One of those canonical seas, the Aral, is almost completely gone, that dove had better hurry!
I've got a 1GB Insignia Sport mp3 player from 2006 or 2007 that I check every few years and still worked last time I used it. Good for audiobooks or maybe 80 songs on shuffle. I got a lot of mileage out of it over the years, lovely little bit of electronics.
Fyi don't do that with whipped cream, you're just asking for trouble
I was going to say if he writes an app and doesn't like it, something's wrong there
Basically what it says in the title
I remember reading years ago in some chapter of what I think is a Kurt Vonnegut book, that the Germans have a word for someone you meet who represents who you could become, but would prefer not to, and how that person is significant as a symbol and drives you to become who you should be or want to be.
Did I dream this? What book was it and what was the word?
I'm still trying to get a hold of my feelings about it but I think it's more that some people treat their own trauma as a kind of privilege, like it excuses how they might treat others. I've had enough experiences with friends, coworkers and customers being careless or hurtful and imo it's an uncomfortable truth that traumatized people can be harmful if they haven't learned effective coping strategies for their own trauma.
I hate engaging in that kind of social triage though and there are a large, increasing number of traumatized people in the world, and it's hard to access the kind of care that would help someone move past maladaptive behaviors that harm others as the result of their trauma.
For myself, at the moment, I will be maintaining boundaries and trying to avoid traumatized people in general, so as to not become more traumatized myself. This is the opposite of how I've previously engaged with people too, I'm consciously trying another strategy. Also apologies for being vague but I think it applies to a lot of situations.
I mean I've been getting spam sms texts from email addresses lately so I assume it's complete phone anarchy now in these late days
I've seen this more in the last decade or so, someone experiences a moderate amount of distress and then expects to get a free pass on any kind of toxic behavior that they can link to it. I'm assuming some types of counselors are promoting this as a twisted "hurt people hurt people" sort of thing and I've helped these sorts of folks until the compassion fatigue really sets in and I realize it's dragging me down, having real negative effects on my own well being.
So, lately out of self preservation I'm immediately suspicious of people who put their own trauma first in the interpersonal realm, like it's the first thing you know about them. I'm not sure there are healthy environments where everyone enthusastically shares their trauma and uses it to bond over, although I feel like that concept has been promoted in some trendy pop psych circles. Heck, I see a sign on a church near me that they have a weekly "grief share" session. Sounds horrible and like a speedrun to burnout.
Am I out of line in my thinking about this? Generally I value community building and being compassionate but that sort of thing really has been getting my goat lately.
John Ashcroft notoriously had the bare-breasted statue of Justice covered up in 2002 (uncovered in 2005) because there were so many public TV appearances at the Justice Department during the worst part of the post-9/11 changes.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-29-mn-25302-story.html
Is there a source for this quote other than this screenshotted twitter post?
Not quite a show but the Marketplace podcast (marketplace.org or perhaps this PRI show is carried on your local NPR station) -- for some reason Kai Ryssdal's voice just makes it all better
Sometimes yeah, or your bathroom had a magazine rack
Perhaps, perhaps not. But the following verse shows simp to be synonymous with punk (derogatory)
Late 70s and the first few 80s years is a stretch, that's Xennials. Elder Millenials and Xennials have an uneasy truce but we know the difference
I know it's a tiny minority of their culture over there but I will miss seeing screenshots of their wholesome/poignant greentexts. I hope some of those robots move on and turn out ok
I had a couple sticks of the standardly creamy Cabot in the fridge and happily still cooking with it. Extra creamy just seemed excessive when I saw it in the store.
I used to occasionally go to unmannedspaceflight.com but it closed in 2024, just found out. It's archived and they would post stitched together panoramas and significant findings, it was a very complete and interesting discussion board. Is there a similar site to this still up and running, or at least a non-NASA site that curates the downloaded images from the rovers and orbital missions?
I never used Twitter but wanted to check out the new thing replacing it over on the edge of the Fediverse. Created an account with no bio or profile pic and followed a few dozen personalities that I recognized on there. Half a day later I have 18 followers.
I looked at some of them and they were obvious bots, usernames were random alphanumeric strings, or they were promoting onlyfans, or they were trying to build followings by reblogging popular posts but not contributing anything original or curating in any human way. Others seem more believable and have realistic bios and post somewhat engaging chatter.
Not knowing what the general user experience is, should I consider most random follows to be bots or is it common practice for users to see who follows pages you like and follow other people on that list? The somewhat convincing profiles have me a little queasy thinking of all the AI bots driving us increasingly toward a Dead Internet.
Not sure how long I'll continue but happy to test it out and follow personalities I know from other platforms and enjoy their content, while blocking all of my followers that I don't immediately recognize. Is that standard Twitter/Bluesky good practice or am I not "trusting the process" enough and allowing full access to randos? Closest to Twitter I came was Tumblr circa 2010-2016 and in that time I saw the bots increase dramatically in a way that sabotaged community trust and got quite stalkerish.
Interested in your thoughts even if they aren't directly applicable to my experience.
Disclaimer: The Great War caused immeasurable suffering and loss but also Gavrilo is handsome
I was going to go with wisehosting.com after Mumbo Jumbo promoted them with an ad in one of his videos but apparently they're in Estonia and my bank doesnt do business with that country.
I've never had a server in MC before, primarily playing solo but have been going on my friend's realm the past couple months and really enjoying it. My complaint mainly is that realms limits render distance to like 16 or so and I'd like to crank it up to 32 as long as client side lag isn't too bad, and I've been told servers don't have the same cap on render distance as realms. We do like to build largeish amateur xp farms and regular redstone contraptions but shouldn't need something huge that can run Minecraft-in-Minecraft or anything like that.
So yeah, nothing fancy, no mods. Maybe 10 total players most we've ever had online at once was 5. What options are popular and known, inexpensive and reasonably reliable? Figured I'd ask on here rather than troll through old redd*t threads looking for people promoting server hosting. Thanks!
Regardless of how you feel about AI, a lot of people have been posting videos about this so you might be interested in seeing it.
Worked on desktop on Chrome, some phones might run it but mine didn't.
I've read ten articles and tried a couple different searches but have only found a dozen or so songs listed anywhere online. Is the entire 250 song playlist recorded somewhere?
I found this aftershave I'd been looking for on Belgian Amazon (amazon.com.be) - they dont sell the same kind in the US anymore but it's apparently still available overseas. I was going to see about having some shipped to me in the US and couldn't figure out any way to do so. I know the US Amazon site has this AmazonGlobal program where people from dozens of countries can order from the US site and have it shipped to them but apparently the non-US sites dont have a similar service available. Am I missing something?
Feral fuckin' megacats
Breaking things that worked flawlessly for years, nice. Hopefully fixed soon. It's not just me is it?
Screen rotates when I click the fullscreen button but video doesn't fill the screen, rotates back to vertical after a second. I was able to get it to work properly by turning on rotate screen in the pull down menu and then turning the phone. It still remained in the squashed format shown above but when I pull the video down and then tap on the minimized video it pops out into full screen finally. So it's still usable but the 5 step fix is pretty frustrating.
No I haven't filed a bug report, youtube is a grownup company and do it's own rudimentary beta testing. Sad to see unforced errors like this more and more common in longstanding industry standard apps.
Proposed American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 seeks to establish national consumer data privacy rights, govern Artificial Intelligence and automated decision-making, impose additional obligations on high-impact social media companies and large data holders, supersede state privacy laws, and allow pri...
What others are saying about the APRA https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/4/what-others-are-saying#:~:text=This%20comprehensive%20draft%20legislation%20sets,right%20of%20action%20for%20individuals
Compares to EU GDPR rights https://tuta.com/blog/apra-is-americas-gdpr
EFF favorable on bill but say it should go further https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/americans-deserve-more-current-american-privacy-rights-act
Some opposition to bill but largely bipartisan https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/blogs/wilmerhale-privacy-and-cybersecurity-law/20240418-new-federal-privacy-bill-draft-hits-congress
Full pdf text of bill https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/E7D2864C-64C3-49D3-BC1E-6AB41DE863F5
