Yeah, dating is 100% a numbers game. You cast a broad net, and then pick through the ones who show interest. There’s no way to find the right person without failing a few times. The people that end up with their high school sweethearts are the exceptions that got extremely lucky, not the standard to strive for.

Don’t take the failure personally. Unless you’re blatantly going around cheating, being misogynistic, racist, etc., it’s likely not anything in particular that you did “wrong”. It simply means you weren’t a good match. The best thing you can do is simply be the best version of yourself. By that, I mean to avoid just sitting around on your hands, expecting someone to land in your lap. The “if you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best” mentality is extremely toxic; Be the kind of person that your ideal partner would want to date.

“Just give the bully your lunch money, and they’ll stop asking for it in the future. It definitely won’t result in them coming back tomorrow to shake you down again.”

No, each server is accessed separately. You can swap between servers easily, but there is no central way to browse all of your servers simultaneously. Jellyfin was designed specifically to rebel against Plex’s centralization, so that’s not a feature they’re ever likely to implement. There are ways to sync your watch history between servers, but it’s using third-party plugins.

Phone calls in prison are recorded. Luigi needs to use prison phones to talk to his lawyer. So his phone calls with his lawyer were recorded. The content of those calls is guarded by attorney client privilege, and the prosecutor can’t legally access them… Except the prosecutor 100% accessed them, and listened in.

As soon as the prosecutor fessed up to knowing anything about the content of those calls, it threw a giant wrench in the works for the courts, because everything the prosecutor has done so far (or does in the future) is potentially tainted by the knowledge from those calls. Luigi could 100% use that to try and appeal if he’s convicted, citing the fact that his attorney client privilege was breached. And if that appeal works, then any evidence gained as a result of that privileged info would also be tossed out. So the prosecutor was recused, meaning they’re basically being removed from the trial.

Except it’s not. The wording is:

A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality.

It later goes on to mention generative AI. But the bill isn’t primarily focused on AI. The above leaves room for things like color correction in photographs, but would bar things like the following images:

The Tim Burton Batman movies. They’re hilariously bad, but make for a great time when you’re drunk with friends.

Or even worse… Supporting Palestine.

A lakh is 100k. So 5 lakh is 500k. Converted to USD, that’s around $5900 USD

I occasionally do scale drawings for my job, and I occasionally have to remind my coworker that her nice pretty colorized drawings will look fucking atrocious when printed in greyscale on a shitty laser printer. She likes to color code things to make it easier to communicate info… But that often ends up making things harder on the crews who are actually executing things. Because when she used color to communicate something, but the entire drawing is printed in shades of grey to hand a hard copy to the crew, it becomes fucking impossible to actually follow the drawing.

For instance… The yellow circle is the one we need done today. Here’s what she draws:

Except here’s what the crew receives:

Now imagine if this was a watermark on every page of a 50 page court filing, which then gets printed out for the judge. Now they’re seeing text on the grey background, which likely makes it harder to read and is a massive waste of toner. It also massively inflates pdf file sizes, because you’re sending that image on every single page.

Yup. For minor issues, first aid is all that is needed; you don’t need to see a doctor for a minor cut, as long as the first aid ensures it’s not infected. But for larger things, secondary aid is what provides more long-term recovery.

If someone dislocates a shoulder, first aid is putting it in a sling and bracing it against the body, so it doesn’t get worse (for instance, the tendons and ligaments in the shoulder joint can tear) before they can get to a hospital.

If someone is massively bleeding, first aid is stopping the bleeding to keep them alive until they can get rescued.

It’s funny because I’ve seen almost the exact opposite; Trans femmes are choosing beautiful gorgeous names that fit them perfectly. Then trans mascs are just like “oh hey, I’m Steve.”

It can be, yes. One of the largest complaints with Docker is that you often end up running the same dependencies a dozen times, because each of your dozen containers uses them. But the trade-off is that you can run a dozen different versions of those dependencies, because each image shipped with the specific version they needed.

Of course, the big issue with running a dozen different versions of dependencies is that it makes security a nightmare. You’re not just tracking exploits for the most recent version of what you have installed. Many images end up shipping with out-of-date dependencies, which can absolutely be a security risk under certain circumstances. In most cases the risk is mitigated by the fact that the services are isolated and don’t really interact with the rest of the computer. But it’s at least something to keep in mind.

Or just get into CB radio. You can get a unit for like $100. No license required, and it makes road trips much more interesting, because it’s still used by a lot of truckers. Channel 17 for north/south travel, and 19 for east/west.

Some of us are old enough to remember when the entire point of cable TV was to avoid commercials. Over-the-air antenna TV was supported by ads. But then cable came along, and went “hey, what if we offered a paid TV service, without the ads?”

Then they realized they could just fucking double-dip and show ads anyways. And now they’re charging extra to skip those ads.

And we’ve seen streaming services start to take the same route. Some have started showing ads to paid users, then charging extra to avoid the ads.

The downside to infinite genders is a near-infinite (infinity-1) need to use the gender swap coffin.

Yeah, toxins are often the bigger risk when dealing with bacterial or fungal issues.

For instance, botulism is caused by the toxin produced by botulinum bacteria. The toxin is a paralytic. The bacteria itself can typically be dealt with by the immune system, but the toxin wreaks havoc on the nervous system.

That’s also why you should never feed honey to babies; botulinum is commonly found in honey. Babies’ immune systems aren’t equipped to deal with the botulinum bacteria, which allows it to bloom and start producing the toxin after they ingest it. This causes something called Floppy Baby Syndrome, from the baby being paralyzed by botulism toxin.

Yeah, a chimpanzee will straight up rip your arms off and beat you to death with them. They have zero chill, and a massive proportion of fast-twitch muscle (which means they can create huge bursts of strength, but struggle with fine motor control.)

According to .ml, anyone even slightly right of outright communism should be considered fascist. .ml is one of the more extreme hard left instances, so comments from the instance should be taken with that in mind. It is very heavily censored, so their users only ever see the “China and Russia did nothing wrong” type of rhetoric.

.world has issues, for sure. It’s the largest instance, and that comes with its own issues. But it’s definitely not fascist.

Fair warning, this could mean your account was flagged for money laundering and/or fraud, and you’ll have a hell of a time getting access back. Adding a massive charge to the account and forcing it into the negative is a fairly common way for banks to go “wait woah hold up, kill access to that account’s funds right now.”

Like maybe it was flagged for money laundering, so they can’t have you spending any (potentially illegal) money via a debit card or making withdrawals while they investigate. So they just add a massive charge to the account and force it into the negative, so the systems already in place will refuse to let you use your card; you try to pay for something, and your card suddenly declines because your account is in the red.

If this is the case, you should consider any money in that account inaccessible for the foreseeable future. The bank will likely stonewall while they investigate, (after all, they can’t really divulge anything about the investigation to the person who is being investigated) which can take several weeks (or even months) to wrap up. It’s likely that the bank tellers you speak to don’t even know any details of the investigation; They’ll only see that your account had the large charge. And no amount of “how the hell am I supposed to pay my bills when my accounts are all locked” will get the bank to budge.

Source: My buddy had this happen to him. He started working at a head shop. Apparently head shops are notorious for money laundering, because his account was flagged for investigation as soon as his first paycheck deposited. It happened right at the end of the month. It took the bank four weeks to return his funds. In the meantime, his landlord had already started eviction proceedings, because he was a month behind on his rent.

I heard a very similar story, except it was one Italian grandma with a bunch of dudes in suits. She proceeded to serve him the single largest, most elaborate, and most delicious Italian dinner he had ever had. Apparently he could see into the kitchen, and she was making everything from scratch. He was there for like two hours, and she just kept bringing more plates out even though he hadn’t actually ordered anything. All because she was so excited to finally have someone to cook for. She even sat with him to chat, and was clearly happy to just have someone except the angry-looking dudes in suits to talk to. IIRC the suits didn’t even take payment before he was ushered out of the door.

He tried to go back like a week later, but the place was totally deserted.