Sure, probably. Still qualifies though, right?

Current circumstances do seem worrisome. But, we’ve been threatened with that for all my life, and even decades before I was born. So who knows. MAD is a certain thing and I don’t think entire countries are unstable enough to let that happen. I’m not really sure what Putin is getting at threatening all of Europe. The situation with China and Taiwan doesn’t look good, with the US pledge of taking Taiwan’s side for independence.

This awful video I saw where someone put pizza in a blender and turned it into a casserole

“The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising speech.”

Reminds me of how Elron is saying they’re going to censor or punish “negative” speech, as decided by Elron. Just in reverse. I can imagine the type of opinions Zucker is planning to enable on FB etc due to the “recent elections”.

More political discussion sounds completely awful as having a constant stream of irritating or provocative political topics shoved in my face is why I left Twitter. Currently threads is surprisingly good about that, so makes sense they’re planning to ruin it.

As far as making their systems work better for not censoring things that don’t need to be censored, that would be nice as it’s been a legitimate problem. I don’t have a huge amount of confidence though as they’ve always been terrible about that, like Twitter.

Lovely how this incredibly wealthy person is laser focused on making things worse for poor people. I suppose it’s the usual ploy of making people as desperate as possible so people like him can prey on us more easily.

I agree. It could bring about positive changes, but slowly, and it will be much worse at first. Of course Trump and co-conspirators will manage to blame the problems on Democrats somehow.

So accurate

They are also used in bandage packages, also some medical soaps, sanitizer and anesthetic - metacresol and phenol.

I definitely don’t like the creosote based preservatives that give it that weird smell.

I have type 1 though, so it’s indisputable that it’s healthier for me than no insulin - without external insulin, I’d be in DKA, a coma and then dead probably in less than a week.

In the past, definitely. I’m not sure what the current system is.

Realistically, might as well read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager as it knows a lot more than I do. I had a pager for several years and have done network programming, that’s about it… i have an insulin pump that people often mistake for a pager though, ha. It makes me look pretty cool.

They’re sent like a phone call. Afaik there is no confirmation on the network whether the device received the message.

That’s what I thought too. This is directory structure, not file systems.

Well, check it out: https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/taurine-in-cats

Taurine is an amino acid that’s an esssential nutrient for cats.

Proteins are just amino acids. You can find the same proteins in plant foods as meat. There are other details about what different types of basic foods contain, of course, but it’s theoretically possible to create something that contains all the same nutrients as meat out of plants.

I had a Jack Russell who was crazy about eating out of the litterbox. Just horrifying, obviously. Maybe it tastes like meat, idk, who knows what it smells like to a dog.

literal shitpost. I don’t really get what the problem is. I don’t obsessively listen to what the people next to me are doing… I try to avoid thinking about that.

Oh Jesus, just fuck off.

It’s not all about Trump or Biden personally though. It’s the people they appoint and install to run the government and who they have as advisors. Trump has shown he selects the absolute worst people, who tend to be a combination of malicious, criminal and incompetent. Biden, on the other hand, built a competent administration who is actually interested in competently running the executive branch for the positive benefit of Americans.

I sure haven’t. That’s a deluded conservative thing… they say they need guns to defend from an overbearing government, then they’re the idiots who vote for freedom-infringing authoritarians. It also hasn’t made sense in decades at best, given that they’d be gravy seals fighting army or police with their handguns while the government has helicopters, grenades, night vision, comm systems (like, they think they’d have cell service in a civil war?) and so on. Maybe some organized group could pull off an Iraq or Afghanistan style resistance, but it seems unlikely.

Ah, they guy who tried to get Paypal to switch to running on Windows strikes again.