Fucking annoying how often it’s the trauma, really.

My husband is going to have to upgrade his work computer because there’s no way it’s lasting four more years 😔

Re: bullet point 2, that’s called a familect if you weren’t already aware. I just love that word and that it’s a thing, because it feels like nobody really acknowledges how widespread it is. We just all walk around having our own secret languages only our loved ones understand.

Some people are so sucked up in a COVID denialist media bubble they can’t help themselves. Seeing a mask isn’t just seeing someone minding their own damn business, it’s evidence of an existential threat to society.

Yeah, it’s stupid as shit, but that’s how they function. Nonreaction or minimal reaction as you’ve been doing is definitely the way to go. Anyone confronting you over a mask in public is probably not stable enough to have a discussion or argue with.

Huntington Beach, CA. So, so many public meltdowns in the Karen/Kevin sense get uploaded to the internet from there. Lots of drunk people and road ragers.

True southern hospitality—like giving a stranger a ride home because you happened to see them walking along the road—is something I’m big into. I always try to do what I can to be that person. Which usually embarrasses my husband and he’s telling me to mind my own business, lol.

All the funerals I’ve been to in the south had a big gathering afterwards with a ton of homemade food, and I think that should really be standard. My (non southern) husband was surprised the first time we had to stay and eat and talk to everyone afterwards.

My bad for misunderstanding you.

Please share any studies you have showing AI is better than a person at summarizing complex information.

Might want to rethink the summarization part.

AI also hasn’t made any huge improvements in machine translation AFAIK. Translators still get hired because AI can’t do the job as well.

Just take the next step and make a text file you dump all these commands into and then forget about in a week. When you randomly stumble across it years from now you’ll be able to say “wow, I could have used this 10 months ago if I remembered it existed!”

Your local library might give you free digital access to most (or all) of those, if you haven’t checked.

The one I would also most like to do, if only it was safe and I wasn’t disabled: wingsuiting. Even if I wasn’t disabled I still wouldn’t do it, just because I don’t want to die by smashing into the ground at 60 mph. But moving through the sky like that sounds incredible.

Maybe it’s just my area but there’s also like, a 25% chance the reader won’t work and you’ll just get a free ride if you try to pay with your phone rather than cash. It makes hopping on the bus a fun gamble!

Scavengers Reign is incredible, easily the best animated sci fi show made in the past few years IMO. It’s weird and emotional and deeply sincere in a way a lot of media isn’t anymore.

If you liked Fantastic Planet you’ll probably like Scavengers Reign.

Ask your vet if they think it’s a good idea to let your cat eat random wild birds during an outbreak of H5N1 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like bird watching too, and it’s easier to do without a predator scaring them off.

You can’t guarantee that only “pest” birds (which still may be native, protected species) will visit your birdbath, or that they won’t carry some illness or parasite to pass on to your cat.

PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) will make it much less likely for you to contract HIV, but you must begin taking it within 72 hours of potential exposure, and the sooner the better.

If you’re in the US, this CDC page has more info about where to find treatment.

A doctor will be able to tell you what other tests you should have, but I imagine they’re going to just want to screen for the usual stuff (chlamydia, gonorrhea, etc).

Station Eleven from… Station Eleven is probably there only one that’s been as interesting to me as the story itself, I guess because it’s such a big part of the story and character motivations. The book and show are both good in their own ways, but I particularly like the passage repeated throughout the show:

I remember damage, then escape

Then adrift in a stranger’s galaxy for a long time

But I’m safe now

I found it again, my home