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Which is why you just use Mint Instead and get rid of all the ads and telemetry while using the same solutions.

Yes, no, sort of, er, let's just go down the list. Warning, this is probably morbid and disturbing.

At any random point either leg might just say, "nah I don't feel like it" and down I go.

Or maybe it feels like it but only a little so it won't move all the way or I'm limping.

Maybe today I can reach behind my back, or maybe I'm going to feel like I'm tearing an arm off just to finish using the bathroom.

Maybe I can stand up straight, or reach for something, maybe not.

Maybe if I try to lay comfortably I won't end up with limbs that won't quite settle all the way because the muscles don't want to relax.

Any muscle anywhere can decide it wants to start doing it's own little Morse code impersonation, including ones controlling things like vision, ear pressure, or random areas you don't really consciously control.

Maybe I can see clearly, maybe it's double vision, maybe one eye won't follow the other eye, maybe it's severe tunnel vision.

Maybe I can take a full breath, maybe the muscles over my ribs decided they want to cramp up if I take more than a small one.

Maybe I can hold onto something, and my hand will decide wether it wants to randomly open or just close itself up and have to be pried back open.

Maybe I feel mostly normal, or maybe someone is beating my head and multiple other areas with crowbars and ice picks while I go about my day.

Maybe I can eat something right now, or maybe one mini pretzel will trigger several hours of severe cramping and diarrhea.

Maybe when I blink an eyelid will get stuck in the down position.

Maybe I'll yawn and my tongue and jaw muscles will all cramp and lock.

Maybe an eye will have a muscle cramp that feels like a fish hook tearing the eye out of your skull while the eye points in a random direction.

Maybe when something touches my skin I'll feel like it's still there for minutes.

Maybe I know which way is up but mostly likely I don't have a clue.

Maybe a bit too much ambient noise starts causing severe headaches trying to sort out the stuff I need to hear.

Maybe I can talk well or maybe I take it easy and use small words that don't require much vocal, uh, dexterity?

Maybe I heard what you said but there's a 5-10 second delay before I actually know what the words mean.

Maybe I've forgotten how clocks work for a few seconds.

But mostly I work and move about slowly while random things twitch, glitch, ache, cramp, sting, stab...

And meanwhile I smile and look happy and give the kids a good day and lots of places to go so I can just sit for a bit and do some breathing and positive meditation until everyone's tucked into bed for the night.

Then I can relax on the recliner with a good strong drink and cry about whatever hurt today while I think about how nice not waking up tomorrow would be and worry about the kids needing me.

Then I get up the next day and do it all over again.

Meanwhile at Aldi, veggie burgers $3, brioche buns $4, family sized Danish $4.

Yeah, it's your shopping.

Whatever's finishing me off now is good enough. Maybe they'll even bother figuring out what it was afterword.

Fingers crossed I land on my head during one of the falls or my heart just glitches out like the rest of me. Maybe a good spasm on the way to work and I can just become a flaming pile of car wreck.

Be a lot better than suffocating during one of the breathing issues or just being stuck in one of the headache/fog days.

Edit for anyone that read the rest:

Well, I woke up this morning, oh well.

Looks like today is right shoulder and left tricep doing a tap dance while right calf muscle and foot attempt a ballerina toe stand. A little elf has grabbed the back of both eyeballs and is pulling on them like an overstretched rubber band. Needed a shower and new clothes at 4:30a.m. because I thought I could use a sip of juice to clear my throat. Both hands feel like they're stuffed in a tub of Play-Doh.

Looks like it'll be a good day because that's pretty minor. Got the fireplace going and the warmth is just soaking in like heaven. 🥴

multiple universities up to 30 years ago

We can make 30 liters of pure water with the fresnel lense from a junk projection TV just by putting two of them over a water tank...

https://www.ijrer.org/ijrer/index.php/ijrer/article/view/3092

MIT now

We designed a severely complicated ten stage solar collector despite our 20 previous publications about massively simple and cheap methods of doing the same thing that we said each time was revolutionary in water production/collection.

Congratulations MIT. Can we just build some of these instead of finding/funding more?

The article specifically says (in some cases) less than 48 hours.

Right in the middle where it says "media release with examples.

Police Who took your child?

Family Dunno

Police What did they look like?

Family Dunno

Police What did they drive?

Family Dunno

Police Which way were they headed?

Family Dunno

Police What're they wearing.

Family clothes?

What was the amber alert supposed to say? If you see a 5 year old, call us?

Then they find the body right near home so they never even left to start with so the alert wouldn't help.

Apple 2 versions Snapdragon 4 versions

Apple Ram generation 5 Snapdragon ram generation 5+

Apple 4k 60 Snapdragon 4k120 8k30

Apple wifi 6 Bluetooth 5.3 Snapdragon wifi 7 Bluetooth 5.4

So basically you get newer standards without Apple.

Kind of reminds me of the 10$ Bluetooth earbuds from places like Goodwill having modern multi channel Bluetooth but airpods using an old version that required linking to each other.

Winter is upon us. Rubber and plastics get stiff and need to be handled carefully depending on weather.

Customers will break the air pumps basically daily by yanking/flinging the hoses around and then come in to bitch the free air pump isn't working.

Years ago they said that the screen lense from discarded projection TVs could boil/desalinate water with nothing but sunlight and discarded junk. They could literally create entire desalination plants with nothing but junkyard scrap. They never did anything with that.

I think all these "desalination" projects are nothing but worthless attempts to get free money for research

You'd better learn to imagine better.

There's an entire documentary on an 18 horsepower compressed air car that does 0-60 in under 4 seconds.

Normal cars use very little horsepower to maintain speed. Welding tanks hold extreme amounts of pressure.

Spent 6 months arranging visits and tests with every type of specialist available for anything I had issues with.

They said the individual parts appear to be working fine. No genetic, auto immune, blood or other disorders could be found.

Neurologist decided their isn't anything to look for because I've had an MRI before and it was clean/clear.

Only guess is a severe childhood head injury, 12+ foot fall onto concrete. The recent MRI said I chipped some neck vertebrate so long ago the bone fragments were gone. Might explain the severe childhood migraines too.

Just use a snake?

Because you forgot that Target, Big Lots, Dick's, Meijer, Amazon, and literally several hundred chains of sporting or general stores exist?

Definitely not anywhere close to being limited to Walmart.

As someone with family in a care home this is depressing but not for the reason this article is pushing for.

Family member with mental issues becomes so violent/disruptive/unmanageable they need police called on a regular basis.

Let's put them in a care home with 20+ others the same way.

One/two months later

Why is this family member we never once visited having issues and how long has it been this way

Care is an issue but how are you not taking 5 minutes to see your own family. Ouch.

You clicked on where it says it gives several examples and can't find the list of flights?

They even have the flight numbers.

It's called a a skinny snake or instrument snake and comes up easily on Google when you include sizes. Lots of choices.

So, if the photo/story has any truth to it.

There's a large number of people standing on the streets protesting the build up of everything they threw out while they collect food and water from aid shipments...

Instead of just saying, we're all standing here with nothing to do we could maybe clean and organize some of this until they can deal with it?

I don't expect miracles but I feel like if you've got time to protest you can pick vacant lots/areas and carry the trash there. Keep the streets clean and infestation down.

We had a tornado here a few years back at nearly 10pm. An hour later literally every able bodied individual was out with saws, trailers, wagons, carts, food, water, knocking on doors, checking on everyone and organizing the mess for cleanup.

People didn't just sit around with signs saying "when's the help coming."

A miracle, an engineering degree, and a lot of money?

You'd be much better off looking into the hundreds (thousands?) of interesting tweaks? that have been done to vehicles as experiments to make them more efficient.

Adding all the latest innovation to an engine. Adding a full rear axel with an electric motor and a simple "push while driving" setup. Swapping the motor for a much smaller motor and storing unused horsepower with compressed air and welding tanks. A small turbine motor powering electric drive like a train...

There's to many ways to make a vehicle massively efficient to even begin going over it here.

Wow, amazing.

Apple innovating to the level of my 12 year old Samsung television.

Maybe they can continue innovating by removing 90% of the features just like Samsung did!

Maybe next they can add offline speech recognition like we had in 1997.