Semi recently had mine try to take me through a private business parking lot which was entirely fenced off, and didn’t even connect on the other side. That was… confusing, to say the least.

The human car wash method

Nah, sorry, different person than you were initially responding to. I was out to breakfast and just wrote that quickly on my phone.

It was pinched for about 3-4 weeks before my physical therapist finally realized what I’d told him at the start - that my calf was literally paralyzed. He was like, “Oh… that’s, that’s not good. You need to go to the spine doctor like, immediately.” (Dude sucked, but it was the very beginning of COVID so my options were limited.)

Got me in to see the spine doc the next day and I got emergency cortisone injections by the end of the week.

I got usage of my calf back, and significant reduction in pain. But I never got back the full amount of feeling in the right two toes of my right foot, that side of that foot, and stretching up to about mid shin height on the same side. I have pressure sensitivity still. And even touch, kinda. It’s like when a limb is asleep. But fuck it I’ll take that over the feeling of daggers and lava I had before.

At least for me, even though I’ve recovered full movement and only have minor to moderate pain after activities which stress the area - the pinched nerve was damaged for long enough that I will have surface numbness on parts of my leg for the rest of my life.

My audiobook player has a sleep timer that after it expires, will gradually fade out to nothing.

Best part is if you’re still awake enough that you notice it happening you can just shake your phone (with an adjustable intensity) without turning the screen on or anything and it resets the sleep timer.

My ability to fall asleep has never been better.

A box fan can be acquired for like $15

The United States went so hard on being anti-communist that we became anti community.

Wait who refreshes outlook manually?? My emails usually pop up within 15 seconds of getting a notification on my phone

This. My phone camera takes ultra high resolution pictures then algorithmically processes them. They look more beautiful and real than reality.

The biggest change when we got new window AC units was how much more quiet they are.

But what I really want is for it to say “Arigato Daddy-sama (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠)” after I shit in it

Do acid, it’s cheap as fuck, lasts 12 hours, is generally a great time, and will allow introspection about your life

Any tips for eliminating the stutter, or increasing the smoothness of the emulation? I’ve got an i7-12700k, 4090, and 64GB of ram and it seems to struggle a bit.

As far as the legal and historical precedent goes - we fought a war over it.

The thought of having literally every tool conceivable immediately available without having to move is fantastic.

I’m in love with the concept of laying under my car, while also being able to get any particular tool in my hand, without ever having to get up, or having a little pile of sockets, wrenches, and bolts next to me that I have to navigate by feel.

Saw a video from Denmark I think where everyone is biking everywhere and the metro station has an enormous numbered rack for depositing bicycles for storage. The entire thing is spotless, well maintained, and has zero graffiti.

All I could think is that in the US the fabric of our society and the integrity of the social contract is so degraded that even if we somehow had the political capital to build it - it would be destroyed by individual anti-social behaviors. And we’d certainly never have the wherewithal to maintain or repair it.

For printers, I’d like to suggest picking up a brother laser scanner/copier/printer off Craigslist.

They can usually be had for ~$100 if you just get black and they’ll last for a stupidly long time. Toner is expensive but you’ll easily get 1500+ pages out of one cartridge and it never dries out.

If you want color, look around for an HP laserjet pro. They’re usually commercial grade and while you’ll probably pay a fair bit more, I see them on Craigslist regularly for ~$150-250 depending on the model. I have one in my office and I’ve gotten several thousand pages through it with zero problems.

Prior to collapsing, Rome achieved a sustained population in excess of a million people.

This did not occur again anywhere else until the mid 1800s.

It’s an incredibly hard read. It’s legitimately a graduate school philosophy class reading level. I would love to take that theoretical class and read along/discuss with a group but it’s hard to go through alone.