Yeah, it's sure as fuck not front line workers wages costing them more than they can afford.

I am so lonely and so sad I know I would be the perfect prey for this type of interaction. I'm lucky to be self-aware enough to stay far away from it-- it scares me how available and intrusive it's becoming. I worry for people a little less aware of the danger.

Evergreen

Sleepwalking is a parasomnia-- lots of people assume it's a dreamstate, but it happens out of non-rem sleep. Sleep terrors-- where people scream horrifically-- are in the same class, and also non-rem, so this all tracks.

Honestly, one of the few people making this timeline bearable.

I didn't hear the term asexual- apart from science biology- until I was in my 30's. I was in *couple's therapy* for God's sake, partially due to my lack of interest, and it WAS NOT MENTIONED. And so I just assumed there was something wrong with me. I had no reference, no pop culture, nothing.

The desperation for a chance, a smidgen of hope, will drive people mad. And the casino and AI offer the same thing: a mirage that won't pay out, but will keep you chasing it to collapse. It's frankly perverse in the worst sense.

There are a lot of lonely, sad, desperate people right now who haven't heard a kind word from an actual human in a really long time. It is impossibly hard not to want to hear something kind, and if the only one saying it is a bot? People will go rabid for the bot. I don't really blame them.

There is now a figure skating rink in my Arizona backyard, complete with a zamboni and zamboni driver.

No thank you

I liked my nordictrac when I had it, but I love the freestride elliptical I replaced it with: easier on the joints and has incline/decline functionality. If you get an expensive treadmill I highly recommend getting incline/decline on it. It really changes the workout, and you don't need to go fast.

And as a follow up, my pinned posts now appear in saved posts! It just took a little while for them to show up. I imagine if you have many, it may take even longer, so patience for a day might be warranted? But, for me at least, the tool does seem to work. 😀

Just to chime in, I had the same experience. Like you, I don't have that many, but I'm just going to give itv24 hours and see if it percolates through. (I also have no programming knowledge, but I do remember the pin taking time to work as well, so?)

My brain has the emotional valence of a toddler, and this is why we can't have nice things.

I really hear this line in Jeeves', from Bertie and Jeeves, voice!