Is it possible, being as how snow removal is the city’s responsibility, they’re actually complaining about that? If snow removal isn’t done in a timely manner, slush does indeed form and just moves around, not melting much.

Quickly reading the article suggests that’s the actual complaint.

I like the Guardian and Mamdani but come on here. Let’s focus on whether or not that complaint is accurate, and whether he’s had any chance to impact the city’s snow removal plans, which are generally done well in advance by someone other than the mayor.

Doc offices, urgent cares, etc have these little blue plastic bags with a cardboard collar around them, just big enough to go around the outside of your mouth. I call them yack sacks. Grab a few of these the next time you see a dispenser on the wall, keep them in your nightstand, glovebox, etc. They come in very handy.

It’s trivially easy to activate the sensor by putting your finger on the right part of the seat, on mine you are aware when it happens because there’s a beep. I am terrified of the moment my 3yo figures out where this spot is, because the panel of interesting buttons will suddenly do something, and that something will be Terrible.

People have already “solved” that problem by simply giving up on sex. We are headed into Japan territory.

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Security issues aside, HAVING the idea is the hardest part, much harder than coding an app. If you have a genuinely good idea, it’s pretty easy to find someone to help build it, because that person also wants in on a cash-cow. Lack of ideas is the bigger problem with launching apps today, which a million vibe coders have realized.

Seems trivial to code in a beacon dependency and then embed that beacon in the walls or floor so the police would have to dismantle the entire building before being able to find it and take it along for the ride. Or heck a combination of beacons so the police don’t know how many to look for.

It’s an addiction just like any other social media site, being cut off from the supplier is one of a few ways to end addiction, so I’ve appreciated their ban-happiness lately (for myself included).

I had several 401ks, I cashed them out fairly quickly because an emergency would come along and it was the only thing between me and homelessness, or not receiving medical care.

Now I have a 403(b) because I work for higher ed, and I am forbidden to cash it out, but I’ve taken a loan against it and paid off my credit cards, and am paying myself interest now.

So now I have my CCs freed up for the next time I have an emergency, which will be checks watch

Hope you aren’t a gummy bear fan, cause I have news for you

Downtown Seattle, I wrote a note asking our upstairs neighbor to please stop pacing all night wearing boots. Put a rug down, take off boots, something.

I got an odd letter back explaining how he had been making “bad life decisions” lately and was trying to stop.

And I’m like, look one meth addict to another, that’s not what I asked, put a rug down or take off the boots. I am not looking for a cry for help, just a night’s sleep.

I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day, and my feet are size 13.5s, so all my shoes are tight (they don’t make most shoes in anything larger than 13s). Plus my back isn’t what it once was. If I had to bend over and take my shoes off 50 times a day, I’d actually lose it, “it” being my L3-4 disc.

Whereas, litereally nothing bad has ever happened to me because I wear shoes in the house. It’s all some hypothetical … I don’t know what exactly. Grossness? Is grossness hurting me?

Tell you what’s ‘gross,’ as a thought exercise tho - walking around barefooted where my dogs and cats walk barefooted, they’re not exactly wearing shoes outside, or in the litterbox, nor are they putting a handkerchief down under their assholes when they sit down.

But a pair of flip-flops for in the house plus floor cleaning regularly… I don’t really worry about it either way. IDK why anyone does.

Also his lower intestine is filled with a plug of moss and pinecones, which have trapped the material in his digestive system, stopping digestion entirely, which he will now need to expel in a painful and gruesome deification so it can start up again.

Much like me in the morning

But he doesn’t need coffee for it :/

I called the cops to break up a fight between my husband and I where I thought he’d kill me, I got a domestic with intent charge because they don’t know how gay couples work, and someone has to go to jail. Also there was a “ridealong” bitch who basically sat there like she was a tourist, having the time of her life with the whole thing. Just some chick the cop knew. So yeah even overprivileged white men learn their lesson on cops.

Dean at my college makes 4x my salary, he thinks I personally invented “VPN” to confuse him and make his life difficult

It’s causation. Fucks up the blood vessels. Also causes degenerative disc disease, which I really wish I didn’t have now, two back surgeries later. But that’s what made me quit vaping, my surgeon wouldn’t operate on me unless I did.

Yeah I drank OJ like it was going out of style until I realized it was rotting my teeth and making me fat, just soda with fresher taste (and more acid). They don’t give juice to kids anymore. It was a scam. Fruit is awesome tho, I try to eat a couple pieces a day.

I was briefly interested in raw milk in the early 2000s. There was a lot of info floating around about how pasteurization destroyed beneficial bacteria that healthy people could benefit from, to avoid risk to those with compromised immune systems, infants and elderly, etc. The gut microbiome was just starting to be talked about, and we didn’t know much, but people were curious about improving it.

Fortunately I did a little digging and realized it was a fairly radical and unproven concept, but it’s not just the belief they’re adding something harmful. It’s the belief they’re removing beneficial bacteria that would somehow improve our health.

Considering how the last 20 years have been full of mostly unproven probiotic and prebiotic marketing insanity, it’s not surprising, it’s the same base concept. But science has been demonized since then, people actively think science and medicine is trying to keep us unhealthy now, and the top levels of government are promoting that bullshit.

Yeah everything is. Lasts 50+ years which, IDK if you’ve ever had a furnace replacement, but they’re not cheap and easy especially if it’s tucked somewhere weird.

France is starting to get it. I hope more countries do.