore a pervasive smell.
Yeah, that stale cigarette smell permanently baked into things like hotels or cars or houses is the smell that immediately brings me right back to the late 80s/early 90s. But fondly to some degree.
Metal and stale.
And absolutely yes with the coal.
Bourbon back then wasn’t as refined. Basically gasoline. /s
Before the 1990s, it was cigarettes all the way down.
1980s - cigarettes and hair spray.
70s - cigarettes and alternating body odor and heavy cologne/perfume.
60s - cigarettes and canned food.
50s - cigarettes and gasoline.
40s - cigarettes and either gunpowder or a machine shop.
30s - cigarettes and dust.
20s - cigarettes and bootleg whiskey
10s - cigarettes and bloody mud
1900-1909 - cigarettes and horse shit in the street.
I usually blame the birds, but the talking car deserves some shade.