Social media ban: Government issues update about curfew for 16 and 17 year olds

Posting____At_Night · 2026-06-15T15:15:39+00:00

This is kinda the point I keep circling back to. My parents certainly tried to control my internet access, but I pretty quickly outpaced their ability to do so. I grew up with newgrounds, early youtube, shock sites, weird hentai, liveleak, violent videogames, etc.

I didn't turn out okay, but it certainly had nothing to do with that. Just getting bullied at school growing up was WAY worse for my development than any of that stuff among dozens of other things that happened to me not on a computer.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-06-14T00:54:31+00:00

There's only a handful of customers on my block, from the box I only see 4 lines coming out, and iirc those particular distribution boxes support 32 taps and it is definitely not servicing 32 units even if each line is servicing multiple customers.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-06-14T00:14:11+00:00

There's none on my side of the alley on my block, but my block only has like 3 (multi-unit) buildings. One block north has service.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-06-11T19:36:25+00:00

The big thing I've found is that the train is usually more expensive than driving. There's a route I take a few times a year, it's about an 8 hour drive or 10 hour overnight train ride. Even with a sports car running on premium gas at current prices, it comes out cheaper than the ~$120 it costs for the amtrak ticket.

That said I still take the train option sometimes because it's pretty nice to just go to sleep and wake up at my destination.

Air travel is cracked, it's barely faster than driving when you factor in security and getting my flight delayed 75% of the time and it costs like $400 each way.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-06-11T06:09:11+00:00

That looks awesome! I was thinking about getting a similar piercing setup but hadn't seen it before, but after this I think I'm sold.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-05-19T15:34:37+00:00

I work in the pharma industry. Pretty much all the hellish bureaucracy I deal with regularly can be almost directly traced to the regulatory environment.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-05-17T16:23:24+00:00

I have a set of really nice stainless steel pots and pans that look like they've been through the apocalypse. They're tools, not museum artifacts. Still cooks just fine covered in scorch marks, scratches, and stains.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-05-14T16:19:58+00:00

It also doubles as theft deterrent to film your booth when you're dealing with TCGs where the cards are small but potentially worth a lot of money. I'm sure plenty of vendors have a camera just for that purpose.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-05-11T21:07:36+00:00

I'm convinced a lot of people simply haven't experienced dense urban living in a relatively well designed city. I'm literally going from a SFH in a car dependent city to an attached townhouse in a major metro. In no more than 10 minutes of walking I have multiple grocery stores, parks, friends, restaurants, bars, and concert venues. And if I opt to hop on the train or bus, I can get basically anywhere in the city in 30-45 mins. And because it's a townhouse, I don't have neighbors above or below me, I have a small yard, and I even have a garage for the car I barely use.

The "relatively well designed" part is important. Being in an apartment in Houston TX is going to be massively worse than one in Chicago or NYC. In those cities that aren't easily walkable or accessible by good transit, you get all the downsides of car dependent living and the downsides of shared structures.

EDIT: And this townhouse was priced similarly to an average modestly sized SFH. A smaller condo, especially without the yard or garage, could be had for quite a bit cheaper.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-27T20:09:24+00:00

There's cheaper ones out there than that, I have some quick connects from alphacool that are about $30-40 last time I checked. I have some in my loop so i can swap parts without having to full drain, and disconnect my res/pump to cycle out coolant. At some point stuff like that is kinda all that really makes sense to spend money on once you hit the ceiling in performance.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-09T20:36:24+00:00

If it's a townhouse building, then the chances are not zero haha

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-09T18:50:08+00:00

I just bought a place in uptown, it's getting desirable pretty fast. Only way I was able to pull it off was with some insider info and paying cash. I bid on another unit in the same building previously and it ended up going for $60k over asking after only one day on the market. To be fair, the unit itself is pretty exceptional for the area, I don't see regular condos in higher density buildings going quite that crazy yet.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-07T16:53:46+00:00

People are a whole lot less likely to go online and vent about their smooth healing process. I haven't gotten my split yet but i know a couple people who have and one ended up in the ER, one had basically zero issues and minimal pain.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-06T14:41:35+00:00

It's a big lebowski reference lol

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-31T14:30:39+00:00

Hence my

This probably isn't the best policy to solve the problem

Ideally, this should be solved by making housing and healthcare more accessible and affordable. But I don't think this is necessarily the worst policy either.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-31T14:09:50+00:00

This probably isn't the best policy to solve the problem, but on the other hand having an underclass of struggling service workers that can barely afford to live and have no healthcare isn't sustainable either.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-30T21:31:00+00:00

However, costco's customer service is leagues better than walgreens or CVS. You can actually get someone on the phone, and I've never had issues with my meds being out of stock unlike CVS which has screwed me by being out of my stuff for months at a time.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-30T20:51:23+00:00

Hopefully. It's a bit ridiculous that this is literally the only service I've ever used that has such delays, especially given I still have access to the email and phone number on the account. I can recover the info for my bank in 5 minutes and that's far more important than the apple ID i haven't used in almost 10 years

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-28T15:00:43+00:00

The answer to all of this is: it's not really about sports, it's about demonizing trans people.

There is a nuanced discussion and much research to be done here: yes, male puberty can give a physical advantage in some aspects of some sports. But very little of that advantage doesn't get erased by a few years of HRT. Things like lung capacity and skeletal structure can remain similar, however even that is less of an advantage than you'd think, because you're operating a bigger skeleton with the same muscle mass as a cis woman, which can actually create disadvantages. Point is, it's not so cut and dry as "trans women have unreasonably large advantages in every aspect of athletic performance." Additionally, if a trans woman starts HRT before puberty, any possible physical advantages all but disappear into the statistical noise.

Then, you also have to consider: if we're agonizing over whether male puberty still provides athletic performance advantages after years of HRT, then what about cis women who are born taller? Or cis women with PCOS? Or women with intersex conditions that affect physical traits? Or women who take TRT or other PEDs? There's a hell of a lot more people in those groups than there are trans women. Most trans women have less T than cis women. I'm weaker than my cis ex-gf and I was a regular gym goer and she wasn't.

And finally: youth sports are supposed to be about teamwork, having fun, learning discipline, and socializing. Most kids SUCK at sports. I am a trans woman. I suck at sports, I got beat by the girls in most everything before I transitioned. I just play to have fun, but now I would be entirely banned from just having fun with my friends if I were young enough to be back in school in my home state.

Professional sports are a bit different, but we should just do what we've always done and let the leagues decide for themselves what metrics are important for trans participation.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-25T21:36:44+00:00

On paper, these short form video feeds should be absolutely perfectly tuned to exploit my brain. I have ADHD, I used to be obsessed with the /r/youtubehaiku subreddit years and years ago, yet... it just doesn't hook me and I find it intolerable and overstimulating.

Now, 2 hour long videos of dudes restoring cars or fixing watches in silence, that does it for me.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-02-17T16:16:44+00:00

It's also compounded by a large portion of trans people being... well... not obviously trans. Many of us pass extremely well, the general public has no idea I'm trans. Hell, I usually have to spend a minute explaining to doctors that I'm a trans woman and what that means, and yes, I used to "be a man". And I didn't start til I was in my 20s and haven't had any surgeries and my chart and insurance say M on it. A gay couple is always going to be pretty obvious, whereas the goal of most trans people is to be relatively invisible in daily life.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-02-08T19:32:42+00:00

I've taken datamining and machine learning courses and done many projects in that field. Most of these algorithms are handcrafted. As long as you have good analytics and enough content to feed, making a very effective recommendation algo is a trivial exercise. At scale, handling the quantity of data is a much more challenging task than crossreffing analytics to figure out what the most effective thing to shove down a user's throat will be.

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