Gender inequality isn’t solved via paperwork. If anything that would make pay equity even harder to achieve.

The movie Trick 'r Treat, scaring the neighborhood kids, and blowing out all the jack o lanterns at 12:01.

And leave out a bowl of milk and a tray of candies for the demons/fairies overnight.

Haha. It’s always a vibe. Saw a little kid dressed as the warden from Minecraft and I pretended to have the darkness effect and gave him a wad of mini crunch bars. I think he was super happy to get recognized!

And they aren’t hard and fast rules. Just a sliding scale. And after being on candy duty for the last 15 years, you kinda just internalize it.

Plus, Halloween is all about the rules. Say trick or treat. Don’t blow out your pumpkin before midnight so the demons don’t get ya. Always check your candy.

There are rules for my parents house. I give out the candy there and we go through like 30 pounds of it in a night.

Not Saying Trick or Treat? No Candy. (EDIT: If they don’t say it, I always ask them “What do you say?” Which is funny too. Sometimes they go through “Thank you” “Happy Halloween” then finally get to “Trick or Treat.” Then they do get their appropriate amount of candy.)

Saying Trick or Treat with no costume? One candy, low tier.

Trick or Treat with Costume? 2 pieces, probably some chocolate.

Trick or Treat with High Effort or Very Unique costume I haven’t seen 10 of all night? 3-4 pieces def some chocolate and a ring pop.

Within that, older siblings escorting younger? Extra piece + glow stick.

Family Costume Set? Extra piece and my mom takes a picture of them.

I scare the shit out of you when I rip the door open? Extra piece?

I scare you and you cry? Extra chocolate.

Babies? Mom deserves an extra piece.

I’ve got 3 AMAB siblings but they really don’t like it when I call them sister.

Truck bros park in the dead center of 4 spots.

Like oranges?

Apparently the client I was using didn’t render codeblock markdown. Thanks for the pointer. Found a better client.

Requires ffmpeg and imagemagick

#!/bin/bash

# Check if input video file is provided and exists
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <input_video>"
    exit 1
fi

input_video="$1"

if [ ! -f "$input_video" ]; then
    echo "Error: Input video file not found."
    exit 1
fi

# Get video duration in seconds (floating-point)
duration=$(ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "$input_video")

# Check if the duration was successfully extracted
if [ -z "$duration" ]; then
    echo "Error: Could not retrieve video duration."
    exit 1
fi

# Calculate fps as 20 frames divided by the duration
fps=$(echo "20 / $duration" | bc -l)

# Create a directory to store frames
mkdir -p frames


# Extract 20 frames from the video using the fps filter
ffmpeg -i "$input_video" -vf "fps=$fps,scale=200:-1" -frames:v 20 "frames/frame_%02d.jpg" -loglevel error

# Create the collage using ImageMagick's montage tool
montage -mode concatenate -tile 5x4 -geometry +2+2 frames/frame_*.jpg output_collage.jpg

# Clean up temporary files (delete frames directory)
rm -r frames

echo "Collage created: output_collage.jpg"

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Did I miss the joke? This saves eye movement effort. Each line reading an opposite direction makes reading more efficient.

And didn’t the statutes start less buried and the bottoms get further buried by the soft soil flowing due to the trees being cut on the island causing the erosion? Or did I dream I read that somewhere?

I should invest in a radsuit.

From all the fire jokes people have been telling about his forum days?

Any headline pumping site, I always go find the original cited article. I trust the researchers who did the thing over someone who has a minor understanding and a good domain name.

Tho, I do like the articles on phys.org. They often seem to have direct quotes from the authors of the research, like they actually spoke to someone. But they are less space focused and more general science news from across the spectrum.

They are paraphrasing from the original news release, but poorly.

The gas cloud is being hit with so many photons of light from the stars that it is shining extremely brightly

Photons of light from the stars, as opposed to light from other things.

Generally poorly worded, but I can see what they are trying to convey. But they could have done it better.

Love that Muse song.

Because you can or to prove a point.

As to the quoted text, I assumed it was a reference to not getting more deeply involved in it that would cause legal issues for himself.

Blanket+dog+floor of small closet.

1. Billions.
2. Little to Nothing. Because they wouldn’t make it as far as fast as the Voyager probes because they got a massive gravitational assist from a rare alignment that only happens every 176 years. All the other planets needed to be aligned appropriately for this journey at this speed. New horizons may leave the solar system in 43 if we don’t lose contact. And they already want to shut the program down. NH is about 10000 km/h slower than Voyager 1.

Best to use targeted probes to explore things we haven’t before. Ask different questions and if they leave the solar system, good on them. But I’d prefer orbital data satellites around all the ocean moons in the outer solar system.