This is my current favorite designation.

Verizon 5G, $35/month for the 300 mbps / 20 up plan (my needs are not huge, this does the TV streaming and the zoom meetings just fine).

Somerville MA. Was previously paying 3x that for crappy Astound service at half the speed.

Heh. You are welcome. This is how I found out too–a random discussion.

There’s a company near me that is piloting a mobile charging service. https://www.sparkcharge.io/

When the charges on our thru-way all failed over Memorial Day weekend, they provided the emergency service. I heard they were also in talks with AAA to be something that a tow truck could carry, or some emergency service vehicle.

Solutions exist. Just not yet at scale.

My EV came with a compressor in the trunk. Last time I needed to fill the tires it worked fine.

I didn’t even realize this until one day on the Nissan Leaf discussion boards, which led to a hilarious discussion of a whole bunch of us who had no idea we were carrying our own solution to this…

This whole spectacle is atrocious, but it’s part of a series of atrocious nonsense. Worse streaming series evah.

Ah, right. I was wondering if we could go back to the golden age of science blogs as all the other social channels were imploding…

I was still posting at reddit until recently–but I noticed that even the top items in r/science are getting half the score they used to.

Well, as one of my advisors used to say in grad school: “Evolve or die”. Nice to see you here too!

They never regenerate the same. What I miss is the institutional [metaphorically] memory of an affinity group.

But new people and new ideas are nice too.

TIL that the moderation logs are public. That was kind of surprise to look through.

Huge, if true. I think a lot of people in rural areas need to be exposed to something besides Christian radio…

And it really could benefit people who have jobs that can be WFH now–people could live in these dying towns with real incomes, money to spend, and kids in the school systems.

I hope they get it right.

gigglesnort

Do your fucking job, pharmacist. Or GTFO.

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thank you–I have no idea how to add emojis here, but I’d give you the applause one if I could…

This is why I encouraging comments… I managed to drop kbin into mine :)

Yeah. I don’t know that part would be active shaming like an elective abortion would ignite some biddies. But some people feeling personal failure at not being able to carry. They shouldn’t–it’s not a personal failure, but I’ve seen some people feel some of that.

Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum*

*yes, I know: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5937294/trivia/

I can understand that some people don’t want to discuss private health matters. And those folks who have been trying to conceive but have trouble–talking about the yet-another-miscarriage has to be incredibly wrenching and hard.

But those stories are crucial to hear right now, I’m afraid. I think the mainstream Republican isn’t even aware that this went on.

Agree–I’m seeing a lot of what I called ‘quiet quitting’ lately. The regulars are posting a lot less, or not at all. I’m not ready to burn-it-all-down, because I want to be able to lure people over later when this is a bit more mature. But it already feels different there.

Nice.

I think in the past (and I’m old enough to remember), both abortion and miscarriage carried a self-imposed shame/shunning silencing.

But now, people are not ashamed to talk about it. And those stories are surfacing, even in people’s own circles. When someone hears a story of a wanted pregnancy that goes wrong, and the young mother’s case of near-death sepsis as well as the damage to carrying future pregnancies–people will catch on.

These dogs have caught the car they were chasing. I wish it didn’t include the collateral damage to young families, but here we are. I hope people get to the ballot box with these stories in their heads. We should make sure of it…