Ms. ArmoredThirteen

Meanwhile my out of shape half drunk uncle watching someone wobble after landing a quadruple backflip: “what a disgrace to their country”

Only if you keep making it illegal to sell alcohol from the US obviously

During the height of blm in Seattle my complex had protests and various gasses going by it. Some of the tenants tried to get rent reduced or have leases cut early. Our landlords raised the rent the legal max, about 10%

Some of the homeless in Seattle do that, one of my ex partners used to when they were homeless too. Sometimes you do what you gotta do and pigeons is cheap calories

So I mean this from a place of curiosity not trying to get you all to change anything, I’m not even vegetarian. Is there a particular reason your wife couldn’t do several smaller meals over the day? Like do their organs not allow something like that anymore or more like it would be ridiculous to carry around a bag of beans to snack on over the course of 4 hours?

I spent years trying to change things. Protests, donating to younger people more capable of direct action than me, building community, and yes voting too because we have to use all our tools. It became too dangerous for my aging trans ass and I managed to find myself in a position to move to Sweden. I don’t know if I’ll ever stop feeling guilty about it but it’s so much better outside the US. I’m still giving what I can to my community back in the US but at this point it’s more like using scotch tape to fix a stab wound. You better believe though if the US comes for Greenland I’m going to do everything I can to help my new neighbors

While I was living in Seattle it was: $3.3k/mo for rent, like $500 utilities, about $1k for food (I was feeding me and another person, we ate out maybe once every couple months, I did go a bit fancy with our cooking), various things like gym and other stuff to keep my sanity brought it all up to about $5.5k/mo. My health insurance was through my work and I paid about $1.2k and they paid about $2k but that was all handled before I got my paychecks.

So in Seattle at least the answer is make at least $100k/yr before tax, don’t have kids, don’t have a car, be in reasonably good health, have a job that pays for most your insurance premiums, and never have a medical emergency. Or live in a house with 6 other people and dumpster dive for food. Or just go massively into debt.

The entire argument about universal healthcare taking months to see a doctor is doubly trash because it took me that long to see a doctor in the US anyways. I had to plan my general practitioner visits out 3-4 months in advance and I was on meds that needed represcribed every three months so some months I simply missed it because how long the waits were

I am a programmer and I do not use AI, I’m going to school with some programmers who also do not use AI (some do some don’t). I don’t need luck to find like minded people.

I’m working towards starting my own indie studio. Games are made for people to experience people emotions and it takes a person to be able to understand them in a way that can be accurately conveyed. When I make my studio there will be no generative AI, not in the product not in development. Probably there is a way to use it to streamline some stuff and I’d argue it’s difficult but possible to use it ethically but why the fuck would I want a computer to do my art for me? Why would I want to rob myself or my team of the opportunity to express themselves to other humans?

I made an AI generated cupcake recipe a while back. It was fine, it covered the bases, ratios were more or less correct, if someone were to give me one I’d eat it and not complain. But it was a technically correct cupcake not a good cupcake. It had no love, you could tell it had no love. People joke about that but it’s a real thing there’s something extra humans can do that AI can’t yet and maybe never will be able to, or not in a way humans relate with well. We’ve known how to make games with no love for a while now, that’s capitalism, but AI let’s us freeze dry the love out of everything at scale and the companies behind them are telling us that’s a good thing. Fuck that I’m not buying into it. I don’t make games for money, I barely make games for other people, tbh it isn’t even that fun most the time, I make games because it’s what makes the most sense to me for self expression. Games are what I know how to pour the most love into and an AI won’t help me with that.

The day trump got elected I wanted to invest in gold. Was going through divorce stuff and finances have been in a wild state since so never got to it. I don’t have regrets on it but could have been nice if I was able to dump a chunk in when I wanted to

I moved to Sweden a bit ago and basically speed ran dumping my usd into euros and sek. I’m keeping some behind to help fund people escaping, it’s not much but if I can even help one person it’s worth it. I pulled the plug on retirement too because I also plan on never going back and I want to be as far from US markets as physically possible

So the thing is I was ice skating for the first time and I didn’t want to brain myself in a crash. I wrapped my head up in a good scarf but I think the helmet prevented proper coverage. I do have a really good hat with ear covering though that I’ve taken out for several hours walks in -30 weather just didn’t fit with the helmet

I just got frostbite in my ears yesterday because I was having an absolute blast in -24c weather lol. Once they heal (or fall off idk we’ll see, but doctor says they’ll probably heal) I’m going to be right back out there again with better headgear. I love the cold, the dark, give me more winter

I’m living in Sweden but only speak English still. When I’m in a group everyone switches to English but if I don’t talk for a while they start slowly mixing back in Swedish words. There’s a sweet spot with Swedlish that to me sounds like a bunch of giggly people a drink or two in trying to see how far they can get away with mispronouncing words while still being understandable

My ex spouse’s computer is still rocking the psu I got from my first computer build back in like 2010

I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn’t realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with “show in folder” options. I don’t have to use windows explorer anymore and while it’s no Linux at least it doesn’t have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control

I’ve been losing my mind seeing the flood of terrible events going on but I finally made it to here. I love your posts they’re one of the highlights of Lemmy, a beacon of joy, thank you as always

Breaking laws isn’t exactly a problem for him

It’s possible but imo unlikely. I know its very different in a lot of ways but Starbucks at least will close a location to “save money” practically day of a successful unionizing vote. A union gets harder to squash the longer they’re around, and more likely to spread to other locations, so companies get pretty trigger happy about shuttering places.