Still time to inflate more. This season is still building up to the biggest and baddest. At the start of this season we hear names like Mythos and Glasswing but they don’t mean anything. Now we’ve learned they’re a new and faster way to discover vulnerabilities in software. The foreshadowing is building. We have the date, we know the upcoming catastrophe. In July, they will make public thousands of new software vulnerabilities. The internet will panic, software companies will spend billions on ai service to handle the damage. Anthropic will have a record IPO, followed by other AI companies. It’ll be YUGE. Stay tuned for the cliff hanger

Apple Watch 11

I mostly use it for convenience, so I don’t need to pull my phone out

• Apple Pay
• Weather
• Music controls
• timers. Lots of timers
• Reminders/notifications/texts
• random search questions
• occasionally phone calls

In theory I track

• exercise
• sleep

Feature I’m most interested in

• any health sensor

I upgraded from an Apple Watch 3 because I could no longer update in place, only reset and reinstall.

I’ll upgrade again when a compelling health sensor is added. Probably blood pressure

Yeah, let’s keep sanctioning them until that nasty Fidel Castro who nationalized all those businesses and drive former business owners out to Florida , dies. Well keep supporting our immigrant former business owners as long as Fidel lives! We will not show any mercy to Fidel, for harming the profits of our now citizens

Just in case, /s

I’m stuck in a loop of deciding what my goal should be. Sure, you may not escape but how about revenge?

I first thought of stuffing myself, then thought why spend my last moments uncomfortable…… but then yeah why not. Why not overeat to excess, vomiting in your last moments to create a horrifying mess with purifying stench. Let the hangman pay. Let the doctor pay. Let the guards take au. Let the witnesses pay. Let them all regret bring here and carry it to their own end

Modern social services and protections

• encourage unions
• universal healthcare
• universal pre-school
• universal college
• extended parental leave
• childcare support
• walkability/transit oriented cities

I get that they were left behind and remaining residents feel desperate, but that shouldn’t mean a sharp turn toward the right

I said similar in the last few elections: do you really prefer the guy wanting to “tear it all down”, over the candidate who at least recognizes the problem and proposes something, even if you don’t believe it? So now we have cuts in aid of all sorts, cuts in healthcare, cuts in job development, cuts in pollution remediation for the least advantaged, instead of retraining that you don’t believe in? Really? So it’s better to sit there starving with no heat, not enough food, no access to healthcare, mine tailings threatening your town, etc? But at least you p*wned the libs, who wanted to …. Help?

A lot of upstate New York is like this. Many once great towns but population dropping for decades.

The town I grew up in was a great place to grow up. But the major employer left and nothing replaced it. It looks exactly the same except greyer, run down, partly abandoned. At least I don’t think there are any $5,000 houses left , so that’s something

let’s say, I have one day, a week or a month left to live suffering from an illness,

A big problem with this line of thinking is that in real life you rarely know this, especially while remaining aware enough to commit to such a plan. It’s just a prognosis, based on averages.

or I know that after a while I’m going to have a heart attack that will definitely kill me.

1. You want to give up your remaining time because a heart attack is in your future? Usually you can reduce the chances with diet, exercise and medication.
2. For many heart attacks, survivability is directly related to how quickly you get medical attention.

Generalizing this back to what I believe is the goal of your question, it’s rarely certain or predictable. When it is, you may already be too far gone to make such choices (hence legal documents like DNR)

Either that changed or at least one brand has a waiver. Mine does that. It’s really cool driving with my high beams on but watching the dark spot follow the oncoming traffic. It’s also interesting driving with those same automatics high beams through town yet have so many dark spots it’s practically like only having running lights. It’s a fantastic feature

It clearly functions as intended, although the data geek in me wants to run experiments to verify it’s effective

I don’t think this is true anymore. We have standards for headlights with much sharper cutoff and even allow active matrix headlights now. But that won’t help until it’s been true long enough for most cars to have this.

In addition to general asshatedness, there’s definitely a regulation issue.

• many states don’t do annual inspections Much less care about headlights
• how the eff is it legal to sell led headlight inserts that fit standard headlight fixtures, with a wink and a nod that “they’re not intended for headlights”

Right, the surprise was that Texas honored an arrest warrant. We’ll see if they allow extradition m: that’s the last place before it’s totally in stste

Actually lack of that is one of the reasons we have high electricity prices. There was an expectation to buy cheap and clean electricity from Quebec, that kept getting blocked for reasons outside our control. I suppose at the moment with the political BS it’s just as well we were never able to get connected.

…. But our planned wind farms have also been blocked for many years. We finally got one open despite the federal government. It’s not even directly for us but is expected to cut 1.5¢/kWH off our overall cost of electricity

Very tempting, but I’ll take the knee pain preventing them from reclining, since there’s nothing I can do about it

No. Should not be allowed. For some reason airlines have been allowed to narrow that space more and more to the point where it’s just not reasonable to use. You are infringing on the person behind you. Sure it’s mainly the airlines fault, and the government regulators that are supposed to serve the people, but don’t be an asshole about basic human courtesy

• for those of us on the taller side, you reclining can be painful on the knees. How is it any different than me walking by punching your shoulder. Should I do that? Not ok
• for those of us on the taller side, if you recline, we may no longer easily see the whole screen
• Even short people no longer have room for a laptop and reclining means you quite likely damage it. That’s not ok
• While the trays are supposedly independent, if reclining, they aren’t entirely. You reclining will bump the tray and potentially spill a drink. Not ok. On some aircraft the recline will partly crush a tall cup or can on the back of the tray or knock it over. Not ok
• those of us on the bigger side may no longer even fit a standard paperback. Now you’re not even letting me read because you feel entitled?

As someone both big and tall, I have had people in front of me recline so my normal breathing is in their hair. I have to admit to playing that up to success. There’s nothing like some entitled asshole turning around to glare that someone is breathing in their hair, and suddenly realizing just how close the seats are and it’s their fault. My edgy revenge fantasy is to rest my novel on top of their head because it literally would be easier to read than in front of me

Kind fit. 6’3” here. Most of my life I was just enough taller than average to be uncomfortable, but normal in my family.

But now it’s more than uncomfortable. My knees are shot, making it hard to get in and out of cars. Of all things using the bathroom sink hurts my back because “standard height” is too low. Mostly work though, sitting in chairs that won’t adjust properly.

Then again, some of that is because I’m also big. I can’t really blame anyone other than me for that

But yeah, tall white dude definitely benefits

While that is what plugin hybrids are good for, remember that you don’t see the advantage unless you actually plug in for those local trips

You may also take a look into trip charger options for where you take road trips. So far I’ve found there are always multiple choices wherever I want to go, so there’s no reason for range anxiety. For me. And even without trip chargers, is there a chance to charge at your destination? Even the most rural places have electricity

They use electricity. And my average monthly power bill is already over $400 a month. You think I want that to be even higher?

Some of your concerns may be valid, but I pay relatively high prices for electricity, 35¢/kWH, and even at that price, the hit to my electric bill is half what I used to spend on gasoline. Current gas price make that even better

I was thinking it was so scary, it’s someone pissing themself

Carter was the last good president NOT “made for TV”.

Trump is the first “made for internet” president

Too true. I mean, I like over-hopped swill, but I like most distinctive tastes

Currently drinking a “Maine sour”: blueberry and cinnamon. My local brewery is influenced by the cuisine of the Indian owners and really leans into sour ales and tropical fruits!

But yeah, even though I like an IPA most of the time, what about everything else? I’ve actually had good luck finding dark/black ales this year but it seems like no one makes Marzens anymore. October is disappointing without Marzens. What’s up with that?

Edit: Mango Lassi Sour is back in season!!!