They made it so much worse. Essentially any person you encounter (the language says "occupant" of a public or private space iirc) can legally require you to remove your mask.

It's really fascinating to me that this is what people make when the barrier to artistic creation disappears. It reminds me of some Youtuber books - they're written by people with no literary skill or experience, but they produce them because they've gotten popular enough that the books are a profitable endeavor regardless of quality. Until you read a Youtuber book you don't consciously realize what is necessary to write a book, because usually, mostly, only people who have that ineffable something do write novels. And here: you don't realize what is needed to actually create art and not just images, until you see people with no artistic literacy or skill produce what they think of as art.

Visual art and literature are windows to the soul, and normally only a certain type of person goes through the effort to open that window for us. Here, and in Youtuber books, you can see inside a completely different type of person. And their soul looks like waifus and cowboys.

There was a window of time where it was super easy to jailbreak iPhones - and there were tons of cool customization options, plus you could easily pirate apps and get in-app purchases for free. That was neat. That was the only period in which I owned an iPhone and felt okay with it. I've heard jailbreaking is a lot more difficult these days but I don't really know because I switched to Android.

Kalimbas are cool. Cheap and they sound lovely like a music box even if you don't know what you are doing. The sound is so nice that my cat has several times fallen asleep right beside me while I've played

Ugh, this gets right to a massive pet peeve of mine regarding mainstream climate change coverage. This relentless fucking fixation on having hope, the absolute strident necessity that we all feel the "correct way" about what approaches us. It's toxic positivity. It's emotional policing.

All of these people are terrified of death and they have no idea what hope even is! Yelling at some teenager grieving the destruction of the biosphere, "Be more optimistic! Look at the cool tech!" - it's not just ineffective, it's the literal opposite of helpful.

Hope isn't optimism! Hope isn't believing that we will win. Hope is when you've gone fully into despair and then find yourself, somehow, still alive there. This facade of positivity they call hope will break at the first sign of stress; that's why they push it so hard, insisting we all perform optimism as well, propping up their fragile feelings for them. I just want to shout it in their faces: You can't have hope without death! You can't have peace without grieving! Fuck you, start weeping!

There is a major oversight here that precludes proper representation. Chocolate is not a type of milk, it's a characteristic of milk.

Sincerely, a chocolate almond and chocolate soy milk enjoyer.

Seconded, it's really good. I felt pretty down after this NPR piece (I have long covid myself) and the Gauntlet article was like a breath of fresh air. It is a relief to see reality so plainly stated.

Yeah, it seems truly awful. Hopefully his real birthday gift is getting to see that thousands of strangers think he deserves so much better than this.

This article was posted on the husband's birthday. He's been liking replies supporting him on Twitter. This is a form of abuse and I hope he leaves.

Anne's hope is to provoke her husband into beating her badly enough to besmirch him in the eyes of the public - a classic womanly strategy of provocation that her husband has fallen for.

See, I was gonna go to a therapist for 150+ sessions to work through my religious trauma from my very Catholic upbringing. But luckily I realized I was just being an edgy atheist about it. Saved me so much time!

List I found of hotlines and warmlines that don't call police