It’s been pretty common to include arts in with STEM for a while, at least in the parts of the internet I inhabit. I know Adam Savage has used it for a few years on his YouTube channel.

And I’m personally a fan of it, I see art as just sort of applied STEM. Not everyone is going to be doing high-level professional STEM work, but at some point nearly everyone is going to paint or decorate something, try to fix or build something, etc. and it’s going to be helpful for them to understand what kind of glues, fasteners, paints, etc. are going to be useful for their intended application.

And art is also a pretty effective gateway to getting kids (or even adults) interested in STEM. If you plop a kid down in front of a computer and start teaching them PYTHON out of a textbook, they’re probably gonna be less than enthusiastic. But if you start by having them draw a cool robot, then have them build it out of a Lego robotics kit and help them to figure out how to make it move, you’re probably gonna have a lot more success getting them interested in programming.

My dog sometimes makes some adorable little yipping/whooping noises in her sleep.

She’s also figured out that if she paws at my wife’s lap when she’s at her desk she can spin her around to force her to give her attention.

And when she wants to play she’ll throw a ball at you. Or when she wants to play by herself she sometimes throws things down the stairs so she can chase after them.

She’s got a weird mischievous streak, she sometimes steals random objects off the counter, doesn’t chew or try to eat them, just kind of carries them to a random place around the house. Came home one day to a martini glass sitting on our bed, kind of impressive since her breed (malinois) isn’t exactly known for having a soft mouth.

If you’re napping on the couch, sometimes she’ll come over and nibble on your nose gently if she wants attention.

It’s between countries as well, let’s not forget that in the background of the current situation, Iran is also facing a major water crisis.

I work in 911 dispatch, and there’s a couple crematoriums in the county I work for. Once in a while they call to give us a heads-up when they’re doing a cremation in case anyone calls about smoke.

We enter it as a “controlled burn” notification for our fire department, which I suppose it technically is, but it makes me chuckle a little that we’re entering the same way we would as if someone was burning yard waste or having a bonfire or something.

I don’t know how often they actually do cremations, I assume it’s pretty frequent, and I’m not always the one getting the call, but based on how often I’ve seen these calls go in I don’t think they do it for every cremation. I remember hearing somewhere through the grapevine that when the deceased is extremely obese they tend to really smoke up, so I kind of suspect those are the ones where they give us a heads-up.

I don’t know what to buy anymore.

I have a problem where because I’m so hard to advertise to between adblock and premium subscriptions, that I am usually very out of the loop on what movies and TV shows are coming out

The biggest ones usually make their way into the news or Lemmy somehow, but there’s definitely a lot I’m clueless about until I see them pop up streaming somewhere a couple years later