I haunt estate auctions wherever I go. Physical media in the form of CDs and LPs is at a prime. Unless it’s old classical or country the prices skyrocket. The LP could be scratched to hell, they only ever show the sleeves in pics, but it doesn’t matter.
Physical media is at a premium. LPs used to be a dollar or so each 5 years ago. Sometimes even 4 for a dollar. Now, minimum $5 each to start. Unless it’s country or classical.
Three twelves. I’m all for cramming a 40hr work week into 3 days. Same amount of work, and so you are going to be trashed those three days and a half a day after, but it’s 4 days off a week.
Allows for work life balance if it’s block scheduling. If you have a scheduler who throws 12hr shifts out all over the week though, it can destroy your life.
I’ve heard of it just now.
The issue is going to be: what are my friends already using? Can I find and friend all my new acquaintances on this platform?
It’s not so much whether or not it has the capacity to be a great service, it’s what is the current population on the service? That’s what people are really asking.
If there’s not millions on it already, most are going to pass on it.
We’re on Lemmy, that puts us a bit outside of that perspective, but that’s still going to be your fat middle of the bell curve on peoples willingness to move.
OfferUp is really the only FBM replacement out there. I’m just assuming that’s 1/2 of what keeps most people around. The other being that messenger, in spite of its complete lack of privacy, still hosts the largest bulk of people, for finding acquaintances and such if needed.
Signal or WIRE should be the obvious replacement for the latter but our Congress working efficiently and effectively for the people is an easier task than moving a single individual off messenger and into Signal or WIRE. You’ll probably have to no contact people on text to get them to switch.
Or, go to a reaction vid like Asmongold or someone else.
Look at this. Only 307k views. Is that normal for something like this?
Trump specifically said fact checking was wrong and an infringement on free speech.
I’m starting to think that 1A speech Trump posted out via RFK on YT, the one with the giant green crayon subtitles, was a directive list for his oligarchs, not really intended for mass consumption, just them and the legislators who worship at his altar.
No one’s talking about it, not even here, but these guys are doing it.
Proton up people. And get your people on Signal or WIRE.
We’re probably the most boring people day to day and we’ve dove it for a while on general principle. Now, it feels important to have already made that shift.
It’s definitely not 2005 any more.
I didn’t read all of that, but yes, modding. Or just console commands.
Hey, when you started PC gaming with BG and NWN with user crafted modules which continued the adventures for years, you just expect it as basic form for PC games.
The one little game I’ll play on a mini is Scrsbble/Words w/Friends, with ad blocking.
The screen is small.
It’s an old person thing, probably, but I don’t enjoy phone sized screens beyond reading and such. I don’t know how people see an Apple Watch well enough to use it comfortably.
Laptop is fine most days but I really want that desktop screen when I can get it.
I can’t imagine Stellaris or AC or even Pathfinder on a phone or iPad mini sized screen. Like TV, most people aim bigger not smaller. I can still have portable games at 15” instead of 7”.
This is enlightening. Locked to a company by virtue of your visa. Working without pay while waiting for your visa.
I can see why these working class hating CEOs like these visas. You get talent while bypassing some of those pesky American labor laws.
And we on turn have to outsource for this talent because the university positions are outsourced to other countries, in part, no doubt, because we can’t afford them.
Another motive to not subsidize education. The cycle of cheaply taking advantage of masters degrees via the visa system would end.
Jeans are normal trousers.
In inpatient psych, street clothes are a common dress code. There’s some variation between facilities, but clean, untorn, no novelty tshirts, somewhat modest, no camou, are items you will often see in the line up. I started going to a new facility and failed to read this in detail due to habit and personal inertia. That’s on me. I showed up at this facility for over two years running wearing basic: black/dark non tshirt shirt, long cardigan (open front “jumper”, maybe, to you), and new grade looking deep indigo jeans. Black boots. Some variation, but that’s a normal street clothes look for me at work. You know how it is, some of us dress like we live in a type of street clothes uniform because we dislike shopping, multiples of the same items.
No one noticed I was wearing jeans for over two years, or if they did, they said nothing. Then one day, a new house supervisor saw me stooped over a computer out on unit at the nurses station, documenting before I was about to head out, and awkwardly approached to first clarify that I was wearing jeans and then to again, awkwardly, tell me jeans are not allowed at the facility.
Pause, two workers look at my legs, one says “Those are jeans?” Leans in, peers closely, then says “I guess they are.”
My point is, enforcement of non-egregious dress code violations are a choice. Those choices often rest with single individuals.
In neither case do these jeans disrupt the environment. In neither case were people harmed by the wearing of jeans. Nor are the trousers of choice tools required for standardizing the way a task/sport is completed. Offensive? Maybe to a prior generation in a “that is just not how things are done!” kind of way that is primarily fed by generational inertia.
For my part, unless I wanted to start wearing skirts, leggings (not appropriate for work imo), or wedding attendance level clothing, this change required me to go shopping.
Given how professional poker players dress, I’m not sure what the “sport” application of a uniform in chess is for, beyond “this is just how we do things”inertia.
Plus the republicans would lose their damn minds over this prospect. E-ID for elections? Never.
Depends on your history.
If you have a great history and it feels like home, high odds you’ll not run into abuse.
Granted, given the level of therapy avoidant people out there, they may not recognize their own emotional/mental abuse in their own history.
All of that said, some people sort it out, recognize the abuse for what it is and live happy lives utterly avoidant of prior abuses.
Resilience is one of those things no one has cracked in its entirety. It may very well be an inherent quality, like height or the capacity to never get type 2 diabetes no matter your weight.
(People are messy.)
Here’s a more realistic way to look at this phenomena. I’ve experienced it twice. Opportunity and initiative don’t always align so I only established a relationship with 1.
Its not love at first sight, it’s instant recognition.
Pattern recognition is what our brains are best at, built for, on so many levels. Your “gut”, the “gift of fear”, and other such phenomena come down to pattern recognition on a level you often cannot verbally explain. Same goes for instant recognition of another human being.
Another Psych 101 basic is that people are drawn to the familiar. Different context to help explain: music. There’s a mimicry in popular music going back to Mozart and a repetition in what radio stations play based on creating familiarity because it works to sell things.
Eyes meet, instant recognition, you’re drawn in.
On an uglier note, this is how repeating abuse cycles can happen. You felt like you knew him already because you did. You met him the first time in the form of your alcoholic father, or fill in the blank.
There’s some shady export behavior from Trump on this first term. He who has the most chips wins. China IS winning.
Chips = military win.
So it’s worth watching Trump on this during this term. Tariffs on imports could be a slight of hand distraction, something he loves to do, so no one pays attention to exports.
To be fair, much patient care happens without knowing what the patient actually does or did for a living. Sometimes it comes up organically, sometimes doctors, nurses, caregivers ask, and sometimes it never comes up.
If the patient is what we would call a “poor historian” which is a typical thing that is found with dementia care patients (do you know where you are right now? And they really don’t, so deep dives don’t occur past the how oriented to present reality is this patient, beyond those generic determination questions, when they fail.)
So let’s say she has no family. Shows up in hospital, doctors determine dementia, she’s stable and it’s time to go, physical and occupational therapy in conjunction with the MD determine a lack of safety to going home alone so it’s now decided for this patient to go to a care home, and she goes to a care home. Who then, inside the care home, says: oh, maybe I should call the Texas legislature about this random patient of whom I know nothing personal, never mind HIPAA.
How would they know? How could they talk if they did, given HIPAA?
Or there is a relative making decisions by phone who never thinks, oh, maybe I should call her boss and tell them. They just miss that part in the midst of everything else.
So that whole schism between Russia and Germany had nothing to do with ideology. Now I understand. /s