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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My main use case is “hey, I need to make a change to this system I touch once a year. The documentation is thorough, dense, and I don’t know where to look. What button do I push to do Y?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The creator is active on a professional slack I’m on and they’re lovely and receptive to user feedback. Their tool is very popular in the online archives/cultural heritage scene (we combine small budgets and juicy, juicy data).

  My site has enabled js-free screening when the site load is low, under the theory that if the site load is too high then no one’s getting in anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assumptions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding: dairy cows interact with humans on a regular basis, for dairy stuff. Beef animals don’t interact with humans nearly as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Libraries are cool⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My (academic) library does. We send out a student worker with a laptop on a book cart to scan all the books on a shelf, then the next shelf, etc. The system flags if anything is missing or out of order, so the student can fix the order right then.

  When I worked in a public library, every librarian sleeper adopted a section of shelves and, when it was quiet, went and made sure it was in proper order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please let me invert y-axis for games where I control the field of view. Nothing takes me out of a game like suddenly staring at my feet when I try to look up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The bits where skin touches skin. Like in the crotch or under the breasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Luxury is drying the your folds with a blow dryer in winter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SipsTea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s for sure paper rock scissors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The online card catalog my library uses recently added an “AI Research Assistant” feature. While debating whether to turn it on (we decided against), this blog post came up. tldr the assistant won’t return results for certain topics. The is Not Cool. That (and the fact the flipping assistant can’t even limit itself to suggesting resources available in our library) is a deal breaker, without even getting into other considerations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All potato items 💔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Boston⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rode the subway and bus from Logan Airport to Worcester, heading back to college after winter break. I had trouble understanding the announcers on the T so asked strangers to help me know my stop. I think they knew the story because I had my luggage with me. They felt like… I don’t know. Tolerant indulgence of my inexperience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my partner. I just shop hungry and ask him to check the refrigerator for me while I’m out.

  We also have a shared grocery app, which works nicely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as my PCOS got treated (metformin) I lost 20 pounds. Looking back, it should have been caught decades ago. It pisses me off how much “you just need diet and exercise!” bullshit I swallowed when all I needed to do to lose weightwas take a stupid pill to treat the underlying condition.

  Caveat: I believe treating the underlying condition has had a bigger impact on my health than weight loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what we had tonight! Well, I had sliced turkey because it needed eating and my partner had canned chicken. I rather like Mac and cheese with peas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not neurotypical, but yes, I do chew on them.

  I ended up going with silicone straws in my household. Mine open up down the side so you can run your finger up them for easy cleaning.

  The metal and hard plastic ones suck for chewing on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really just want to know where the bathrooms and sitting areas are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no problem viewing the site on lynx. I wonder what their list of allowed browsers is. It’s bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public service announcement ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you on this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bingo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. I play Rimworld. (Though, tbh, my worst habit is accumulating way too many animals. Like, pages worth of named or trained dogs and wolves, plus quail.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Leftover macaroni and cheese makes a mean grilled cheese sandwich filling, then you dip it in tomato soup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨negativity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you feel about one large pancake melded with two smaller pancakes, to make some sort of cartoonish mouse head shape?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember asking my dad to cocoon me in blankets as a kid. It was wicked comfy.

  Nowadays I’m in a hammock. It’s way more comfy on my hips than a mattress and it gives me that happy cuddled feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered PT? I’ve been for my back and knees and it’s been great. They give you homework to help you strengthen the right muscles to make the pain to away. They also walk you through how to do those exercises and take feedback to make sure you don’t hurt yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to not use numbers. Use a tchotchke placed in a prominent place on your desk. My password changes frequently. The previous tchotchke was a goat pin, then a cactus figurine, then a binder clip. I just need to picture my desk and I know what the thing is.

  And my desk is so cluttered it’s not clear what the special object is. (You know what they say: cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Empty desk…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His name’s “Elvis” and he answered to “Aye-ellll-vis”. Now he doesn’t answer to anything because he’s gone deaf, but he’s still a great pup. He’s a senior terrier mix, about 10 pounds. He’s a bit of a velcro dog and I am the One True Human, so it sucks for him that I work outside the home. He’s stuck with Work From Home Partner, who just doesn’t fill the same void in Elvis’s heart. So, Elvis sleeps all day and then watches the front very attentively when he decides I should come home.

  He still has bursts of energy. Last weekend he met a chihuahua his age. Elvis was like “omg, you’re slightly smaller than me and seem even more chill. Let me dance around and thwack you in the face so you’ll play with me”. The other pup was game and it was adorable to watch two seniors playing.

  He goes on long hikes with me. He gets tired after about a block and will turn around and try and get me to go back to the car. I generally just carry him at this point. He’s lucky he’s tiny. He’ll lean forward to ask to be set down, then he’ll either sniff something or amble so very slowly along the path. He is the worst hiker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This question reminds me of a dog I ended up with. He knew his name, but only in the same accent as his previous owner. So I’d be at the dog park in New England calling for my dog in the most exaggerated southern accent I could muster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was taught it was about states rights, too. In Kentucky, they were less forceful about calling it the "war of northern aggression.

  Did you get taught that some slaves liked being slaves because it meant all their needs were met and they didn’t have to worry about anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I don’t think national pride that was a factor in my disappointment. I was more sad because 9 is a better number than 8, and Pluto is just a cute little guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine sure isn’t. We were having funding problems before the pandemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can also denote a difference in government styles: towns have a town council, cities have a mayor. Cities can be smaller than towns.

  This depends on your region, naturally.