Verizon 5G, $35/month for the 300 mbps / 20 up plan (my needs are not huge, this does the TV streaming and the zoom meetings just fine).

Somerville MA. Was previously paying 3x that for crappy Astound service at half the speed.

TIL that the moderation logs are public. That was kind of surprise to look through.

Huge, if true. I think a lot of people in rural areas need to be exposed to something besides Christian radio…

And it really could benefit people who have jobs that can be WFH now–people could live in these dying towns with real incomes, money to spend, and kids in the school systems.

I hope they get it right.

gigglesnort

🙌

thank you–I have no idea how to add emojis here, but I’d give you the applause one if I could…

This is why I encouraging comments… I managed to drop kbin into mine :)

Yeah. I don’t know that part would be active shaming like an elective abortion would ignite some biddies. But some people feeling personal failure at not being able to carry. They shouldn’t–it’s not a personal failure, but I’ve seen some people feel some of that.

Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum*

*yes, I know: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5937294/trivia/

I can understand that some people don’t want to discuss private health matters. And those folks who have been trying to conceive but have trouble–talking about the yet-another-miscarriage has to be incredibly wrenching and hard.

But those stories are crucial to hear right now, I’m afraid. I think the mainstream Republican isn’t even aware that this went on.

Agree–I’m seeing a lot of what I called ‘quiet quitting’ lately. The regulars are posting a lot less, or not at all. I’m not ready to burn-it-all-down, because I want to be able to lure people over later when this is a bit more mature. But it already feels different there.

Nice.

I think in the past (and I’m old enough to remember), both abortion and miscarriage carried a self-imposed shame/shunning silencing.

But now, people are not ashamed to talk about it. And those stories are surfacing, even in people’s own circles. When someone hears a story of a wanted pregnancy that goes wrong, and the young mother’s case of near-death sepsis as well as the damage to carrying future pregnancies–people will catch on.

These dogs have caught the car they were chasing. I wish it didn’t include the collateral damage to young families, but here we are. I hope people get to the ballot box with these stories in their heads. We should make sure of it…

Reddit is becoming an unusable garbage site.

'Tis.

I think those new drugs look really game-changing. I know they aren’t affordable yet, but soon the insurers will realize they are cheaper than the downstream costs of diabetes.

I was reading in the NYT yesterday that they were making people change behavior not just on hunger, but on the “food noise” that a lot of people have. So this will change the situation in a household and might have additional social consequences for people’s consumption.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/well/eat/ozempic-food-noise.html

Feel free to share the love of history and science! I have no idea how to cross post properly yet. No credit required, just take it.

I hope they hire Jean Carroll’s lawyer. I’d kick in to a go-fund-me for helping them to do that.

Maybe a Roman coin hoard?

Oh, I was wondering how to report issues. Thanks for that.

But my visibility task is a much lower priority than the one OP describes. They have a lot of stuff going on, and I can wait.

[realizing I want some kind of bookmark feature for this…]

I put alt text in my kbin uploads, but then I couldn’t find it later.

I would also like to be able to preview my image as I’m writing the description. I have to keep looking back at my stored one to try to do it well, and I’m failing.

#BobbinLace:

Top equipment: A Christina roller pillow. I can’t even find one to show you, they are rare white whales…

Top reference book: Lace, A History.

It’s a very weird hobby, with a lot of second-hand sales among the practitioners once you get in, because there’s no large-scale production of equipment for the most part.