My Silent Gen father gave me dating advice as a young boy. He told me to never discriminate. He said that he had “dated” young, old, skinny, fat, pretty, and ugly and they each had their charms. I took his advice, though I would like to add that although I am pretty sure he meant women, he did not specify gender at the time, so I assumed I shouldn’t discriminate by gender either.

Thanks dad!

I can guarantee that kid will die.

As a result, some consumers resorted to purchasing TPM modules for their existing hardware, while others turned to customized Windows 11 ISOs that bypassed the TPM requirement entirely.

Who is doing this?!? If you are a business user, your company should pay for a new PC. If you are a gamer, you have a year to upgrade your MB. Everyone else has a year to figure out if Linux is right for them. At this point, Linux can perfectly cover most non-business users or those who are not multiplayer online gamers.

That’s the face of “I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders”.

No, chronic pain doesn’t radicalize. Chronic pain gives you clarity. Chronic pain shows the world for what it truly is: a society that doesn’t care about you if you can’t hold a job, and paradoxically, believes that you are just fine if you can.

Bruh.

Chronic pain shows you that medicine, as a field, is based on statistics and bell curves. If you don’t land in the center of one of those bell curves, it doesn’t matter how much access you have to doctors and treatment, eventually everyone discharges you with a shrug and a sorry, if you are lucky.

I have, unfortunately, had experience with heart disease and cancer. On heart disease I lucked out and got a crazy surgeon who installed four stents. Every other (5) cardiologist I have spoken to (all supposedly top tier) has been surprised by that because they would have cracked me open and gone with a bypass.

On the cancer side, my first doctor’s plan would have left me broken for however long I had afterwards. So my wife researched and found the best money could buy and I came out the other side relatively normal.

The problem with medicine goes back to an old joke. What do you call the person who graduated medical school last on their class? Doctor. The worst, most careless, doctors will still cost an arm and a leg (sometimes literally), so money is not a fix. Ultimately you have to do exhaustive research and find your own care. Most people will have to rely on luck.

It seems like you should keep the Yaris, even if you get a new car. That little guy is your trusty friend. Take care of it.

Israeli politicians and pundits call for violence and genocide against defenseless civilians in Gaza and nobody bats an eye but one member of a tier of people that make enough money to hire their own private army gets capped, and everyone loses their mind.

If your job requires you to ruin people’s lives or cause their untimely death, it is reasonable to assume that you would need private security. I hate to victim blame (not really) but it seems to me that it was UHC CEO’s own fault that he got taken out by an amateur. I’d say do better next time but…

I’m just saying, if you are gonna instantly repost the image I spent time and effort making, at least gimme a shout out. It’s all about getting some love, the only currency worth anything ont the interwebz.

Sneaking those two people’s hearts past customs must have been a doozy.

You know, you can crosspost.

True story: In 2018 I was pretty sure I was or was about to have a heart attack and possibly a stroke. I drove to the ER rather than call an ambulance. As soon as they checked my vitals, they prepped me for emergency surgery. As I was in the O.R. my wife was listing our second home (he one we wanted to retire in) for sale because she was certain that the medical expenses would bankrupt us. Everything worked out well, but the fact that while I might be breathing my last breaths all I am worried about is leaving my wife in financial ruin is not something I can let go of.

Me, who lived in Texas for 22 years.

This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while.

• The skis are going to be very heavy
• Sucks to be you if you don’t like the design or feel of them.
• The skis have holes in them for the tracks
• The tracks don’t add much help given that skins have little forward resistance.
• I suspect that the skis will do very poorly in powder conditions.

…but you still hate them.

Exactly like adults.

Source: Been WFPB since 2018 and an adult for longer than I want to think about.

…the judge is on the side of Jones.

I believe there are two different things being mixed up here.

• Jones was asking for the sale to be deemed illegal due to collusion between The Onion and the Sandy Hook parents. The judge dismissed that argument.
• The judge stated that the trustee made a mistake in calling the auction done before allowing for another round of counter offers. He stated that the amount raised by the sale was not high enough and that too much “money was left on the table”. If anything, this will put more money in the pockets of the Sandy Hook parents.

What a Chad.

All I am saying is that if you see a dog snarling, don’t poke it with a stick. It seems … ill advised.

Meanwhile, the Internet be like…

You’re too quick! I had responded in the wrong place.

Columbine kicked off an epidemic of school shootings because of the attention it got. Some people need a focus for their misery and I am not ashamed to say that I would rather see heartless corporate executives fear for their safety instead of school children gunned down as they hide in a closet. Just putting that out there.