Oh. I don’t know anything about this. Is it weird for an app to be pulled from all of these sites? Do they have a way for the original developer to take it down if they want or some kind of flagging? Does your new phone have a higher Android build, maybe the site checks somehow to match with the right version and then fails? Wild guesses

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But the fact that so many stores have dropped it recently, though it’s clear they once had it, may mean something, idk.

Many such articles, but no one wanted to print the margarita picture. Maybe you can extrapolate from this

[Tire sales] are growing a little faster than the population, but still slower than the GDP [sad tire manufacturer noises]

Why should sales in a static (and resource intense and polluting) technology like tires grow faster than the population? Making money off the stock market seems kind of evil

EVs are still part of the solution, though. Not spilling gas all day long on every corner of the city would be a big deal.

I would love to see this become more common as a sport because the mechanics are just so different and so the strategies will be more diverse-- fun to be at the early stage of learning. The article suggests quadrupedal racers have not even been using the most efficient gait and many other optimizations may yet be realized, so I think their prediction is likely, but not really the point to me.

My Android keyboard will automatically capitalize lots of common words like target, guess, even-- shit it’s not doing it now, it heard me thinking. I guess it’s brands, but some of them I don’t recognize. I’m going to be mad if it starts doing it again as soon as I leave this thread.

Captain drives from the stern, though. If you sit up in bed you’re facing the bow.

I don’t know what this is about, but it reminds me of the constant ev-bashing in most major newspapers over the last two decades (since the beginning). I believe it’s oil money in the press, and definitely had effect on the overall conversation, especially discouraging small evs, but not clear effect on policy. It just keeps consumers from adopting.

They should have one for heterosexuality, too, if it’s all about tastes.

You may be right, but I think by staring it in the face as much as possible we can generate that physical feeling that is what the tide is made of. Politics can turn as they have before. I’m not so sure we are in a “coasting” part of history. Feels pretty choppy and changeable right now. Makes powers that be grip harder, but I’m hoping that’s just a symptom of general readiness.

Watching this can change the world. It does make me ill.

The secondhand market should be huge and top of mind. Furniture stores should have 80 percent of the store used goods. Craigslist, etc, is fun but frustrating. I’m not particularly picky or fearful, but person to person is just inefficient.

Also, people have been sold on needing everything to reflect themselves and their tastes and knowledge, sort of catalog/review envy, I feel it myself. But you know, it’s just a chair or a shelf or a food processor or a jacket or whatever: try to embrace serendipity :) They have pens at goodwill, a bag for $2, and it’s all kinds and brands and it will cover your household needs for years rather than leak and rot into a hole in the ground-- that kind of thing, just consider it as often as you can. Once you have that down you will find you need less stuff because you are not using it to represent yourself, just for it’s actual purpose, and you will find it easier to pass things on as well.

Just my drunk advice

It helps make sure it’s absorbed so you don’t have to pee right away. If you’ve just eaten you don’t have to

Just as a quick hope-it-works because it’s easy, try drinking a glass of water with just a tiny amount of sugar and salt (like literally you should not be able to taste it, should just taste slightly fishy) before your nap.

I’m with the others on seeing a therapist, though, and first-round antidepressants have had huge positive effects in my personal experience, so it’s not necessarily going to be this long mind warping journey that I think people are scared to start sometimes.

I’m not a therapist, so this is just a guess, but the “scared you off” comments and maybe the hints at depression could be seen as manipulative, especially when he really never wanted anything from the relationship beyond the online attention. He made her feel guilty for not spending more time and energy on him while exaggerating his own interest in her. Perhaps in his previous relationships the manipulation went further. Your friend needs to know she is not at all to blame for the end of this relationship. Nor is she dumb for caring about someone more than they cared about her: you can’t always tell. But perhaps she will take from it the idea that she could ask for things that are important to her, like in-person contact or space to be doing something other than talking to him without being nagged, sooner in the process to be sure the other person is on the same page. Help her understand that whatever anxiety she felt to shore up his emotions should be at most a small part of their interaction. A relationship shouldn’t feel like a tomagatchi pet.

Ok, this is my new favorite comment ever

That’s interesting, I don’t usually think of gratitude as an alternative to praise, but I’m going to try to keep that in mind in the future. I definitely have felt that I come across as insincere or condescending at times when I give praise and it makes me very self-conscious to give or receive it, but gratitude is just more enjoyable for both parties.

I feel like you might be onto it. If you actually care too much what other people are thinking of you, but are unhappy with yourself for how dependent that makes you (and maybe trying to deny or ignore it), then the direct experience of these compliments would be net negative. When people say bad things, your desire for emotional independence and your immediate urge to hold the comment at a distance are not in conflict, so there’s no problem.

I like the DocuSign model. Just focus on securing your one account (email) and then make all the others use it as single factor.

No experiment, no proof. But, taken with a grain of salt a good survey can be better than pure speculation where experiment is impossible or unethical. On the other hand experiments can prove something, but depending on how reduced or artificial the context they may not be proving as much as you hope, either. Science is just difficult in general.

It’s super fun to see the evolution of your work each day. Thank you for sharing, I hope you continue.