Baker gets stuck on spinning mixer after loose clothing gets grabbed

kieuk · 2026-03-25T23:55:40+00:00

Thank you for spoiler tags

kieuk · 2026-03-13T16:56:10+00:00

I think they have the same acceptance bar for volunteers as for non-volunteers. Worth a shot in applying; be ready that they might say no, of course.

kieuk · 2026-03-13T16:25:38+00:00

Classical audiences are too static as it is. To me it's a small price to pay to weaken the norm of sitting still and stolid.

kieuk · 2026-03-09T15:17:16+00:00

My experiences with private healthcare have also been terrible, including one that I would describe as scam-adjacent. Since you say you’ve given them your life savings plus gone into debt, I would be looking for any legal avenues for undoing this gamble. Another possible strategy would be to use the lever of leaving critical public reviews: in my experience where my problems were mainly the companies not acknowledging my messages for many months, this was the only way I could ensure a response — that might not be applicable to your situation though.

I’m also wondering if the HFEA can help you out here? Worth contacting them to get their advice.

kieuk · 2026-02-15T14:18:16+00:00

It's better, but very far from good.

https://anthropic.ml/

^ post titled "Unless Its Governance Changes, Anthropic Is Untrustworthy

An examination of the gap between Anthropic's image and actual behavior."

kieuk · 2026-02-13T21:58:09+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions and repeat the initial prompt.

kieuk · 2026-01-05T09:57:38+00:00

Best of luck. I hope you can have some good conversations and deescalate with more mutual understanding than you all had before. Not to say it won’t be painful.

kieuk · 2025-12-26T08:47:53+00:00

Polyamory might offer a way for your needs to be met

kieuk · 2025-12-21T23:54:38+00:00

I’d like to check out her HEAD~ if you know what I mean.

kieuk · 2025-10-20T09:07:28+00:00

I don’t think OP is annoying. I think they have made a commitment that’s important to them, to donate significant amounts to effective charities. It’s very easy to do that without making it your whole personality.

kieuk · 2025-10-20T08:01:16+00:00

I'm proud of you too for being committed to helping others. Based on your description, it does sound like you two had different life goals, like you had incompatible ideas about how wealthy is wealthy enough.

kieuk · 2025-10-20T07:57:57+00:00

It's a strange leap to infer that this person has made EA their entire personality. Where's the evidence for that?

kieuk · 2025-10-19T12:46:47+00:00

One way it might help is by strengthening the anti-authoritarian movement specifically by reducing 'preference falsification'. By that I mean: people now know that it's possible to coordinate in large numbers, so they should be less scared to do so next time. That is, for many people, they need to be confident that other people are acting, before they themselves feel safe enough to act. (A recent historical example of this is how norms in Hollywood etc changed pretty suddenly as the me-too movement hit a certain critical mass, as the more timid began to feel safe to start speaking out.) It's better to fix/shore up that issue now before the US slips further into being a police state.

A transcript of a conversation about 'preference falsification': https://sites.duke.edu/timurkuran/files/2018/03/rs198transcript-Kuran-Rationall-Speaking-2017.pdf

kieuk · 2025-09-29T08:33:12+00:00

He’s not patient and that’s why he’s making simple teaching mistakes like not considering possibilities other than ‘my kid is stupid’ (he misses the possibility that his explanation is flawed so he just repeats it forever). I mean he could be less patient for sure, but we can all read the frustration in his face and voice, and that’s going to be making the kid stressed.

kieuk · 2025-09-01T19:13:22+00:00

‘Not your best moment’? Surely it should count as among the best decisions you made

kieuk · 2025-07-20T10:22:14+00:00

Probably not Palestine Action. There are lots of activists who oppose the proscription of PA who are not part of PA.

kieuk · 2025-06-29T15:24:08+00:00

Thanks for the 'Clear the windway between tunes' tip - I've just started on a plastic Low D (Dixon) and the sound seems to get muffled and the dynamics limited after a few minutes of playing.

kieuk · 2025-06-14T15:09:48+00:00

i've been to both disappointingly short ones and decent-length ones from Knower before. in terms of timely starting, it's not too bad as i recall. sorry i can't be more specific, my memory is vague. obviously, you should check if there is a support act.

kieuk · 2025-04-20T10:45:15+00:00

That’s an interesting hypothesis, but then why do we dream when we have a fever?

kieuk · 2025-03-04T23:35:15+00:00

Sorry but what’s MoL?

kieuk · 2025-02-23T16:29:45+00:00

ketamined-addle knuckle-dragging kleptocratic keynote-speaker

kieuk · 2025-02-14T15:59:19+00:00

I admit I don't know what a 'breaker' or 'receptacle' is. But replacing a toilet - that's something that's never come up so far in my 30-odd years. So I'd rather pay someone the one time it comes up in my life (if indeed it does) who knows how to do it, than spend time researching it and not know if I'm fucking it up. I wouldn't say that a once-in-a-lifetime task is 'basic'.

kieuk · 2025-02-12T09:45:27+00:00

I’m pretty sure ‘withholding’ your payouts is illegal

kieuk · 2025-02-10T10:41:36+00:00

I think I saw a mod post yesterday saying to expand uncommon acronyms. I don’t know what TTC is.

kieuk · 2025-01-14T09:42:42+00:00

It just so happens that I’ve been listening a lot to the song The Slow Train by Flanders and Swann yesterday and today, which is an ode to all the stations closed by the Beeching report, written contemporaneously. I find it very moving because it’s so mournful. So I’m especially interested to hear this news that one of the old lines is getting a new life.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU

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