Dymonika

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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (www.propublica.org)

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world....

Dymonika,

If hell exists, these people are going to a deep circle in it.

Dymonika,

The law we need progressively taxes corporate-owned houses to the point of making it unprofitable after they own X houses (pick your own value of X).

That would be awesome!

Struggling to tolerate wife's haircut

I typically don’t care about things like hairstyle, makeup or clothes. But my wife has started giving herself a buzz cut and I simply hate it. I told her and she grew it out for a while, but she said longer hair was making her depressed and it needed to be a buzz cut. She said it just looks like her when she sees it. Part of...

Dymonika,

the outcomes could only improve from there.

Assuming he gets a good therapist... good luck with the search, OP!

Dymonika,

What else could it be? To me, given how it's a persistent haircut that she wants to maintain, it may as well be comparable to cutting the front 1mm of one's nose off. That would make one less attractive to probably a lot of people, with no other/further factor involved.

Dymonika,

But the opposite of long hair isn't a buzz cut; there are many other styles. Hopefully they can find some kind of happy medium.

Dymonika,

Sounds like counseling is in order... more on her end than yours, to be clear!

Dymonika,

Not really. It's constant sudden-death; your run ends the moment you can't beat an enemy in X turns. The turn limit is your health that resets per conflict. I greatly disliked this aspect of it.

It's best described as Yahtzee with poker hands using a mutated deck that could have missing cards, duplicate cards, insane multipliers, etc.

Dymonika,

@tsonfeir But Linux does not have AutoHotkey. This is the biggest deal-breaker for me by far. AutoKey seems be the closest thing, but it's such a massive pain to even try to use by comparison.

Dymonika, (edited )

Do you have any as-convenient alternative? It's way easier to use than Python or anything else, and it's sped up some of my work procedures by, like, 7x. I use it for dozens of text expansion strings, autocorrect, address typers, mouse-clickers, etc.

Never mind, I've since stumbled across xdotool! I suppose this may be doable after all...

Dymonika, (edited )

Interesting, thanks. I think ultimately, seeing this port's adherence to AHK v1 syntax, I'd just have to bite the bullet and learn Python or something, though...

Never mind, I've since stumbled across xdotool!

Dymonika, (edited )

Hmm, thanks. Can it simulate mouse-clicks?

Apparently, xdotool can! I guess the next thing would be generating GUIs. I think the final issue is that this would cause quite the fragmentation given how I use the same scripts on my Windows-only work laptop... but I'll think about this more...

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

Dymonika,

Optical disc, it might get mushrooms

Um... what?

Dymonika,

I can't even upvote comments; it moves to an "error"-showing webpage entirely. EDIT: Okay, now I can, but just a moment ago it wasn't working, repeatedly...

Dymonika,

I run VPN on my phone at all times

Which?

Dymonika,

I can no longer tell if this is truly oil or AI-produced, lol. This sure backs up the case for the former, though, and it's absolutely mind-blowing work: https://metallicman.com/art-yasutomo-oko

Dymonika,

but not shocking.

It's despicable that we've even hit this point at all.

Dymonika,

Yeah, it's really best to learn by observation than direct pain lol, but some of us are too stubborn for that.

Dymonika,

Well, in that case, I can tell you that I have personally used all of these and they're fine:

AnyDesk
Chrome Remote Desktop
RustDesk (open-source)
TeamViewer (the portable one-time file)

The middle two would be the fastest to set up, I think. AnyDesk is the most robust out of them all, though, in my experience.

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