Are the trans kids hot? What school do they go to?

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.

Yay came here for this. I was all excited to start a couple of beehives in my back yard. Then I discovered their lineage and what they’re doing to the native bees. Instead I realized I am hosting tons of huge ass bumblebees in my yard, and I’ll just let them be(e). Maybe get some of those bee houses for solitary bees instead.

Huh “submarine” rhymes with “guillotine” I just noticed

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.

Yes, but with hundreds of millions of people online, they still need ways to cut and sift the data as they identify… well the “demographics” they want. So using a VPN might make you stand out as more technologically included, or more likely to be hiding something. Either way things they might like to know as they build profiles on all Americans.

I’m surprised they’re not just buying the data but it’s nice that our taxpayers are footing the bill either way for this little service.

There’s a box in my kitchen I can put dirty dishes and tomorrow morning they’re clean

Skincare now mandatory

Weight management efforts now mandatory

Weight training now mandatory, just to stop losing muscle… even more if you want to improve

Quality sleep, consistently timed

Switch to whole foods based diet

Form working relationships with my doctors

These new White Lotus teasers are getting really hypey

These weirdos will tell their kids it’s a “no-no square” to avoid having to use the word “penis.” Then when their youth pastor molests them, they can go right to calling it whatever he does. Smooths over all that unnecessary sex communication librulz say you have to do.

Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What’s coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.

“americans are 3 hot meals from a revolution” is the saying I think.

Eat the lemon candy while you study and then take the exams

Unless they’re parked legally I just push them over, away from the sidewalk. And someone else has started as well! They do a decent job of coming to get them and put them somewhere allowed, all in a row. But the app requires you to take geostamped photos so they have proof their riders are just putting them in the middle of the sidewalk and walking away, and they don’t care.

Flipside, they’re hella nice to grab to work if my car is down or if it’s just nice, and you could techically get across my entire city on them (stopping to swap I assume) so there’s a bit of democratization about them, but you’d be dumb to try that.

They should be free if they’re going to be letting them leave tomorrow’s e-waste on our sidewalks. Maybe we could all pay for them together somehow idk

The water cooks out very fast and I’ll bet the salt largely goes with it.

It’s a neat thought but there will never be another change in the number of states, nor constitutional amendment, nor any significant legislation or sweeping agendas will be happening during the remaining years of our dying republic.

“Letting the perfect get in the way of the good.”

Most people can’t stop working and/or travel to DC for endless protests, but they can go out on a Saturday afternoon.

If that’s the least someone can do, don’t tell them not to.

You can’t put a shareholder in jail, they’re the entire point of the system gestures broadly

I am envious of shorter people sometimes, that just sounds like a DIY waterboarding situation for my 6’2 ass, but you make it sound really nice