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any other chronic sinus issues folks here? (topic: "why did we decide that flushing your nose out twice a day was acceptable QOL?")
  • the only way i get sick, like cold/flu sick, is a sinus infection. I've improved my anticipation of this over the years. or so I imagine. I also have a habit of getting antibiotics prescribed once I'm in the depths of hell, and never taking them. that antibiotic shit is so bad shouldn't even be in the toilet.

  • [Solved] Weird Secure Boot Issue on Surface Pro 3 (might be related to keyboard cover)
  • i don't know, but I'm typing on a SP3 right now, so saving this. I've seen the keyboard act up like this once in a while, though not on linux. otherwise it's solid hardware, which is good, because it seems impossible to repair.

  • Is it normal that I have this inner conflict of not knowing where I belong?
  • From the u.s. and I lived in Germany for a year. It was the trains and the castles and the history that had me wanting to stay. That stuff is probably boring to you. Your concerns about artificiality are valid. But I did not feel like Germany was massively different. I had more cultural shock from moving to a small town in West Virginia than Germany.

  • old internet
  • it's not for right and wrong. just a different perspective from sorting by new. unless someone has a better idea. still have to keep a finger on the block button, not just for the terrible and awful stuff, but all that you don't care about. No omniscient god swooping in to curate the content fairly and truely, and AI is not that.

  • Piss off!
  • I guess I didn't notice any cicada pee last time. The air was so thick with them it was affecting everybody's mental health though. If i had noticed pee i would've just assumed it was a hallucination

  • me_irl
  • I doubt the celebrity was concerned about that. Well for all I know she was headed to volunteer at a homeless shelter and wanted to bring gifts. Or not but it's okay to imagine people a are good

  • one of the really bad, annoying aspects of doing drugs is the lack of quality control

    kooky shitheads in the FDA want to fuck with proven medicine. least they could do is make available high quality psychedelics.

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    Ziz, Rationalists, People Getting Very Weird Living On Boats In The Bay
    www.iheart.com Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

    <p>Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to ki...

    Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

    be forewarned, the basilisk comes for your mind

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-zizians-how-harry-269931896/

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-the-zizians-birth-of-270107103/

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-three-how-the-zizians-went-270441851/

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-four-the-zizian-murder-spree-270607718/

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    i did kind of wonder why this strange guy was showing me he had a scary piece of metal in his hand

    as part of my wanderings while back i picked a spot behind a sturdy row of ugly shrubs. it's a random row of bushes serving as a very shitty filter to the windswept litter.

    It's near my house and I was looking for a smoke spot that's not home. Better spots abound after dark. In the daytime it was this or walk 2 miles to an actual park or go home.

    on one side of this row is a mild road through the abandoned industrial rust belt wasteland, abandoned so long ago the buildings were torn down and it's now a vast series of parking lots and suspect green space. Infrequently a tree or some shitty . Suspect as in could still be tons of broken infrastructure underground, and there is still some weird shit above ground.

    the area freaks me out, but it's not even ugly or scary picturesque. just vacuous. it's lowkey doldrums.

    Once I was stumbling through there and tripped over the metal cage of a completely broken security flood light. Eventually I hauled that home and took out the innards and the metal cage makes for a demented little shadowbox heavy enough to hold up a bicycle frame.

    So! Other side of this particular row of litter collection shit shrubs is another crumbling ashpalt lot, but it's a bit shielded from traffic and whenever I'm over there, I have focused on that lot and that side of the shrubs to pick up litter and tidy up a bit against the onslaught.

    It's a terrible place to camp, or hang out for very long. The litter comes in through there on the wind like a force. But if someone had to squat to pee and they had a lookout, they'd be okay.

    That's a low bar, I'll concede.

    I was, today, perhaps unwisely cross-legged chilling behind said shrub-row and completely introverted.

    I saw this guy pop out around the bushes and I am so damned naive I assumed he would just go away again.

    The guy just kinda circles around me and practically provokes me to acknowledge his existence.

    He's also sort of shyly holding a long thin piece of scrap metal with jagged bits on the end, but not really trying to hide it.

    Also known as brandishing a deadly weapon, and explicitly threatening with how he did the little circling behind me.

    I was like, oh so this is the fucking serial killer I get? My angel of death is a grownass little boy who needs his toys taken away? FINE.

    Fucker disappeared but almost immediately after that the cops showed up. Fortunately again I clocked them arriving immediately and I left.

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    at the plasma donation place, one of the screening questions is "have you had a condition with scab formation?" - like, a superficial cut, or a mosquito bite?

    another one is, have you had allergies since you last donated?

    i know some people just say to lie for every question. technically they screen every donation, but it's not supposedly a reliable test for something like HIV.

    i'm pretty sure i'm just allergic to reality. sometimes just constant sneezing, even when i'm on an antihistamine.

    obviously best to just be aware of one's behavior and risk factors. do they do this just avoid liability?

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    shitposting @lemmy.ml unemployedclaquer @sopuli.xyz
    you can't train a dog by hurting it

    my neighbor was saying some crazy shit about how he beat up a dog and he really fixed that dog's behavior or something

    i still have vivid memories of when i was bitten as a child by a very tiny yappy ass dog and i had to go through the whole fucking rabies bullshit

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    notes from a voluntary self-commital to a quasi-institution/church/homeless shelter

    edit: these are snapshots of my feelings and opinions at the time. feel free to fuck with me, because I want to know.

    https://pxlfdde.fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/public/m/_v2/791175513466675946/549719332-a3f277/woua9aP6fxUm/598Hyo63Y1Ks6slYVmCLR8aUuURBibwHF8ISjBhv.jpg

    https://pxlfdde.fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/public/m/_v2/791175513466675946/549719332-a3f277/QTBcUnkdMl5K/cn46sPFat7WuUf9CLnlMqvQhkuAk56k9fzBwAMP5.jpg

    snapshot of my feelings at the time.

    also thought my FBI Agent might want a better capture of my script

    • these are old (less than a year) and i was given some of those cheap smelly allergenic laundry pods that i tried to refuse and then they went from my jacket pocket to the notebook somehow #atheism #agnosticism #satanism #homeless #houseless #mentalillness
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    whisky @feddit.uk unemployedclaquer @sopuli.xyz
    is home distilling/brewing a thing in England? regulated or complicated?
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    Songs:Ohia - "Captain Badass"

    bluesy, chill depression music, solid songwriting.

    the earlier Songs:Ohia record "Ghost Tropic", kind of a concept album, is brilliant, very, very low tempo

    I saw Jason Molina play in Germany and in Kentucky. RIP

    @themountaingoats

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    unemployedclaquer @sopuli.xyz
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