Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
Oh, they say that? Weird, I distinctly recall the box saying “reusable” when I bought them years ago. I guess it’s like the thing where Q-tips are labelled as “not to be crammed into your ear-holes”, to bring it full circle.
I clean them using a hand bidet, the high-pressure stream of water from it blasts all the wax out from between the vanes. Soaking them in some kind of soapy water or solvent sounds like it’d work well too, if you don’t have a high pressure water stream readily available.
These are reusable. Those ones I bought a few years back are still in use.
I saw a box of these on Amazon for $6. You’re really going to quibble over a few bucks?
Besides, these do a better job than wads of cotton on sticks. So it’s worth a few bucks.
A few years back I bought one of these on a whim and I’ve found it to be an excellent ear wax removal tool. Just take care when inserting - that’s the motion that can shove wax deeper or impact your ear drum.
A quick Googling shows that there are a ton of other tools with a wide variety of shapes and materials, but this is the one that I can personally vouch for. Cleaning the wax off of the finned end after use requires a strong jet of water, that’s the only downside I can think of.
I’m Canadian, I remember watching The Wave in school too. I don’t recall much focus on the “here’s how fascism and authoritarianism rises” thing, but there must have been something to contextualize watching that movie that I’m not remembering.
This has happened before. The Nazis were not the only fascists back in the 1930s, it was a global movement. The movement passed. This one will too. It’s just a matter of trying to keep the high tide mark down until then.
And honestly, the way DEI has been handled in some cases really was not very good. I support the basic principles behind the movement but IMO the proper way to ensure that underrepresented groups get their chance is to address the problem at its roots - improved education, improved political representation, improved access to utilities and financial support and so forth. Hiring quotas are counterproductive. So I’m hoping that after the rubble settle and a new progressive movement eventually rises from the ashes it’ll have the opportunity to take a better approach.
One silver lining that I’m hoping for is that the collapse of American global influence might result in a rollback of the insane intellectual property regime they’ve been pushing on the rest of the world for generations. There were already hints of this sort of thing happening back during Trump’s first term; the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty originally included a bunch of clauses protecting American IP but when Trump withdrew the rest of the signatories redesigned the treaty to remove those clauses.
The withdrawal of American foreign aid sucks, but likewise may end up removing roadblocks to various good things like family planning, sex ed, and so forth being offered. A lot of America’s foreign influence was a mixed bag due to their puritanical demands.
Anyone who has to ask is probably as bad as he is.
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He was 88, a stiff breeze would have been as effective an assassination method.
Regardless of how you feel about it, you’ve now discovered something very important; your wife is the sort of person who would lie to you about something very important. I’d recommend contacting a lawyer to make sure that you’re ready to protect your interests just in case some kind of escalation happens. Her behaviour hasn’t changed now, while she thinks you don’t know, but who knows what could happen if she finds out you do?
I’m not saying you should do anything vindictive preemptively, just things like making sure the titles for your property are properly registered or your pension plan is fully in your name, that sort of thing.
Google recently opened their ecosystem up to find-my-device tags like this, they’re available from providers like Chipolo. Last I heard they weren’t very good yet because despite there being tons of Android phones around for them to work with they’d put some restrictions on them that made them ping less frequently.
They’re also not GPS tags, they ping nearby Android phones via Bluetooth and the Android phones report their location to Google. But if you’re worried about a bag being stolen (as opposed to, for example, being located if you’re lost in the wilderness) then that might be enough.
Those aren’t exclusive or contradictory to each other.
Amazing Grace is always a good one. The story behind it helps with the impact, IMO; it was written by a former slave trader who had an epiphany and realized just how irredeemably evil he was, and was doing his best to turn it around.
I’m also a big enjoyer of Simple Gifts. It’s a Shaker song and I find it very soothing.
There was another comment in this thread about exactly that situation, a female police officer that noticed a creepy guy following her around during her patrol. But there’s lots of other potential negatives to having open immediate police comms, like criminals monitoring to see whether there are police around before doing whatever criminality they were planning on doing.
Same goal of body cameras, but we all see how that turned out.
Sounds like “we tried it once and it didn’t work, therefore we should never try again.” Instead, we should take into account how the body camera situation has failed and modify the approach to account for it.
Mandate that the buffer be operated by an independent body the police have no control over, for example.
One possible compromise that leaps to mind is to have the radios be encrypted, but they all feed into a several-hours-long buffer and get automatically decrypted and published after that delay. You wouldn’t be able to stalk police or whatever, but they wouldn’t be able to hide malfeasance or incompetence from the public.
It’s not perfect, there are still good transparency reasons for knowing what the police are doing right now, but it might be a good enough balance.
“Awesome” is relative, see Overton window.
But yeah, this leaps straight on top of rule #3 and ravishes it senseless. Probably doesn’t belong on this community.
I’m on both, I like both. Been liking Reddit less and less over the years, I expect at some point I’ll stop going, but for now it’s still okay.
It’s bottoms all the way down.