you…have January off…? is this like a vacation you put in for or is this the whole “america vs almost the entire rest of the world” thing with time off?

great update. thanks, mk!

bald eagles are kind of a bunch of dicks aren’t they

zork mention! mk one of my favorite hubski things is zork.

Back in the early 1980s, there was a popular game called Zork that was in a category called "text adventure games". The computer would say something like:

maybe ai will just kill the internet, if it hasn't already. i'm ready to go back to mostly text based barely formatted blog/websites.

this is somewhere on hubski and something i learned i think from @NikolaiFederov@, but jesus christ, all the people in this article look exactly the same. white, overweight (not obese, i don't think?), cloying and deceptive in their smiles and eyes. they obviously need to suffer consequences for an utter lack of accountability, all of those "apologies" were bullshit and painting themselves as the victim.

but what they needed 10 years ago was some other outlet than fucking online group chats or places like 4chan, reddit, etc. i bet if 80%+ of these fuckers had a team sport, hobby that involved others, or something like the Australian Men's Shed Asssociation that we'd be in a much, much better place as a nation.

instead we get doubling down on this nonsense.

new drinking game: drink every time you read a comment like this on hacker news or reddit:

Either I just unplug the thing, throw it in the bin, and go make something truly lucrative and sustainable in the near future (plumber, electrician, carpenter) that let's me sleep at night.

the fetishization of trades by white collar tech employees is truly something

Hydrant Use Permit or willingness to obtain (highly regarded).

do you have a willingness to obtain

had one of the proudest days of my life, athletically, yesterday. completed a years-long journey to redpointing (climbing, on lead, without a fall or taking/weighting the rope) a 5.12a route. that's something i've worked on physically, mentally, and dedicated a significant amount of time to in 2024 and 2025 in particular. this route took me 10 days and 21 attempts, with a lot of mental/tactical/approach mistakes that i think can be corrected on future routes at this grade to hopefully do them in half the attempts. there's a whole skillset to projecting something.

anyway, i'm fucking stoked to prove to myself i can do that. it's borderline amateur-elite level, or about 90% percentile for the small-subset of overall climbers who climb outside.

the table below is the "max" redpoint i've reached per year since beginning to climb. partly for NikolaiFyodorov, but mostly because AUS/NZ uses the least-annoying system for classifying the difficulty of a climb (difficulty goes up, number goes up, that's...it).

i get a lot of joy out of seeing those kei trucks driving around town

Big shout-out to the cocktails reddit page for always having someone posting cocktail pictures it's been fun looking at them for a new pic every week.

This has been a question of mine for probably years now. idk how long you've been making pubski. maybe not that long but it sure feels like it.

Everyone under 30 is terrified of global warming, everyone over 50 doesn't believe in it. The economic structure that put their grandparents in their home is utterly unavailable to them. We traded quaaludes for cocaine for meth for heroin for fentanyl, we traded free love for AIDs for incels.

Well, that was a depressing few sentences to read.

part of why i intent to stay where im living for a while is the access to a huge quantity of high quality healthcare…costs or not, there’s options here. and even the lesser options would be the “best” choice in many parts of the country.

idk how people do it. I should see if VHT is rolled into any of my funds…

what’s the general societal and governmental sentiment on public vs private healthcare providers down there?