scrubbles

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair. Not even all the other cuts they made, they just want healthcare for people. Democrats do a lot of wrong, but this is one thing absolutely worth standing up for. The woman is right, people will die, and in this case if these don't happen people will in fact die.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 77 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What a slimey person. Giving half truths. Democrats are causing this, BS. Democrats are trying to keep the Affordable Care Act, which she is probably very interested in. Just outright lying to her. Democrats want 1 thing. 1, out of everything that has happened - 1 thing, and they refuse to give it to them. It's a complete power move, they want to be completely in control and refuse to give anything.

I find myself flooded with new releases I don't care about, but then go and spend 2 months playing through all of mass effect instead

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a fun one, but I desperately wish there was a way to run it without needing a VM or something. It's all just windows or mac based, but they do have the best models

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I understand that how you feel, and I also understand a mother's beliefs. While what she's saying is probably superstition, it also comes from a place of love, where she truly does want you to feel better.

Now, while what she said may be superstition, I will also say going to an event like that usually does help depression. Not because of anything mystical - but you're out of the house, you're with people who you care about and care about you, for an evening you don't need to worry about anything outside of the wedding, it is meant to be an event to enjoy. All of these are proven to help with depression, and an event like a wedding definitely can, if you go into them positively and want to have a good time. If you go into them thinking you're going to have a terrible time - well, you probably will. It's what you make of it.

Either way, responding to your mother's good wishes doesn't have to be extremely negative, (and this is coming from a person who's mother was a fundamental christian who tried to drag me to many many things). In this case, personally without knowing you I'd say go to the wedding. Worst case you get free booze and a decent meal. If you really don't want to, then a simple message to your mom that's like "Mom, I truly do appreciate that you're trying to help me, but I'm just not ready for an event like this. How about we do something quieter?". Acknowledge her trying to help, suggest an alternative.

Final thought: Could it be that she wants you to go with her not for your sake, but for hers? Does she need a plus one and she just wants to spend time with you, but maybe doesn't know how to ask?

If only there was some built in way to oh, disconnect from an entire instance at once....

No. Dear God no. Llms are not computers. They are just prediction machines. They predict that the next value is probably this value. There is no actual math there.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also bought Plex lifetime pass also for $100 and I am getting ads like this.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think it's very telling that it's not about "How do we allow them in legally" but it's about "Kick them out". If they were simply mad about illegal immigration then the natural discourse would be "Why do they not come over legally then?" The answer there is that of course it's insanely difficult to legally become a citizen of the US, and it can take years - even decades, but people have a family that's hungry now.

The discourse going to "Kick them out" shows that it's not about legal immigration at all, it's that they don't want a specific type of person around them. Otherwise we'd be having fairs and events to help people get their citizenship right now. After all they want to be here, the even want to pay taxes. If they just need to come in legally then the vast majority would, if our process allowed it.

Feel free to go read the multiple writeups from the maintainers that go over each one, we don't need to copy them all here into the comments for you.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Except they're spamming to users that they need this subscription even when they host locally or already have a membership.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I paid too, but consider that you basically paid $5 per year for 10 years and I'd say that good. You don't need to feel guilty if you decide to leave, you got your money's worth.

(And I mean, I have a sneaky suspicion they're coming for the lifetime users sooner or later)

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