The evangelical christians running the US are white supremacist fascists pushings for theocracy.

But even before that, Catholic Church was considered the Whore of Babylon by them; and Catholics were on the KKK terrorism tour along with Black and Jewish (and, I imagine, Black Jewish) people.

Mods watching this one closely for species-level slurs.

I’d say they probably pick up on non-verbal communication much more than verbal. And you can point to exceptional cases, but there’s a pretty wide variation of every kind among dogs, and I’m guessing most dogs aren’t going to have the vocabulary of a marquee herding dog.

My dog would probably pick “stay” out of this and maybe “out”, though when I say “out,” I usually inflect it up, like I do for all my questions.

My favorite little language thing with my dog is, when I see a point of interest, like a squirrel or a another dog, is ask him “Who is it?” and he’ll start looking around. The weird thing is I didn’t teach him this, so either someone else taught him, or “hey look around there’s something you need to see” is just a really easy thing to trigger in dogs.

Having a good family and social circle is basically the most important part of being ready to have kids

Well, bad news for you there, too: since we’re all busy working and commuting and moving states for jobs and our third places are disappearing for various reasons, because our connections have moved globally online instead of locally offline, we are all further away from our families of origin and have smaller social circles to help support our physical lives.

This is kind of a weird conversation to be having in English in a room of probably 50% non-native English speakers.

Are we shaming them? I’m just acknowledging they can’t even conceive of an alternate future, which I think what “car-brained” is getting at.

But it’s a bit like the copper tops in the Matrix–they’ll always potentially be your enemy, through no fault of their own. For instance, these car brained people you are so eager to have sympathy for will show up in droves to complain about anything that would even theoretically lengthen their car commute by even a microsecond.

The only thing I want is a thermometer to help me dial in the temp of my yerba mate, around 60°C.

It’s not necessary, and at work I just use my hand as the thermometer, but if I’m spending money, it’s nice to have.

This conversation is making me realize I need a stovetop solution ready when this Hamilton Beech dies again; the last one died after two years, which is a ridiculously short life span.

A distinction without a difference.

A mouse raised in a cage will be cage-brained.

Too many USAians can’t imagine life without driving a car, the same way that mouse can’t imagine a forest.

Installed. But, long term, how do they plan to pay their bills?

Also, any advice for a text-to-speech engine on Graphene? Here We Go won’t talk to me without one.

That’s what I’m doing…

Switch away from Google Chrome to Brave.

Switch away from Google Search to DuckDuckGo.

Get a free Proton account and start moving accounts.

Use Waze instead of Google Maps, discover Waze is now owned by Google, buy a fucking atlas. Fuck this timeline.

Next step/shit to figure out:

Move my contacts off of Google.

The Last Thing I’ll Do: Migrate Photos to a self-hosted solution.