not real

It’s from a satire website that is a decade old

Shakespeare had no problem with singular they, by the way.

I also found it natural to use before I had a concept of those existing outside the gender binary. “Who left their umbrella?”

Mentioning semantic shift here doesn’t seem to do anything but make me imagine you are grandpa Simpson yelling at passing clouds.

Rude. Our public schools are not great and numbers are scary. You’re being discriminatory.

Thanks… but I wanted advice from a wizard, not one of their electric golems

Thanks!

Hello wizard,

May I ask what ur favorite “document management system” is (hopefully containerized in docker)?

In a poly relationship with n members, there will be 2^n - n - 1 interpersonal relationships in play.

This is the cardinality of the power set of n, minus the number of singleton sets and the empty set.

Thought i would mention it, just in case you needed a quick way to calculate the number of relationships in ur polycule for ur therapist.

Horses aren’t real, but if they were I’d want them to get radiation poisoning

I think it’s notable what they didn’t find. No guns, weapons. No plane tickets. No bombs or bomb making equipment. No actual real plans, just aimless searches. This guy is young. You can find a picture of this guy online (I’m not going to link it. I think these sorts of sites should be illegal tbh).

My guess:

• Mentally ill, possibly mentally disabled
• Lives with mom/dad etc, probably unemployed or unable to find a “good” job (Not a moral failing. American society is not giving many options for young adults to live “complete” lives).
• Mom/dad/whoever notices how angry he is and installs a keylogger, because they don’t want him to become a mass shooter, and he’s a grown man still on Roblox.
• Immediately confesses everything to FBI

This guy needs a mental health intervention, not jail time. I have a hard time believing he is much of a public threat since they listed all the cool stuff they found in his house in the FBI charging documents but no guns/etc. This guy didn’t have a plan.

Highly recommend this podcast episode from Reveal: Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother

Idk man, having down syndrome also gives you a much greater chance of things like heart defects. Life expectancy has improved recently to 50-60yrs old for them according to a quick search. I don’t think there’s a dilemma here at all. I wouldn’t want a disease that decreases my lifespan.

Those things aren’t too bad unless they need repair/replace…meanwhile you are recommending a solution that starts at like $2500 that only works while you’re in the bed.

Most of the USA has HVAC, but not everyone. I grew up without it. We had in-window units and box fans. You get used to it quickly.

I’m sorry, I’m just not seeing this as anything but an expensive luxury (that doesn’t have physical buttons unless u paid???). Seems pretty silly to pretend its anything but that.

Especially for couples where one runs hot and the other runs cold during the night.

Without elaborating too much, this is my situation, and we solve this by having the room cold for him and blankets for me. Actually, the situation is much better when our insurance stops jerking us around about his medication that fixes his night sweating and other related problems, but we’re American, so can’t be helped.

It just seems like a lot of trouble when you can buy a blanket idk.

Honestly, I’m the one paying for a subscription service that doesn’t help (insurance), so I guess I’m the clown here.

tbh until I read ur comment I just assumed this was a shitpost tweet making fun of the state of consumer electronics, not a real product

I bought a gleeb for my glibben needs but it has no interoperability with floob, so I bought an adaptor from Amazon with a weird brand name made of plastic… etc etc

Just buy a blanket…?

These folks are standing up against a great wrong and you’re just going to assume they’ll go back on their values later?

What makes you so confident they’d change their minds later and go against those values? Do you know them personally? Do you have a crystal ball to gaze into the future?

pressured speech?

Friend, the magazine this article is from is named Jacobin, after that political movement.

It is a US-based magazine, and it’s not very popular, so it’s understandable that you haven’t heard of it. But it does pay to read the article before commenting.

Jacobin (magazine, wikipedia link)

Errr… am I mistaken? This is the first time I’m hearing about nationalizing SpaceX and it’s from Jacobin…

Does Jacobin make a habit of calling people communists? Pretty sure they advocate for socialist positions usually…

big spiderman pointing at spiderman vibes if true

I’m not coming to argue you on your main point. As a Communist, I think communism would be great in Japan, and a lot of other places.

However, you are completely wrong about the USA not defending Japan. Unlike taiwain there are several large american military bases in Japan, and actually Japan is not allowed to have a large military of its own through its constitution (I edited this, corrected)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Mutual_Cooperation_and_Security_between_the_United_States_and_Japan

article 9 of Japanese constitution involving its military

Okinawa is one base a lot of people have heard of, but there’s like 20 american military bases there. Japan depends on the USA for its foreign defense.

Since Japan is the largest foreign holder of american government debt (bonds) it might be appropriate to call them a vassal state.

It’s rather technical but if you were considering getting smart home devices, you can use home assistant to replace the app on your phone. I followed this guide to make a very lazy Roku card for HA. Then, you can keep the TV on your LAN but ban it from the internet.

I have a pihole on the network to keep the ads off the TV but honestly I wish we hadn’t bought the thing. It sounds like you can’t use a different DNS? That’s a real shame. I’m more or less in your situation, seems like a waste to toss a working device just because it’s a rebellious piece of shit.