Septimaeus

Aight, I feel you

I’ve always used wooden toothpicks because

1. Common
2. Made from cheap soft wood: more likely to deform or destruct against metal than most plastics
3. Cut with the grain: especially soft to anything raking against the sides (like delicate pins)
4. The uneven “splintery” sides happen to be pretty good at snagging tiny fibers of lint to pull them out as one big ball, requiring fewer swipes

More techniques:

• clean with port facing straight down to get gravity assist
• blow across the opening of the port: mild negative pressure + agitation inside cavity vs blowing directly into port (which is generally warned against explicitly)
• focus on “pinning” lint up against each of the two corners and holding gentle pressure during extraction: these corners of the port have no exposed pins, and happen to be where lint tends to accumulate anyway

I assume it’s meant to poison data scraped for AI training. I’m not sure it works** but I don’t think they’re just trying to be an ass.

** E: mainly because a lot of DE time is devoted to prepping training data and we’re especially good at automatically correcting minor and consistent aberrations (common typos and other transcription errors) in large datasets

Surely it must be one or the other.

Yeah, we have “every great fortune” truisms to that effect. I just can’t help feeling that his case is special. Somehow even worse than Zuck. Haven’t put my finger on it.

Maybe it’s because what he fed into the monetization machine was community itself? Or because it was such a direct betrayal of the open ethos at the core of the original platform? I’m not sure.

At some point I realized that I feel sorry for this guy. Even assuming he grows up enough to realize what he did, if he reforms, if he becomes like-able enough to make real human connections, if they’re disconnected enough to not know how he made his billions, still they will eventually learn the true story from someone and won’t ever see him the same again.

Try as he might, he will never escape his betrayal, because there is no next-town-over at such a scale of global connectedness. He is doomed to, at best, acquire friends that are like him, which is to say he will never have any real friends again until the day he dies. It’s a cautionary tale as old as time and yet he chose it. He chose the truest form of poverty we know.

Yarr, welcome to the upside down mateys. Here thar be self-referential dissonance that will straighten yer toes.

On top of that, surrounding yourself with fake experts (chosen specifically for their willingness to say anything you want to hear) seems like a great way to never know what’s actually going on.

His political career up to that point, considered alongside his campaign and the absolute din of his first two years in office, to me paints a picture of a sincere but outspoken dreamer whose tropical personality was much better at whistling up a storm than steering his ship into it.

I think it’s fair to describe many aspects of his platform as “progressive” but ultimately he took no for an answer too often to actually be one in hindsight. I won’t diminish the good work he did, and respect the many firsts he achieved, but his lingering imposter syndrome kept him from using the mandate we gave him while he had the chance.

Right, a strategy of hostage-taking can work for a terrorist, but it’s a contract. It only works so long as your opponent has reason to think you’ll keep it.

No one alive today is more notorious for breaking contracts than this guy, and since January, he’s taken hostages hundreds of times and hasn’t kept his end even once. He ALWAYS shoots them anyway, just to feel less small.

So it couldn’t be simpler: there’s no reason or excuse to cooperate, and any who do at this point are some combination of imbecile, coward, or collaborator.

Shit. I never tried more than 400mg. A handful of those Iittle pink things is like grams. Ngl I’d pass cause that sounds like an attempt, but no worries just warn me so I have an epi handy lol

Lol I think they may have been implying the opposite (that they’d fall asleep) rather than flexing, since 20 minutes is much closer to the onset time than the half life and Benadryl’s rep to many = zonk-out drug.