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I’ve heard great things about these self-help tools from the Australian Centre for Clinical Interventions: https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Social-Anxiety

Luden’s cherry cough drops for me. I can eat them like candy, and honestly they probably are.

When you absolutely need something to work presicely once between the day you buy it and the day you’re late for jury duty.

Buy top of the line gaming rig

Only check email

This was done really we’ll.

Looks like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays

E: for the record, these are both lines from the same scene in the film Office Space

I had no idea these tomatoes start the process at the size of a small sedan.

One I’ve heard: a guy was giving another guy some shit for drinking a “girly drink”, saying “real men don’t drink those”.

The guy instantly responded, “Real men drink whatever the fuck they want.”

Not TV/movie, but Valve’s video logo and accompanying sound was pretty startling at the time.

They make money on the penalty default rate. They know what the average rate of default is, and they know how many people they plan to sign up. On average they make money. The 0% is to draw large numbers of customers in knowing that some percentage will default and of that percentage they will be able to collect on yet another percentage. This is why the default rate is like 24.99% or something silly like that.

Nothing is wrong with you. Flying sucks.

Choose an aisle or window seat to your preference, bearing in mind that one of the solutions to body soreness when airplane traveling is standing up for 10 mins every 30-40 mins.

If you can swing it, fly first class, since the seats are wider and you can more easily shift your body weight.

E: typo

Need to add a free space for “time travel”, it’s where you look at the clock and it’s 9:13a and then minutes later when you look again it’s 2a the next morning

Go get your basic keelboat cert to lock down the basics. Then do a bunch of beercan races until you’ve got the hang of it.

Volunteer to crew anywhere and everywhere.

You’ll be a salty dog in no time.

What any reasonable person in the same situation would do. You burn the house down.

I had a friend in high school who had an amazing sound system. He was deaf.

I asked him and he explained that he could feel many of the sounds. So while he couldn’t hear the finest details, there was a lot he could make out.

Okay. I’ve 100% canceled your interview.

What’s worse is that disabling it in settings does not survive a restart.

Drives me nuts. Always makes me say things I didn’t Nintendo.

Inspired by DARPA, popularized by porn.

Computing without databases is like going into a grocery store and all of the items are in one great pile. Sure, given enough time (CPU) and resources (RAM) you could find what you’re looking for, but it’s horribly inefficient.

Instead, things which are similar are grouped together, like the baking aisle (tables) and if you have to get most of the items for a cake, you know it’s on a specific shelf.

I really enjoy the variety and diversity of federation. There are subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) differences each instance brings. It’s refreshing.

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I burned the banana stand down for the insurance money.

This is just on the outside edge of A Clockwork Orange.

If I understand what I’ve read, you may be interested in a SIP software called asterisk. It may do what you’re looking for.

You know the pop culture reference we use for someone who has misplaced their cellphone, "have you tried calling it?"

This will sound absolutely silly, but one day a friend was looking for some trinket which wasn't a phone, and playfully I asked, "Have you tried calling it?"

They doubled down and started actually calling it, "Trinket.... trinket, where are you?"

And wouldn't you know it, within minutes they found it, and so far this has worked about 99.9% of the time.

So like using a flashlight focuses your eyes, having someone call it out loud kind of quiets the mind, too. It's wild.

Art of Reverse Scraping. Now the previous commenter will get at least a couple known good Signal handles to spam for a little.

I went into my pair of bone conducting headphones (I have Shokz) understanding their purpose, namely that they are not for an audiophile level sound experience; they are for being able to be active and hear music or audiobooks while maintaining situational awareness.

Once I discovered I could use mine in the shower, I was hooked.

Can’t do that with my Bose.

It can be tiring, what with the constant coming and going of souls next door, but it’s worth being the neighbor of the beast.

Bread sous vide basically

Sailing around the world on a sailboat.

I play a game with my spouse when we drive past large institutional complexes surrounded by tall fences called Prison, or school?

To the Smell-o-scope!

I used an LLM to write some code I knew I could write, but was a little lazy to do. Coding is not my trade, but I did learn Python during the pandemic. Had I not known to code, I would not have been able to direct the LLM to make the required corrections.

In the end, I got decent code that worked for the purpose I needed.

I still didn’t write any docstrings or comments.

Ensure you have multiple layers of ad blocking. A winning combination blocks first at the DNS level, then at the browser level, and finally at the element level.

AsGuard DNS, uBlock, and ABP.

I virtually never see ads.

I would be willing to bet Buckminster Fuller probably tried it.

Here’s the $0.03 for your individual class settlement.

Exposure and repetition through low stakes practice.

When you are out and about, think about what you would do if x happened to y at the moment you’re there. Standing in line behind an older person and suddenly they collapse? Be observant and notice if they seemed stressed, swaying, or uneven on their feet; be ready to slow their fall—place them into the recovery position and point to someone and say “YOU, call [emergency service number]”.

There are many aspects and many levels of preparedness. Decide up front to what extent you will be involved.

print(“Hello, World!”)

Best I can do.

Escapism.

Some people dream of expensive cars, some people dream of sailing off into the sunset, and some people dream of pregnancy reveals. All these videos offer people something missing in their own life, or an alternative they can daydream about between episodes.

“Stand of the tide” is offered by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_tide?wprov=sfti1#Misconceptions