You think folks will try and pull a Corporal Klinger?

(Obligatory cross dressing and being trans aren’t the same, but it’s a 50 year old reference)

In theory once you stay at a dosage of metformin for long enough the unfortunate side effects go away. In practice it’s been a year and I still can’t trust a fart.

My brother ended up lost in a major city, 3 hours away from home and our parents. He didn’t know where he parked his car, just that it was “at a hotel”. Drugs were almost certainly involved.

His strategy was to wander around asking to borrow strangers’ cell phones until he ended up in a gas station run by an immigrant couple who were OMG lovely. They let him use their phone and they fed him until my parents could drive over and pick him up.

My parents found his car by posting “lost car” ad on Craigslist with a reward.

Anyways, my strategy’s probably to find a local library or equivalent and email my partner and friends a “please help” message. Hopefully someone lends/gives me clothes along the way.

Edit: oops, I said 3 miles. It was 3 hours. Updated.

Ugh, the public. Most folks are lovely. Some folks want to ruin my day. Guess which one spawn camps the newspaper rack and/or reference desk. (I’m glaring at you, Ms. “Coughs On Everything” and Sir “Let me tell you about my childhood trauma, also the teens are too loud, and no I won’t sit further from the teen section while I make my video calls about how trans folk are liars”)

Source: my stint as a trans public librarian.

The concussions probably don’t help with decision-making skills. But, it looks like there are schemes/systems in place to try and minimize the risk of poor financial planning: pensions, 401ks, and other benefits. I think that’s neat.

TBF, (American) football players risk increasing traumatic brain injuries and break their bodies to play the game. That compensation has to help them deal with the aftermath of that for the rest of their life.

CEOs… I dunno.

Yep. I suspect we’ll be fine for cheap/low quality candy, thanks to native corn syrup. Sadly my tastes run a bit fancier.

I’m not sure. A quick audit of my clothing says Peru, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Poland, and China.

I’m also not sure how the tariffs will end up.

Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first–the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.

I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don’t grow that here. I have a bit of chocolate.

I really don’t know what will be in short supply. I didn’t want to hoard stuff I won’t use, but I don’t want to run out of stuff I need.

I think they were delayed, except for China. But it is hard to keep up.

I wish autism was a “get out of taxes free” card.

Walks up to checkout counter. 7% sales tax? I think not, my good computerized checkout clerk. I have the autism.

As an academic, it’s a tad heartening to see institutions not rolling over.

My college talks a good talk but hasn’t been tested yet.

4:

• English (native)
• Spanish (school)
• French (school)
• Korean (Taekwondo)

Hopefully next week I’ll add Polish–I’m on day 3 of learning it in an app.

Well, Virginia is for lovers.

I could see calling panic attacks a “mental health crisis”.

I had them years ago. I would feel one coming on during my drive home and so I would pull off into a parking lot, park the car, lay the driver’s seat all the way back, and blast the air conditioner while focusing on my breathing until I felt safe to drive again.

I’m glad no one ever called the cops on me.

Thank-you for your info dump :)

And the Wii can be Linuxed, if you get creative enough. Source: former roommate did it

No, I thought capitalists wanted to appeal to mainstream consumers. DEI and pride displays are marketing techniques. Removing them says “nope, minorities aren’t worth appealing to”.

The performance serves as a barometer for how, idk, accepted a thing is. Having LGBTQ displays made me, an LGBTQ person, feel like Corporations thought we were a market worth wooing. Taking that and DEI away is a kick in the teeth. It feels worse than never having the displays or DEI programs in the first place.

Bots lie about who they are, ignore robots.txt, and come from a gazillion different IPs.