The drug testing and having to call for renewed prescriptions every month were too much of a barrier to me, so I’m back to being unmedicated. I just don’t have it in me to make appointments every month that feel like a gigantic waste of time.

“Yep, still have adhd” “Ok we’ll renew it, come by next week for a drug test”

Cool, yeah, I can definitely totally remember to do that every single month forever with ‘my can’t remember to function until it’s a catastrophe’ disorder, even though it’s nonsense. Not problematic gatekeeping at all.

I just assume that anyone who needs to spend a lot on bothering me about their product… is either pushing a really shitty product, or offering it at a really shitty price, because so far that has been the case about 90% of the time.

If it was a good value, people would spontaneously recommend it when appropriate, with only light advertising in places where it makes sense (athletic gear advertised on sports websites, for example). Hell, it doesn’t even have to be all that good a product, just better than the alternatives. I mean look at Linux! :p

It’s so clear when you know what’s going on, but I think most people operate under the assumption that if they constantly hear about it and don’t hear bad things to the same degree, that the thing must be good. Propaganda is everywhere saying exactly that in lots of different ways, so hard to really blame them…

That’s why most of them these days refer to themselves as sanitation engineers or whatever else. Sounds better to the uneducated and judgmental masses, and is more accurate anyway.

Current society puts so much emphasis on appearances and not nearly enough on what jobs are actually vital to social harmony. Trash collection and other sanitation jobs -should- be high-prestige high-paid jobs, simply because of how crappy they are to do and how indispensable they are to social functionality. There is no universe in which being a sportsball coach or lawyer is more vital to society than sanitation work, yet sportsball coaches and lawyers at almost any level are paid far better and have far more prestige. Instead we collectively treat sanitation workers like shit, mock them for doing a dirty job we certainly wouldn’t be willing to do, without which we would all die quite horribly from infections and disease…

Me ex’s dad was the mechanic for the city dump. Not just collecting trash but crawling under and fixing the very dirty trucks used to collect it. He was an odd duck and would salvage all sorts of stuff, but his very gross very dirty job kept 25,000 people from living in filth. That’s super important. Especially since we’ve largely forgotten how to live without constantly generating waste.

I rebuilt my pc just a few weeks before the ram explosion (replaced cpu, mobo, ram, and cooling), only thing it doesn’t have upgraded is graphics card, but the one it has is …… eh… ok for now until I can afford to pick something else up. Also definitely glad to have made that decision. And probably will be with my storage choice too, once it’s hindsight. I just hate spending money.

So yeah, thanks, that helps. :)

Heh, yeah, I’m assuming hard drives are going to do the same thing graphics cards did… get wildly expensive and never come back down, even if they could. With that in mind, this sounds like a good option.

Also I currently have no backups, and this much extra space fixes that handily. So it was sort of needed and something I was considering anyway.

I’m trying really really hard to convince myself I made the right choice here. 😅

I just picked up 40tb for exactly this reason. I was already considering an upgrade, but was planning like 16 tb. But with this news… Might as well get it while I can at prices I was expecting to pay anyway, even if it’s more than I really had budgeted for it…

(I got refurbished drives, with 3 yr warranty, so this wasn’t like several grand with no protection or anything)

I know, I was making a joke

:)

So they are tripping balls during fitting?

From 5th grade onward I didn’t spend two consecutive years in the same school district. I was perpetually the new, weird, poor, neurodivergent, easy-target kid who sucked at making friends, so they pretty much all sucked in uniquely scarring ways. The best part is my parents thought they were doing me a favor by trying to find a school that would be good with my neurospice… We didn’t actually move from the time I was 9-16. Only me.

I have no clue how to make or maintain friendships and I desperately want to move cities, or at least homes, every couple of years or I get restless. Very glad I’m well educated, though, it makes the isolation that much more profound.

If you don’t already know this, you should look into used solar from solar power plants. They cycle out their equipment on a schedule, so it’s still got most of its life left, but for like half the price of new solar.

Downside is you have to figure out all the parts you need yourself, and get the whole shebang shipped, which can be expensive if you don’t live near where they originate (still less than new solar, ofc). You also need to arrange to install and hook them up. The install portion can easily be done by anyone if they are relatively handy, and then just have them professionally connected, which saves even more.

Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons…?

Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

I assume the bolded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.

So there’s like 3+ types of annotations and… that’s confusing…

What’s with the weird italics and random faint superscript letters? I’m not well versed on that sort of thing, but linguistically it makes no sense that I can see…? I assume some sort of index or something for the superscript but it also has numerical superscript…?

My pihole used to thoroughly block stuff on IMDB, but I had to rebuild it when my sd card failed, and since then it’s been much less reliable. I’m not really sure what’s going on with it, but meh, I’ll get around to messing with it eventually. Adblocking is ime pretty hit or miss on iOS browsers, so that was basically the only thing I used, so pretty frustrating experience now.

I’ve started full-on blocking domains on my pihole for websites that have started to host their own intrusive/tracking ads, break due to other ad domains being blocked, have non-bypassable adblock blocker, or whatever other anti-choice nonsense. Like IMDb won’t load content with the ad elements blocked, so IMDb is just blocked as a whole. Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

Hasn’t been a substantial degradation in experience, if I’m being honest. Barely even notice it outside of one-off searches and stuff, and having to find a new source of info about what I’m watching (if anyone has recommendations, I’d love them!!)

Cats don’t need to ask questions about the world because they are scientists and will figure it out for themselves if they don’t get shown the answers. They know where the snacks come from, at least in regards to their own world, that’s why they come running when they hear the package.

They knock stuff over to see what happens. They meow for treats to see what happens. They sit on your face to wake you up to see what happens. They get into things just to see what’s in them.

And when the result is something they want, they try it again to see if the result is consistent. Reproducible.

That’s why the best way to get a cat to stop doing something they do to you is to ignore them. They meow to wake you up for food? They do that because it’s been working. Stop responding, and the behavior will also stop.

Did you know you can get pint glass koozies, just like for cans?

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We also have those nice paper sleeves for coffee cups that would do the job as well. At least where you touch.

So it’s an already-solved problem for this application.

Right, and you get why this is impossible for most people? That was my original point. Most people, even if they want to do this, can’t. It’s unaffordable.

The point is that your suggestion that someone is free to do this is just very much not the case.

Ok, but if your plan is to live solo forever and not interact with society, you’d basically need to pay for it upfront. That means you need a lot of money all at once, otherwise you’ll still need income, which limits the ability you have to be separate from society.

Yes I know, I’ve looked at them. That’s how I know they are quite expensive.