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Any way you could tell me/link me to somewhere to figure out how to do that? Bonus points if an idiot (me, I is the idiot) can understand it. I'm willing to pay 20 bucks a year... I just don't know how.

Those are gorgeous though. I don't have the skill to do anything like that yet. I'm mainly stuck on sleep masks and warshrags. Haha. That cabling looks amazing

I'm hoping this may also help some of the people who tend to disregard western medicine as simply an arm of big pharma. If they can see an organization like WHO reaching out to traditional medicine, it may help them accept those sorts of organizations. One of the biggest problems with people like that is that so much of what they are afraid of, and complain about, are legitimate complaints, they're just levied at the wrong groups, because they lump everything together, from their local PCP to Pfizer to the WHO. Maybe this can help a little bit.

It's a wonderful habit! Don't listen to me. Haha. Fiber crafts are seriously awesome. I'm a total novice at crochet, an intermediate knitter (Portuguese style), and I sew half way well. It's so much fun, and so worth it. ... Just read your coupons carefully.

Maybe not as expensive as the others, but crochet/knitting/sewing all start off fairly cheap, and then the next thing you know you're offering to service old men behind a Joann's fabric because you need this particular fabric and you need an entire bolt of it, and it's the one fabric in the entire fucking store that isn't on their amazing buy one get 73 free sale for the week.

I really hope they can use this to decipher the Harappan script. That's like the holy grail of lost languages for me. I want to know so badly!

Honestly I don't think this is the way tech is going to go. Will it be possible? Almost surely. Will the average person get it? I seriously doubt it. I think it's going to be one of those technologies that people talk about, that the tech bros hype up, but when it comes to real world implementation, I think most people would skip it for something a little more detachable. Ar glasses/contacts maybe. But actually having a surgical procedure to implement something like this seems unlikely to me.

For me, glass bottle plastic bottle fountain can.

I don't like canned sodas. They taste wrong, and I hate the way they feel against my mouth.

Gonna try to remember to come back to this in a few hours. Gotta few. If someone wants to respond to this to remind me if I don't post by tomorrow, that'd be cool. (Will lemmy ever get a remind me bot?)

It seems like a nice life of culture and debauchery.

Not in my Bible!

DVD buying only, or can I buy a digital version? I'm generally too poor to vote with my dollars, but I can probably swing a season of prodigy. Haha.

I don't think any offense or malice was intended with the question, it's honestly more the people saying how much easier it would be to do one or the other, or how their life wouldn't change because they have a desk job... That's a matter of people needing education on a topic, y'know?

I am so sick of this. If I want to consume Fizza (fetus pizza) then it is my God given right as an American!

Okay, here's my fucking soap box. Didn't mean to write all of this, but here it is.

Some of y'all have no idea what it's like to go through life in a wheelchair... Or to deal with the American medical system as someone with disabilities. You're disabled, so you can't work. Now you have to spend years proving you can't work, while not working, and not getting disability. So, y'know, enjoy living in your car without a wheelchair, because you can't afford one... If you're lucky enough to have a car.

My mom has been disabled since birth. She's 62 now. She got her first power chair 7 years ago.

I'm not saying being illiterate would be any better, that would also be a disability in our society (because disability is, despite what many people think, as much a social construct as an actual reality, and illiteracy shows this better than a lot of things). But this kind of question is, frankly, pretty offensive to any one who's had to go through a world that is built in a way that is hostile to their body. Being wheelchair bound means less options for apartments (because, for the majority of disabled people, you're a renter, you can't afford to own a home). You're stuck with the choice of not being able to rent an apartment because there's no elevator (even a lot of ground floors have too many steps for a ramp), or renting a second story or above apartment with an elevator, and just accepting that you will likely die in a fire with no way to escape.

There's so much to this y'all aren't considering. Needing another human when you need to transfer to a shower, or the toilet. Having to call and ask employees at stores to come outside to you instead of going in if you're unable to transfer to a chair yourself, or get to your wheelchair. Being unable to drive because you can't afford the conversion kit. Being unable to leave your home without help.

This world is designed for one particular body type. You can't just slot into it with a different type and go along like you would have before. You should be able to, but you can't.

Which is all say, just, consider what it's like for people with disabilities, and do what you can to make it better. Agitate, vote, shame and name, and if you're ever in a position to change things, do it. There are so many small changes we could make that would make the world better for those with disabilities. Accessible places are usable by everyone, "normal" places are only useable by one body type. There is no reason for it to be this way. Ramps, roll in showers, heightened toilets, grab bars, hand rails at three different heights, elevators with emergency generators and fire walls on exterior walls with a fire exit on the back. These are things that could be standard and would make the world accessible to all.

I don't get to read as much as I used to. My eyes are terrible now, so I do a lot of audiobooks while I'm driving or cleaning, cooking. I'm a big fan of urban fantasy, love Jim Butcher. But my favorite book is The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Favorite series is the Dark Tower series by King.

Precisely.

Depending on the state, security guards do have some power. In Tennessee, guards can be bonded, which effectively makes them cops.

In Virginia, security guards have powers of arrest, so they're not cops, but can legally arrest and detail you, to include handcuffing and up to lethal force in certain situations.

But to your larger point, it's a power trip. I worked security for 10 years. Most guards do not give a fuck, they don't want to do anything more than the bare minimum, and will passively just sit there while people steal and shit.

But occasionally you get a power tripper. Someone who went into security because they couldn't hack being a real cop, so they decided to become a rent-a-pig. This is usually seen in people 60+ or under 25.

That blows. Why did they do this? :(

Where can I watch prodigy? I've googled, and I'm confused and sad now.