I still don’t really understand how trees could possibly suck something up higher than air pressure can push it. Are they like using surface tension or something?

I have taught myself the skill of making very good alcohol, which can be used medicinally, and for barter.

It occurs to me that coffee/caffeine will also be highly valuable for barter in any scenario involving disruption of supply chains. I should put some with my emergency kit.

I’m not sure if I should be flattered or insulted.

Everybody learns some methods before trying meds, it’s a practice I started a few weeks after I started taking meds.

At the very least it doubles your chance of remembering. Connect them with a rubber band if you have to.

I always take my pills at the same time I put on deodorant. It means I can quickly check if I took it.

Lol I legit thought

whoa a gel electrophoresis meme, I wonder if anyone recognises the sequence.

I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Wetlanders need to stand together, and push the seanchan back into the sea.

What worked for me was taking my meds the same moment I put on deoderant. That way I can double check whether I took them by smelling my armpit before I leave the house.

I think the disconnect is the word public. The article’s thesis is:

unashamedly sexual spaces are more important than ever.

My perspective as an outsider/ally: I agree that they are important, but think they are less important than at other times in history.

But again I think the disconnect is the word public: I don’t want to be sitting next to people having sex while on the bus. I don’t think that’s what the author is advocating for, so I just don’t think the word public is the right choice. I think they are advocating for public spaces accepting of sexual diversity, and separate communal places for individuals to have diverse kinds of sex.

Presumably anybody that does this gets their code integrated into the training data right?

Putting something you need to see where you can’t see it actually does have a short of efficiency logic to it.

Like save the fusible storage locations for things you’ll be able to see

I’ve been learning a lot about biblical history and early Christianity lately. To be clear: as a layperson. Ie I’ve been listening to podcasts by biblical scholars, and reading Wikipedia articles. I’m not an expert but I’m an interested lay person. I’ve been doing this as a person that doesn’t believe in the supernatural, because I’m interested in history and sociology, I haven’t been learning about hell specifically but more the context influence of Early Christianity.

Early Judaism understood the afterlife to be a sort of sleep/slumber/torpor.

Greek concepts of hades had an influence on early Christianity.

The Book of Revelation was kinda like a revenge fantasy for early Christians experiencing persecution by the Greco-Roman empire.

The lake of fire was not for human souls.

There’s also something about souls being fed into an eternal furnace, but the furnace is consuming the souls so the souls are destroyed through incineration, not eternally tormented.

I know a lot of current hell imagery is drawn from Dante’s Inferno which is medieval I think, but I haven’t really gotten that far in my learning about Christianity.

I successfully submitted for a short term disability claim for an anxiety condition that arose from my ADHD. A few weeks later I was told that there wouldn’t be a role for me to return to once I was recovered. IE in an attempt to avoid a nasty law suit they aren’t firing me until I’m off short term disability.

Talk about setting up adverse conditions for recovery!

What unhealthy eating habit are you indulging in at 21:45?

As a cis het white guy it’s important for everyone here to know what I think:

Fatherhood, and my monogamous het partnership are the best things that’ve happened in my life.

“Traditional family values” (paternalism, misogynism etc) are toxic, and abusive. If your existence as a trans person helps undermine them, I celebrate you. If your existence as a trans person somehow reinforces those values I’ll still celebrate you (but I’ll be curious about how that’s happening).

You have allies.

Edit to add: the opening line was firmly tongue in cheek.