Yeah. I used to be a night owl and then became a meth addict (whoops) and didn’t sleep much at all for a while. When I got sober, reclaiming my sleep was the first thing I did. Proper sleep hygiene is all. Hide any clocks in your room. Go to bed at 10. Set an alarm for 6am for a few months. When you start waking up at 5:58, you can stop using the alarm. You can use the extra 2 minutes you’ve gained to wonder who the hell you are now.

Huffpo: saying shit with no bearing for years and years now.

At least they didn’t “slam” Trump, he couldn’t withstand that kind of onslaught this week.

It was 10 years ago so “back in those days” would actually work better.

Office workers are off so service industry jobs are fully staffed. I’ve never seen a gas station closed for labor day.

Everybody is broke.

They’re trying to claim because they were there when some or all of the vandalism occurred, and took photos of it and republished on their social media the next day, that they were in on it. Which might make sense if they weren’t a respected photojournalist.

It gets worse but the moral is, don’t collapse your lung. I wish someone had told me.

Not if the IP is purchased by another company leaving the original saddled with the debt, or spun off so the parent company can rebuy it thusly, or the government bails them out, or buys it to be the State AI too, or a bunch of other scenarios in this dark new world ahead.

I drove Amazon Flex during Covid, having an AI as your boss is deeply and perpetually unsettling but ultimately doable! Just do what the push notification tells you to do. If you want to say something to your boss, use the feedback form on the corporate website. So simple.

I had a pleurodesis (that’s where your lung collapses several times so they glue it to your ribcage with scar tissue to keep it upright) and they offered me a choice of talc, where they blow in the talc powder to create the scar tissue, or mechanical, where they stick a spiked rod in and abrade you from the inside out.

Despite how unpleasant the latter sounded, my surgeon all but insisted I not go talc, he said I would thank him later.

Oh, god I do.

Like when he raised an armed insurrection and everyone went about their Tuesdays like normal?

THEY WANT TO TRANS YOUR DOORBELL

The Mac one could be a lot more realistic:

“Mac OS Yellowstone is available for your Mac, and will update tonight.”

“Mac OS did not update last night because you left some windows open.”

“Mac OS will update tonight, but you must enter your fingerprint and password to make it happen.”

“Mac OS did not update last night because you didn’t enter your password again at 2AM and we weren’t sure if you really meant it”

The UK has a CCTV facial recognition system that’s quite massive, we’ve resisted such programs for the most part (a few cities have them but they’re not linked together).

So it’s not like Europe is free of this.

Here most of our camera systems are for our own use only, not for the government, with this giant exception.

That’s been a big part of the opposition, groups like NASW pointing out this law would cause an ethical crisis for therapists who cannot choose to use such techniques.

Lawmakers so far don’t care.

Yes it releases the tension within the glass, and I think it’s still heat tempered glass even tho it’s not borosilicate - meaning it would crack once you broke the surface.

I live in a city that’s half black, in one of several gayborhoods. I keep wondering when black and pink panthers will form and start patrolling. Probably when we get hit with our first localized stochastic terrorism incident. There’s a rainbow crosswalk that rednecks love to come do burnouts on. Tensions run high with highly conservative MAGA folks dominating the rural areas just miles from our very flammable houses with rainbow flags.

But you know what happens when the panthers start patrolling? Suddenly, gun control.

Our cops wouldn’t arrest them but the feds would probably escalate it. I am not sure how it’d play out today.

Everything in a Tesla is remote controllable, down to the odometer. It’s through Tesla’s own system but I am 100% sure that system has an Internet connection.

Heck I patched in my non-smart-car into my smarthome using an Onstar integration, I can lock and start it using Siri. Tesla’s system is just a way beefier version of Onstar. I wouldn’t be shocked if there was an app just for Elon to play with it all.

As Churchill said, you can’t reason with a lion while your head is in its mouth.

I lived in Seattle for a while and got used to the nudity, imagine my sadness moving to Arkansas which bans any public nudity “within view” of the opposite sex (hello gay campgrounds) - but last year I saw a lesbian go topless at Pride and I was SO happy! My straight neighbor made it a point to mention how she didn’t care for that, and I’m like, it’s our event lady, don’t come.