People moving into an expensive apartment on a nightlife strip and complaining about the fucking noise.

I mean I have no problem with people saying what their religion is, but strategically it’s probably much better for her not to disclose her religion, since that would open herself to a whole other line of attacks.

I’m not sure it works at all any more without a phone number. I have two Gmail addresses I set up over a decade ago to handle notifications from specific services. I recently got an email telling me to log in or the accounts will be deleted. It then wouldn’t let me finish my login without adding a phone number. So I can only assume Gmail without a phone number is a thing of the past now.

Sync is not backup

Thank you. Now can you please explain this to my IT department that thinks force syncing everything on our computers to OneDrive is a solution to our lack of backups?

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If you mean what you can do to prevent your own panic attacks - I know of a number of people who have massage rings (aka therapy rings) and massage balls. When they feel a panic attack coming, they will use them by for example squeezing the massage ball pretty hard so it causes a slight amount of pain, and that has a similar effect. As @tomenzgg@midwest.social mentioned, the goal is to shift your attention from the panic attack.

Also, since panic attacks are often coupled with hyperventilation, the breathing into a bag trick isn’t some TV trope, it actually works. I had to drive a friend of mine to the hospital for a severe panic attack and they did the bag thing, and I was blown away by how quickly she stopped hyperventilating and calmed down.

Not all that surprised. I’ve prevented people from having panic attacks by intensely massaging the palm of their hand. They usually wonder WTF I’m doing - but seriously, it works.

“All opinions other than mine are only supported by dopamine highs” - wow, what a great new way of being condescendingly dismissive!

OP actually left the consequences of climate change open. No, it probably won’t be a Mad Max inferno. Probably not. But we also don’t know where the tipping point of the oceans is, because they are storing a shit ton of carbon. Hit that tipping point, and that carbon may well suddenly be released into the air, and then the shit hits the fan.

But even if that scenario doesn’t happen, and the world is still theoretically perfectly livable, you mentioned one of the main problems: mass migration. We already see what that’s doing today. We’re not far away from World War 3 anymore. So yes, the question is perfectly legitimate.

(And before anyone thinks it: I’m not blaming the migrants, of course they’re not at fault, they have every right to look for a better life. The people at fault are entirely different, but it doesn’t change the fact there is a causational relationship)

A relationship should never be used as a means to have sex. That will only hurt people. And a relationship is so, so much more than just sex.

Honestly, to me it sounds like you don’t really want a (romantic) relationship in the first place. And that’s completely fine. Don’t try to force something on yourself that you don’t want. That will only hurt your partner and disappoint you. It’s completely fine to just want friends with benefits or one night stands (or both, as long as you’re careful). You do you.

So you’re saying it wasn’t only abuse from the Clinton supporters, but it was also a result of purity tests. And we keep wondering why the left keeps failing…

I’m sorry, this must be a different CBC than the one I’m following. The one I’m following barely goes a day without detailing the horrors. The hospital bombings, the starvation/famine, the killing of journalists, and so on. I mean, the CBC ain’t perfect, but it’s definitely not whitewashing the situation in Gaza. Even when the news making event is about the Israeli hostages (not too often nowadays), a sizeable chunk is still dedicated to the horrors in Gaza to put it into perspective. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen a statement from Israeli government officials get aired without serious scrutiny in the last year.

I really hope phones get better Linux support soon… it really isn’t daily driver material for most phones at the moment.

When people have created a narrative that “white x y z men” are responsible for all the evil in the world (I’m exagerating, but you get my drift), it creates a very difficult situation when those people are facing some serious difficulties. The intellectually lazy thing to do in that case is to brush it off or minimize it, like in the ways you’ve described. And unfortunately, that’s the route those same people will take, since identity politics are intellectually lazy (and lacking compassion, but that’s another story).

The unfortunate part of it is that the right has taken advantage of that wide open flank, which is one main reasons we’re in this current clusterfuck.

In case anyone was thinking the same thing I was: no, it wasn’t a parasite, it was named that way due to its shape.

I literally read through the rules for the third time or something and couldn’t find “the rule”. Am I too stupid to read?

In Germany that’s called a hooker’s breakfast.

The page is here. Under “rate addendum number 7” you can find a pdf with the prices.

It can’t be said often enough: fuck Axel Springer.

As @myotheraccount mentioned, this is 330km/h, but yes, they still need drivers. On the high speed lines, the train can do quite a bit on its own, but you still need a driver to take care of the stops at stations, for non-high speed sections which generally don’t have the automation infrastructure, and for the case the something doesn’t work or go as intended.

There’s not much of a need to “keep an eye on the machines”, they’re pretty sturdy, made to go at that speed and have gone through a number of tests to ensure everything works the way it should. Unless we’re doing a test run, but that’s another story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGcVq1z5Do