jubilationtcornpone @ jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works

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Nothing special. Just my Pixel 9.

Sounds like a lot of these people either have an undiagnosed mental illness or they are really, reeeeaaaaalllyy gullible.

For shit's sake, it's a computer. No matter how sentient the glorified chatbot being sold as "AI" appears to be, it's essentially a bunch of rocks that humans figured out how to jet electricity through in such a way that it can do math. Impressive? I mean, yeah. It is. But it's not a human, much less a living being of any kind. You cannot have a relationship with it beyond that of a user.

If a computer starts talking to you as though you're some sort of God incarnate, you should probably take that with a dump truck full of salt rather then just letting your crazy latch on to that fantasy and run wild.

And also with you.

That lightsaber?

Yes, THAT lightsaber.

Got you covered.

Excellent.

My wife would describe the one on the right as "freezing." The correct temperature, according to her, would be right around the same temp as the surface of the sun.

Good old Revenge Bedtime Procrastination.

Best case scenario you regain your balance but throw your back out in the process.

Database performance tuning is its own little world and there are lots of complexities and caveats depending on the database system.

With MSSQL, the first thing you should check is your indexes. You should have indexes on commonly queried fields and any foreign keys. It's the best place to start because indexing alone can often make or break database performance.

We have a "landline" (actually VOIP) at our house and I have a desk phone in my office that I use often. This is one of the reasons. It's also nice not having to run around the house trying to find my cell phone in emergencies, not to mention VOIP service is dirt cheap.

I've been in your position. If you really want to regain your wife's trust, the only thing you can do is be someone who is trustworthy. The rest is up to your wife.

In my experience, the worst part of cheating isn't the act itself. It's starts off simple enough. You just tell some "small" lies about where you've been or where you're going and your spouse most likely shrugs it off. But lies compound and suddenly you find yourself stacking lies on top of lies, trying to hold back the sea of lies. You begin to feel like the story of the dutch boy trying to plug holes in the dam with his fingers, except you built the dam and filled the sea behind it with shit. And you know if you don't keep plugging holes all of your shit is going to come spilling out. It becomes fucking exhausting.

I looked at the person I had become at the end of my affairs (as in multiple) and I hated him. He wasn't me. At least he certainly didn't feel like me. At some point I decided I didn't want to live like that anymore.

There's a lot of merit in the phrase "the truth will set you free." You can tear down the dam and drain the sea of lies. But when I say the truth, I mean all of it. Your wife has a right to know the whole truth, down to the last detail. To her, your life has to be an open book. She needs to be able to ask you anything and know that you will be honest with her, even if it's something she'll be hurt by. In fact, it's ok to preface answers with something like, "I'm afraid my answer is going to be hurtful but if you really want to know I will tell you.

Living your life with integrity is hard sometimes but it's still much easier than living without it.

I don't want a knife anywhere near my baguette.

Fun fact:

The precursor to the FDA was created during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. After the book was published, Roosevelt sent federal investigators to the Chicago slaughterhouses to validate the conditions detailed in the story.

The investigators reported that the conditions were worse than described in the book. And that was after the slaughterhouse owners got wind that the feds were coming and had everything cleaned from top to bottom.

Hard to imagine what "worse" looks like because the conditions detailed in the book are truly appalling.

If they at least pretend to be Christians you can always quote passages from the Bible (aka "liberal talking points") that condemn their ideology. Really good chance they'll scowl and stare at their shoes. You might even see just the smallest twinge of guilt before they shake it off and go back to parroting the latest OAN headline.

But, you'll have so much ammo you can just keep at it all day if you want to. Not that it will change any of their minds. It probably won't.

"It's not improbable, if you believe it."

Congrats! That's exciting. We seriously looked at building a few years ago. Went through the whole process up to the point of hiring a contractor. When we finally got bids, which was like pulling teeth, we quickly decided it was not in the cards. Ended up buying a similarly sized fixer upper for half the price of a new build. Thankfully we made back the money we spent with a little extra when we sold the land.

Being able to have exactly the home you want is great.

It's like playing Age of Empires over dialup. One minute you're happily building a little army and keeping your farms going. Then some asshole with cable internet comes along and faster than you can blink, your army is destroyed, villagers murdered, and your city burned to the ground.

Hamas. It's always Hamas. Even when it's not Hamas, it's Hamas. And they're definitely hiding in an elementary school in Gaza. Oh, and the kids at the elementary school? Also Hamas.

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