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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The hero of San Jacinto was elected as governor of Texas in 1859. A firm Unionist, Houston refused to take an oath to the Confederacy and was removed from office in March 1861.

Sam and Margaret Houston left Austin with seven of their eight children ages 3 to 15 years old. The family went to their farm in Chambers County and then to Huntsville where they had previously lived.

Though neither of the Houstons cared much for the 10-room Steamboat House, they rented it in late 1862. The following summer Houston was bedridden with a high fever in the sweltering East Texas heat. He eventually succumbed to pneumonia at age 70. His funeral was held the next day in the upstairs front parlor with only 12 mourners in attendance. He was buried at Huntsville’s Oakwood Cemetery.

 

Historic home opens on the anniversary of Sam Houston’s death

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

"The Ants" isn't casual reading, it's a dense compendium of everything known about ants, covering every known genus and their morphology and behavior. There's a key, too, so you can identify ants based on their morphology, assuming you ever feel like counting antennomeres or tarsal segments.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book "The Ants" is mind-bogglingly thorough

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Looks amazing, and I'm jealous. Question though...when you're emitting smoke, isn't that roof going to partially trap it and keep it down where you're working and breathing? I've considered something similar, but part of my plan would be extending the exhaust pipe through the roof or building in some other kind of ventilation.

I had my smoker under a big tree once and found even that prevented the smoke from dissipating when there wasn't a strong wind

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Didn't appear for me on Connect either

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

*who draws pictures

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"Safe" as far as legislative appropriations. That's not going to stop Trump from capriciously firing or laying off swathes of people

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tankies are communist keyboard warriors, this guy's a nazi

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

He already reproduced. At this point natural selection only cares about the fate of his children

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is obviously just a poor translation. I can tell you from experience that toilets like this are pretty cool. The surprise is just lights, but it has a ton of other functionality. I like the bidet function and heated blow dry

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Waymo is already live in 5 US cities. Waymo has been operating in Austin for over a year city-wide while Tesla kept moving back their rollout and still only operates in a sliver of the city, and only during the day in good weather. Zoox has been heavily testing in Austin and is likely to go live at some point soon.

 

Indeed CEO Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba sent a message to employees stating that roughly 1,300 positions will be eliminated from the company.

"AI is changing the world, and we must adapt by ensuring our product delivers truly great experiences for job seekers and employees," Idekoba's email stated. "Delivering on this ambition requires us to move faster, try new things, and fix what's broken."

Idekoba said the layoffs will impact...those within the Research and Development, Global Operations, and People and Sustainability sectors.

 

Some of the proposed laws rejected by Abbott, including a ban on hemp products containing THC, will be the focus of a special legislative session he has called for July 21.

 

"I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said as he left the White House. "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen. They've been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing."

 

Looks like Tesla is testing their autonomous vehicles in the neighborhood between Mabel Davis Park and Burleson Rd. Oh wait, Tesla didn't want us to know where this was happening...

 

But now I'm in bed questioning my decision.

 

so I turned on some lights.

 
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wailing [ˈwāliNG]

  1. crying with pain, grief, or anger

  2. expressing dissatisfaction plaintively

 

Morning y'all, anyone able to identify this "weed?" It grows very low to the ground and has tiny blue flowers. Seems to be one of the first bloomers of the year

 

These were sold to me as Senegalia roemeriana, but really don't look like any pictures I'm seeing. Any ideas?

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