2988. Maslow's Pyramid
title text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.
(https://xkcd.com/2988)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2988)
It's strange how power-only USB cables seem to be prone to spontaneously developing cuts in them
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The abstract seems pretty clearly “fine, here’s something you can CITE that yes, autistic humans also have emotions” so I imagine that the authors are just as annoyed by this headline as I am
(abstract without ridiculous headline: https://research.aota.org/ajot/article-abstract/78/4/7804205070/25222/Affective-Contact-in-Autism-A-Phenomenological )
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The current government likes to say that the new budget's reduced income tax will start to compensate for households' cost of living increases from the past few years
As expected, the greatest benefit will be to those who have high salaries. But what's worse is now it turns out that the amount of money you receive if you're on disability will be *reduced* compared to the previous budget!
"Det ska löna sig att arbeta" aka "if you can't work, your life needs to be made miserable"
My least favorite thing about the modern commercial internet is when I'm very clear about what I want, and I can't find it, because the search engines are helpfully "correcting" my search to make it make sense.
No, I don't want a device that scales analog video to HDMI, I want a device that takes HDMI and scales it to analog video! that's the exact opposite of what I want!
I remember thinking “damn, covid is gonna suck but people gotta support universal healthcare after this” and that just… didn’t materialize.
Then I was like “wow, long covid sounds bad but at least this we’ll get more people to research ME/CFS and such” but now it seems like long covid is just gonna get swept under the rug like ME/CFS has this whole time.
I’m sick of this shit.
The universe is all matter, no antimatter because in the second after the big bang, all matter/antimatter mutually annihilated leaving *slightly* more matter.
But imagine there's a part of the universe (now outside our lightcone) with *slightly* more antimatter, so antimatter won.
Science fiction story concept: Rogue rocky planet, no star, life evolves anyway because it's close to the matter/antimatter dominance interface & half the sky is pure light from mutually annihilating distant galaxies
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess