CentipedeFarrier

I was reading with increasing trepidation, and was relieved when I got to the bit about them being harmless, for largely similar reasons.

Which is a legit concern, birth is a major medical event with possible complications galore even if it goes well, and literally an emergency in many cases. Women die during childbirth all the time even with the best care.

Local dude here stopped running for office due to death threats against them and their family… small, semi-rural, conservative town, the most important decision for which is… idk, tbh. Can’t honestly imagine why anyone would threaten someone here.

Which makes me want to run for that position instead. Fuck you people, I don’t have a family to worry about, and I’m not all that worried about dying myself. Solid chance I won’t even know about them since I don’t use social media, and barely check my mail… they’d have to actually act on the threats for it to rise to a level I’d notice, and boy oh boy would I love that. Talk about publicity for the campaign for doing nothing!

I had a very friendly cat for many years who would come to meet new people and would hang out with them over the members of the household. He was everyones friend, even loved the post carriers, but this trick wouldn’t have worked because he was very very insistent upon meeting people as soon as they came over. He’d trot over and beg for attention, stretching himself up for pickups. Such a good boy.

Anyone who stayed over was treated to the absolute best cuddle buddy all night.

Genuinely so many things come from oil, and a lot of them are dyes. Also some antibiotics, and various other useful chemicals.

But yeah, a surprising number of dyes come from oil, and its actually a waste product of refinement. It’s a good thing overall with our current gas dependency, but its a fragile system when oil is one of the most sought-after finite-supply things on earth.

Grocery stores gunna start looking like 1930s movies. Surreal.

Im very excited for that. I love surreal stuff, and the more immersive, the better. What could be more immersive than reality (other than drugs)?

The secret is that all diy groups on popular social media are run by contractors. Thats why so much of the advice is terrible pintrest crap and will need to be professionally fixed for more than the original project would have run.

(Probably true)

Yeah, but then you don’t live in the US which automatically makes the price tag worth it 😁

Who knew?

Thats neat though, one of my friends was saying how nice it would be for lab cord management, but not for that price lol

No such thing exists to my knowledge no, but it could have back when the apple mouse was first introduced.

I have used a lot of wireless chargers (old phone usb port failed) and… the coil of the charger is typically the least of the problem, the charging coil on the device not matching up with it is usually the bigger issue.

But mice need basically no charge daily, and a mouse largely confined to a set area would, if well designed, always be on the useable charger space, so any mousepad with a trickle charge worth of capability would be plenty.

And this is exactly why I just have cheap mice with separate rechargeable batteries. Also just have enough battery-powered junk to justify it.

Nothing is close enough to the tower for wired, at about 15 foot away, and I’ll never remember to charge something if I cant just plug it in to a separate power source and charge while using.

Smart money would have been on a wirelessly charged mouse and a wireless charging mousepad. But nobody uses mousepads anymore, either, now that underside rollerball tracking isn’t an issue, so you can’t introduce something like that now.

Im saving this image for every time I need to charge my car and thus cant go somewhere.

Teeth

Heh, maybe thats why I find humans so gross. I have absolute zero sex drive (ace/aro), so no instinctual compulsion to overlook how gross humans are.

Biology in general is disgusting. Eating is gross, its just a weird process if you think about it, and especially weird that so much of our lives are dedicated to it. Waste removal is extra gross. Reproduction is… not even gunna go there but it’s gross, and childbirth is so much worse. Mouths are gross, our protruding luxury bones are gross, tongues are just tiny tentacles, and thats gross. Also theres just -so much hair- which is, you guessed it, gross.

Guts are gross. I know we aren’t meant to survive disemboweling, but we do it routinely now to deliver babies, and do they put your intestines back where they belong? Hell no! They just shove that shit back in there and let it sort itself out.

And then we move away from humans and other animals lick themselves to get clean which is gross. They eat poop, sometimes directly from a rectum (theirs or not), which is gross.

Diseases are gross, auto-immune issues are gross…

Man.

I find it best to just not really spend a lot of time thinking about the practicalities of biology. I mean, I have done the thinking, and imho, its not really worth it. It just makes everything seem gross, genuinely. Like really, stop to think about just hair growth, a relatively benign fact of biology. Some small thing starts growing under your skin at a bud point, then erupts through your protective skin layer, and just keeps growing… until its multiple feet long, in some cases (thank fuck leg, armpit, and genital hair stops growing at inches instead of feet). Just gross.

IoT is internet of things, a semi-derisive term (in my experience, mostly used by tech people) for internet-connected devices that really don’t need to be connected to the internet at all, like toothbrushes, knives, washers, etc.

I think its referring to the fact that you, the user, do not access the internet through it, it accesses the internet semi-autonomously to do whatever it does, like a bot. Thus an internet made of things, not people.

I’ve seen a LOT of dystopian sci-fi with ai robots and not a lot of utopian sci-fi (even a struggling utopia) sort of at all, so yeah, hard agree on the single-purpose non-ai non-IoT robots. We already have so many of them, they just aren’t able to load themselves yet, though many can turn themselves on when programmed.

Also just massively easier to make, fewer things to go wrong. Locomotion, for one. If it never really has to move, or never off track, that massively simplifies the design and maintenance. Now it just needs proximity sensors instead of whole-area mapping technology.

There’s no actual guarantee there will be a morbid last time with random chest pains. It could be more like the last time you burned a CD; uneventful and not really noteworthy.

Technically, heart problems only kill like…

Oof looking up those stats was depressing…

Heart disease deaths as of 2022 account for only 24% of all deaths though! So your chances of death by heart problem aren’t actually super high, especially if you don’t have existing heart problems! Yay! Its probably just a panic attack! Or gas!

The share of heart attacks as a subset of all cardiovascular disease deaths is also down, but deaths from things like hypertension are way way up, relatively, so take your meds if you have them, get your exercise, eat the veggies, do the health things.

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Aah, can’t prove it does nothing at all, smart smart.