773 pts · July 18, 2023
Yup. It's fucked up how a bunch of countries effectively block the possibility of each others citizens claiming asylum by declaring each other to be safe countries legally. Also fucked up that there doesn't seem to be anywhere ideal for trans people to emigrate to. Like, where will remain safe and protect our rights long term? I'm scared by some of the worsening stuff here in the uk and it's clearly so much worse in the usa.
Wow. We've got a bunch that are ok after the expiration date.Mostly got rechargeables now. Did have a battery charger where one of the microcontrollers failed though. It had a tiny little crater left in the failed chip.Was likely something the user did; one charge controller per 2 slots and different battery types on the shared slots.
And yes, infrastructure is an important part of this. We tried to get a heat pump when the over 20 year old behemoth of a boiler failed but literally every installer ghosted us.New boiler still uses 10% less gas though, on a higher temperature too. Turned it back down to save a little gas though. 17 C is warm enough.
The pace of change has been increasing.There is still reliance on fossil fuels; even here in the uk my house uses about 2 times more has than electricity. There is no way a supply crisis does not mess up the whole world; it just won't be forever. ~20% of oil and gas can definitely be replaced with renewables given time.Heat pumps alone could likely manage that much given we'd use 70% less gas with one if all our electricity was gas. (It's actually nuclear, wind, and solar)
Was there ever actually an era when they didn't leak? They certainly did if left in devices too long in the early 2000's. Duracell ones too.
But the NHS gets updates all the time - Just last week they managed to switch to chalkboards instead of clay tablets and chisels!
They've stopped putting cardboard tubes in wrapping paper here. Now it's just got a little bit of brown paper rolled up in the centre.The tubes used to be good for so much fun!
Places like sex matters or lgb alliance. rowling gave like £70000 to for women scotland.For more info please spare my mental health and search for it with something like Ecosia.
I was not talking in moral sense only in a how difficult for dyslexic me to read sense.Xanth does suck like that; parent stopped following the series long ago and the physical books are for the shameful author box like gaiman's works too. We do drop authors and their works on moral grounds when they occur.Sadly Xanth is not remotely alone in how misogynistic it is for something from my parent's childhoods.
Chronicles of Narnia was parental influence too; it was by a Christian author and full of biblical themes so I was allowed to read it even in church during the service.
Not Heard of Dark Is Rising but have read the Chronicles of Narnia and before I was 12. They were a bit difficult but much easier than hp.I read Xanth because a parent had the books from their childhood. The glue was failing and pages would be barely attached. I don't know what you mean by bottom of the barrel; I cannot tell if a book is objectively good literature, only how easily I can read it. To me shakespear is some of the worst and LOTR/the Hobbit similar.
Like, they just happened to be really difficult to read. Some things just are.I literally cannot remember the alphabet either or how to spell; my phone is doing the spelling for me with swipe typing and spell check. There's infinite typos if I'm at a desktop keyboard. Also throws people at work when I can do tasks quickly and well but am glacial slow if I need to write out everything to document the same task.
Thanks re: congrats! I literally could not read them. Like, maybe 3 or 4 pages in an hour and being exhausted after. Got made fun of for this by some.Dyslexic, but never found a book so difficult before that. LOTR and the Hobbit later on; still can't read those.Discworld wasn't easy for the first couple of books but later ones were easy and they were never anywhere near as difficult to read.Could manage books about Black Beauty (the horse), Icemark Chronicles, etc.
She is more influential anti trans than trump here in the UK.She supports some of the nastier anti trans hate groups here.She literally posted a photo of herself smoking a cigar on a luxury yacht to celebrate an anti trans court decision.
I'm queer and transitioned. Harry potter did not help me in any of my tough times. It was used to make me feel stupid and illiterate; I cannot think of another book series as difficult to read.DiscWorld was easier; Terry Pratchet rocks.Xanth was easier, and that author's horrendously evil too.
Yes. Grey 'squirrels' are nothing but invasive vermin; here in the UK it is illegal to let them go if caught.
Even the poorest countries can afford some level of renewable energy these days. Solar is unbelievably cheap thanks to China, and wind is also less expensive than gas already.
Don't have access to YouTube right now - can't find a server that works for both Imgur and YouTube. What's the linked video?
The west will not collapse before the rest of the world does. The west can spend far more on oil and gas than Asia and it's less dependant on them too.
Potatoes maybe? They're really efficient for calories and nutrition per area of land. And they grow well even here where the sun is generally an alien concept.Plus the fluffy tailed rats (only a squirrel if red - actually illegal to set a caught grey one free) don't eat them.
It's bizarre to me how complicated it seems to be in some places. Even with id requirements now there's ways to vote without any id.And how postal votes could be lost or delayed. (You can even deliver them in person at the return address or voting station here)
An email to get a postal vote here in the UK. Didn't need id and still got to vote.Can also proxy vote by nominating someone to vote in person on my behalf; did that a few times when I was away at uni.Even after getting a postal or proxy vote setup if I don't use it I can still vote in person on the day. Changed my name and it was no issue.Could register both at uni and at home during my university years and then choose where to vote on election day as long as I only voted once total.
Electric planes do exist, they're just not very big at all. Hydrogen might also work there.We can cut out the vast majority of oil use just by switching to renewables for energy. Plastics can be made with plants, and a great deal of effort is being put into reducing their use and recycling them. Even my phone and headphones contain a decent amount of recycled plastic. Fertilizer is more complicated. Possible to do but very difficult.
And even the European countries with lots of renewable or nuclear energy for their grids are going to feel this in time given how most of them rely heavily on gas heating. Like, the UK gas grid provides more energy than the electricity grid and only 30% of it is domestic with maybe 40-50% being from the rest of Europe.
They look a couple weeks old to me. Like how gentle are y'all being they don't show wear on the bristles?
I bite the toothbrush heads whenever I brush my teeth. I pass the toothbrush between hands by biting on it's head, letting go with one hand, then picking up with the other. Several times per cleaning.My brush heads look way worse after a while. Also wooden heads do not work for this they split and leak bristles.
A large number of passengers on this flight were injured. Time is not all they lost.
They seemed dead to me when I disabled all the chat/social features after getting tired of consistent nastiness.Like, the amount of just terrible behaviour.
I really would not be surprised if it was your doctor. Trans healthcare does not generally seem well understood by doctors, even some who specialise in it.
I'd go for injections of they were available here. Only get pills or gel/patches and can't do anything transdermal without problems later on.It's also pretty random if it's valerate or hemihydrate pills which is a little unfortunate.
Yup. It's fucked up how a bunch of countries effectively block the possibility of each others citizens claiming asylum by declaring each other to be safe countries legally.
Also fucked up that there doesn't seem to be anywhere ideal for trans people to emigrate to. Like, where will remain safe and protect our rights long term?
I'm scared by some of the worsening stuff here in the uk and it's clearly so much worse in the usa.
Wow. We've got a bunch that are ok after the expiration date.
Mostly got rechargeables now. Did have a battery charger where one of the microcontrollers failed though. It had a tiny little crater left in the failed chip.
Was likely something the user did; one charge controller per 2 slots and different battery types on the shared slots.
And yes, infrastructure is an important part of this. We tried to get a heat pump when the over 20 year old behemoth of a boiler failed but literally every installer ghosted us.
New boiler still uses 10% less gas though, on a higher temperature too. Turned it back down to save a little gas though. 17 C is warm enough.
The pace of change has been increasing.
There is still reliance on fossil fuels; even here in the uk my house uses about 2 times more has than electricity. There is no way a supply crisis does not mess up the whole world; it just won't be forever.
~20% of oil and gas can definitely be replaced with renewables given time.
Heat pumps alone could likely manage that much given we'd use 70% less gas with one if all our electricity was gas. (It's actually nuclear, wind, and solar)
Was there ever actually an era when they didn't leak? They certainly did if left in devices too long in the early 2000's.
Duracell ones too.
But the NHS gets updates all the time - Just last week they managed to switch to chalkboards instead of clay tablets and chisels!
They've stopped putting cardboard tubes in wrapping paper here. Now it's just got a little bit of brown paper rolled up in the centre.
The tubes used to be good for so much fun!
Places like sex matters or lgb alliance. rowling gave like £70000 to for women scotland.
For more info please spare my mental health and search for it with something like Ecosia.
I was not talking in moral sense only in a how difficult for dyslexic me to read sense.
Xanth does suck like that; parent stopped following the series long ago and the physical books are for the shameful author box like gaiman's works too. We do drop authors and their works on moral grounds when they occur.
Sadly Xanth is not remotely alone in how misogynistic it is for something from my parent's childhoods.
Chronicles of Narnia was parental influence too; it was by a Christian author and full of biblical themes so I was allowed to read it even in church during the service.
Not Heard of Dark Is Rising but have read the Chronicles of Narnia and before I was 12. They were a bit difficult but much easier than hp.
I read Xanth because a parent had the books from their childhood. The glue was failing and pages would be barely attached.
I don't know what you mean by bottom of the barrel; I cannot tell if a book is objectively good literature, only how easily I can read it. To me shakespear is some of the worst and LOTR/the Hobbit similar.
Like, they just happened to be really difficult to read. Some things just are.
I literally cannot remember the alphabet either or how to spell; my phone is doing the spelling for me with swipe typing and spell check.
There's infinite typos if I'm at a desktop keyboard.
Also throws people at work when I can do tasks quickly and well but am glacial slow if I need to write out everything to document the same task.
Thanks re: congrats!
I literally could not read them. Like, maybe 3 or 4 pages in an hour and being exhausted after. Got made fun of for this by some.
Dyslexic, but never found a book so difficult before that. LOTR and the Hobbit later on; still can't read those.
Discworld wasn't easy for the first couple of books but later ones were easy and they were never anywhere near as difficult to read.
Could manage books about Black Beauty (the horse), Icemark Chronicles, etc.
She is more influential anti trans than trump here in the UK.
She supports some of the nastier anti trans hate groups here.
She literally posted a photo of herself smoking a cigar on a luxury yacht to celebrate an anti trans court decision.
I'm queer and transitioned. Harry potter did not help me in any of my tough times.
It was used to make me feel stupid and illiterate; I cannot think of another book series as difficult to read.
DiscWorld was easier; Terry Pratchet rocks.
Xanth was easier, and that author's horrendously evil too.
Yes. Grey 'squirrels' are nothing but invasive vermin; here in the UK it is illegal to let them go if caught.
Even the poorest countries can afford some level of renewable energy these days. Solar is unbelievably cheap thanks to China, and wind is also less expensive than gas already.
Don't have access to YouTube right now - can't find a server that works for both Imgur and YouTube.
What's the linked video?
The west will not collapse before the rest of the world does. The west can spend far more on oil and gas than Asia and it's less dependant on them too.
Potatoes maybe? They're really efficient for calories and nutrition per area of land.
And they grow well even here where the sun is generally an alien concept.
Plus the fluffy tailed rats (only a squirrel if red - actually illegal to set a caught grey one free) don't eat them.
It's bizarre to me how complicated it seems to be in some places. Even with id requirements now there's ways to vote without any id.
And how postal votes could be lost or delayed. (You can even deliver them in person at the return address or voting station here)
An email to get a postal vote here in the UK. Didn't need id and still got to vote.
Can also proxy vote by nominating someone to vote in person on my behalf; did that a few times when I was away at uni.
Even after getting a postal or proxy vote setup if I don't use it I can still vote in person on the day.
Changed my name and it was no issue.
Could register both at uni and at home during my university years and then choose where to vote on election day as long as I only voted once total.
Electric planes do exist, they're just not very big at all. Hydrogen might also work there.
We can cut out the vast majority of oil use just by switching to renewables for energy.
Plastics can be made with plants, and a great deal of effort is being put into reducing their use and recycling them. Even my phone and headphones contain a decent amount of recycled plastic.
Fertilizer is more complicated. Possible to do but very difficult.
And even the European countries with lots of renewable or nuclear energy for their grids are going to feel this in time given how most of them rely heavily on gas heating.
Like, the UK gas grid provides more energy than the electricity grid and only 30% of it is domestic with maybe 40-50% being from the rest of Europe.
They look a couple weeks old to me. Like how gentle are y'all being they don't show wear on the bristles?
I bite the toothbrush heads whenever I brush my teeth. I pass the toothbrush between hands by biting on it's head, letting go with one hand, then picking up with the other.
Several times per cleaning.
My brush heads look way worse after a while.
Also wooden heads do not work for this they split and leak bristles.
A large number of passengers on this flight were injured. Time is not all they lost.
They seemed dead to me when I disabled all the chat/social features after getting tired of consistent nastiness.
Like, the amount of just terrible behaviour.
I really would not be surprised if it was your doctor. Trans healthcare does not generally seem well understood by doctors, even some who specialise in it.
I'd go for injections of they were available here. Only get pills or gel/patches and can't do anything transdermal without problems later on.
It's also pretty random if it's valerate or hemihydrate pills which is a little unfortunate.