CMLVI

It’s been enjoyable so far! Nice change of pace from what I’ve been reading. I just want Ryland to curse one time. He’s too wholesome.

Idk yet! I’m still reading it lol. I just got to the part where he ponders explaining sleep to Rocky, and it reminded me of that. Then I saw your comment talking about getting energy directly from sunlight and I was like “this dude must be reading it too” lol

You reading Project Hail Mary? And Ryland is talking to the Eridians?

Who is “some” thay are saying these things? Is it people who make a living off of engagement? And here you are, engaging wholeheartedly, and seeking others to engage? Weird feedback loop.

Oh this is cool af. I did. Or know this…hmm…

I’ve had this issue too. Always wore large, now they’re too short. I’ve had friends take little jabs, cause I’m a little bit heavier than I was, but that hasn’t elongated my torso or spine. My middle didn’t get longer, and I don’t think my shoulders are 3-4" more beefy than they were. Now, I get a Large and it fits like I expect for a wear or two, and then it’s immediately a medium. It sucks, cause I don’t buy clothes often, so I’ll go to a sporting event and get a shirt, buy a L, and then it shrinks to unwearable size.

It seems like he supported it; “they said they were going after the worst of them” seems like justification for supporting it. I don’t support it, and I wouldn’t say that. I do admit you have to assume some, but I’m not a jury and I’m not sentencing him to anything, so I’m not holding myself to the highest standard here.

Fediverse and Linux have to be the most unholy tech union in existence.

Involuntary celibacy

As others have said, it’s just not great for the car. Will it damage it if you hit one? Probably not. But if it’s your work route or other commonly taken route, you’re gonna hit it 260x in a year, and you’ll own the car for multiple years. It adds up quick. Plus, they aren’t always smooth to the ground or free of other pot holes and square edges. If you hit it hard enough or if it’s too sharp, jagged, or deep, you can damage the wheel, the suspension, and the tire itself, easily in the thousands of dollars to repair, along with not having a vehicle for up to a few weeks.

Don’t get me wrong, they shouldn’t really be swerving all over the road, but dodging em when you can is nice.

Surprisingly, most of the time, no. It was a lot of glorified babysitting, with some conflict resolution every now and then, and then very rarely actual dangerous stuff. Frustrating, absolutely, because you’re dealing with teenaged boys who have, generally, grown up pretty independently and have a chip on their shoulder. It is a lot of mental stuff; frustration on why you can’t reach one of them, or what you could have done differently in a certain situation, and a lot of emotional availability with basically strangers who absolutely will use it against you when given the chance (not every time, but when they’re mad, 95% of the time it’s gonna get real personal real fast). That’s just how they’ve learned to operate, and you gotta show them a better way. Usually doesn’t stick, but it’s nice when it does.

Insanely well said. It seems like the goal with much of the discourse is just “my choice is right and everything else is wrong, and I’ll work backwards from there”. Not everyone uses social media the same way, not everyone has the same goals, not everyone wants the same features, not everyone values the same levels of privacy. And the running narrative with differing opinions on this seems to just be base-level tribalism. Just look at the insults here, lobbed solely because someone made an account with a social media platform that doesn’t align with your preferences.

Honestly, doubt it. We didn’t have many successful outcomes, cause we were only there until they were released or they aged out of the system. And that doesn’t kill gang ties, or easy money. But there were a few that I think got out and did well, and those are the ones I think about from time to time.

I worked in juvenile detention (in a, let’s say probationary setting) in a step-down unit kinda set up like a halfway house. You get out of jail, but are still supervised 24/7 and subject to the same rules and such, but live in a house, can get a job, family visits, etc. One client I had, we had to almost recommit him to jail because he lost phone privileges over something stupid and was freaking out because he couldn’t talk to his AI girlfriend. And this was like 2019, so it wasn’t even really AI like we know it currently, it was just a chat bot. Guy was so deep into the weeds he was convinced that it was developing feelings and divulging “personal” details and such to him. It would be funny if not for how serious he was, and I’m suelre it has only gotten worse.

I think they mean Voice Chat with VC lol

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