uhhh, yeah, my wife and i try to be the best therapist we can be for each other. not wanting to do that for the person you love seems weird to me.

Yeah, the brand I went with was concept seating. I’m about 6’7” around 400 pounds - fat gut, big bones, decent amount of muscle - was a lineman before I got crippled. I am 100% a fatass, no excuse, but also big in other dimensions as well. Most chairs, even the big and tall ones from staples and the like, will get a bit of a gangster lean after a year or so of use as the chairs base plate slowly warps and tack welds come loose. You can grind it down and patch up the welds, but not much to be done about the plate warp. The concept seating chair I got has a massively thick base plate that seems like it will hold up to a lot more. One other thing I really like about the one I got is that it doesn’t have the most common failure point, the piston. Instead it has a fuck off huge solid threaded shaft that you use to screw the chair to the right height then lock it with a massive lock washer. Additionally it doesn’t recline or move in any other way other than to spin and roll. You can loosen bolts to adjust the fit then tighten them back up, but nothing is easily adjustable with levers and stuff which I love because those are just failure points and I’d much rather spend the time to set it up once Ave never worry about it again

I second the desk chair as a fat crippled IT worker that spends 10+ hours a day in a desk chair. I used to get a new $500ish chair every 3 or so years when it fell apart. This last time I saved up and dropped about 2.5k on a really nice chair rated for 24/7 use by someone much heavier than I am and it’s a life changer for my back, and this thing should last a lot longer

That's simply untrue. On several different occasions I've avoided getting mugged/carjacked/robbed because I saw someone who looked like they were coming my way with intent and their hand in their pocket or just starting to draw it out, so I pulled out my own and in each case they turned around and walked away, presumably to find an easier target. Same with the multiple times armed junkies broke into my house - they see my gun, and they run rather than proceeding to do whatever the fuck they were going to do. I am a cripple, so I'm not gonna be able to fight - it's this or nothing. Not just me, but my wife and son as well.

Yes, guns are bad. Yes, less guns is good! Total agreement. Unfortunately, life is not so black and white. In the US we have SO MANY GUNS, and so many available illegally, and cheaply, that any of these gun laws are only stopping law abiding citizens like myself from having a tool to defend ourselves with, as a criminal is going to be carrying wether it's legal or not for him to as it's readily available.

Australia and the UK, shit even Canada, are so different in this respect (guns per capita and availability and cheapness of black market guns specifically) that you really can't compare policy - what works there isn't necessarily going to work here.

So what's the answer, you say? Lots of things!

We have a lot of gun laws on the books in regards to background checks/greymarket/gunshow sales/etc that are simply not enforced, or not enforced well. Enforce them! Make the checks more strict, stop letting folks with mental issues buy guns, etc.

Want a gun? You should have to take a mandatory safety course for that specific type of gun (shotgun, revolver, semi auto pistol, etc - just like classes on your drivers license). You should have to pass a test and renew it regularly, similar to CCW permits on most states. Let's make it so that if you ARE a law abiding citizen carrying a gun, you know how to safely use the kind of gun you carry, can shoot reasonably accurately with it, have been taught your local self defense laws, have been taught trigger discipline, and have been taught how to check your fucking backdrop before you pull the trigger so you don't put other innocents at risk when defending yourself.

Do something to limit the number of new guns brought into the system. The ones we got are here, can't really do much about that without people losing their collective shit. But we ought to be able to slow down the numbers of new ones made available to the public, via extra taxes, limits on how many guns a person can purchase in a time period, I don't know really, this is a hard one, but I think it's the way we need to do it so we don't just fuck over the average citizen - gradually.

I ran an Apple TV in the living room for a long time to access my Plex server and whatever subscription my wife has this month. As time went on it got more and more glitchy until it came to the point where I had to power cycle the thing every few days. Replaced it with a cheap fire stick, annoyed the crap out of me. Replaced that with a cheap Roku, it was only slightly better than the shitty firestick.

My wife got me the NVIDIA shield pro for Christmas this year, and I picked up the p2920 controller for it. My god this thing is awesome - not only is it the best tv box I’ve ever used, I can use moonlight to play games on my rig or GeForce now to stream games. I highly recommend this thing

Yeah that’s gotta be it, I’m using memmy on iOS as well. Sounds like it’s time to give voyager a try. Thanks!

I haven’t blocked anyone yet so it’s definitely not that but it’s like every thread send to be missing comments without even telling me it’s missing comments so I have to deduce it from the missing context. It’s infuriating. It’s making this platform very irritating to use

Do you know why this happens? I don’t see that comment you quoted, I only see the reply to it as a root level comment. I’ve been noticing this all over the place, where a top level comment is clearly replying to something I cannot see.

Not paying them means you are not supporting them

In our society piracy is always justified

Fuck every last one of these corporations

That sounds like an SD card with extra steps

Shoot him

You already have to jump through 10,000 hoops to get a Chinese ev in America why bother

How about every citizen gets single payer funded health care like all of the other civilized countries. You can think of the children and the adults all at once. Radical thought

The fuck are you on about? I’m talking about keeping an eye on my kids in my own house

Right?!? Let’s solve the actual problem not criminalize the symptoms further when already criminalizing the symptoms doesn’t work

It’s a feature on mine

That’s why my security has multiple layers

Or children lol

Vlans

Electricity likes the path of least resistance to ground. If you are only touching with one hand, most likely the current well run down that side of your body to ground more or less. If both hands are touching it makes it more likely for the current to cross your heart which greatly increases the risk of death

I have a group of friends, half in same town as me, half on the other side of the country, that get together once a week ion discord and play dnd via a self hosted foundry virtual tabletop docker. We used to play 5e but we decided to try out pathfinder 2e to see if we liked it and we haven't gone back, pathfinder is fantastic. The flexibility with the actions makes it feel like you always get a chance to do something and you aren't just wasting your turn when you are getting into position or whatever. Feels close enough to 5e that most of your intuition will be pretty close, just use a different website to look shit up. Highly recommend pathfinder!

I’m 6’8” and I drive a Honda accord. I’m fat too. No excuse man

OK so you can ride around like a kid on a bike constantly squawking a horn every time cars are near you, always smashing that little horn button, after you upgraded it of course so people could actually hear it. Or you could have some nice sounding pipes that when you rev, folks can hear. I know what I’d rather have. If you want to ride around with your little horn go ahead, that’s your prerogative

You intentionally ignored my point. I didn’t say I had overly loud pipes. I said folks were more likely to notice me when I gave it some revs while splitting/etc rather than just coasting. It’s easier to hear more noise than less noise, this is very basic. What’s also very basic is riding is a numbers game. Everything you do, you are tweeting to improve your odds of survival. So the upside of louder pipes is the possibility that more folks will hear you and notice you and possibly not run into you. That’s a big bonus. The downside is, well nothing as long as you pick ones that sound good to you. Yeah, some guy might have his windows up and his music blasting and not be able to hear you no matter how loud your pipes are. Ok? Who cares? I’m still improving my odds by getting a larger chunk of drivers to notice/hear me. Just because I can’t get 100% conversion doesn’t mean I super just give up entirely

My source is I rode a bike for over a decade and several times had folks drifting into my lane that corrected when I revved my engine and they heard me because they couldn’t see me. Likewise when lane splitting when I rode in California where that was legal at the time I noticed that if I rolled up in neutral folks would try to merge in front of each other jockeying for the closest spot and nearly slam into me, but if I opened the throttle a bit as I cruised down they could hear me and wouldn’t merge right into me.

My evidence is anecdotal as I rode for years, but never published a peer reviewed research paper on the subject. Take it for what you will. The main argument in that link you posted is that it’s harder to hear the motorcycle in today’s modern cars as they block a lot of noise out. Sure seems like if you had really loud pipes they might hear you anyway, thus proving my point with their own argument. But that’s just basic logic.

Loud pipes really do save lives. This is an extremely valid concern

We fixed the glitch.

anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together has known this for a while. who is this article for? can we fucking revolt yet guys?

If I was VOLUNTEERING my time on a project I loved and got that kind of response, I would delete everything I had ever contributed and walk away.

I’m tired of voting for the lesser of two evils democrats and getting people that blow hot air and get nothing done

It’s Biden, he won’t actually DO anything, just talk about it and not actually do it

But there’s that one really rich Native American dude with the casino so it’s ok

Yeah that kid just ruined his whole families lives

I cook chicken and steak in ours and it comes out way better than any other method I know and it’s easier than any other method I know

Maybe it’s the wrong name but the device is amazing, it’s my favorite kitchen appliance by far

My insurance won’t cover it and they are super expensive. Even the sleep study is over a thousand dollars and not covered at all

Nowhere, not rich enough to be able to donate when we can barely cover our own expenses

If the doctor needs an mri and your insurance won’t cover the mri $3k isn’t far off. I’ve been in that position before. Had to give the radiology folks $500 down payment and then let them send the rest to collections to get an mri so my doctor could ultimately not to jack shit to help me, but her still charged me too. Fuck America.

Too crippled to get on the ground. Doctor’s note and everything.

It’s more like look at me, I am barely able to sleep enough to function! I wake myself up randomly with my snoring, and sometimes I just stop breathing and wake up with no air pouring sweat in a complete panic feeling like I’m about to die. every night. It’s great

It’s easier to find the hamclit on the left