Who remembers printing to a Postscript file and then running that through Acrobat to get a PDF? Back in the 90s when PDFs had to be explained.

Are you sure you don’t have “print as image” enabled there? It should keep it as a layered PDF, not rasterizing.

I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to post archive links to New Yorker. https://archive.is/R5pWs

Just to be clear, is shitting on someone’s lawn hurting them?

Asking for my dog, cough cough

I got permabanned for suggesting people draw pentagrams in chalk on a public street. Inciting violence, dontchaknow.

They’ve done studies showing people who don’t get physical touch often (or ever) spend more time in the shower, and like it hotter.

I think about that a lot. Been over a year since I had sex, and almost a year since I had full body contact with someone. I think I’m not alone in that these days.

Thank you! Same thing happened in the South after the freak storm in January, we had snow/ice for like 10 days which is hugely abnormal, no snow removal was done, streets became sheets of ice. Mail delivery stopped for a week. Everything did. Schools shut down over a week. I worked from home for a week. Number of people blaming the mayor? 0

Is it possible, being as how snow removal is the city’s responsibility, they’re actually complaining about that? If snow removal isn’t done in a timely manner, slush does indeed form and just moves around, not melting much.

Quickly reading the article suggests that’s the actual complaint.

I like the Guardian and Mamdani but come on here. Let’s focus on whether or not that complaint is accurate, and whether he’s had any chance to impact the city’s snow removal plans, which are generally done well in advance by someone other than the mayor.

Doc offices, urgent cares, etc have these little blue plastic bags with a cardboard collar around them, just big enough to go around the outside of your mouth. I call them yack sacks. Grab a few of these the next time you see a dispenser on the wall, keep them in your nightstand, glovebox, etc. They come in very handy.

It’s trivially easy to activate the sensor by putting your finger on the right part of the seat, on mine you are aware when it happens because there’s a beep. I am terrified of the moment my 3yo figures out where this spot is, because the panel of interesting buttons will suddenly do something, and that something will be Terrible.

Sorry to hear about yours (and the others in here), mine too, she used to be a clever, kind lady - or I thought she was - now I reflect and realize she fed me poison, abused me, and has no perspective outside of her own shallow little life. I couldn’t get her into therapy, and when she started pushing fundraisers for the Good’s murderer, I cut her out for good. In response she told me she “won’t let” my adult brothers speak to me anymore - yeah that’s what I’m talking about, mom. FFS

Steve Jobs. There was some magic to him, but also an extremely dark side. I had a corporate bio from the early 90s that made him and Woz seem like superhero partners, when in reality he shorted Wozniak and Esposito and only really looked out for himself. He seemed like a countercultural LSD dropping hippie, and he was some of that, but when it came time to get rich and get his, he went down that path too. Shitty father, terrible boss. None of the things I would say my own life aspires to now.

Like how they’re suddenly like, maybe don’t drink the raw milk we’ve been promoting recklessly.

People have already “solved” that problem by simply giving up on sex. We are headed into Japan territory.

Don’t give up. I run a nonprofit for queer men in the South, where you wouldn’t expect one. We’ve picked up a couple of femboys who both thought they wouldn’t fit in, and everyone accepted them immediately, and they met each other, and now they have femboy friends. Even in a small conservative state where there’s no femboy culture.

Unfortunately without orgs like ours I think Grindr and the like are the best option and those aren’t fun places for anyone, but they can still work, you just have to ignore a lot of shit.

PS if you’re a queer man (including femboys) who wants to see something like this in your area, let me know, we are trying to find the right people to start satellite chapters. We have a working model, just needs a bit of time investment each week to get running.

Click here to begin crowdfunding your dasher’s ER visit.

Security issues aside, HAVING the idea is the hardest part, much harder than coding an app. If you have a genuinely good idea, it’s pretty easy to find someone to help build it, because that person also wants in on a cash-cow. Lack of ideas is the bigger problem with launching apps today, which a million vibe coders have realized.

More importantly, homework teaches responsibility and self-accountability as well as time management. I hated it, I got through school without ever doing it, and I had to learn these things later on to my own detriment. But I had massive problems with authority caused by emotional incest from my mother, so it took a lot of work to re-parent myself into a successful person who could follow rules and realize they were sometimes there to help me.

Seems trivial to code in a beacon dependency and then embed that beacon in the walls or floor so the police would have to dismantle the entire building before being able to find it and take it along for the ride. Or heck a combination of beacons so the police don’t know how many to look for.

It’s an addiction just like any other social media site, being cut off from the supplier is one of a few ways to end addiction, so I’ve appreciated their ban-happiness lately (for myself included).