When in doubt, throw it out, but if a thing looks and smells and tastes fine it probably is.

But this assumes some experience. Like I know from experience that if dairy tastes fine to me, it really is fine. I will taste off flavors in milk long before it bad enough to make me sick. And sometimes dairy can last way beyond its use-by date. How cold your fridge is has a huge effect, but there is also much luck-of-the-dice around microbes getting in.

But something like, say, potato salad which might have flavors that vary and could cover up something going off… I will throw that out if it gets old or I’ve lost track of how old it is.

They probably thought your over apologizing was wholesome, and could tell from your manner that it was sincere. Most people understand how easy a mistake it is to make, and can relate to being embarrassed about it. A few months ago, I stepped into a men’s room just as a woman hurried out apologizing embarrassedly. It happens.

Nah, leave ketchup packets on the window sill with the outward facing end cut off.

I don’t know if this would solve your problem, but I would try getting a pair of replacement foam ear tips for your earbuds of choice. I always buy the Comply foam ear tips. They come in S/M/L sizes and they make them to fit most ear buds.

I don’t have extra small ear canals, I just prefer them.

Are you sure it’s not what other sounds are occurring around the words affecting the sound? How we pronounce t and s can vary quite a bit, even in the same word when it occurs differently, with different sounds right before it after or even different stress placed on the word based on the context.

From an open source perspective, this is how things are supposed to work, humanity making progress by standing on each other’s shoulders… Of course they want the rest of humanity to help them, with government subsidies, investment from our retirement funds, etc.

Putting a piece of tape (perhaps duct tape, or electrical tape) over the holes will probably keep them from unraveling further.

Now they’ll have video proof that Jesus was white. And had 7 fingers.

It updates for me. For example (and I just tested this), if some other process copies a file into the directory I have open in dolphin, I see the file appear pretty instantly.

The worst problem, to me, is that it pollutes our “environment” that is, our cultural environment, our pool of input about the world, with potential corruption, inaccuracies, at worst the intensification of falsities, stereotypes, and mediocre conceptions. Even if you don’t detect them in an AI image, they may be there. A real world image contains details that humans have not already preconceived, and diluting that with the bullshit of what humanity thinks is reality but which may or may not be, will have a greater long run cost than we can imagine.

No friend is acceptable unless they have no human faults!

Seems normal to me. At some variable time after I get up, I need to poop. I feel like coffee or eating, even drinking water, can encourage it, but even without those, it happens. If I try to repress it, like if i’m still working on making coffee and want to finish, it can become quite urgent.

What do you mean the vent is loud? Is the dryer so far from an exterior wall that there is some kind of fan apparatus to push the air there instead of a simple duct?

This and people tend to respond to cognitive dissonance by rationalizing / repressing awareness. I’ve voted for less bad candidate, now I’ll convince myself that was actually a good thing.

Well enjoy all the enshittification. That to be free of that doesn’t seem worth a few small problems boggles my mind.

If you don’t because you think you have nothing worth stealing, consider that some joker can open your bag and set your combination to something else.

Just to give one data point, I bought a refurbished pixel 7 pro in 2023 and it is still going strong.

Well honestly calling for using pensions and retirement savings to finance AI build out is pretty obscene.

https://youtu.be/Mjkt4UgcTmg?t=91

I’m not in any way religious, and it does irritate me when people say, of some senseless tragedy, “everything has a purpose.”

But I do see, in your specific example, that what they say has metaphorical value. You should be grateful that you had it in you to accomplish what you did, even if you don’t attribute it to some mythical being.

I often think the phase “there but for the grace of God, go I” because I don’t know a secular equivalent. Think of God as a metaphor for the universe.