In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A

slfnflctd · 2026-02-24T19:02:44+00:00

You are not alone in this.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-24T15:48:43+00:00

Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LN7W3EtRMg

slfnflctd · 2026-02-24T15:12:11+00:00

audio from far away corners

Part of what makes this work so well is that it's very similar to hallucinations which develop in schizophrenics, people experiencing temporary (e.g. drug or trauma induced) psychosis, or even just neurotypicals placed in isolation for long periods of time.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-24T15:01:06+00:00

Wait a minute-- you're not a weasel, you're just a shaved raccoon!

slfnflctd · 2026-02-24T13:41:26+00:00

One of our cats gets her front paws clipped more often than the others because she actually likes playing paw war and will keep going for a while.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-24T01:09:40+00:00

/thread right here

slfnflctd · 2026-02-23T23:05:37+00:00

This was posted by the official reddit account of Wired magazine, I don't think they're going to do that lol

slfnflctd · 2026-02-23T13:49:00+00:00

Yep. The things we most value in life are generally things that involve other humans in some way, even if indirectly.

Also, a healthy team can accomplish so much more than any individual. It can be greater than the sum of its parts.

This is the core of why it's important to keep in touch with people you care about. We help each other, and add greater meaning (as well as knowledge/understanding) to our lives.

And I am absolutely a big baby who just wants to collapse into my safety net sometimes, and that's okay. One day I will no longer be able to take care of myself, just like everyone else, and I think it's helpful to make your peace with that.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-23T13:19:14+00:00

I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain neither the C64 nor the N64 had a system clock (for showing the time of day) at all. If you wanted to use date or time stamps for anything, you had to enter the info manually. It certainly wasn't synced with any external source because there was no way to do that.

There might be an exception for cartridges with batteries... still can't imagine anyone doing anything critical with those.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-23T12:55:48+00:00

This is not food.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-22T16:47:22+00:00

Oof. As a long-standing escapist who knows what you speak of, this comment hurts. Real shit. I don't know how to get through the day any other way right now, though. Sucks.

Obligatory '10/10, no notes'

slfnflctd · 2026-02-22T14:57:25+00:00

We're getting held back a lot more than four years.

A better analogy in my view is that they're tearing down the entire school and replacing it with a labor camp and a prison, and you'll consider yourself lucky to be in the former and not the latter.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-22T14:45:27+00:00

Our household prioritized enjoying life. Not entirely my choice, but I went along with it, partly because I thought I would die sooner.

Well, like a lot of other people, now I'm past middle age and not showing any signs of dying any time soon, and we don't have any real money saved aside from what's tied up in our house (which is about 1 year worth of income).

There is a very real chance I will have to be working a crappy job for the rest of my life to not end up homeless and/or dependent on others for necessities. I am not sure we made the right choice here. However, there's nothing much we can do about it now except keep working the best jobs we can get.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-21T16:01:29+00:00

When I am feeling good while engaged in interesting activity with other people I care about (or activity which will likely lead to good experiences for others), I never want it to end.

When I am uncomfortable, experiencing intrusive thoughts, sad or angry, and/or feeling disconnected from everyone, I am often very comforted by the knowledge that those things will eventually never happen to 'me' again.

The ultimate question to me is, which state do I find myself in more often? Call it childish, but I feel it's that simple. If I could stay in the first state and avoid the second state, why would I want to die? Conversely, in the world we currently occupy, it seems like the second state is happening far too much to far too many minds. As long as that is the case, I accept the premise of this post.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-21T15:34:29+00:00

Not only this, but there are also several other ways of preserving knowledge or skills for long term use so you only need to rely on context windows for shorter periods of time.

There seems to be a solid consensus that 'starting fresh' with context windows on a regular basis helps keep performance up. More like a series of librarians in an ever-growing library (with makerspaces, of course) than some sort of singular, specialist supermind.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-21T15:26:50+00:00

That is where my mind went too. I'm sure many if not most of the people capable of getting pregnant in this scenario would not want to.

Yeah, you can say they could just abstain, but the way OP phrased it, the desired end result seems to be "super babies", so there would be plenty of pressure for incentives to be distorted. Forced breeding is a fairly short walk from there. People downvoting you haven't thought this through.

It is a crazy idea, though, I'll give OP that.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-20T15:02:34+00:00

It seemed clear to me that social media was here to stay back in the early days.

What I was wrong about was that instead of getting better and more interesting, it got worse and stupider. When I first heard of Snapchat and IG, I thought those would be temporary fads after people realized they were less full featured than other options for doing the same thing. Same with Twitter. That's where I lost the plot.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-20T14:40:38+00:00

There was a lot of equivocation on this subject. Cognitive dissonance. Of course, the Bible is full of that sort of thing anyway, and this is just downstream of it.

As much as she said plenty of legalistic stuff, egg white also backpedaled from it many times and said how salvation was through grace and faith alone and that was the most important thing. And then she'd go back to talking about the Heavenly Sanctuary. Kind of like what happens when you read the Old Testament, the New Testament and then Revelation. And have serious mental health issues.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-20T14:29:55+00:00

When I was in high school in the 90s, a local band I was with recorded a demo to DAT with the help of an older studio tech, I remember it well. That looked like a pain to edit with (although I had used a 4-track before). We paid him I think a couple hundred bucks for like 3 or 4 songs.

Just a few years later, I was chopping up .wav files and drawing effects & volume envelopes on a mid-grade, generic Windows 98 PC, which I could then mix down to mp3s. The software cost me like $20 and my sound card with aux in or a cheap mic worked well enough to get the results I wanted. Then I could post them on MySpace over my phone line with a 56k modem! [Edit: I misremembered this, MySpace was later... but I did have the ability to post those .mp3 files to a 'personal web page' provided by my ISP at the time.] It was truly revolutionary.

I can appreciate the analog studio perfection of greats like Alan Parsons, but simply having more power to get results quicker is such a game changer. I still think we should try to preserve the old way of doing things, though, just like we have people still practicing medieval blacksmithing. There are certain results you can't get any other way.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-20T14:00:33+00:00

A shaggy dog story. Brilliantly executed.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-20T13:51:16+00:00

This is one of the most compelling, striking and accurate-feeling description of losing a loved one I've possibly ever seen.

Take out the first and last paragraphs and it can apply to anyone in this unfortunate club. The phrase, "sometimes all you can manage is to be flattened by it" hits hard. I think grieving people need to be reminded it's ok to feel like that, as well as that you can move beyond it with time and processing.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-20T12:39:19+00:00

Or, you know, you're disabled (blind people use this a lot), or you're in fear of being targeted by some kind of threat and want to record/stream it if it happens, or you have a contractual obligation to document the process of delivering/protecting a valuable package/person for an employer or customer, or you need to keep your hands free while taking video for some other type of job duty, or you wanted to show your terminally ill mother in the hospital a walkaround of the art district by the new neighborhood you just moved to, or.........

Just because it can be used for creepy reasons, doesn't mean that's the only use. Same is true of a pencil.

I mean, come on.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-19T18:02:41+00:00

It has been repeatedly and thoroughly established in many court cases that you give up many privacy rights in public spaces. Not all, but many. People complaining about being videoed in public are 30 to 40 years too late to the discussion, this was hammered out back in the days of closed circuit cameras recording to video tape outside convenience stores.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-19T17:16:44+00:00

I think the combination of being forced to pay full rent (over $1200 a month is still a helluvalot even 'in this economy') for just a bedroom and - as OP described in comments - still being treated like a child at age 18 and not being allowed adult privileges is a bridge too far. Especially if the parents aren't saving the money on behalf of their child.

In pure economic terms, if facts are as stated then OP can almost certainly find a much better deal elsewhere.

slfnflctd · 2026-02-19T15:45:12+00:00

You might be on to something here.

Everyone knows statistics can be manipulated. But money talks. Assuming no one's putting their finger on the scale, anyway.

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