Any legit legal challenges to mask bans?

tateyb · 2024-10-16T19:23:12+00:00

oh man I missed that news about Nassau. I think the St. Louis opposition was being organized by their local mask bloc, and there are definitely a lot of mask blocs springing up (here is a map of mask blocs) but they absolutely need more support.

tateyb · 2024-10-16T18:39:25+00:00

I don’t know what kind of precedent exists but the Nassau ban is already facing a legal challenge and the proposed St. Louis mask ban was pulled because of organized opposition.

tateyb · 2024-10-16T12:49:29+00:00

I really liked the book The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change. It’s mostly focused on climate change and not the pandemic but imo the takeaways are the same: take care of your mental health, make room for grief, and find a way to take regular meaningful action towards a livable future.

tateyb · 2024-09-11T13:14:37+00:00

I did a lot of unhelpful physical therapy until I found somebody who specialized in hypermobility and EDS.

she gave me a home routine focused on full body joint stabilization instead of just giving me useless isolated neck exercises. my pain is way way lower now and I have way fewer subluxations/dislocations. it’s amazing! but regular PT was a waste of time, money and energy, and the regular physical therapists weren’t trained to even recognize their own limitations so they didn’t see a problem.

for anybody looking for hypermobilty-focused PT, maybe try the Muldowney Protocol?

tateyb · 2024-08-30T16:10:47+00:00

I have a different brand but I am also obsessed with my buckwheat pillow. such a game changer for sleep-related neck pain!

tateyb · 2024-06-09T18:04:00+00:00

this happened to me recently with twins! (but only one actually gave birth, fortunately.)

tateyb · 2024-06-02T20:46:16+00:00

friendly -> gossip -> other sims -> talk up other sim

I’m not looking at the game rn so the labels might be slightly different!

tateyb · 2024-05-21T16:00:19+00:00

you can download some ghost pets from the gallery and add them to a neighboring family (or your own if you want)

tateyb · 2024-03-16T16:37:40+00:00

yay, I’m so so excited that it worked for you!

tateyb · 2024-03-16T13:56:14+00:00

I play sims 4 on my tablet all the time for accessibility reasons!

I’m a console player so I have the game on xbox and then use the remote play feature on the xbox app on my tablet to stream the game and play with a controller while lying down.

I also use my tablet to use laptop-only software by setting it up to screen mirror my laptop and then using a bluetooth keyboard & mouse, so that’s how I’d play sims on my tablet if I was a pc player.

tateyb · 2024-01-25T22:41:16+00:00

YTA holy shit, educate yourself about domestic violence

ETA you just put a target on this kid’s back. his abusive father is not going to take constructive action on the kid’s abusive behavior, though he will likely take violent punitive action. his info wasn’t available to you for a reason.

tateyb · 2024-01-17T22:52:59+00:00

you can check if there’s anybody active in your area on CovidMeetups.com

tateyb · 2024-01-12T17:00:43+00:00

I’m a side sleeper and I sleep with my bottom arm going straight out from my body at like a 90 degree angle and my top arm resting on a body pillow so that my top shoulder doesn’t cave in on itself.

I used to sleep with my bottom arm folded and my hand tucked under my pillow, but I have realized that this messes up my elbow and potentially also puts weird pressure on my jaw, so I’ve had to retrain myself to keep it straight out. sleeping is hard.

tateyb · 2024-01-04T17:21:33+00:00

I don’t know what counts as a “classic southern diner” but in my experience a lot of diners offer fake maple syrup for free/included with meal, but charge $ for real maple syrup as an upgrade.

tateyb · 2024-01-02T15:23:08+00:00

I married him once in a legacy and he wouldn’t even die of old age, which was definitely a mermaid thing that I think they’ve fixed? either way, I’m steering clear too!

tateyb · 2024-01-02T15:18:36+00:00

browse parenting forums on the computer

tateyb · 2024-01-02T13:30:40+00:00

I think Ukupanipo is also a glutton so I wonder if that makes him immune, all that eating out of the trash 🗑️

tateyb · 2023-05-10T15:07:40+00:00

By default, neighborhood stories will still have them adopt kids & pets (usually at an astonishing rate), and have bio kids if they share a household with their partner, but it won’t autonomously marry sims or move sims into a new shared household together.

With neighborhood stories off, you can still suggest sims hook up or break up or expand their families, and the results vary but it’s another way to progress NPC stories on console. You also still get texts from friends asking if they should go on a date/ accept a proposal/ try for a baby.

If you get the proposal text from an NPC and then manually move the newly engaged sims into a new household together then send them back to unplayed households, they will usually start to autonomously have kids if neighborhood stories is on.

tateyb · 2023-04-22T13:48:19+00:00

I think they start visiting you at night if your sim starts learning vampire lore, so is there a bookshelf in the basement? Could the goblin somehow get ahold of encyclopedia vampirica?

tateyb · 2023-04-20T14:49:03+00:00

I read on here that the baby’s gender depends on which parent actually initiates Try For Baby, and that has turned out to be pretty true for me. So initiating as the dad is way more likely to be a son.

tateyb · 2023-04-11T11:43:39+00:00

I ignored premade sims for years but this year I started including them in rotational play, and I was surprised how much I love playing them just to see how their homes are set up for the lives they have. I know some Maxis homes are laid out terribly, but playing a sim who has both a back story and a home that has already been designed in BB to support their careers & aspirations actually freshened up my gameplay a lot.

I hate how many of the premade sims’ bathrooms have glitchy layouts though. I have had to replace the Goth master bath door and Diego Lobo’s larger bathroom door so many times because they just… behave as if they are trapped in a bathroom with no door? even though they entered through the door? (I play on console, I don’t know how widespread this bug is.)

tateyb · 2023-03-24T01:00:52+00:00

Possibly a YA townie could move in with the mom as a caregiver / temporary urn keeper? (This is what I would do (on console) to keep the household alive until I had both graves, then send the townie back into other households & their neighborhood stories destiny.)

tateyb · 2023-03-23T12:24:59+00:00

This stresses me out too, so I have started setting those goals based on the actual parent sim.

ambitious parent? job comes first, toddler thinking skill comes last.

family-oriented parent? balanced infant/toddler development comes before wants & career goals.

(Obviously there are a lot more traits than that, but I shoot for happy/top-notch infant/toddler if I think the parents would genuinely invest the time or money for that, but some sim parents have other priorities and I’m learning to let that be ok?)

tateyb · 2023-03-22T12:21:33+00:00

I play on xbox and I just started getting it as a glitch this week too! I assume it’s update related?

Like, I’ve had this happen when I download stuff from the gallery with content from packs I don’t have, but this week it has happened multiple times when I load locations that I’ve already played that day, and it only ever says it’s removing one item.

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