Or Twitter users: Twits.

Windows, with it’s numerable AI and cloud integrations, has morphed itself into a “Sloperating System” and I refuse to call it anything else.

GERD sufferer here. Only 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9 are viable. Back-sleeping is doable, but only if reclined. The othes equal poor rest and a painful day to follow.

I get the approach here, but unfortunately, this is impressively hard to do without a (fiscal) safety net.

I agree that it is wise to push out panic-inducing thoughts; mindfulness and all that. That’s not always possible when professional failure equates unemployment and the possible crippling poverty that follows. In my experience, employers do a garbage job at pointing out where the guardrails are, and what the bar is for dismissal, going as far as refusing to put anyone on a PIP before letting them go. Many people are in countless pressure-cookers like this, perpetually on the edge of their seats if they’re paying any attention at all.

From all that I take this advice to boil down to: Practice mindfulness, ease, and inner-peace, especially when the shit hits the fan. You can’t control the consequences, but you’ll recover better if you keep your head.

Yeah, that’s pretty awful. The pandemic taught us all that enough people are gross like that.

At this point, I just assume that every airport is packed to the gills with coronavirus. I mask up, avoid eating with my hands, try not to eat much at all, and wash thoroughly. That said, I ate at a sit-down restaruant at O’hare this summer and immediately caught it anyway; my flight was delayed and i was ravenous.

No kidding. Every time I fly I wind up on the same flight with a bunch of people that hit up an all-you-can-eat chili buffet the night before. They proudly let the entire cabin know this the very instant we hit cruising altitude.

The only upside here is that not even first-class is safe. I really feel bad for the flight attendants.

It’s worth mentioning that the flatogenic index of that kind of eating is off the chart. If anyone reading this has a diet like that please, for the love of everything good in this world, get a job that is outdoors.

What really breaks my brain is that the pigment responsible for this purple hue are called anthocyanins. It literally has a root-word for blue in the name, even though that’s not the only color it can make.

Thanks for the rabbit hole. Here’s a youtube video of that screencap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJerbSVIBEQ

And here’s a (VHS quality) archive of the whole show. It includes all the advertisments too, so it’s quite the time-capsule:

https://archive.org/details/dinnerandamovierockyiii

It’s even better worse if you hear it at a dead mall, with hardly anyone around and almost no open stores.

By itself no, but employment absolutely is compatible with infiltration. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be a foreign-state actor, or even a witting party (e.g. clicking on stuff in spam mail). See: insider threat, and data exfiltration.

IMO: pack as much of your day with “active novelty” as you can. Even if it’s small stuff.

Kids experience time more slowly because everything is new to them. As adults, much of our world becomes familiar and, frankly, forgettable. It’s the lack of newness that lets time just pass by in our minds since the day’s memories get pruned to hell, letting entire days just get black-holed.

So my advice is do more than just touch grass; live life fully. Don’t just follow your favorite streaming programs, engage with other fans. Get out and join a club. Go to more parks, museums, live shows, craft fairs, summer festivals. Invest in the people in your life. Host and attend more movie nights, cocktail mixers, holiday parties. Listen to new music, listen to new podcasts, read new books. Double-down on hobbies or take on new ones. Finish projects on that todo list. Engage with nostalgia, but mix it up with new things too. Find new challenges and try new things to make sure that is or isn’t for you.

I’ve seen this. You’ll get a video recommendation that is technically on two channels at once, and you may be subscribed to only one of them. This may be particularly annoying if you’ve deliberately not subscribed to the other guy featured in the video.

Not only that, but the US Military runs on state-of-the-art logistics. This means that military equipment can, and often is, incredibly high maintenance because you’re never far from a base that always has everything you need to keep it operational. In this environment, there’s no need to make anything super robust and reliable, so… they don’t.

How state-of-the-art are we talking? Well, let me introduce you to forward-deployed Burger King.

Not to long ago, I was mourning the loss of the Conversatron 3000. It was a forum site that was nothing but comedy writers, using the medium to tell a flavor of joke and observational humor that could only work on that medium. A lot of it had this formula of “dumb question/observation”, “dumber retort”, “setup”, and finally “witty punchline.” Sometimes, that would just thread on for multiple rounds. Rarely, threads were open to user comments too.

Now I understand why that hasn’t come back. We don’t need it anymore.

I’m with you on “slam” and any other pseudo-violent verb to make an otherwise milquetoast headline more attention-grabbing.

What really gets me is when it is applied to the mildest of vocal objections by some politician. Like, it’s not even clever wordplay, just dissent. None of this is worthy of the same vocabulary one would use to describe a WWE match, but here we are.

Sometimes, the news is kind of dull, and that’s okay.

IMO, some people think that being educated means achieving mountains of rote memorization, and little else. Some of those people also become teachers.

This may also be why there’s a big row every time someone changes what algorithms are taught in basic maths (in the US, anyway).

I feel like there’s room for a youtube series about how this is all around us.

“Good Enough: how engineering works in the real world.”

Honestly, I kind of needed this. Thanks, OP.

Oh man. I was having a good day and everything.