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Or you could mark the bad one, replace the whole set, then unbraid and toss the marked one later in a dumb meeting you have better things to do than attend or something :p

The apartment I used to live in was so good for this ventilation thing, even with all the windows closed. The air conditioner was installed permanently in the wall and had a gap around it that let enough wind through to rattle my vertical blinds across the room. Never had to worry about high co2 during those trapped-inside Midwest winters! :p

Joking aside, I covered that thing with plastic and layers of blankets. Current house isn’t much better in that regard, the air leaks are just from everywhere, because it’s ancient. Costs a fortune to heat, so I keep it cold all winter. But at least I don’t have too much to worry about with co2 buildup.

I wonder, if that was done, how much energy would be transferred from the atmosphere (condensing water vapor transfers a huge amount of energy as heat), and what impact that might have on climate instability. I also wonder if there’s a way to transfer the heat energy to somewhere “safer”, like underground, or even turn it into useful energy.

And if these could be used in places that aren’t as bone dry, even better. I mean all the big powerful storms have been bigger and more powerful because of all the extra moisture in the air… if we could throw these everywhere, pull some of that moisture out, and use it to supply potable water instead of drawing from reservoirs, that seems like it might be a many-win option.

“Abolish ICE” made up about 70 percent of the entries in the contest among over 13,300 submissions, according to the outlet Block Club Chicago.

lol that’s fantastic

You can usually call to have your billing cycle adjusted so you can either spread them out or have them all come due at the same time. Not every bill from every company, like rent might not be super flexible, but most utilities and subscriptions and stuff are willing to roll a partial month into the next billing cycle to give you a new due date.

You could try the timer function to turn it off at whatever time it was supposed to be done? That way even if it finishes sooner and you forget, you know it’ll be off shortly. :)

I have to assume communication issue or smth, especially with the delay. It showed up after a comment on something else so I know it wasn’t just sitting there.

Either way, yeah, hi and stuff!

lol I just wanted to share in case I missed something in the post body but since it seems I didn’t, have a great day!

This went to my inbox 20+ min after you posted it and claimed to mention me. Wild. I’ve never interacted with any of this stuff afaik. I was so confused at the wall of text awaiting me, but I assume it’s sort of like the comment bug where stuff ends up on the wrong post or smth.

I was a wrestler in hs. Can confirm I have very thick skin about sexism from the abuse I endured. Because it happens so much, you either quit or find a way to deal with it.

Those who stick it out survived the selective pressure to get them to quit. So is no wonder they tend to be more uniform than you’d otherwise expect.

This feels like how I play city builders.

Just slap infrastructure wherever you want, screw food production, the populous will either figure it out or I’ll scramble later to save them from starving. Maybe.

My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.

On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.

I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.

I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out. That call wasn’t why I quit, but it was the catalyst.

Edit: apparently this posted as a top level comment… it was meant to be a reply to the chain about no notice quitting… my bad

If you think of your energy like water filling the spoons, the point when you start to get grumpy or tired or whatever might be when you’ve run out of spoons and are trying to hold your water in your hands. You can still do things, but it’s harder.

I hope the whole thing is helpful for you :)

It’s a way to communicate how much energy/capacity you have available to do things. It was originally developed for the chronic illness community and has been adopted more widely since. People with chronic conditions use a lot of energy just to exist, so they have less for what people consider normal stuff like socializing or going to run errands.

Basically you start each day with a set number of spoons which represent quanta of energy that you can put toward tasks for the day. Some things may take you more than one spoon, like appointments, and some things will return spoons, like relaxing for an hour or something.

Some chronic conditions mean you have a different number of spoons available on different days. Like for me when I overexert one day, I’ll have less to give the next.

these links will have some more specific info for you, in case my writing isn’t super clear :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/full-catastrophe-parenting/202403/what-is-spoon-theory-and-why-is-it-important

As part of the chronic illness and neurodivergent community who knows mostly other people in the disabled/chronic/neurodivergent community:

The more people who use spoon theory, even if it “doesn’t apply to them” (which it does. We all have finite energy, non-disabled/divergent people just have way more spoons to start each day), the more people who understand what the fuck we are talking about when we use it.

This is a bit like sign language. If we could get everyone to use it regardless of need, the people who actually need it would be doing just great.

My embroidery machine is really old, like 30+ yrs, with very basic programmability, and it can do stitches in multiple directions. It has a foot plate thing that moves the cloth as needed, and it works pretty well.

I have to imagine a newer more advanced one would be capable of something like this, tho would probably need to be simplified somewhat.

So the cure for hiccups is milkshakes…

Who knew?

It’s “absent without official leave”, meaning they don’t have permission from the chain of command to be absent from their post (which is literally just wherever they are supposed to be).

It’s not a matter of saying you’ll be gone and when you’ll be back, it’s a matter of having official permission to be away from your duties (aka leave). They won’t get you for it for being off-base in your free time, but if you are off-base on THEIR time, then you are AWOL. You can also be AWOL without actually going anywhere, like if you are sick and stay in bed without contacting your superior, or medical for a chit, very likely considered AWOL .

I honestly just assumed that was happening anyway. Good to get it in public eyes, though.

I miss the days of requesting big thick catalogues be sent to you in the mail from companies you’d want to do business with. They’d send you a catalogue once or twice a year and then stop if you don’t buy anything for a while. I think that was a good method, the same way I don’t mind seeing other things available on websites I’m buying from.

I also don’t mind stuff like local coupon/advert mailers that come once a month or whatever, but those tend to all just be big companies advertising “sales” that always run these days, rather than anyone I’d want to try to support. But I like the idea of packaging up all the ads they want to send out and delivering them in one go. Maybe with an opt-out. All other junk mail, stuff you didn’t request, should be banned.

And I think signage on store windows and stuff is fine, as long as it’s not an eyesore, but billboards and rooftop signage should definitely be banned. Protruding signs like that hang off the side of buildings should also go.

Meatspace advertisements are the worst imo, because there’s very little you can do to avoid them.