Licking your lips dries them out. Chapstick is typically flavored/scented which encourages you to lick your lips, counterintuitively drying them out more.

Chapstick is also an occlusive rather than a moisturizer so it just keeps the moisture in rather than returning moisture to dry lips.

Username literally calling himself a Bad Faith Actor

They will continue to be mad until the GDP plummets so hard that they can no longer afford to manufacture outrage.

Scrambling for ways to justify half a trillion dollars in AI investment. The capitalist class is moving into the bargaining stage of the Kübler-Ross model.

Texas law time.

No-Fault Grounds for Divorce:

• Separation of 3+ years

• Irreconcilable Differences

• 3+ years of confinement in a Mental institution

Fault-Grounds for Divorce:

• Adultery - Book of Matthew 19:9

• Abuse - Book of Proverbs 6:16-19 (the 7 deadly sins)

• Abandonment - First Book of Corinthians 7:13-15

• Felony Conviction - Book of Supply-Side Jesus 3:21-22

Ken Paxton cheated on his wife (adultery) and then moved out of the house (abandonment).

As a fellow cPTSD “enjoyer”, trying to cultivate an empathetic understanding of my abusive mother based on her personality disorder has been both helpful and counterproductive for my own healing process. Be empathetic and understanding of the reasoning behind the behaviour, but also be cognisant of when you’re using intellectualisation methods to avoid actually engaging with your own painful feelings.

I think a lot of people are so alienated from homeownership now that the concept of endlessly deferred maintenance has started to become alien. It usually starts with like a couple of minor things you don’t have the energy or time to fix yourself. (The one weird drawer you have to smack, peeling paint on the siding, the squeaky baseboard heater) You just get used to it, and then it just keeps getting worse. Eventually you get to the point where the problems start causing other problems and you just don’t see it or notice it. Every year the HVAC bill goes up, and you get to the point where you aren’t even thinking about it as a problem. It’s just “normal.” A huge problem is the endless value growth of the housing market.

If you bought a beater car for $3000 in 2004 and never changed the oil but now it’s valued like a Ferrari, you’re just not going to think about putting twice what you paid for the whole car into buying a new alternator.

I’ve seen a shocking number of American boomers who could easily afford maintenance just let their house literally rot out from under them to the point where their homes were condemned and seized because they were an active danger to the entire neighborhood.

“I learned all these skills in the army—smash and grabs, site exploitation—and never got to use them,” he said. “So I’m here to kind of do what I learned to do over there, but this time here, defending my country.”

Hold your breath, make a wish. Count to three.

Come with me and you’ll be

In a world of sweeping US Sanctions

Take a look and you’ll see

Billionaire immiseration

My cat has a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of how the clicker relates to treats than these people.

There’s been a lot of criticism of the Hexbear Prime and Gold upgrades, but the gift basket is huge. In addition to percussive server maintenance, I spend most of my time wrapping and shipping them out from my oubliette in the Pyrenees.

Oh, the pricing is changing, and it’s just gonna deepen the hole even more because most people are gonna go “$20 a month? For what?” and suddenly the user base that is currently the unprofitable product will largely conglomerate onto the remaining free platforms bogging them down so hard they also have to change their pricing model.

There simply is no way to make the current stuff cost effective at the scale they’re currently using, even with the bleeding edge most efficient models. Models need to become multiple orders of magnitude more efficient to become even remotely viable. Running distills on local machines is the only option that makes sense financially for actual use because you’re putting all of the energy and compute costs onto the user directly.

The big push right now is to get NPUs into the hardware into every single person’s hands because… reasons. Microsoft Copilot+, Chromebook Plus, Gemini Built-in, Apple Intelligence, etc. are all examples of this which are still highly dependent on cloud computing, but the effort is to make as much as possible local. What they’re actually able to do with that hardware kinda remains to be seen because most of it is barely doing anything at this point.

“Why waste time on optimization so you could run software locally when instead you could spend 1000x as much on hardware to run inefficient code?” 10/10 dentists software engineers.

Hugely important for site accessibility.

I mean, personally I love it when I pull up a website on my phone and have to scroll through two full screen lengths of irrelevant rambling before getting to the thing I want.

I’m sure screen reader users love it too! That’s why Timecube was a beloved example of a highly accessible website, broadly cited by web designers as how to make your content usable and accessible, right?

Tbh I kinda feel like a bunch of them are just too long and should be removed. We could just condense these rants down to the one or two funny sentences that justified their inclusion. If that’s not possible then to be honest, it isn’t a tagline. (And to be honest, it probably isn’t even funny.)

In the US the cost would be $200-400 a month on average without insurance.

There are no open source alternatives, and the couple of options for DIY looping still use expensive “commodity off-the-shelf” approved CGMs and pumps.

Universal access to Group B Rally

Yeah, it’s absolutely a method of political theatre.

I mean, on an individual level absolutely. But there’s a definite ebb and flow to the relevance of this framing within national politics. Last time it was big was the Tea Party bullshit about 15-20 years ago, and the time before that was the Clintonite Third Way and Ross Perot’s Reform party about 15 years or so before that.

Fascists love to invent a new third type of thing that’s just right wing politics again. They do it every 20 years or so.

Not a caption, but I really dig the vibe of this room.