What does it have in it? If its plain coffee, no milk etc, you could freeze it in ice blocks. Reheat it in the microwave to revive, as you need, or mix in iced coffee. The water has been boiled to be used, so theres going to be less bacteria in the water. So it should sit for a bit without going too bad. Personally I’d freeze whatever you can’t use within 3 days, to be safe.

But look at you, being the village, awesome job, stepping in and helping them grow up to be rounded little people. I have 7 niblings, and they’re all a mix of neurodivergence, I’ve been gathering them all and taking them to events and teaching them, playing with them, since day dot. Even though I have kids of my own. It’s so hugely necessary to be in the kids in your life, lives, like that. You can’t parent from an empty cup, and the ability to refill that cup has been removed from us. You taking that time, also gives time for the parents to recharge. You’re amazing, keep it up!

There’s two ways to view what you just said there. Parents aren’t parenting, but you can’t speak for someone elses emotions about it. And it’s more constructive to a problem (rather than adding to it) to ask why, to figure out what’s happening, with compassion, so as to help it be repaired.

Here’s another example, drug addicts, quite often you will hear people judging and shaming their behaviours, without asking why, or looking at their choices with compassion and an eye to repair the problems for them. Most often, very very abused children, grow up to self medicate their internal agony, caused by what they’ve lived through. You wouldn’t then choose locking them up in jail to help repair.

You’re talking about kids, maybe some of them go on to be these same drug addicts.

I would suggest this whole problem with the unsupervised parenting / disconnected parenting is capitalism. And it’s by design.

People have kids (mostly) because they want them, they love them. I would argue very few would want to be parenting poorly. So why are they?

Could it be that there’s no opportunity to stay home and raise kids. Raising kids, is work, and it is hard work, has been so hugely devalued, intentionally, so as to be able to remove it as needing space in people’s lives. Who thinks it’s admirable to stay home and raise kids? That is an opinion that has been societally planted, to serve the bourgeois.

Actual paid work, who can live without working? Multiple jobs, even. That’s also by design.

Capitalism also designed this system we are all currently using, of a family in a singular home. It wasn’t like that, previously. So no village, no desperately needed support for raising kids.

Jobs burn you out, we aren’t designed to live like this, but there’s little to no flexibility, and parenting burns you out, and theres little to no support for that, now. Who has energy left after that, to also find all the ways in which tech is attacking this week.

I would argue, partially, the solve for poor parenting, would be to start rolling out some guillotines.

But also, raising a kid is supposed to be the job of a village, I’m sure you’ve heard that. To be a good parent, you need a full tank, but all the avenues for refilling your tank have been removed.

We should all care about fixing this, it is our next generation. I don’t believe hating on the singular parents trapped in this hellhole, is the answer.

That was really well done. Where he went through and tested the verification process, to see how far he could push it. That bit was really eye opening.

Oh I just watched a video on this the other day, apparently scammers (like the types who do romance scams, pretending to be a gorgeous guy, then taking all your money) are getting around this security function.

They upload all stolen pics of a gorgeous guy (probably exists for women versions too) then there’s one picture of them, because they have to have one pic of themselves to get the verification tick. But that one pic is obscured, like a face on a billboard or add on a poster on a street. And then tinder verifies the whole account, regardless of the other pics. I forget, it’s either bumble or hinge, I think it was bumble, deletes all the pics that don’t look like you, after verification, so those were sites that block that scam.

That’s an aside from ai profiles. There does need to be something to protect users from scammers. I couldn’t ever speak for what the best verification option is, myself.

That sounds so hugely impact impactful to deal with, firstly, I’m sorry very sorry you’re going through all that, and I just want to say absolute props to your strength and resilience! You have so much strength and resilience, to be continuing on, throughout all that, and how well you’re handling it all, by minimising contact, from the harm, and no longer engaging with it. Hats off, you’re doing amazing! It’s hard, and it’s such a horrible thing to feel like you’re fighting alone. I hope you do have a few good friends you can pull close. I know it’s hard for younger people to understand that type of manipulative behaviour, so some people who are good friends of yours, might not yet have the maturity to see what g’s doing. They will eventually, if they’re healthy themselves, if they don’t, and while they don’t it is better to keep yourself around healthier minded people, and people who do see it for what it is. The thing I have learned by living through a few of these events, here and there, is those people, who side with abusers, were never true friends, they were always toxic, you just didn’t see it, and you are better off away from them. They might come to realise. But that’s their journey, not yours. You have to make choices for your journey, in this world. You owe it to yourself to show the entity that you are, the best of what’s available to you, on this brief trip in a meat suit, flying around a flaming ball, stuck to a rock, as we are. You’re already doing that, you’re already putting you and your needs first. When you get past this, sit down and look back at, and be proud of the strength and resilience you show, right now. Be so very proud. Moments like these are, sadly, the only times we get to see how truly strong we are. Appreciate it and be proud. And keep looking after yourself, you’re doing everything right. I know it’s hard right now. I promise it gets better. And there might be more rocks like this in the road further up, but you will know you’re capable of managing it, you get to see that right now, how capable you are.

It is an absolutely huge thing to deal with suicidal feelings, I am so very sorry they’re targeting you like that, it is absolutely fine to team in some help, that’s not supposed to be a one person fight, fighting off those feelings. I’ve survived suicidal attempts, myself, and I can personally attest, that therapy and support makes that fight, just a tiny bit easier to get through. So if you’re able to find a good service around you, it’s ok to look after yourself in that way, and take a little of the load off.

Spending hugs and love, friend. Here if your need. Whenever.

I spent 20 years, on and off in a, violent in every way, relationship. He made every breakup a life threatening event, or at very least there was destruction and chaos.

The hard thing about leaving an abusive relationship, is they break down your sense of self, and supplant it with fight or flight survival mechanism motivation, manipulation, to serve their needs, etc, in place of serving your own.

What that looks like is a complete Disconnection from your own emotions and needs, and service to their needs, alone, by severe threat, being held over your head, it’s insidious and built up slowly over long periods of time.

What that means is, you are manipulated by threats to serve their needs so often, that you feel like a catastrophic event is happening if you don’t, and making the decision to leave, doesn’t instantly turn off that multi year’s long brain washing, which, by design, makes it almost impossible to leave, because inherently, you feel like the world is going to end, if you don’t serve their ultra demanding needs, constantly.

Leaving feels like amputating your own arm, with a rusty knife.

But I was spiteful (a good quality, not a bad one, it means you can’t be entirely separated from your sense of self, like any emotion, it’s all about how you utilise it) and suicidal, so I would leave, in spite of that feeling that I was walking into a wall of flames.

What i wish I had known, was all about the honeymoon period. When he came back, all tearful and devoted and promising to change, I wish it had been common knowledge, that’s a part of the manipulation, it’s all a lie. I know that now. But my 20 yo self, could really have used that info. It might have helped me stop letting him back in the door. That and therapy, if therapy was available to me, back then.

Music doesn’t stay under copywrite, forever. You could use anything that’s aged out of copywrite, too. And then you, as a business won’t alienate people who choose not to consume ai for ethical reasons.

It’s not us, it’s not as we thing. It’s a handful of assholes who have lost their humanity, driving us. For instance, back when they were trying to colonise Australia, they needed a heap of bodies over there to do the manual labour side of it, so they made everything illegal and no way to survive without doing illegal things, for a massive subsection of people, bam they had a workforce, sent in chains, to serve their purposes. Now they use propaganda to enlist the people to support their self serving causes, etc. Join movements to divest and boycott the elite, and you will be working towards building the future you want to see.

The marketing speak, tho. I think that angers me the most. More eco friendly than something that has zero measurable levels of eco friendly, is a low bar. It’s like saying asbestos is more eco friendly than coal carbon emissions, so therefore asbestos is eco friendly and should be celebrated. Theres zero good to their argument.

Is this a reverse play? Does that ruling leave open the door to similar rulings against llms? Why did they offer no contest at all?

Instead of thinking of people in two groups, dumb normies and the group you are in, why not try thinking of them as, in the know and not yet in the know. For instance, there was a time when you weren’t in the know about Proton.me, and someone explained it to you, because that’s the way we make big changes in the world, by gathering numbers. The more people that we can get on the, in the know, side, the more power in our numbers we can use.

So, when you find someone who doesn’t know, sell the thing to them with a couple of well worded sentences. Things like, if you really care about your privacy, you use applications that are privacy friendly, for now. Like…fill in blanks.

If you can’t think what to say, ask yourself why you use it.

All emotions are valid.

That’s true, but when you work checkout, you’re told to look there, specifically. And cameras, so be careful. If you steal meat, for instance, move to a non monitored isle, something cheap they don’t care about you stealing, so they don’t monitor it, and stash the meat there. But also Buy one of whatever you steal. They see you pick stuff up, but they can’t really tell you picked up 2 of the same slab of meat, they see you pay for one, they think all is good. Be super friendly and nice to all the staff. It’s not them you’re stealing from, they hate the system as much as you. Wear glasses, and mildly but not flashy upmarket clothing. Don’t wear hoodies or sunnies or nondescript clothing. And then you’re magically invisible. After working in a supermarket for multiple years, I can tell you exactly who they watch, and who they don’t.

Oh, also, watch out for security disgused as shoppers, they’ll walk around with a basket without any refrigerated items, just weird random junk, and they look at the people more than the shelves, walk too slow, and they’ll randomly follow you, so go in weird directions so you can spot them, act like you gotta double back to a few different weird isles, out of order, then it’s too obvious for them to follow you. Then If you see them try to follow you, but get frustrated, you definitely know to steal away from them. Or come back another day, they’re not there every day, or all day.

Storytime, I had a lady with a stroller come through, saw her all the time. She never looked me in the eyes, never bought much, was always a little off, avoidant to the point of rude. I always knew something was off, but i never check prams, because f that. One day I see a line of big burly blokes lined up at the exit to my register, I was running, “what’s up fellas?” “Here to catch a thief, don’t worry about it” they apprehend her, she had been loading her pram, chockas full, with meat slabs, they tell me later, they watched her put them all in her stroller. They watch the expensive stuff like a hawk.

Don’t feel bad stealing from corporations, they don’t feel bad stealing from you.

I think it’s hilarious every single idea he tries, flops disastrously, the only one that worked for him, was stolen from someone else.

I don’t know if anyone else has said, but just be careful not to trigger rhabdomyolysis.

Rip off the material, and take the innards to a metal recycling plant near you, for free. (Disclaimer, I’m assuming metal recycling places take things for free in your area)

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