Oh I absolutely agree with you about the sequels as well. I tried reading the one that takes place more of like the Victorian era and just could not get into it

I have a moon as a harsh mistress rib tattoo of Simon Jester

I absolutely agree with your recommendation, but man if they’re looking for something short, the mistborn series is the opposite lol

Yeah, but you get the hacks first. Unlike having to watch 3 episodes of always sunny before you can leave with your dime bag of seeds and stems. ;)

There’s a really cool episode of the podcast Factually touching on what you’re talking about.

https://eightify.app/summary/social-issues/prioritizing-disability-needs-in-technology-and-society-factually-239

(Side note, I’ve never seen this website but I really dig that it has question and answer summaries on the bottom. That was super cool.)

Edit: also, as somebody who is disabled who can’t lean forward without intense pain, these wheelchairs would be hell.

To add to your metaphor. The grocery store has also collected enough data on you to know exactly how much you’d be willing to pay for eggs versus how much your neighbor would be willing to pay for eggs. So they show you and your neighbor two different egg prices when you get to the cooler.

For a while when I had trailers enabled on Plex I would put the anti-piracy one up lol

Cardiac support and ICD support. Those were two ones that I really found valuable after heart surgery and getting a pacemaker that exists on Reddit but I have not been able to find anywhere else. kind of lost a really important support structure to me when I left reddit. I know I could start one here but I’m just not the kind of person who is good at getting people to know about something that’s available.

It’s possible Just wasn’t the flavor I was looking for at the time. I’ll give another go at some point. I hear great things from people so it’s probably just send me a thing

I really enjoyed the first and could not get into the second in the children of time series

I just bought this and installed it and was going to play it after the kiddo went to bed. I’m a little bit worried that it’s not going to be something I’m interested in.p

Similar to the person who commented below. I live in a very rural area so it would be 10 bucks in gas just to drive to the closest Target to buy a pack of pens that I need for work the next day. And I know that I could just swing by on my way home from work and pick them up, but then it becomes a time thing. I mean my entire plan is to ditch Amazon prime after my current subscription expires. But man, there are some interesting things that have just become normalized with the convenience of getting things mailed to me that I’m totally going to miss. But fuck bezos

Oh hey! Actually I did find a news article. I was curious if I could https://medium.com/@divitia/what-are-plex-shares-why-they-were-banned-f5a43735ffbb

Edit. Just finished reading it… Eh… “News” might be a bit of a stretch for the article.

I mean the source I have is not really particularly great, Just my first hand account and what I was told about why we were moving to a different system. It was just that I was part of a plex share where all of us were getting banned for it being associated with the the Plex share. So the plex share moved over to using emby.

Our plex share had to move over to emby. And then they were kind of going through in systematically banning people. So a lot of people just got banned for pirated content.

Ahhhh, So this is why they’re really cracking down on banning plex shares.

Well fuck I’m suddenly looking at my pacemaker and the little box that sends the messages to the doctor with much more suspicion now.

What’s your favorite memory of working in that field?

To be fair, if somebody starts streaming without their skin on I’m going to nope the fuck out really quick.

In December 2022 I realized I skipped seeing my cardiologist for 6 years. Did a 24 hour monitor. Apparently my heart rate was dropping to 21 bpm and stopping pumping for up to three seconds. So in February 2023 they cut me open and give me a pacemaker. Months go on and I am still getting winded. So they did another heart Cath procedure (on the 28th) and it turns out my heart is doing worse than thought even, so in the next 3-5 years I’ll need a heart transplant. But the make up of my organ layout means I’ll need a specialist, which just all sounds so slim. I am 33 and so fucking tired.

I hope to leave some of this stress behind. I know there’s a lot I can’t escape now, but I hope I can leave some of the anger and fear behind. It’s been hard to be a good dad or partner this year just from feeling so stressed, and if I don’t know how long we will have I just want my daughter to remember a happier dad.