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I made a digital oil pressure display for a good friend's VW Golf GTi. I don't even remember how it came up in conversation, but I remember him saying it wasn't something that's commonly available off-the-shelf. He might have just been challenging me, I don't know. I made a breadboard proof-of-concept hooked up to shop air. PSIs are PSIs. I'm not an engineer, and it fucking worked. You can see the project here.

Presently, the Raspberry Pi I own is playing the critical role of attempting to block advertising and marketing BS from my internal network with pi-hole.

I drive a hybrid car because it makes economical sense. Those who have developed the environment end-game are outright frauds operating within a thinly veiled profit motive, and they're always the exception to the rule. We are destroying the environment, but habitat destruction is a far more sinister problem to address, and it's the real problem. They always talk about recycling before reducing and reusing. Why is that? Can't have the general masses consuming less, as that will stop the shareholder lines from going up. That'd stop the flow of money. Money is an especially pernicious and insidious tool of control. A misconception is that the love of money is the root of all evil, but evil has been around forever, where money has not. When it isn't money being peddled, it's usually sex to appeal to our most basic monkey brains.

Anyway...plants are incredible things. I live in a place with a very small yard. I've planted many things over the last few years and only a handful have survived. I am a huge proponent of planting native pollinator-friendly species because we have absolutely decimated the habitats of our little buzzing friends (not all things that buzz are bad or sting). It was an amazing gift to find out that one of my plants completely transplanted itself across the yard over the last year.

I give you mimulus ringens, aka Allegheny Monkeyflower. This thing is a remarkable testament to the adaptability of life.