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Looked up covid specs. "If you're at higher risk of complications, talk to doc about antiviral." Doc: Sure, let's do that. Paxlovid site: Side Effect: "Change in sense of taste" Other site: "Just rinse your mouth after taking it." Reality: Endless taste of road kill on tongue 🤢🤢🤢

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Back in college, I brought my iPod to a friend's and plugged it into his PC. It tried to delete my entire music library. At home, I figured out how to use freebie non-Apple music software, and since then have never bought an Apple anything. Good choice, it seems: www.defectivebydesign.org/apple

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Ran across a topical verse: "Cursed is the one who perverts/withholds the justice due the stranger/alien, the fatherless, and the widow." In the Torah, God told the Israelites to split up onto two mountains (Gerizim and Ebal) and shout "AMEN!" as the priests read Big Blessings and Big Cursings.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I'm reminded of #DollarStreet, where you can see what it's like to live at various price points across the globe. America is by that metric pretty dang rich ...which also makes it a shame to our nation that our poor people are so badly off by other metrics. www.gapminder.org/dollar-street

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Trying out #Anki for what might be the first time (my memory sometimes fails to inform me when I've done a thing before) Grabbed a full kanji deck Have been sorting them into mini-decks based on (a) familiarity or (b) certain key radicals, like that weird underpath I can never write neatly

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

it has been said before but one problem is that when some people say 'the economy' they're talking about poor people affording food and housing, & when some other people say 'the economy' they're referring to a chart of how happy rich people are

submitted 10 days ago • 47 comments

Had to switch to an ergonomic keyboard again. First keyboard (hand-me-down): Dies within days Second (old backup): Space bar sticks (spaces EVERYWHERE) Third (Insignia): Awesome, except that the Shift key fails half the time -- ALL-CAPS words with half the letters RANdoMLy sMALL

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Facebook just up and made people follow Trump's account without any consent on the part of the "follower" -- thus artificially boosting numbers as well. #1984shit #coercionisnotconsent #goodservicesdon'tbypassconsent www.youtube.com/watch?v=dElt...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Microsoft: "People don't seem to like our AI Copilot thing. Maybe we should just force them to use it, and to pay $25 more for it, without informing them that they have a different option?" Atomic Shrimp: "So here's how that works:" www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVP...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Where the fuck are you going to deport them to? Back over the Bering strait?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The movie Alien is basically a retelling of what happens when a raccoon gets in someone's house in the suburbs and they try to handle it themselves.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment