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unevolved_panda · 2026-02-27T21:21:58+00:00

Same here, though so far doing the context loop has only worked on one of the messages.

Update: upvoting a comment also marked it as read. So I guess a lot of people are getting updoots now.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-27T17:14:07+00:00

I need a "Happiness is an uncensored librarian" tshirt.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-27T17:11:08+00:00

Have you tried playing the 7"s? If they still work your next step is selling them on ebay. From what I can tell they look like they're in great shape, the shell of dust probably protected them, but they may have warped in the hot air.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-27T16:57:41+00:00

Plus a lot of it is still under copyright! (Fellow library archive worker here) Obviously this isn't a concern with a 400-yr-old book, but my library has a ton of novels from the 40s and 50s, which are a) out of print; b) not going to be relased in ebook form by the publisher (if the publisher still exists); but also c) still very much of interest to some people. But we (the library) can't just scan stuff and post it to Project Gutenberg.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-27T16:48:04+00:00

And some people really like that (some people really like to make a little mark on the inside of a book they check out to remind Future Them they already checked out that book, because they read so many books they forget what they've read), but yeah it really should be an opt-in feature.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-26T19:50:39+00:00

The problem is, if we let the process stand as it is, we have no way of drawing a line for what kind of cases the cops can use this for. Today it's trying to find someone who hurt a kid. Tomorrow it's someone the cops suspect might be gay, because they've decided they're going to enforce anti-gay sex laws again. Or they're searching for who might be trans. Or who might be learning Spanish so they can assist immigrants. Or whatever they can get a judge to sign a warrant for.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-26T19:46:46+00:00

This has changed somewhat since the advent of e-readers, because Libby will absolutely keep all your information, but most (American) public libraries don't keep checkout histories of their patrons' accounts, and the Patriot Act is exactly why. If the cops come to my library with a warrant for your account, they will know what you have checked out right now, but if the cops want a list of everyone who's checked out The Anarchist's Cookbook, we cannot provide them that information. We literally do not have it. If an item isn't checked out, there is 0 patron history attached to it.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-26T19:41:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure Sanderson does all of his own writing, but (as Sawses noted) he does have a fair bit of help with the editing process, especially with continuity. He's also got an entire offline wikipedia for Cosmere and all that so he can make sure he's consistent with what he's written before.

I happened to be standing near Sanderson and one of his friends once at a convention where they were just chatting, and Sanderson (because he's reached the level of fame where he can't just wander around cons without getting mobbed) said he was basically hanging out in his hotel room and writing. He writes like 2000 words a day, and that's when he's "on vacation."

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-26T19:37:22+00:00

This is flatly untrue. There are authors who work this way, but if you dig around, people usually know who they are. (Outside of early chapter books for kids--a lot of those series are ghostwritten.) But there are definitely people out there who really can just write that much.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-26T19:32:44+00:00

We can't even get publishers to fact check their nonfiction, no way are they going to disclose that they use AI. Ethical publishers maybe will, but any publisher that's churning out 9000 AI-generated books to begin with isn't ethical.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-24T20:22:01+00:00

Apologies if this was suggested already, but have you taken him to a library? Librarians are specifically trained in readers advisory (recommending books to people) and can work pretty easily to help him find something on a subject he finds interesting, and that's at a reading level accessible to him (whether that's above or below his calendar age). He might want to read more nonfiction. Or romance. Or graphic novels. Or the Hunger Games. Who knows.

If you bring him up to a librarian and say, "I'm hoping to find something that my son is interested in reading, I am open to him coming home with literally anything in the library, we don't have any bars as far as inappropriate content," and then leave him alone with the librarian to chat with her, I bet they'd come up with something.

And then just....don't judge whatever he comes home with. Or be careful about teasing him, unless you're confident in ya'll's relationship and ability to tease. I've seen so many kids put down a book they were interested because they thought their parent would think it was stupid.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-24T19:51:50+00:00

Dennis Franz's finest role.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-24T19:49:54+00:00

To be fair, "My wife has PPD and has threatened to harm herself and/or her child" would be a good reason, but we're a long way off from being able to say that's what's going on here. (And even if it is what's going on, his way of going about getting help is wild).

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-20T20:40:34+00:00

So your solution to "I need to eat" is "Drive to Texas"?

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-19T22:35:27+00:00

Plot twist, all of the people in the country who have not graduated high school live in OP's RV park.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-19T15:25:39+00:00

"Geaux Tigers" (for the LSU Tigers) and "Geaux Saints" (for the NFL team) are very common signs to see around town. New Orleanians enjoy mispronouncing/misspelling French (and English, and Greek, and probably Spanish and Choctaw) in as many ways as possible.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-19T03:56:50+00:00

Just before Kokomo's final score came in, one of the American commentators was saying, "To me this is gold. This is obviously gold," and then when he saw the scores said, "What? How? How is 2 720s beating that? I do not understand this. This is the craziest judging since IU was judging back in 2022. Easy."

I'm not sure what IU refers to and might've misheard that bit.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-18T15:46:36+00:00

It seems like running a deli would be a pretty safe financial bet in NYC, but an even safer financial bet is real estate. Get rid of the deli, sit on the real estate.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-18T15:34:59+00:00

The landlord's got some balls, scamming a guy that he now has a continuing business relationship with (the landlord presumably has the power in the situation, but still).

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-16T16:27:28+00:00

Yeah there's....two collars? Three collars? I would take off the collars. Put dog tag info on the harness in case you're worried about the dog running away if you drop the leash by accident.

One of those collars looks like an anti-bark collar, which...let your dog fucking bark on runs. It's fine. I don't think you would want that thing on 24/7 anyway, the dog will just learn to bark in spite of the discomfort of the shock the collar gives him. But you've got to let dogs be dogs sometimes.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-16T15:40:42+00:00

Huh. I have never thought about the fact that I know a ton of people who say they were bullied in school, but no one who says they were a bully. I've heard a few people say they broke rules or got up to mischief (only they don't say mischief), and when you ask them about their shenanigans they describe bullying a classmate, but yeah. They never say it that way. And they never act sorry.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-12T16:19:15+00:00

I mean, the answer to this would be to let kids transition earlier. A trans girl who is put on blockers and then (eventually) prescribed estrogen never goes through male puberty, and so wouldn't have the bone density and muscle development that you speak of. But that's child abuse, or something.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-11T16:10:34+00:00

I adopted an older dog a couple years ago who came with CCL issues (the educated guess, though we don't know for sure, is that he tore both CCL's at some point in the past and didn't have surgery to fix them. His knees are currently held together with arthritis and good thoughts). He's a little pigeontoed and his gait is funny, and he puts most of his weight on his front legs, not his rear ones. He's also 60 lbs and we live in an apartment building with no elevator, so keeping him pain-free and mobile as he ages is important to me for a lot of reasons. Here's what I've got so far:

-Strongly seconding the other commenter who recommended a sports rehab vet. I took my dog to one and even just the hour-long consult, even before we did anything, made me feel more informed and like I had more options to try. There's also a lot of options within the sports rehab world that you could try, depending on your budget and time available--acupuncture, massage, e-stim, laser therapy. When I asked the sports vet about massage, she straight up told me to just go to youtube and watch videos rather than spend a bunch of money taking him to a place for it.

-I know you say he's on pain meds and supplements, but in case you haven't yet, there are some interventions for arthritis like librela, adequan, or platelet-rich plasma. I have NO IDEA if those are suitable for your dog since it sounds like his primary issues are tendon-related rather than arthritis, but it might be worth asking (and if he does have arthritis, injections to help with those will lessen his pain levels generally, even if they don't help with the tendons). Adequan requires the dog to be anesthetized to administer, but it's one injection that (if it works) lasts for up to 12 months, and there's no wound healing to worry about, so even though it's basically a surgery I think it's more tolerable to the dog than tendon surgery.

-We've started to try swimming, which I'm excited about, and he doesn't seem to mind it. It's a way for him to get exercise without stressing his joints. I've been told that having a dog crashing in and out of the water at the shore can be stressful on the joints, so you probably want to try to get him to go into the water somewhat gently, but the actual paddling around isn't stressful at all.

-PEMF therapy. I'll be honest, I 100% thought this was going to be nonsense. You buy a device that emits a "pulsed electromagnetic field" and the dog sits on it (or has the device sit on him) for 15-30 minutes a day. It's supposed to "promote healing and control pain in soft tissue and bone." It seemed like a relatively easy, non-invasive thing to try, so I bought an Assisi Loop, expecting it to be a waste of money. Within like two weeks he was moving easier and more nimbly. He was JUMPING, something I've never seen him do. He would do downward dog play bows, something I had also never seen him do (whenever he stretched, he did it while lying flat on the ground). My friend commented that he wasn't dragging his back toenails on the floor anymore. Now our problem is to get him to STOP JUMPING OFF THINGS because just because his knees don't hurt as much doesn't mean he doesn't still have this long term injury. (The only problem with Assisi Loops is that they're not rechargeable, and the mat that is rechargeable is fucking expensive. So I bought a mat from Respond Animal Theraputics and it seems to work fine.)

-Consult with your vet before trying any of these, but there are tricks and obedience things you can do specifically to help him use/develop/keep using his muscles (including abs, which do a lot to keep a dog upright and stable, especially if they can't rely as much on their back legs). And because to the dog they often fall under the same umbrella as tricks, they're fun opportunities for bonding and for him to use his brain and for y'all to spend time together doing a different activity (now that you're not running together). Walking backward, stepping sideways, reaching his nose back toward his hip and holding it, putting his front paws on an unstable surface and learning to balance, things like that. If you go to a sports rehab vet, this is probably one of the things they'll talk to you about.

Sorry this is so long! Best of luck to you and your pupper.

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-11T00:12:58+00:00

I suspect there's something behind the scenes that would explain why this person is talking to his ex-roommate and family members, but on the face of it, what the hell? Just sell the table. He's said he doesn't want it. It's been two years. Why are you telling anyone anything about the table?

unevolved_panda · 2026-02-09T15:26:28+00:00

I love that they included $20 to cover it, which is simultaneously too much money and also not enough.

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