Few of the shitty things Trump was doing have actually stopped under Biden.

Kids in cages?

• Was allegedly happening even before Trump and it’s still happening now

Reproductive Rights?

• federally gone and state-by-state dissolution continues

Student loan debt?

• hah

Trans rights?

• sooo many states are making great progress in their initiation of a genocide against trans people

Edit to add: A point in Biden’s favor was the Inflation Reduction Act which included some teeth to chase tax-dodging billionaires but Biden’s boner for genocide convinced him to remove all those to pass an “aid” package for Israel

I’ve been using Eternity for probably nine of these months

My morning shower collects a looot of nasal discharge…

Princess Bride
Really the platonic ideal of a standalone adventure movie

I don’t really remember…

I have two Siamese Balinese cats and I never actually knew the practicalities of their coloring… I knew it was something about temperature but I wasn’t sure if that was a metaphorical “temperature” or actually talking about millimeters of mercury

In a choice between “saving them” and “saving no one but also losing a leg” I’d be hard pressed to make a choice!

You seem to quite fundamentally, or perhaps simply maliciously, misunderstand your sister? Or maybe I misunderstand you?

1. My cat
2. The stranger? Maybe
3. Because I know how worthless a human being my “worst enemy” is and I could justify the loss of a great many good things if they were removed from existence. If the only “loss” of removing my worst enemy is getting to keep my cat, then obviously, I’ll do his family a service and take this monkey’s paw.

I’m missing something, mind filling in a couple a more dominos?

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Have you thought of lipstick and nail polish?

The ban only applies to government devices. Government employees and military personnel can still have it on their personal devices, just that no one can install on a government device. Which really has me wondering, was that an option originally? Did I squander an opportunity to browse reddit all day from my government machine instead of “working”?

Google is so useless these days. It’s very common that my searches get actually zero results now. Like, what the fuck happened? Google used to identify its quality by how many hundreds of pages of (admittedly mostly useless) results it could return for each search. Now, when I do get results, it’s about a 3 to 4 ratio of useless ads to actual content.

I have the Google rewards app that occasionally asks me questions about where I’ve been / what I’ve bought for which it will pay me a few nickels each. The other day it asked me questions about my use of ChatGPT and the relative trust I had for the answers given by the language model to my trust of the results from a Google search. The last question was an essay question asking me why I thought ChatGPT was better for the specific application I was using it for. Google paid me a whole goddamn dollar for telling it, in many colorful words, that I understood the tool I needed for my question wasn’t an ad generator so obviously I didn’t use Google.

Since turning 30 I’ve been thinking about the half-your-age-plus-seven rule a lot more. It would feel creepy as fuck to date a 22 year old. Is this all in my head? It feels predatory to swipe right on anyone younger than 25

Thumbtack? For random odd jobs around the house, I don’t know if that one counts as similar. I’m not certain it’s an exploitative con

I have been trying to decide between an aeropress or pourover. Maybe I’m ignorant of something, how is the pourover a larger hassle?

The article is fun and not long, but here is the link the article includes directly to the game. https://trustandsafety.fun/

Part of what creates in me so much faith in communism is my profession vs my interests.

I am an engineer. If I didn’t need to sell my labor I would be an engineer who solves problems and creates progress. Since I live in America, I don’t.

That last one is straight up Ender Wiggin

Survivor of a TBI checking in.

I thought about this a bit actually in my earlyish recovery, though I never did confirm my thoughts with any doctors who might know more about the mechanics I was interpreting me perceptions of.

In summary, I don’t think it would help (for those with injuries exactly identical to mine*). The problem as I constructed it in my mind, was;

1. A problem with my ability to interpret balance from my senses.

• I could still sense all the things I could pre-injury, but the signals would travel down the wires of my body with different kinds of “noise” than my brain had learned to adapt to for the first 20+ years of my life.

2. A problem with my ability to control the fine-motor aspects of all my balance-affecting body parts.

• The relative position and momentum of every moving and not-moving part of your body contribute to your overall “state” of balance. Now my control to each part of my body had (similar to the sensing syste’s “wires”) different levels of noise to adapt for than it has taught itself to deal with so far.

I think a system like the Exoskeleton referred to here would probably fix or at least greatly reduce the second problem, but the first problem would require, at the very least, a “processor” that could replace the thing that determines my balance from all my various senses (my brain, at least one part of it).