I always hate how people misinterpret the whole probability thing in quantum mechanics, or think that Schrödinger's Cat was meant to prove something rather than the fact that it was to show the ridiculousness of some of Heisenberg's work, among others.
The real issue is that the act of observing a quantum particle in any way that a human or their machines could possibly observe them necessarily alters the state of that particle in some way. It's like if the only way you could detect how far away a bullet sitting on the ground was from you was to fire another bullet at it and have it reflected back. Obviously whatever reading that were to give you is now no longer correct, the bullet has been moved by the detection bullet and possibly some other characteristics have changed. So you only do real detection at the moment you need to and realize that value is only valid in that moment and for everything else you use probabilities.
Of course an oversimplification, but pretending there's something surreal and supernatural about quantum mechanics is just silly.
Nah you shouldn't feel bad about expressing your struggles just because someone else has it worse. That's how they convince people to give up what little they have. Healthcare should be free and paid for by taxes no question. It's exactly the type of thing that requires collective resources and benefits everyone. And it benefits people even if they don't use it because having healthy coworkers and neighbors makes your job easier and keeps you healthier. I hate that it is always treated as a personal problem rather than a societal one.
That's cool, I'm in the US, so I'm kind of in a rush since insurance is likely to drop coverage soon and I'm getting too old to outwait the political climate to reverse that. But basically each year I'm hitting my out of pocket maximums, so with premiums and out of pocket I've been paying about $20-25K/year the last 2 years, next year will be closer to $30K since they raised premiums and OOP max on all the plans. And that doesn't cover any travel cost. So far I've spent about $15K on travel to San Francisco the last 2 years since it was either that or wait 5 years for bottom surgery in my city which is not small, but totally overwhelmed.
I'm hoping for FFS next year and for it to only take one round as well as revision I need for the vocal surgery that had complications earlier this year so I don't have to do another $30k+ in 2028. Also hoping I don't get laid off and lose insurance since that's so common these days, especially in my field. Considering the bottom surgery alone was around $400K and revision another almost $200K I'd never afford any of it without insurance. But since we have an "employer funded plan" rather than real health insurance, my employer does know every so single procedure I get and how much they spent on it, so I am a little afraid they'll use that to calculate how much I cost them to employ since that's not uncommon here these days even if likely illegal, but no way to enforce due to legal trickery of shell companies and self funded plans and decades of defunding of the EBSA at the federal level which is the only agency with jurisdiction over "employee benefits" if they aren't "insurance" for the employee and only that the benefits are backed by company held insurance policies.
Anyway, that has me in a rush to get things done, but I'm loving the results despite some complications, the annoyance of dilating, and fighting for coverage.
How so? I always liked that yubikeys could not be flashed with firmware updates. Makes them impossible to compromise if a bad actor gets access to it, so in don't have to worry about it being on my keychain 24/7 even through malicious government security checkpoints. And I don't want it for passkeys or other single factor sign on because you should always use 2 factors of differing types (something you know, something you have, something you are). So yubikey with the smaller form factor and relatively great durability has always been my choice.
I love them, but they never hid things well enough for me, so I still had to tuck. I'm so happy post-op that no more tucking. It was so annoying and painful and I can wear all the things, though I still totally love skirts. I just hope to get FFS soon so I'll feel more comfortable looking that femme in more places.
Right, and yahoo exploited people to get that money. Are you saying that his work on that site was more of a contribution to society than the entire lifetimes of thousands of tech workers, a few of which probably actually designed and built the site?
But that's not how he got his billions, and he's not contributing anything back really, he's just accepting a little less profit than he could. A serial killer with human body part trophies in their basement doesn't suddenly become a good person if they save a cat from a tree.
Doesn't matter. There is no amount of work or contribution to society a single person could perform in a single lifetime that would be worth anywhere near $1 billion. Maybe it was another person or company who did the exploitation itself, but he knowingly profited from that.
I mean, isn't "virtual sexual assault" without consequence one of the draws of SL? Seems like the type of people who wouldn't be very respectful in general.
Just less evil. There is no way to ethically acquire that amount of money. Most people don't truly understand how much money $1 billion USD actually is. And the only way to achieve it is to exploit others, make money off of investing in the exploitation, etc.
SMTP proxy will have that trust for you and help you on setting up things at the domain level like reverse DNS, DKIM, etc., that are needed to combat forged "from" addresses and many selfhosters miss.
Only difference is you need a full email stack on your side. Only SMTP traffic (in and out) would go through the proxy and to your local SMTP server. It solves the IP trust issue in many cases (though not all as some places do block the proxies on purpose as well), but nothing can really solve the domain trust issues when they come up except directly contacting the companies who have those policies and often resolving it isn't really possible since they often don't have external tech support for that stuff. It's so annoying when they only whitelist gmail, outlook, and a few other big company domains.
There are then various ways to view the emails and compose and send. If you want to have clients accessing the email via IMAP/POP then you need that server in addition to the SMTP server, but all of that traffic could then be kept local. If you want to only have a web client there are clients that access the email directly without need for IMAP/POP.
But this way, although your email does pass through the proxy so you need to trust them, at least the data at rest is not stored there which increase the likelihood they'll change policies on reading your email like gmail did, or charge you for storage, which is expensive these days.
Personally I use mailcow which is a pretty nice stack, but it would probably be overkill for many people. And I have a good understanding of the issues with both IP and domain white-/black-listing. So it works decently for my needs.
Problem is that Autism and ADHD are both just categories, not specific enough alone. But the specific ways that they manifest can be very different for each person. So not all advice is going to apply to every person. For me, the way I've figured out most things is talking to lots of other people who have the conditions and figuring out what applies to me and then trying the things they do to mitigate those specific issues.
Also, the fact that these diagnoses are often treated as "diseases" is pretty misleading. For the vast majority, they are only disabilities because society makes them disabling. Much like someone who is missing an arm could probably not have as much trouble using a computer if keyboards were made for people with one arm, much of society is designed for people who can focus at will, have the ability to form habits like getting up at a certain hour of the day and completing their daily routines and commutes without using any significant mental effort as opposed to many of us who are already tired by the time we first get to work and who get distracted constantly by open floor plans in offices, etc.
cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/trans_joy/p/880112/selfie-from-a-couple-of-weeks-back
I've been having fun with simple eye makeup like this since doing it right always ends up making me not want to do it. Lol.
And yeah, my nose is always a bit red, but my sunscreen had partially failed me the day before, so it's extra red.
I've been having fun with simple eye makeup like this since doing it right always ends up making me not want to do it. Lol.
And yeah, my nose is always a bit red, but my sunscreen had partially failed me the day before, so it's extra red.
I've been wearing cuffs for a while, but I finally got around to piercings this afternoon. Got both lobes and the conch on one side done so far. Have to wait for the conch to heal before getting the other side done, so I don't sleep on it and mess up the angle before it heals. The pain was minimal, even less than I expected, since it was a pro that did it, and the soreness so far is much less than the soreness after wearing cuffs for a few hours, so I'm super excited for it all to heal so I can wear more interesting earnings.
