This is my current favorite designation.

My EV came with a compressor in the trunk. Last time I needed to fill the tires it worked fine.

I didn't even realize this until one day on the Nissan Leaf discussion boards, which led to a hilarious discussion of a whole bunch of us who had no idea we were carrying our own solution to this....

Do your fucking job, pharmacist. Or GTFO.

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.

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....

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

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

#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.

This point struck me too:

Reddit is under no obligation to make its API free. But, it seems, the company has overreached in enforcing the new policy. If its target is the largest AI firms, then it should focus on curbing their parasitic proclivities and not going after beloved and useful software its users and moderators depend on.

This is my feeling. I understand that it could cost something. But the eye-watering rates for the small fish and the speed of the extortion is the issue.

They should have been leaving earlier, the outcome was clear by last year. But when I saw recently that Block Party was going away, I knew that it was going to become hellish and untenable.

Let's make them welcome here....

Well...a lot of people were dying of AIDS then. And there was a lot of hostility to the gay community. I think it depends on your perspective.

I love history, and spend a lot of time thinking about it, reading about it, talking about it. But there's really no time I'd like to travel to as a unmarried, not Christian, education-craving female. YMMV.

I'm wondering if a Co-op model would work for some of these alternatives. Then they would be less reliant on a single owner/developer system, there would be additional support for some of the businessy components, and there would be a built-in groups structure for resolution of issues.

I've been watching the formation of a co-op Etsy alternative, and I'm very interested to see how that goes. I think it's fine to complain about corporatization, but I think it's also crucial to build and support other models at the same time.

https://artisans.coop/

I am not a member of this Artisan's Coop, but am considering it.