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i browsed the /r/frugal subplebbit and was not surprised at how many people are posting the most obvious baseline stuff to save money like: >i stopped ordering takeout >i finally canceled my spotify subscription >i started buying some things in bulk >i stopped using those retarded plastic waste coffee pods these are the most upboated posts. there was a funny post of some nerd who made a spreadsheet of fiber per dollar in food though
@djsumdog the janitors ban piracy related posts i've saved hundreds of dollars on books honestly i think good advice for the plebbitor is to both cancel streaming services and to not pirate because they don't watch anything good (such as terebi animu) anyway
If you are talking about education, you don't need to pirate. Most of the paid stuff is watered down garbage for the lowest common denominator.
Companies and governments put out unironically some of the best stuff for free.
Especially if you are interested in a field that hasn't fundamentally changed much, if the US federal government was interested in it in the 40s-80s, it's probably the best education you can give yourself even today.
If you are talking about entertainment, get a library card nigga. idk what it's like in europoor land, but libraries have like everything you'd want.
I sent the first article to a high school friend of mine who works in a library and has purple hair and she it was "uninformed" and felt like a "boomer who went to a library."
I had to inform her that "bomber" was literally one of the two founders of Wikipedia. It's funny she was so defensive when her own library is pretty much dying and just a daytime homeless shelter.
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I've never used a drink cart so I can't give an honest opinion. SWA used half carts for about a year but I avoided the AC on which they were installed. I knew they wouldn't work with the SWA model.
@PrincessCityPearl @Leyonhjelm how about just eliminating drink service. Make the people just get their drinks at a kiosk, or stand, in the terminal and skip playing the flying waitress?
@Leyonhjelm I'm always confused as to why people get so excited about 4 ounces of a beverage. Legally you could eliminate the beverage service as long as you have access to water for delayed flights and flight attendants available for emergency purposes. And no, a cocktail is not an emergency.
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someday i should learn how to stop being (for the most part) sex-repulsed and traumatized... it's not nearly as bad when im with my gf but like i feel like i should learn to heal myself so i wont suffer as bad when she isn't able to be physically with me ;-;
for me, I enjoy sex but I can never shake the feeling of disgust I have with myself whenever I have it. I feel like I'm a dumpster diver of sorts, wallowing in filth for potential rewards. Idrk how to deal with this other than just getting so horny idgaf for the hour or two I'm fuckin.
@missfeast idk i just get real scared that im going to hurt someone or disappoint or get hurt (the fear of getting hurt isn't there with my gf specifically but with the idea in general it is) and yeah for me the working solution at present is just to get worked up enough that i forget my fears for a little bit ;--; but that rarely lasts even the duration of one sexual act
mom always said, "a loser is a loser, don't waste your time." If he had the talent no one would care about his politics. The NFL is FULL of guys that are abominations to humanity and they still play.
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my rapists put a lifelong curse on me in order to make my body a desirable vessel for demons but when I say this mfs with a tiny resonant energy balloon tell me to take my meds . 🙄
This really hits home......I am Italian/Sicilian desent and know how Paulie feels about being "italian" in the United States.....I lived in Asia for a few years and nothing beats home.....overseas is kinda shitty
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I know this random collection of flower pots of different sizes and shapes sitting on the grass isn't a proper garden but it's mine. This is what happens when you keep every pot you ever collected and find something to grow in it. When you would rather avoid confrontation with the gophers so you compromise by letting them have what is growing in the dirt so they let me have what is growing in containers. This is one small corner. I told Summer that the plants don't really know that they don't live in a fancy garden so they bloom like they are in a real landscaped wonderland. She says she won't tell them. Her lips are sealed. #BloomScrolling
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Does this dude have an heir apparent yet because I could see Valve being sold to Microsoft the moment Gabe is gone. Wonka needs to find his Charlie, fast!!! Look no further than the hole left by Paul Allen to see what could happen.
This show is really trashy, in a horny harem anime way, but it also has a really well done treacly earnest sentimentality to it, and I just think it’s a winning combo. Haters of this show often say it has one of the worst protagonists they’ve ever seen but I can’t help but like the awful loser
There’s an extremely puzzling friendship (?) between the protagonist’s weirdly emotionally mature 20 year old friend and the protgaonist’s gamer grandma. The show occasionally references it but from what I’ve seen has yet to fully elaborate on the nature of their relationship. It’s so mysterious
But it’s a driving part of the show’s plot. A lot of drama is driven by the protagonist wanting to maintain the fiction he has a girlfriend to placate his gamer grandma, and in order to do that he has to make sure this one friend doesn’t find out because, we are told, this friend is so tight with his grandma that he’s sure to tell her the truth
You know how in Pokémon nobody is interested in anything but Pokémon? Everyone’s jobs, hobbies, social relationships, personal aspirations, aesthetic sense, and ethical philosophy seems to be formed with reference to the totalizing concept “Pokémon”? And you know how sometimes you look at Mr. Mime and it makes you question if the term “Pokémon” has any stable referent? That what the word “girlfriend” is for this show.
This guy only has four girlfriends in his party, and the type spread is garbage. Bro has nothing against Fairy type girlfriends, he needs a Steel type girlfriend or something
I probably over-praise this show because of how universally reviled it seems to be among English speaking anime fans, but tbh the protagonists’s anxious thought spirals and over-interpretation of cues from other people are extremely well portrayed and relatable to me 🤷
More shows should have third seasons where they suddenly abandon their original premise and just have the characters decide to run a kickstarter campaign together
More shows should have fourth seasons where the protagonist’s manipulative and hateful ex goes into business with his gamer grandma and develops a dating app for senior citizens
the season 4 opening goes so fucking hard, I mean first of all it's ClariS and second of all it's a fully fleshed out fairy tale kingdom AU story with like a plot and stakes and everything. I need the spin-off youtube.com/watch?v=f0W74MWAVK…
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Decided to pick up reading the manga because I had to know the resolution to the "Just as Chizuru and Kazuya are about to go down a waterslide together, Chizuru notices that the knot on the back of her bikini top is feeling a little loose" cliffhanger
Many people who hate Rent-a-Girlfriend say this is the arc where it gets really bad so honestly I'm kind of excited that this is where it's gonna get really good.
They've been building to a love confession for a very long time and I think it's about to happen and I am just hoping and praying for a wild disaster
Reader, it was peak. What the fuck are people talking about. I’m not saying anything more on the off chance any anime watchers see this who haven’t read the manga but it was everything I could possibly have hoped for and more
It's so precious that the protagonist volunteers at the local daycare once a month. It's so deeply adorable that they didn't mention or depict this until chapter 290
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Summer said she would love to watch the Detroit Tigers game with me. Every time they score I look over to see if she is cheering with me and this is what I get. I finally asked what's up? She says not to worry she isn't sleeping she's listening while resting her eyes. Hmmmm I guess she's had a busy day. At least she hangs out next to me just in case I have an urge to pet her. #Summer #DogsOfMastodon
I love your posts about Summer. Like fresh air, like a quiet walk at dusk. You should know you bring joy to people all over the world; people you will never meet are happier because of you.
Set up an appointment with a new pain therapist. At the end of our intake call, I asked, "Hey, just to be clear, there's no binding arbitration waiver in your paperwork, right?"
That was 3 days ago. I was just getting ready to drive over and he texted me this, then called me and told me he wouldn't treat me because being asked about his paperwork "made him uncomfortable."
I guess from now on I just go to the first appointment, read the paperwork and if it's objectionable, cancel and walk out?
I mean... I KINDA get the therapist's point. You signaled that one of the most important things to you is whether or not you could sue them. That wasn't what you MEANT, that wasn't what you cared about - but how could the person on the other side know that?
Maybe soften the question in the future - "for legal reasons I can't sign any contracts that include binding arbitration clauses - do you know if you have one?"
"I'm uncomfortable being asked non-medical questions" wasn't an answer you could ever give when presented with paperwork. Seems like a power imbalance.
What a curious asymmetry — he cannot offer an assurance that his practice won't screw patients with a binding arbitration waiver hidden in the small print, yet he talks of "mutual respect and trust."
I wonder if they're perceiving it as a threat of legal action - assuming you want to know because you're "planning to sue" rather than just checking if there's something fishy with the paperwork. I'm not trying to make excuses for them - this behaviour is shitty in the extreme - but I wonder if they were thinking "surely the only reason you would want to know that is if you wanted to sue me"?
Here's hoping you find someone else who can help ASAP.
@jargoggles @cybervegan I mean, there's a reason why I figure that *if* the US comes out the other end of this crisis intact, one of the *many* Constitutional amendments we need is something to the effect of "corporate entities are subject to the law and have no right to subvert the law, preempt the law, or replace sovereign government institutions with devices of their own design"...
@jargoggles @cybervegan How do we keep the assholes from leveraging their advantage in a "start over from scratch" situation? Basically the big fear when it comes to Article V conventions is that the convention would be nothing but billionaires, think tanks and consultants with dreams of world domination, and a few centrist corporatist "Democrats" of the sort who think "democracy" means a shroud of legitimacy over warring noble houses.
@pteryx @jargoggles If (when?) the AI bubble bursts, it might blow the derivatives market, and if it does, the banking system would do a 2008, but bigger. Billionaires usually come out on top after financial crashes, but it might clip their wings. Maybe?
@FunkyBob It was "I have never sued anyone, or been sued by anyone, but I don't sign binding arbitration waivers, and so I want to make sure that I'm not wasting your time. Can you confirm that you don't make patients sign these?"
HE feels uncomfortable? Crikey Moses. It is rough to have to continue your hunt, but you need to have confidence that a therapist puts 'your' comfort, and possible improvement foremost.
Pretty much in line with all the replies to a post from @RickiTarr about Chronic Pain yesterday. Sadly, what you experienced is very frequent for DUMB things that should be answered. Asking a question of course, is highly suspicious.
He doesn't seem to understand that a patient entrusts their body to them, their life and limb, literally. That's scary, it's why a lot of people avoid healthcare. How can someone practise therapy without being aware of that?
If a patient needs an answer to a legal question to be able to trust you, you give them the answer and try to assuage any concerns.
I've taken to requesting paper copies of anything I'm going to sign, then striking anything I don't agree with, initialing the strike outs, then taking a photograph of the paperwork before handing it in.
You would *not* be surprised to see how many practices do not care that you've stricken sections of their agreements from the agreement. No one teaches the admins to refuse service on altered contracts. <shrug>
I guess we need to normalize asking this question everywhere? I recently bought a new vehicle and the dealership required that I sign one of these to purchase the vehicle. This was of course after having already spent much of our time (my spouse mostly) and their time shopping, test driving, doing all the other paperwork, etc. I ended up caving because it was either that or walk away and and try to find a different vehicle from another manufacture, which was just not going to happen
@wcbdata sleaziest group of people I ever encountered was the Yahoo! integration team. I worked at a company acquired by Yahoo! They showed up and handed out documents we "had to sign by end of day". They lost their collective s2t when I said I was going to take it home and have my lawyer look at it. Them: "You can't come back tomorrow unless you sign it." Me: "That's fine by me."
Wish I still had filled copy of that doc. It was horrific.
@allpoints As I recall, the language from this potential employer was something like "getting legal documents reviewed shows that you aren't willing to commit to the <redacted> family." 😬
What could have happened is that, after being asked about a binding arbitration clause, the doctor tried to read his malpractice insurance policy and after spending 40 minutes going through all the gibberish (designed by a corporate entity to allow them to pay out as little as possible), he wasn't sure what would happen. The question is whether to blame the doctor or to blame the large corporation that is providing the doctor's insurance.
this is crazy…but strangely I just experienced something like this; my daughter knew her fifth grade teacher’s middle name because she read it…in her own paperwork where it appeared. And this was enough for him to tell the principal that he was not comfortable having her in his class…as if she’d crossed a boundary 🤷🏻♀️ sounds like smart people who make average ones uncomfortable with basic questions!
There is a contempt of patients built into health care culture, in spite of their own constant efforts to paint themselves as heroes. Some providers manage to avoid this, but they are rare in my experience.
This denial of service is nonsense. While trying to make it sound like you are a threat to him, what he means is that you won't allow him to be a threat to you. It's glib gaslighting. To say you threatened him is outrageous.
at my last appointment, my doctor asked if it was okay to use AI to record and transcribe our conversation. On one hand, it saves the doctor time by not needing them to type in my answers. On the other hand, AI is not very trustworthy. I said okay but now wish I hadn't.
Any alleged ‘therapist’ who spends 5 paragraphs, 3 of them wordy, justifying a frightened decision not to treat, apparently because they can’t understand their own legal situation does not inspire confidence. 🙁 The guy comes across as a wanker, buffing his own credentials by denigrating yours. As others have said in this thread: you dodged a bullet there! (Imagine all the other bad advice he could have coughed up on you, in his patronising way… ) 🙀 Let’s hope he doesn’t sue you for sharing what happened. Thanks for a thought-provoking item; very much hope better treatment comes forward for you asap. 🙏🏻
I'm sorry that happened to you and also a bit relieved that maybe this will help you avoid a situation where your medical provider doesn't trust you. Patients should always self-advocate for their rights. You didn't do anything wrong or offensive for most people. Makes me wonder if he's been found liable in the past.
(The hospital--the one at which my husband works--gave me a signature pad to sign. I asked "what am I signing?" and they gave me a multipage document in tiny font (8 point or less?) basically stating that I was agreeing to anything they decided to do to me. I left.)
@epicdemiologist I refuse to sign any signature pads (whether or not they show what I'm signing), because there's no way to guarantee that my signature won't be transferred elsewhere. Give me either paper or (better) a PDF that I can digitally sign on my own computer, since that signature is the only one that can't be forged (assuming you don't have NSA resources).
@jernej__s @epicdemiologist It's become rarer but I used to get presented with signature pads quite often. I always drew random smiley faces or squiggles on them. If someone will not accept your encouraging smile or moment of chaos, you really shouldn't have anything to do with them.
(This still gives you the option of acknowledging the correct use of the squiggle if you want.)
Besides the whole arbitration question and out-of-proportion reaction -- does that response strike anyone else as a little ... crunchy? Something about the way they talk themselves up (and in a context where that's not called for) just gives me some (perhaps undeserved) associations to essential oils and crystals.
This reminds me that Epic (makers of MyChart in the US) are putting a binding arbitration and class action waiver in their new Epic ID when patients to sign to see their medical records: central.mychart.org/MyChart/ap…
Epic holds somewhere around 80% of patient records in the US, prospect.org/health/2024-10-01… and is also in Canada and the EU.
@rpm pretty soon picking my battles, given the amount of my time and energy available, will mean I have control over one spaghetti strand out of a dozen boxes of spaghetti. Maybe not the best analogy, but you get my picture of {{{ frustration }}} . Or better yet: 🙄 😩 🫤 ☹️ 😩 😖 😵 😵
"I the person who gets people to sign legal paperwork just to really talk to me, feels uncomfortable with the legal framework actually being mentioned." Sorry to hear about your pain, but it doesn't really sound like it "feeling good to you" you may have saved a trip.
@pseudonym I had a dentist here in SF East Bay cancelled my initial appointment because I asked questions about their onboarding paperwork and HIPAA policy
To me, the second sentence is the weirdest. Why does he feel the need to mention that you have had back pain for decades already, and that he thinks he could have fixed it, in the same email where he says he won't?
That part makes it sound to me like he is saying: "if only you hadn't asked this difficult question, I could have cured your pain".
Like, not only is he refusing you, he also wants you to know that it's your fault, and how big your loss is.
@jesse 99.9999% of customers don't query these contracts of adhesion. It's shameful that you were refused service on the basis of being careful about your legal obligations. It's also understandable that the business just picks low hanging fruit.
@tris @jesse I think a lot of people are scared of legal action. I've had quite a few people tell me urban legends of things that might get me sued, including clearing snow off the pavement outside my house and providing first aid at an accident. To people with no experience of the law it feels like those bears that will jump out and eat you as soon as you step in a line in AA Milne's poem.
"One of the ways the system protects itself is to describe as deviant behavior describing the behavior of the system."Wow.I always enjoy and learn a lot from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)'s "Complex S...
Cory, sorry to hear you're still having back pain - IIRC swimming was your go-to to keep it in check, has that stopped being as effective?
I've had my own revelation in the last 5 years: Lifting heavy weights, specifically powerlifting, has helped me manage my own lifelong chronic posture-related back pain.
even though i do on rare occasion eat fish i still am very firmly in the "stop eating meat" camp, but ESPECIALLY so with pigs. they are too smart. they are too powerful. someday. they will take revenge.
i have a #norabots question. what are details of high fantasy settings that make your autism go brrrrr? that inflame your imagination? i know this is a wildly broad question i just am trying to figure out focus areas for the fantasy generator collection
i got the great suggestion to make every language modifier in the bot apply to every language in the bot so that you'll occasionally get characters that are the last living speaker of deep infernal and stuff like that and i love the implication that comes from that about the cosmology
when i was a kid i had the core dnd books and i saved for a long time to be able to afford a supplement and got the manual of the planes because thinking about layers of universes is really cool to me
i guess the other question i am thinking about is what you can do to a Standard Fantasy Setting to change its tone and flavor in an interesting way but still maintain a sense of The Rules that people familiar with the genre will understand
middle earth, especially the hobbit, has this sense of vastness and space between places that isn't always in the standard fantasy stuff it inspired and i think it adds a viscerality to the setting. dungeon world has the singularity of every kind of adventurer. bg3 has mind flayers
im sort of broadly feeling around in the dark for bits and pieces of flavorful detail that make Standard Sword and Sorcery such a persistent genre fascination to find out what's interesting to narrow down what i want to make in the future
the way the guys generator is structured i have a central block of code that makes a bunch of world details from parts and then sticks them in the guys. so there's like, a valuable generator that generates loot, and sometimes the guys have that loot
so im thinking of building a tavern/inn generator next, and like, when i expand the 2d art generator to make descriptions of stuff that hangs on the walls for the tavern bot it will also expand the loot the guys carry around
i keep coming back to a friends at the table thing in an early season where they would generate character names from a generator that didn't have a ton of surnames and they just started making various NPCs relatives of other NPCs as a result, which is an interesting way for a generator to push rp
and i am thinking: what are interesting ways you can push imagination through your generators. what's the opposite of pushing players using your work in theirs toward the mediocre middle that they'll get using a LLM
what i have so far is a pretty interesting basis for a pantheon of gods, saints, angels and idols of various mixed concepts. the idea with the bot is it's not generating a whole world out of the entire generator's possibility space but that anyone using it will get like 10 weird hybrid gods and go from there
someone suggested ruins that are built inside and it got me thinking about reused materials as a way to create depth in a description. i used to go to a restaurant that was built in a tapdancing class studio and they reclaimed the wood to make the tables and there were indents in them from shoes
so im thinking about like, how to build that kind of, i don't know, juxtapositional grace note into a generator, so that people get that basic detail and then the players using the generator will get a cool detail
this is what i find so obnoxious about the popularity of lotr, bc so many works of fantasy claim to be in a tradition from it when in fact they don't share much with it other than like. there's a wizard.
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in reply to swagzhcwhczwhwzhhczwzchwhwzhcwzhhzwhhwz • • •swagzhcwhczwhwzhhczwzchwhwzhcwzhhzwhhwz
in reply to djsumdog • • •i've saved hundreds of dollars on books
honestly i think good advice for the plebbitor is to both cancel streaming services and to not pirate because they don't watch anything good (such as terebi animu) anyway
RedTechEngineer
in reply to swagzhcwhczwhwzhhczwzchwhwzhcwzhhzwhhwz • • •If you are talking about education, you don't need to pirate. Most of the paid stuff is watered down garbage for the lowest common denominator.
Companies and governments put out unironically some of the best stuff for free.
Especially if you are interested in a field that hasn't fundamentally changed much, if the US federal government was interested in it in the 40s-80s, it's probably the best education you can give yourself even today.
If you are talking about entertainment, get a library card nigga. idk what it's like in europoor land, but libraries have like everything you'd want.
djsumdog
in reply to RedTechEngineer • • •Books have been disappearing in some American and Canadian libraries:
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cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pee…
I sent the first article to a high school friend of mine who works in a library and has purple hair and she it was "uninformed" and felt like a "boomer who went to a library."
I had to inform her that "bomber" was literally one of the two founders of Wikipedia. It's funny she was so defensive when her own library is pretty much dying and just a daytime homeless shelter.
A Trip to the Library
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in reply to djsumdog • • •>I had to inform her that "bomber" was literally one of the two founders of Wikipedia.
Bomber 😱