And messages like these (yOu ArE nAtUrAlLy iMmUnE) are very harmful and wrong. To quote one recent article:

The autistic brain’s preference for factual information and logical reasoning can indeed provide some protection against emotionally manipulative tactics. […]

The article then continues to list examples of persuasion techniques that work on spectrum individuals. With examples of nostalgia and hypnotics. I’m not an expert in marketing, but given the random bells, jingles, dog barks, baby/cat cries in marketing from the last 25 years, I bet these logic-thought terminating triggers have been baked into advertising for a long time.

Yeah, my working theory is violent narcissists have a much harder time beeing casually violent, so they go ever more totalitarian, because then they can be violent without repercussions again…

See it these links show up if you “view source” on a browser. Print the source as evidence to bring to a lawyer. Or find a lawyer who either knows how to find stuff online or has a good IT Person.

Be prepared for much more DARVO and other mind games. Be aware Law enforcement can not shield you from all of this, but is a good ally to have. Try to find other local women only clubs or victim helping organizations as allies.

Be aware if you search for them online, there are nutjob sites designed to hurt women in need. Go in person if you can, to pick up their vibe before you open up.

Stay safe! Best of Luck!

I, too get blocked by certain sites. I think it’s a configuration thing, where it does not like my combination of uBlock/NoScript, even when I explicitly allow their scripts…

But Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, and other top aides cared more about conciliating the powerful, conservative cohort of southern Democrats they considered vital to New Deal legislative majorities.

Wallace therefore fired Agriculture Department radicals in 1935, making clear that the New Deal would do little to threaten the power of planters and agribusiness interests.

… Meanwhile, the STFU collapsed; its defeat would prove a harbinger of the massive, decades-long transformation in American agriculture, a mid-twentieth-century development that pushed millions of small farmers off the land and into cities.

Well yeah the land did not go away, it was all gobbeled up by the big players. One could argue it was an industry, even if it was in it’s infancy 15 years after the dust bowl. By todays standard, where just one man owns 12% of US farmland it may seem like peanuts but these southern plantations were/are impressively huge.

TIL

Finns were on several occasions “racially” discriminated against… and not seen as white, but “Asian”. The reasons for this were the arguments and theories about the Finns originally being of Mongolian instead of native European origin due to the Finnish language belonging to the Uralic family of Languages …

Thank you that was an interesting read.

Same here. Once I stopped coloring my hair, people never doubted my age…

Just last week I was re-patching some nasty piece of business logic at a client for a day and remembered the application “Filter Top” from the nineties, where I solved a similar (but slightly simpler) problem on a far inferior less advanced platform in a few minutes with a GUI even.

Return to monke. I’m with you.

Well like all lunatic right wing theories this has a kernel of truth. He just needs to strike Jewish, and the purpose is even more money.

From personal experience the "you’re overthinking it, its just class warfare nothing else and that is bad enough " was to me the more effective way of pulling well meaning generally liberal/left leaning people back from the edge of the lunatic to fascism pipeline. I once made the mistake of doing “yes and (the Jesuits and the Medici)” in an ill advised attempt at humor. That person is not in my life anymore. It was far too comfortable being a hateful lunatic around me.

Wouldn’t something like a T1000 (50w/8GB) be okay? I know I use a much older matrox card (30w?/ w/ even lower TDP) for this purpose. It’s not great, but it transcodes in hardware.

Just in case u didn’t know: Ricing is a racist term.

That is a cool list you dug up. I wish our clients would make it easier for all of us to identify these duplicates more easily.

As an aside: Social media polls provide a powerful, real-time tool for gauging public sentiment and refining messaging strategies.

At this occasion I think it adds to the insanity. It makes it look like the nurse is a pationt too, with her trying to roll away a normal chair

4090s are what price now? Didn’t keep track, I’m astonished. never thought I’d see the day when Apples RAM pricing is seen as competitive.

Just FYI: The “Mac Studio” when equipped with 32-core M3Ultra processors can have up to 512GB of RAM.

It costs like 15k after taxes, so not exactly the scope of this thread, but it exists.

there is a small flap near the bottom of the machine. Modern machines just a a slit that is minimally wider where you can insert a screwdriver to open it. Sometimes the mechanism is different.

Behind the screws and lids and stuff is a sieve you need to clean. If you see a tube on the side before reaching the sieve, open it firstand let the water run out (careful, can be quite a bit of water) If you have a toploader the cover and sieve is sometimes on top to the side.

You can check your manual if you don’t find it or are unsure how to open.

Sometimes socks, jewelry or other stuff gets trapped in there and can not be chemically cleaned away.

Yes you could use vinegar, but please don’t. Long term gunks up sieves and small tubes.

Please use citric acid or the aforementioned products (sometimes just called machine cleaner)

Just FYI I have used mirror foil and an x.acto knife with silicone glue with great effect in the past.

Oh cool, its audience score seems to have improved considerably compared to last time I checked‽ That is good news for the filmmakers.

the hitting close to home part - yeah I get it. If you are in a red state I hope you stay safe and find a way out of the situation. It sucks so bad if the government stops working for you.

Great recommendations in here. One thing that surprised me personally was

civil war (2024)

great movie, had a blast. Was surprised rotten tomatoes / IMDb seemed to hate it.