@Raeyn For some reason, headaches feel like an Eternal State of Being; it takes practice to remember otherwise...
@servelan Has anyone used the phrase "digital blackface" yet? ...'cuz that's kinda what shrieks across the room and latches onto my particular throat...
It’s entirely possible to have a world with guaranteed housing for everyone, solar and wind powered energy, fast and free public transit, high quality education and healthcare for all, well-funded libraries, healthier food, and a shorter work week. Those things are achievable now. Today.
...and Stranger Danger is a total myth invented by the police, in case anyone didn't already know...
@blogdiva I learned of the phrase "third space" only last year. (That's the category you're describing, in case it's also unfamiliar to you too.)
Hellzyeah, we need much more of these... and ways for kids in car-centric places to reach them. I propose diverting ~half the money we spend on car infra into third spaces and non-car transit infra.
@anarchademic I'm still skeptical that it is. The article talks about the risks of being hit while indoors, and does mention that indoor hits are generally less severe, but doesn't give any data about incidents of people being struck by lightning while in the shower.
It seems to me that in order for the lightning to try to reach ground through you, it would have to avoid the many other routes between the plumbing (whichever system -- fresh water and wastewater -- it somehow managed to strike) and ground.
Obviously that's no guarantee -- but what are the numbers? Is PVC plumbing safer or more dangerous (with regard to this one very uncommon occurrence)? What if you're showering in a cast-iron bathtub?
For now, I'm continuing to ignore this risk (not that it comes up a lot anyway).
@kity Could be; certainly my concentration is shot. The CO2 must have taken it all and there is none left for anyone else.
@kity Oh right, that whole "400ppm" thing...
It's been a disconcerting day, so it's unsurprising to find myself forgetting known things.
@aud "Yes friends we got trouble! With a capital T which rhymes with P that stands for People!"
Inside you there are two* lungs.
Feed them both a mixture of O2 and Nitrogen, with maybe 2% CO2 (I think?) and optionally a few trace amounts of other non-toxic gases.
(WARNING: The above describes a process known as "breathing", which can lead to death or other adverse side-effects. Consult a doctor or pharmacist to determine the exact amounts of O2, Nitrogen, and CO2 that are right for you. Offer void where prohibited by laws of physics; not available in some states of matter.)
(* If the actual number is less, then I'm sorry life has treated you like that. Truly. Fully-repairable bodies when.)
You're not wrong.
The problem then becomes communication -- I have yet to successfully get across the idea that they might want a better platform, and that I can help with that.
The usual reaction is that anything else would be too new, so nobody would use it.
I should probably try again... but kinda overloaded in general right now.
I'm in Durham, NC -- Tuscaloosa / Lakewood area. I know there are groups near me, but the only online presence I've found so far is Facebook, which is kind of a non-starter.
Whyizzit that pharmacies will go to the trouble of deploying a chatbot that has to (1) connect to a voice-line, (2) translate text-information into spoken words and then translate spoken words (possibly over a bad connection) back into text, (3) also deal with the beginning and ending of the conversation...
...instead of just having a chatbot?
(...or even having a chatbot as an option?? ...since they've already automated the "act on natural-language information and respond to it in natural-language" bit...)
@welshpixie I probably should be creating some, being an admin an' all, but I keep forgetting that the feature exists...
@cathywilcox THANK YOU for standing up against the stupid "Palestinians are human" = "antisemitism" equivalence. This has got to stop.
I am very bad at f2f socializing; that's why I do most of my work in the online/software space.
I have often thought about this, and I keep coming back to the idea that we need a "dark" backup network that has its own DNS-equivalent.
I think the tech for this must already be out there (not sure if Tor is adequate; I'm not an expert; there's definitely newer tech which might be applicable) -- but I mean more the institutions and resources.