Also quit smoking, vaping, anything with nicotine, which causes your discs to degrade faster.

I have degenerative disc disease at 42, I'm looking at multiple fusions.

American Party X

I am high now.

Source: dispensary

And our rates of intestinal cancer have been rising steadily to the point where now it's a common killer, so we've become afraid of it in our quest to live long, pain-free lives.

Things change as we learn. Why we don't use lead in our pipes anymore. Safe, biocompatible plastic only.

More than just grift... this is the new militant wing of MAGA. They're a new branch of armed forces that operate entirely on our soil. We've got concentration camps opening, we've got a MASSIVELY funded brown-shirts, and dark tech civilian-profiling AI behind all that... This is pretty much my worst fears from last November coming to life.

I run a social club for gay men, and we've talked about coming up with an app that's run by a non-profit, with social workers on the board, that's designed to actually connect people, not keep them glued to the app. Friendship, dates, activity partners, whatever.

I don't know why no one has come up with the non-profit model here but if I can get enough steam, we're doing it.

There are other causes here.

They've been talking for a while about how the low participation in dating by Gen Z women is because they're tired of being the entire support system for men experiencing a loneliness epidemic.

It's a lot of pressure for the women to be under, and so they're withdrawing.

I'm guessing this is one of the driving forces as well. Lack of real, emotionally intimate human connections around them. Many men are quite fucked in that regard right now.

He was already the favorite, Trump's endorsement here will cinch that up

There are only a few outcomes that would lead down that road, and while I hope for one of them, I am pretty convinced they'll all die happy and rich in their warm beds of old age after getting lots of plastic surgery and riding on lots of jets and jetskis

Actually, the IRS is experimented with a psychological means of making people feel like they’re donating to certain things, Apparently, in focus groups, it makes people suddenly a lot less pissed about paying income tax if they can say “this goes to national defense” or “this goes to education.”

Problem is you can’t actually give people a choice, just the illusion.

I live in Arkansas and got my first lone star tick this year, thankfully I noticed right as it was biting me. 7 ticks in one month, mostly deer. Insane.

Dried or fresh cherries will also produce the effect in sufficient quantity. Which is how I learned not to eat a bag in a sitting.

Lot of poor folks driving around expensive ass Chargers, 300s, Escalades, Mustangs, etc well beyond what they can afford in the South. Then parking them in front of a trailer park or shittiest house you can imagine, with kids playing in the dirt around it.

Bill Clinton stepped in at the last minute to endorse the Dem incumbent, yeah the establishment (which is 95% of the Democratic party) won't be thrilled.

I got really into Six Feet Under 20 years ago. I kind of feel like The Good Place was like it's surreal, light-hearted successor in some way. Life, death. One is messy and chaotic and dramatic and awful. Then death happens and everything gets really weird.

This is the same company that, 60 years ago, built a turntable to throw lemmings off the edge of a cliff for a "nature documentary" since they weren't jumping over on their own.

Lemmings do not actually commit suicide in nature...

We are not doing common sense approaches to fertility. We are only restricting things and then acting surprised when it backfires. Kind of like Russia is doing. Odd.

Wait Gary "I've made vets my whole post-career" Sinese is fucking right-wing and doesn't support vets... that really boils my blood, what a fucking charlatan

We have a constitution so old as to be a relic, antique. No well run democracy still uses a constitution that old, because they've made huge improvements in the past couple centuries. We should absolutely start from scratch.

Claude can spit out powershell scripts up to like, 400 or 500 lines without errors or with minimal, easily debugged errors. Adds things like error correction, colored text, user interaction, comments the code pretty well. Saves me hours every time I fire it up, so that I can in turn save myself dozens of hours with the scripts themselves.

But as far as I tell my boss, there is no AI use, and that's how we're keeping that for now/indefinitely