You said it yourself that you didn't know them beyond their personas and they didn't know you beyond the bar. Regardless this doesn't make them pedophiles

Hey yeah, i get it (or, to some extent) . I am chronically cold due to being a healthy weight and having poor circulation. I wear thermals and hoodies year round even when it's 90+ out. But for me it's the extremeties and my ass isn't too bad.

But to be more constructive, since you know yourself better than anyone. If this is really a deal breaker then id look into getting an extra outlet installed in your bathroom which can vary on price depending on the type of wall (and their service minimum-- if you have other electrical needs you night be able to tackle all at once). It's been a few years since i had a new outlet installed but i got it for around $250/ outlet. Might be as high as $400-500 for your set up.

And an electric Bidet lid with heated water will cost you $250-500 (maybe there are cheaper ones but I'm just going by some options i looked at for my partner).

Low end $500, high end $1000 for outlet+Bidet. I'm assuming you can install the Bidet lid yourself (it wasn't hard, promise).

Now i can't do the next math for you, so I'll share my toilet math. Costco toilet paper is ~$24/30 rolls (I'm using the price online which may be higher than warehouse, but also closer to other stores). I used to go though a roll per week because my hairy ass loved to play marker with the TP. After i got a Bidet my TP usage dropped my at least 4x. A roll lasts me a long time. So if my weekly cost of TP used to be $1.25 then I'm saving $3.75/ month. And that's just me maybe you have more people using the restroom. So saving $45/year. We're looking at 10 years to break even from a cost perspective for the low end of things.

Ok, maybe that doesn't make the most sense from a cost perspective. My cheapo bidet paid itself off within a year.

Outside of cost id say this:

• i feel much cleaner.
• Ass sweat doesnt feel like I'm making a poo swamp
• my butt thanks me. No more raw asshole
• if you're in a house with septic system, less TP in the septic system. (This could potentially decrease the amount of time between pumps).

Sorry for the long message. I spent 3 decades thinking my sister was the weirdo for buying a Bidet and i wish i wouldve made the change sooner

They asked for a DRM-free ebook. Of course a physical book lacks digital rights management.

I tried asking ChatGPT to roleplay as Trump and repeat it in it's own words, however it gave me back the same near-verbatim. I think this proves that the original text wasn't far off

Listen, folks, you're totally missing the point here. Trees aren't a problem; they're an incredible, untapped resource.

Look at them—millions, no, billions of trees just sitting there, doing nothing. They're not making a single cent for our amazing billionaires. Imagine the fantastic things our billionaires could do if we let them chop down all those trees. We’d have an endless supply of beautiful toilet paper for everyone and billions of Bibles, plus a copy of the Constitution, all for the fantastic price of $65.

And guess what? By getting rid of all these trees, we’d also solve the problem of forest fires. No trees, no forest fires—so simple.

Now, we’ll keep some forests, especially near homes, but not for the reasons you think. We need those forests to burn down sometimes and take a few houses with them. Why? Because then we can rebuild those homes with the trees we chopped down elsewhere—a huge win for the construction industry. Plus, it means higher insurance premiums for homes near forests, and we can even privatize forest fire services. Think of all the benefits for our billionaires.

When you start thinking about the money, it all makes perfect sense.

It's too expensive for me atm, but I'm also a patient gamer so i don't mind waiting a few more years to see it get down even more. I didn't think the current sale price was unreasonable compared to what i expected it to be. Just more than I'm willing to pay

Of course this could apply to a lot of other things and i realize it isn't particularly rational. Though on the note of modern needle vs not, a single biopsy on a live animal is causing harm so that's not a good comparison since that is not vegan by any standard.

But i mention the past suffering here because that is what i would be reminded of eating lab grown meat, rational or not. In general i think if the current process is vegan then it is fine (so using a biopsy on a recently, naturally, deceased animal or from an umbilical cord).

My work agreement is supposed to be 8-5 with hour lunch. I work 9-5 or 8-4 and eat at my desk when i can. But i do have mandatory overtime which sometimes makes it 7am-9pm. Fun times

Its not any different than how it already was. Initially the GenAI models were all being trained on masses of unlicensed data including data from reddit. The problem is some companies like New York Times are suing for training an LLM off of their data. So in response companies like OpenAI are now trying to reach partnerships that basically license the use of the data (that they already had). This also means that they will be able to continue to have future access to that data as long as the partnership is in place. Whereas some companies without a partnership could start to ban scraping activity or update their terms to forbid training AI off of their data.

Overall these partnerships are a good thing. Licensed training data is good. But from a privacy standpoint, the AI models were already trained on reddit data. This is just formalizing the relationship

What privacy respecting phone are you using that also has a headphone jack? If it has an sd card slot too I'll think I've gone back a decade

Very misleading title

You also need to pay to just have message history preserved on slack. Discord that information is there for free for as long as the server/discord exists.

I'm not saying people should use discord, but people are using it because it's free to use.

The "angie" fork shares the same problem as nginx run by F5: it's run by a for-profit corporate entity. Even if it's good enough now, things might change unexpectedly, like it happened with F5.

https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2024-February/YIFSHIYSKDFBYZ2QRA3WF6SRPGIBDBKI.html