Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.

Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.

acknowledges the term was made to troll LGBT people

Why can’t we have a good faith conversation on this?

K, sure.

Knot tying. Most half-hitches tied in 60 seconds or fastest time to tie all six of the “scout knots”.

I assume 99% don’t know them and I am reasonably quick at them, I could hold the record for at least a day or two.

Zero.

If someone I know asks me for money, I’m at least asking them “what’s up? Everything ok?” before giving them money.

Then after that, still probably zero because I don’t have any cash in my wallet atm. So hopefully I can help in some other way, give them a lift somewhere, cover a meal, something.

Dude, one of the stated objectives of Artemis 3 is to be the first to land a woman and a person of color on the moon. That isn’t happening with Trump in office. Mark me, he’ll cancel it someday to make big headlines and to draw attention away from something even more insidious. Feckless career politicians and media personalities will give him a complete pass because the mission is behind schedule and over budget, without pressing on why that is or how Trump/DOGE have made it exponentially worse.

Homework assignment for a film class: design this vignette in the style of various directors, from Cronenburg body horror to Wes Anderson grief-filled comedy and color palette.

Pretty sure it was millipedes. Lots of little legs that go down below the body, versus fewer legs that stick out to the side. And they smelled when squished.

I acclimate to to the heat. I’ve lived in the South with no AC at all; 80F with humidity control is cushy by comparison.

Summer: open windows until heat and/or humidity causes concern for my electronics.

Winter Day: 68F Winter Night: 58F

Why, thank you. Your comment is worth more than all the upvotes.

Childhood spring one year, conditions were perfect for millipedes. The basement floor was covered in them. I mean covered with the floor barely visible.

They weren’t damaging or dangerous, just disgusting. My dad put on his outdoor shoes and just walked around in tiny steps smashing them. He walked for hours. Then scraped them up with a plastic snow shovel and threw them outdoors for the birds to go wild. Then walked some more.

No other spring since has resulted in those sorts of numbers. It was interesting to see my dad’s reaction: the disgust and fascination and satisfaction. God help him if he ever discovers pimple popper videos and the like, we would lose him to the algorithm.

I still have an account but haven’t actively used it since 2016/2017. I log in once or twice a year to see what distant contacts have reached out so I can redirect them to channels I actively monitor.

I have a projector hooked to a Roku box. I don’t use it much but I occasionally watch Planet Earth or similar with a shutoff timer so I can fall asleep to Attenborough’s narration.

Report them for tax fraud? Almost definitely not. I would be getting a lawyer and accountant to insulate myself and my financials from them.

Broke off an engagement when he started showing hints of being way more trad / misogynist than he wanted me to see. It took him a few more years to come out of his closet with full Trump/ MAGA/ patriarchal/ white nationalist delusions. He did marry someone else and she recently pressed DV charges and divorced him. I don’t talk to either of them directly, but the stories I hear through friends and family sound like full blown reddit writing exercises.

Mine were both mid to late thirties when they had me. More than just their age, birth order was an impact. I am third born out of a lot. Standard middle child, if blood wasn’t gushing out of my head, I was forgotten. There are pros and cons to being the overlooked middle.

Overcoming writers block or whatever you want to call it

Like writing an obit or thank you message that doesn’t sound stupid. I just need a sentence down to work from, even though it doesn’t make it to final draft.

Or I needed to come up with activities to teach 4th graders about aerodynamics for a STEM outreach thing. None of the output from LLM was usable as it was spit out but was enough for me to kickstart real ideas

I never got “the talk”. Dad considered it to be mom’s job. Mom forgot she never had it with me; I’m one of over a half dozen kids and i believe her that she forgot me on top of her being very Catholic and very uncomfortable talking about sex.

I learned from reading on my own, picking up tidbits from friends (who barely knew more than me), and making mistakes. Having a bajillion younger siblings went a long way in teaching me to take safe sex seriously. I’ve changed diapers on enough younger siblings to last me three motherhoods. Hard pass.

He’s telling you not to wait for him; have some respect for his wishes and go to University. He’s nearly an adult, not your child.

A couple words from a dream I’d had that burrowed deep into my brain for a short time. I figured it was unique enough, I could get the original and not have to add number at the end.

The only person I know who has had one is a tech enthusiast / early adopter. He changes phones multiple times per year anyway so a short-lived screen while they work out design improvements probably isn’t much of a concern for him.

Best use case I saw was multitasking. He could be writing or drawing on one half while reading from a reference on the other.