You’re ignoring the thing about federal election funds. Is attempting that goal a “waste?” By that logic, in a solidly blue state, voting for any major party candidate is also a waste because you as an individual can’t impact the outcome.

Read Old Man’s War.

Dude, if you’re having heart palpations, go to fucking urgent care. That shit can be lethal. Atrial fibrillation? Atrial flutter? They can cause blood clots which can cause stroke. Urgent care will know what to do, even if that’s just calling a cardiologist elsewhere to look at your EKG or even stuffing you in an ambulance and driving you to an ER.

Don’t want to take medical advice from a rando on the internet? (You shouldn’t!) Then call your goddamned nurse line. They will sort you out and tell you exactly where to go.

Good luck.

What campolat said. But also, if you’re really feeling an itch to do open source development on your free time but don’t have a project, why not contribute to some existing open source project? You won’t have to do annoying steps like starting or maintaining your own project, and you can just pick some software you already use and add a feature or fix a bug that you’d actually benefit from.

1. There are companies you can pay to physically shred your disk drives. You have to be able to trust them of course for this to work.

2. Or if you want to DIY, you can drill or smash your drives. Just wear eye protection, etc. Making the drives inoperative like this is the only thing I’d trust, but you can also software-wipe them first.

Maybe I’m being naive, but it seems like the biggest threat of unchecked AI is “just” the further concentration of wealth (among humans). Which, ironically, poses a catastrophic risk to humanity…

Wait, when did the action happen??

Some of the most condescending, man-splainy, anti-social, but-what-abouty contrarians I’ve ever had the displeasure of encountering online have been technical users.

😄

Probably just as well…

That had to be more than a little freaky!

Unlike Twitter, Mastodon seems to rely much more on stable hashtags for discovery. That’s probably because there’s no “the algorithm” like on Twitter. So with Mastodon you very well can subscribe to hashtags and expect them to get reused over time.

TIL!! I was snookered. Thanks so much for sharing this.

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Why are you not a fan? I’m genuinely curious, as I’m vaguely evaluating such software.