I can find anything so long as I’m the one who pit it away. That bill that’s due tomorrow? Right on my desk in this pile, 4 pages down! The bag of cornmeal that we use once a year? Behind the zip lock bags! Unfortunately, we repainted a room and in the process reorganized the piles and now I can’t find anything.

Similarly, I’ve read people encouraging voting as a way to say that the post benefits the conversation. Down vote trolls, posts without adequate backing of ideas or actual dangerous comments and upvote posts that contribute, even if you disagree, then disagree as a reply.

For example, in a post, “a hotdog is a sandwich”, upvote a comment that says, “meat & bread = sandwich” then reply, “you are an idiot” (then expect a downvote because your comment doesn’t contribute.

There’s a lot to unpack here,but i feel like the suicide and medication are the most urgent.

I’m not familiar with the medical laws in every country, but in several countries, when you go for an annual physical, you get alone time with the doctor,even if you are a minor. That may be a good time to discuss the whole situation and get some advice from a medical professional. This could be as young as 13 in some countries.

Reminds me of the oatmeal comic

https://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter_2012/twinkies

every time a species gets upgraded on the endangered species list, we take away one horrible staple from the American diet.

I used it this year to write my performance self-review. It successfully turned my usual rambling but valid accomplishments into management friendly synergistic paradigms, saving me the anguish of doing it myself.

I can relate, but I call it the Sunday depression. Most of what’s difficult about the transition between doing the things I want (or not) and doing the things I’m told to do. Also, picking up all the problems that I left behind when I left work on Friday.

How do I cope? Mostly just suck it up. Sometimes, I’ll email myself reminders or thoughts so that I don’t carry them around all weekend. Sometimes, I pre-make a bunch of food so that I can roll out of bed and walk out the door. Sometimes, I do have things to look forward to, like lunch with a coworker or something.

I record the purchase & miles driven. The data helps me to track and anticipate when the car will hit certain miles so that I can predict events like new tires, brakes, oil changes and save up for them. For one car, I noticed that premium fuel improves the mileage significantly, making the purchase worthwhile if it’s <7¢ more per gallon.

Also, at Costco, some members have a digital membership card (ie: on their phone).

Is this why I’m blinded at night by oncoming vehicles? I just assumed that everyone just started driving with the hi-beams on all of a sudden.

There are lots of good suggestions here, but I found that putting my access point up high helped immensely. I did it when painting a room and noticed better coverage in places that were not so good before.

I had a bike when I was a kid and as long as I was home for dinner, nobody cared. I biked a lot. Like 2 or 3 cities over, maybe 25 miles each way. Parents thought it was good exercise. I now realize that it was freedom. I went to tge computer store and played games on the computers I could not afford. Also, in hindsight, biking was the physical thing that I needed so that I didn’t punch someone, or worse. I had lots of rage and took it out on the road. I averaged 18MPH, which is pushing pretty hard.

Part 2: until social media, I never realized how messed up the Chinese culture is. I’m sorry to hear that you are going through all this.

Interesting read. I wonder if all the AI slop will bring back hand written applications as a way to filter out the AI. Maybe the Amish are ahead of the game here.

Excellent write up!

A girl. An ultimatum. I left. We’ve been married 26 years.

I win.

It’s already a thing: rentahuman.ai

I would wonder if it would be illegal to promote your live of the country by hanging a giant flag directly in the viewing path of the camera. Would you get arrested for being too patriotic?

This is too defeatist for me. I am upset to see these all over town, but too small minded to do anything about it. I want to start something to pressure community leaders to change, but i worry that i’ll make a lot of noise then drop it like i do with everything. I’d love to join with a group.

I’ll try to argue about something I know little about. Don’t advertisers pay for ads served? Don’t many ad blockers work by hiding the ad from view, like making it’s size 0x0? On my older devices, I can see the ad show up, then disappear. Doesn’t that then imply that the advertiser must pay for the ad eve though it does not show on my device?

Going down the rabbit hole, doesn’t that then also imply that people using assistive technologies like a screen reader for the visually impaired are actually stealing content?

I wonder what capabilities the vehicles have that are of concern? Cameras? Microphone?

I read a suggestion that countries simply mandate that anything sold in the country which operates with software and has the ability to disrupt items of national security be made with software that is auditable and preferably ooen source software.

Cars, routers, solar power controllers, computers, etc.

Agreed 100%. Enable parents, even not tech savvy parents, to parent. Ultimately, if the parent wants their kid to do whatever, they’ll just create an adult account for their kid. Do we really want the government parenting our kids? Sure, it may be an improvement for some, but it’s a slippery slope and could lead to a Brave New World.

I think this is the only reply that hits the mark. Most of the others are mentioning malware, the morals of adverts or how obnoxious they are. To steal implies to take without payment, but the payment is not from the viewer, it is from the advertiser,who is paying.

I’d argue that blocking is more similar to taking a restroom break when a commercial is shown on the TV. No reasonable person would say that that’s stealing.