They’re making a comeback. When you’re afflicted by a miasma or even a lecherous spirit, and it’s causing a pallor with your vigor being sapped, a cigarette can be just the thing to cool the throat and mollify the mind.

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Impeaching Trump is just another Tuesday now. No meaning.

I would watch this movie

Half the people I know, plus several books I’ve read lately, think that a small nuclear incident is required to get us back on track. We need to see devastation and horror to appreciate peace. Well, shit. Am I rooting for it? Kind of.

I organized our network’s printers into a print server, then wrote scripts to deploy them using a simple CLI tool. When printers break, I google it and order the part. Beyond that there is no more chaos, no more walking to workstations to troubleshoot. I am not a programmer, just an automation-focused sysadmin. Who ALWAYS gets assigned the bloody printers, because I’m too nice.

Lacking in novelty, our minds compress memory. Best explanation I’ve heard, and it’s seemed true… years where I am not doing very much, it’s just a few surface memories unless I dig. But years where I am busy as hell, it’s like being overrun with memories thinking of those times. As we get older, we experience less novelty. Living in a cube, living in a rut, yes that’ll make time slide by like nothing else. Avoid it at all costs.

Them slutty, overdramatic-as-shit Anne Rice vampires of course. Join me up in the Talamasca, hunt me down a gay bodychanging lover, all the things.

He’s planning a speedrun of war crimes, see if he can set a record for multitude and variety at the same time

Hold up the Dutch straight up put chocolate sprinkles onto buttered toast and you’re coming at exclusively at the US? And Danish were named after somewhere. Strudel… that sounds awfully germanic… I think Europe is gaslighting us. Also I’ve had European milk chocolate, holy shit.

Deconstructed is a very popular way to do haute cuisine dishes. You have to do some of the work, and you only get a small fraction of what an entree would be, and you pay many times more. It’s brilliant.

First and foremost is - just like humans - refined carbs. Inflammation, cancer, diabetes, death. Most pet foods contain insane levels of refined carbs. If you put a cat on a food like Tiki that’s literally just seafood slurry, you can reverse many health problems, but it’s 10x the cost of kibble.

We need to get beyond feeding our animals the same ultraprocessed junk food we eat, and then we should absolutely be looking at this other stuff.

My cats have a water fountain with a plastic sponge pre-filter, as most have. I wonder about the microplastic generation in that all the time. Plus it’s a plastic fountain because the ceramic ones are also insanely expensive and do break.

You joke but it’ll be a real TruthSocial post within the next week. “We WON the war! Now we’ll be rich!” as gas goes a dime higher

That it was broken is probably related to the internet connection being down, Outlook has the vaguest error messages possible so it won’t have told them anything useful. Maybe no error message at all, maybe just a little yellow ! icon. It’s designed to keep corporate IT people in jobs, and it works.

Just tell them you don’t want it and they will almost certainly accommodate. Most therapists are still trying to get a sense of the tool and how their patients will feel about it, they won’t be looking to fire patients over it.

I’ve been looking at the SimplePractice tool as I am IT guy for a couple of therapy clinics, plus my own therapist wanted a guinea pig. I am not thrilled by the terms of service, which allow the company to do whatever they want internally with your data. But the tool is legit useful for therapists (it’s to help them justify your ongoing care to your insurance company, who wants specifics on the how but not the what you’re discussing. The therapist winds up reviewing the summarization before it’s sent to the insurance company. It won’t affect your care. The LLM is supposed to be HIPAA compliant, but I am really curious about how that works.

I am looking more at on-device models for the future. Notetaking is a big burden for therapists, who often wind up keeping multiple versions of your notes: one for you (you have the right to request them), one for insurance which is coded to their treatment plans, one for the court or judge if there’s a divorce or other proceeding involved. One for the parent if it’s a teenager. So a tool like this has the real power to cut back on a therapist’s weekend admin time. There’s just no reason it can’t be a local model. A Mac Mini sitting in the corner, with a mic input switch for clients who don’t want it on.

It’s worth researching a therapist’s credentials, some states allow “pastoral counseling degrees” and so on to be a path to “mental health therapist.” You want LISW, a licensed social worker. I’m not saying there aren’t weirdos, or that your experience wouldn’t happen with a social worker… just that many folks don’t realize some therapists went to theology classes instead of psychology classes, which is a prime setup for problems.

If you ever see a free election again, tell it I said hello.

I drove through the Midwest last week and was SHOCKED to see no other political bumper stickers in 1200 miles, and only a couple of billboards, mostly for abortion. It’s gone quiet, but not in a “I bet people are getting along better now” kind of quiet.

That RAM isn’t a dangerous weapon like a uterus

Amber Heard

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