JunkMilesDavis

It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip.

It should be interesting to hear how they plan to make this determination. I just know from the rural side that the burden to serving poorer communities usually is both technical and financial, like building out a few miles of fresh fiber to serve a handful of residences. That’s why they have programs in place to push expansion into those areas, and the telecoms involved there are already bound by progress and reporting requirements. I guess it could be a different situation in areas where the population density is pretty consistent across the board.

I think he’s already fully aware of the hypocrisy. When you look at how much was invested in anti-cannabis propaganda in the past, it’s probably just a political calculation for him (and so many state leaders) to drop some line about “caution” and kick the can down the road. There’s still a significant chunk of 70+ voters who would be truly upset about legalization, since the alternative would be accepting that they were deliberately misinformed for most of their lives.

I almost had this half-baked thought about the northwestern moose population being separated from the ones in the northeast, but then I remembered that they don’t need passports to get into Canada.

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Glad it wasn’t just me. It wasn’t often I paid attention to usernames on the big subs, but it seemed like at some point they were absolutely flooded with “Adjective_Noun_1234” users, and I couldn’t stop seeing it once I noticed. Those and the comment-reposting bots (which probably won’t be called out by other bots anymore without a usable API) made me wonder how many actual humans I was interacting with.

I’ve had too many of them, and yeah, they were mostly easier to sit through than a routine cleaning. It’s definitely the kind of work where it’s worth going to that small practice that ONLY does endodontics though. Nothing against the regular dentists, they just have a lot on their plates, and generally don’t have the same perfectionist attitude about it when they have a schedule packed with all different types of work.

Agreed! I think it comes at the cost of character development to some extent, since if you watch straight through, it feels like some of the characters just “reset” after enduring enormous, life-changing events, but it really is constructed in a way that makes it watchable from any point (except maybe the 2-parters.) New series have very much moved away from that style.

I’m always tempted to tell people to skip the first season and revisit it later as well, but I guess it introduces some interesting things that the series periodically circles back to, so who knows. I watched it after many random episodes, so I still think of it as a sort of wonky prequel.

The old “just walk out” skeleton meme has never been more relevant.

Thank you, I appreciate it. It really helps to learn that it’s identifiable and treatable.

If anyone believed the line about how community members should have a say in what happens to their subs, there you go. Congrats on your upgrade to Democracy Gold.

It makes sense if you run with the assumption that a chunk of people serving in Congress genuinely treat the whole job as a competitive game or roleplaying scenario. It was all good for a while, but now they have drawn in the weird kids who play too aggressively, and there’s little they can do to bring everything back on track without giving up and breaking character.

Imagine we’re at the point where the Titanic has split in two, and the remaining portion is held afloat by trapped air. You can patch the hole made by the iceberg, but it probably won’t change my plans too much.

Same here, never knew it was unusual until the internet informed me. I could just be wired wrong since it also starts kicking off involuntarily in an uncomfortable way when I’m around too much loud conversation.

I guess in any kind of properly-functioning government, the FBI would have been acting in the wake of (and with the support of) some decisive political response by Congress. There’s no sane version of reality where half of our elected reps should watch a direct attack on themselves and the core of our country, then huddle up and decide to play it off as nothing in order to preserve their power, and yet here we are. They have signaled as a group that they will not support any response to anything surrounding Jan 6, will reject factual information about it as needed, and will use their position to harm anyone who attempts to act on it. This doesn’t excuse the FBI’s lack of action, but it has definitely yanked a critical pillar of support out from under their work. They should not be in this position, where even doing their duty in the most objective way possible is considered a hostile act by a portion of Congress.

The theme here is that he doesn’t even care enough to create the illusion of caring. The community was never given “democratic” solutions to dysfunctional mod situations until this business reason arose. There’s no community liaison trying to do damage control or make the users feel heard right now – just the CEO himself telling everyone in the plainest terms that nothing they say has any impact because he does not care. People should take all of this at face value.

Thank you for this. I know anxiety is “normal” in these situations, but at the same time, it’s clear that people are talking about a pretty wide range of experiences when they talk about anxiety. At the extreme end, it’s tough to even hold a casual conversation, let alone answer complex questions and demonstrate skills to an interviewer. It’s not something everyone can manage with logic and self-talk.

The absolute worst. Sometimes they just have it on the emblem/branding, which is manageable at least. Then there are the ones like above with glossy plastic and reflective silver lining everything so the sun can find a direct path to your retina from any angle. It’s almost recall-worthy in some vehicles.