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tigerhawkvok @startrek.website
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[TW: Hate] How have you dealt with real life experiences of hate and transphobia?
  • I am not trans, but I will say that I think you should move to a more accepting area first. We would be thrilled to welcome you as whichever gender identity you'd like to be here in the Bay Area.

    Best of luck internet friend.

  • 'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap
  • I'm almost there.

    I also live in the Bay Area. My rent is locally cheap but nationally very high. My wife has a chronic illness and an unrelated acute issue that recently required surgery. She can barely work. Until this most recent surgery I was keeping ahead, but expenses are up and income is down and that's not true anymore.

    I have good health insurance but there's a lot more to medical costs than just doctors, and to partially manage her daily quality of life it's not weird to cook her three different dinners and she can only stomach one. This explodes our meal budget.

    We're childfree but one of our dogs recently also got diagnosed with chronic illness. They are our kids, full stop.

    Shit happens. Don't be a dick about it.

  • George Takei's Based Voting Take [Rule}
  • Wrong. It's "democrats advanced in fits and starts, sometimes stumbling and falling, but heading in the direction of the finish line. I keep voting for them because the other guys are trying to set off a dirty bomb on the race track."

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  • given the source of the energy most EVs use :/

    What? This is hilariously wrong.

    A profoundly filthy coal power plant has multimillion dollar filtration the size of your damn apartment. That gross coal is scrubbed more than the gasoline from any vehicle possibly could be.

    In a first world country it's not possible to have an electric car as dirty per joule as a gas vehicle.

    Further, the powertrain is direct and therefore dramatically more efficient, so on a distance basis you get an additional multiplier. That's where the EPA MPGe comes from - total energy content of 1 gallon of gasoline, converted to range on the electric vehicle.

    That's about 33 kWh in one gallon, which is about half the total storage capacity of my Bolt EUV 2023 (65 kWh) which has about 240mi of range on a full charge, which is why the MPGe is ~120mi/gal, which for an equally polluting power source as a personal gas vehicle, is 5-6x cleaner. Public DC fast chargers are frequently exclusively renewably powered.

    It's impressive because literally every possible angle of your statement is hilariously incorrect.

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  • Sleep as Android!

    You can make it device administrator and additionally add a max snooze count and a dismissal CAPTCHA. When I REALLY have to get up no matter what, I need to go physically touch my phone to an NFC tag in the living room. Can't even turn the phone off because it blocks that when ringing when given admin access.

  • Trump Tells Supporters ‘Don’t Worry About Voting’ On Election Night
  • It's really funny. All those power phrases and one-upmanship games played by Trumpetts are like people who roll coal or drive loud muscle cars - people waving around their tiny-dick-insecurity energy for everyone to see, somehow convinced they're hiding anything.

    Or all those conservatives obsessed with which consenting adult another consenting adult is sleeping with. Though there I'm pretty sure it's just repressed jealousy because I can't imagine giving that much of a fuck about an issue that I wasn't deeply personally invested in.

  • ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
  • People say this all the time, but I search prolifically and have literally never had to do this to get a relevant result top 4.

    What are you guys doing, using full sentences with puffery like you're talking to the Enterprise or something?

  • Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one
  • This is questionably accurate.

    It's not just a matter of building the rail, it's also redesigning the urban sprawl. That's a LOT of new construction of buildings needed, too. That comes with new utilities, etc. And cement is a huge carbon source.

    There is a time scale over which that's more carbon efficient than replacing all personal vehicles and their replacement lifecycles, but it's very unclear if that's actually faster with regards to climate change timelines.

  • What was the time a pet showed some serious signs of intelligence?
  • Our Golden taught himself medical alerts. My wife broke her ankle when he was 6 months old, and the little glue puppy who followed me when I gave her meds started to let her know ahead of time that she would need meds, and even proactively bring her pill bottles.

    Some refinement let him proactively stop mom from overdoing it, so he's been instrumental in her recovery and PT.

    Then like six months ago he started giving me pain alerts from no where when I was feeling ok. But invariably, every time he did, 30-60 minutes later I would get a headache. So now I just listen to him and my bad headaches have dropped to almost zero, because I'll take some coffee and NSAIDs when he alerts.

    He also broadly gets the concept of "pills make people feel better in a little bit". He'll stop alerting for about 20 minutes if you take pills (or pantomime taking pills because you're busy or something). Then if you faked him out he'll alert again in 20-30 minutes lol.

    He's one of the smartest dogs I've ever met in the "cause and effect generalizes to X" sort of way. (He also is super confident and pretty sure that the world is made of sunshine, rainbows, and friends so is conversely really dumb in risk assessment, like will fall off the bed because he's sure he'll be caught kind of way)