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• Post #4337160

  I recently learned how Tropic, #Utah, is actually pronounced, and I am displeased. That's on par with Hooper for messed-up level. Somewhat worse than Hurricane and approaching Mantua levels.

• Post #4079798

  I thought that it pouring right before sunset would help prevent fires tonight, but, alas, someone caught the hillside at the Sharon Steel site on fire. #SaltLakeCity

• Post #2791416

  I've been noticing that a bunch of roadsides disturbed by UDOT in the last few years have a bunch of native plants in them (most obviously this time of year Lewis flax and some sort of globemallow), and I'm guessing that means they've been putting down a local wildflower seed mix after construction. Good for them!

• Post #2791415

  A VMT tax is a good idea and governments should switch to them from the gas tax, but they are seizing the moment to gather invasive location data that the gas tax never provided. A VMT tax should literally just be change in odometer reading over a period of time, paid to the state (which then forwards a portion to the feds). Even that is more information than the gas tax gives. No need to track which roads people are driving on, when they're driving, their habits, and all that.

• Post #2791414

  Ngl I find simple errors in writing comforting now because it increases the odds someone wrote it.

• Post #2791413

  The @sltrib ran a story on the financial disclosures for the men in the 1st CD Democratic primary, and they focused on McAdam's having stock in one of the gigascale data centers being built, which makes sense considering *gestures broadly*. But they also could have written a whole article on the fact that the Democratic nominee didn't even file on time. Also the crypto-bro candidate doesn't even know where Delta is. Lots of meat in that story. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/202...

• Post #2791412

  Today was so easy 🌳 Plant #965 🍀 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟫🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 8.6 https://flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

• Post #2095638

  I was at a Mexican restaurant earlier and they had on their menu carbonara Buldak with chips, corn, mayonnaise, nacho cheese, and cojita cheese, and honestly they have the whole "fusion" concept nailed down. The trendy Japanese-Italian places should take notes. I was there for dessert, but I'll defs be back for that another day.

• Post #2095637

  Google: We're introducing a new privacy violation! I guess you should opt out now if you don't want us to sell this data. Also we haven't finished the opt out webpage yet so be sure to remember next week/month/year for when we get that together.

• Post #2095636

  We are beyond the need for "clean energy fees". Utilities should be giving customers a discount to pick clean energy. Instead they charge extra fees and still refuse to actually build any solar or wind developments. (I'm salty at Pacificorp colluding with the coal and gas industries to keep consumer prices high and poison the air and land). #utpol

• Post #2095634

  One of the hyperscalers wants to build a 9 GW data center powered entirely by fossil gas at the north end of the Great Salt Lake with the involvement of the military and an enormous subsidy from all government agencies involved. #utpol https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/25/hyperscale-data-center-may-be/

• Post #2095631

  I woke up this morning strongly thinking it was Saturday and I didn't have to go to work, but then my husband's alarm went off :boo_hoo:

• Post #2095629

  We finally got an electric range to replace the gas range that came with the house. There was a 50 A spot in the breaker labeled "range", and we could see the outlet in the correct spot, so we thought we didn't have to do any electrical work. When the delivery people came through, they told us the outlet was for a dryer 🫠. Construction companies delenda est.

• Post #2095628

  In a company townhall they touted that removing the knowledge base search function and replacing it with an LLM reduced support demand. In my experience it's because the LLM is very good at frustrating you to the point you just give up and don't do the thing you wanted to do.

• Post #2095627

  I was going through the TV news websites to try to figure out what's up with the big fire in Syracuse and saw that Riverdale is losing 20% of their usual water allocation this year. Not great (very bad) that we're not even through spring and we're already doing mandatory cuts. #utpol