I was able to get the new covid and flu shots without issue at CVS, just an extra check box on the online sign-up. At least in Mississippi, for now anyway, don't be scared off.
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I was able to get the new covid and flu shots without issue at CVS, just an extra check box on the online sign-up. At least in Mississippi, for now anyway, don't be scared off.
As a Christian, he's pretty blasphemous there too. Saying his whole thing is blasphemy at scale in all things wouldn't be too far off.
Hopefully NPR listeners have heard Diane Rehm.
They're very nice though, of the rubber baby buggy variety.
I would say to proclaim a fast but DJT seems to be preparing that for us.
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I mean, I've got plenty of new music for the weekend. It would just be nice if Amazon would realize that no matter how shitty they make their music store, I'm not going to stream. I just want to buy and download. I'd do CDs if they had them.
What? no. I want Em Beihold. Hand it over. I got $. Amazon: Well, you just bought an All-American Rejects album, 2 from Kid Laroi, and one from Hunter Hayes. Those count as previews and now you're at you limit. All you get is random shit. Fuck, fine. I'll get it tomorrow. 2/3
Wanting to buy some Em Beihold, yes, buy and download. Most on Pro Studio Masters. Good, I can get flacs. A few not. Her website? No, just options. iTunes? I'd have to install and uninstall after... Fine, Amazon. Amazon: Here's some completely different random streaming shit. 1/3
He's gotten a car now but most of last year, I was giving a ride to and from church to our Nigerian grad student in the choir. He always wears handmade African outfits and when he came back this year, he brought one for me.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Modor:
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Sometimes I'll buy a cat toy because I'm depressed, and think it'll be fun for the cat. But then the cat is completely uninterested, and I get even more depressed. This is all the cat's fault.
That's about where I am on it.
Absolutely. I think the fighters can be affected too but no single interaction, especially online, will do it and no matter how much back and forth is on one post, it only counts as one interaction.
Yea, my neighbor helped me plant them in 2019. I was putting weekly photos of them on Facebook during the worst of the pandemic. He's moved across town, had some health problems and lost a leg. The pear had some fruit. The maples were finally giving some shade. They're not dead yet, so maybe.
Anyway, even though my only real loss was the trees, I get it. People have brought up that I now have a nice new fence, siding, windows, garage door, and outdoor lights. And roof (NOT). But I really would rather have just saved up for the fence and skipped the time suck and stress.
The main thing is the nagging feeling from living in a damaged house and knowing things need to be done. It's getting close though. There's one window left that needs replacing before I close out the claim. It was the wrong size when the other ones came and needed to be ordered. Should be soon.
I mean, things have gone about as well as one could hope for after a disaster. The insurance has been pretty good despite me only being with them a month. I changed after buying the new roof. My boss has been great about letting me take an hour here or there to deal with the repairs...
That's so 🐦⬛
Not the roof. I replaced that almost exactly one month before.
I've been dealing with repairs for bad hail damage. Basically lost nothing except my poor trees and a few thousand $. So much less than you. But it's been CONSUMING MY LIFE for the past 5 months. Yes, some old stuff is getting replaced but fuck this. Those assholes deserve a tax audit.
Hopefully Democrats would put one on too then?
Doctor, I am sessile. I resemble nothing so much as a clam.
I find this essay compelling and one big takeaway is all LLM production is a hallucination and understanding the risk of error is essentially impossible because the set of errors is unbounded.
When I was in the Army, I picked up trash. It's something soldiers do. But there was plenty on post. We didn't need to go anywhere for that.
My email provider once had a blog post which I unfortunately can't find right now where someone was attempting to call in to their domain name provider and was using the subscriptions to hide the email notification from them.
I picked up plenty of trash when I was in the Army. It's a perfectly reasonable thing for soldiers to do. However, there's plenty of trash on post so I think we can use a less expensive solution for D.C.
This is the flag of my city.
Just emailed Tate Reeves, Angela Turner-Ford, and Cheikh Taylor (governor, state senator, and representative)
Colonoscopy was not as bad as I expected either. Please get all your regularly expected maintenance.
Obviously not my area of expertise but I can say that Mom got her's, they found something, they dealt with it, and she's been cancer free for decades. She's coming to visit in December. More stories like that I hope. For those it doesn't apply to, colonoscopy was not as bad as I expected either.
I was thinking about the tradeoff between perfection and stability when all the talk was about Stare Decisis. But no one is talking about Stare Decisis anymore.
The first one just for me was a Compaq Presario, all fancy with Windows 3.1 which was cool because I had to close it to do anything. I could play Eric The Unready on that one. At least once I got that stupid Sound Blaster working. 2/2
It was a Tandy 1000. We upgraded it, adding a second 5.25" floppy so we could copy disks and adding more RAM. I remember the upgrade to 64kB but it was probably actually 640kB. We also had a tape drive which for me, meant I could play Zaxon. 1/2
I take my entertainment system out of the car every time I leave it. I don't want it to be stolen, but also, someone might call or text.
Nevermind that, what about your to-be-reread pile?
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Turned off the VPN for a sec and it's a nope here.
In addition to kicking a bunch of my fellow Mississippians off Bluesky and being a nuisance for me and various collateral damage, it's just a bunch of stupid box checking so Bluesky doesn't get fined. Note: Not getting fined is a valid reason for doing stupid box checking.
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Part of me wants to blame the curators of "the English canon," who tend to look down their noses at genre novels. More science fiction and fantasy should be taught in schools Fantasy/sci-fi is about grappling with bizarre hypotheticals, a skill that is only getting more useful as reality weirds
Yeah, the law is fuckshit
I am not a lawyer but I didn't see anything in the law preventing VPN use. It didn't seem to be aimed at users at all (directly). Also, if anyone wants a different option, I've been using NordVPN for years.
Sometimes I want to double check Nord VPN is still good. I think it is still. Also it looks like the wonkyness was from two connections to the dedicated IP. They say you can do that if you switch protocols on one device. I just switched servers though and it's good.
What service? I've been using Nord VPN for a long time without trouble. They have no data limits so I'll probably just stay connected all the time now. It was acting wonky on the linux box. Might be two devices on the dedicated IP server though. I moved it to another server.
I happen to already have a VPN but hearing from other Mississippians is a big reason I'm here.
I just read the law, (not a lawyer!) and it does not seem to say anything about VPN. Or anything about restricting user behavior really. I have a VPN service already so I will continue to be here. Many won't. This sucks.
We built this edifice to become God and instead, it made nothing but shit and scrambled human language.
I've been to one once. I was catching up with an old high school friend. It was restaurant shaped and we were able to talk there. I have zero memory of the food.
I was stationed in Korea on 9/11 and as soon as I got back I was prepping to go to Iraq. So I skipped a bunch of the new normal or whatever.
Not wearing a mask. Probably ok.
Also, Tweety Bird
As for me, white Catholics are the LAST people they want to purge. . . . Still on the list.
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What’s it going to take? I think about this every damn day
I voted by mail from Iraq but also, every election while I was in the army, including CONUS. In basic training, the drill sergeants took care of everything and just handed everyone their ballots one day.
I understand why the show on Apple didn't have drones and agree with the decision. Also, I missed the drones.
We know you're really yogurt.
Me: It's cosmetic but there's money in the insurance settlement for it so let's get a pretty new garage door. Door: I'm done you say? Good. Me: I guess I'm parking outside until the new door gets here.
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
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Without saying Black Beauty, what's your favorite Anna Sewell novel?
📚💙 I can hear my books judging me. #TBR #readers
To be clear, other than saying I personally wasn't having fun, I'm not making any other criticism. Lot's of people love those books and there are reasons they do.
I got about halfway through the third book and stopped. I decided it looked like a soap opera and I could stop any time. Soap operas are good, but (because) they don't have endings. They just shuffle characters around in interwoven plots. Or in this case, kill them.
They didn't give us live rounds in Korea after 9/11. Well, they did, then didn't, then did, then didn't, then they put them in a lock box by the gate and an LT had to be there with the key. Then the LTs had to do twice as much guard duty. Before 9/11, there was a civ KN guard.
Live rounds?
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
Less is more.
Among the best art museum exhibits I ever saw was an hour of video on an endless loop of normal people with manual jobs doing shit that looked like magic. Dudes who can pick a soda can up with a backhoe. People throwing paint that lands perfectly with no splatter. It was mesmerising.
What I'd like is an indication of where I am in my timeline. When it gets repost heavy, I can't tell.
What gif pops up when you type your name? First gif I recognize. First and last name because just first, was nope, nope, fuck that.
I was stationed outside DC for a year. Our commander wouldn't let us take live rounds off post so we averaged 167% casualties every weekend.
I don't own a gun but the printer does tempt me to build a second story on my house to make proper defenestration possible.
No more diminishing bands! Increase the bands! No more Men Without Visors! Now it's Men Without Helmets!
It would be really nice if a bunch of tech companies spun off the nice boring parts and the stupid nonsense parts into separate companies.
does microsoft understand that they make money by running the serious computers that do the grown up business stuff
I like your choice but I think I'd go for Jaws. I can limit myself to fresh water.
A while back I made a map of what the US might look like with all the states a similar size to California. There are 10 and CA was still the biggest. * These are 2019 NIST population estimates. Populations might have changed ** This is only for the population comparison. I'm not advocating it.
And Filk tarts
This
Slightly diminish a band: The Sandbox Boys
Slightly diminish a band: Three Dog Evening
I don't know how big it will be or how long it will take to show up, but it feels significant that federal law enforcement for everything else has basically stopped because they're all strolling around DC or detailed to ICE to go trash restaurants and raid Home Depot parking lots.
I like Asics. I initially tried them because I have similar feet to my dad and he tried a bunch of different shoes until he found the ones that didn't make his back hurt more. Probably less than satisfying, but maybe ask a close relative with a bad back.
Rereading LOTR as an adult, I got a lot more out of it and I doubt that's less so for decades younger readers. For kids looking for an introduction, something more current. For a kid like me, whatever I have on hand, like feeding a feral cat. Including LOTR.
A lot of what I read as a kid was older but I literally read every sf/f I could get my hands on. Everything in the library. Everything my sister was done with. Anything that showed up at the used bookstore.
Make deal, find sucker. There's always another sucker. Any old country at our southern border will do.
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I quite liked Last Action Hero.
When I was in college, I once got some nice aged Gouda. It was impossible to cut without dropping flakes and Madison the corpulent followed me around the kitchen forever after. Once I dropped a raspberry and he scarfed it down before realizing it wasn't cheese. He was a good cat.
If anything will get through, they need to hear it multiple times. You can only do one and you did.
Working in industry rearranges your fears.
Age verification This is what game controllers look like.
There are probably rules about pooping on the field but I guess we can make an exception.
NCAA does not like unlicensed merch so I presume it is? Anyway, I'm an alumn. Not buying.
My favorite doctor and companion
As you get older, there are more options, like "old and stiff and not yet eighty"