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Not autistic but my partner is. One of her hacks is having me put alarms on my phone so I can gently remind her of things. The alarms are too jarring for her to have them on her own phone.

Ordinary Sausage made a sausage out of cat food. Gave it 3.5/5; higher than quite a few made out of "regular" food. Make of that what you will.

I'm sorry, I mostly agree with the sentiment of the article in a feel-good kind of way, but it's really written like how people claim bullies will get their comeuppance later in life, but then you actually look them up later and they have high paying jobs and wonderful families. There's no substance here, just a rant.

The author hints at analogous cases in the past of companies firing all of their engineers and then having to scramble to hire them back, but doesn't actually get into any specifics. Be specific! Talk through those details. Prove to me the historical cases are sufficiently similar to what we're starting to see now that justifies the claims of the rest of the article.

Cowards.

Think of bad sleep or insufficient sleep like an injury. In ideal conditions your body heals it at a certain rate. You can make it take longer, or you can even make the injury worse, by not taking care of it, but you can't make it heal faster. And at some point, if you're consistently not taking care of it, you'll make part of your injury permanent.

Similarly with sleep, it's not a bank balance, it's damage to your body and brain that you need to repair. And you can only repair the damage with good sleep. You have to get good sleep until you feel better, and then you'll know you have recovered.

And if you consistently get bad sleep for too long (a week or more), your brain and body will be permanently changed. Like a permanent injury, you'll never fully recover some of the damage. It's hard to overemphasize how important good sleep is to your short- and long-term health.

That's not what a vomitorium was for. I understand the sentiment, but let's not perpetuate a misunderstanding of Roman architecture/history.

Are you sure the answer you're getting from AI about the weight of ginger is right? Before AI I would trust the answer from a smart speaker. Now I don't trust anything any AI produces that should be fact-based. (Turning on lights and TV I would trust because I can see the results myself.)

When they say "two corporations" they're talking about the federal and state governments they referenced earlier.

It's part of a conspiracy theory that the US government is actually a corporation (and I guess state governments now, too?). The original theory I heard was that they never actually got the 16th amendment to the constitution ratified, so in order to levy income taxes on US citizens they secretly converted the federal government to a corporation and by having a birth certificate you are an employee of the government, rather than a citizen of the country. That's of course all made up and doesn't make any sense when held to 2 seconds of scrutiny, but I've met more than one person who believed it completely.

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I think their point is that the bars don't scale linearly. The red bar (2014 price) for the McChicken is supposed to represent $1 and the yellow bar (2024 price) ~$3, but the yellow bar is not 3 times the length of the red bar. This means the relative differences between the bar lengths doesn't match the percent increase number printed above then. This is most egregious comparing relative differences between the McChicken and the Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal: why does a 122% increase look so much worse than the 199% increase?

I suspect the cause of problem is that the small bars were stretched a bit to fit printing the dollar value within then, but if it throws off the visual accuracy of the bars, what's the point of using bars at all?

Robin Williams as the Bicentennial Man. The movie was okay; his performance was amazing. I've struggled with mortality for a while, like I expect a lot of people do, and to see him as a character who started their existence immortal, and to choose mortality. His death in the movie hit me much, much harder than I expected. I haven't watched the movie again since my first viewing because I'm honestly afraid of going through that again.

So you want to tie internet access to national government authorization? That's a sure-fire way to get dissenters against their own government off the internet, but won't solve your bot problem when Facebook can lobby the federal government to get credentials for its own AI.

Here I thought the in-fighting wouldn't start until after Trump had actually taken power.