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"I shouldn't be here! I should be in school!"

Young girl comments on her abusive parents without realizing it

Something odd about glasses...

So there's two main types of eye problem (There's lots, but these two cover what I'm talking about right now) -- short sightedness and far sightedness.

You might think they're similar, but they couldn't be more different.

A far sighted young person can focus on near things often, but it takes great strain and effort. As they age their eyes become more brittle and they may lose that ability, but focusing close-up can require really pushing your eye and your eye muscles even when you're young. When you get glasses and you're far sighted, it takes stress off your eye.

A near sighted person often has better than 20/20 vision close to them without their glasses, but their far sight is just wrong. When you get glasses and you're nearsighted, it is like a whole new world is revealed to you.

Anyway, I'm old and far-sighted, and doing glasses repairs is a nightmare. Trying to fix your eye fixers while your eyes are broken sucks! haha

I think this is an important note. There's more than one country on earth, and they all tried different things, and so we can tell what the different countries did. The thing is, there was no country that managed to completely eliminate covid. Island nations like Japan or New Zealand were able to keep it away from its people longer, but eventually even those countries face the same problems everyone else did. There were countries that had 100% vaccination rates and if you had believed the media at the time then those countries should have had no covid, but that's not what happened.

I think it will be long after covid is in the rear view mirror and it's no longer is highly politicized as it is even now, somebody will do a longitudinal study of all the different countries and their responses and the results of each set of actions. It'll probably be really interesting irrespective of contemporary politics.

I'm working on a big election day article about it, but I think it's Trump.

The Dems used up a lot of their political capital to get here, and a lot of their short term decisions are catching up to them.

Just imagine an alternative universe where y2k actually ended the world.

Saddest thing is he's still far to the left of Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

We had a doctor who only seemed to be able to prescribe T3s. Life changing when we got a real doctor.

A Kia is a lower end Hyundai. A Nissan is a lower end fiat.

Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (16/20)

Final Fantasy Legend 3

Considering the inflation was entirely government created, maybe we need to curb government greedflation by getting them to stop spending more money than exists all the time?

And if you get the boys together to tar and feather some bureaucrats, they call *you* the toxic one!

They can't even sue Microsoft to pay all their taxes.

"it's bullshit that I can't sue my text editor"

I still fire it up routinely.

Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (15/20)

Rock and Roll Racing

"Just take your kid to an unlicensed daycare." "Well I couldn't do that, I need to use a daycare that follows the labyrinthine and meaningless regulations intended to ensure virtually nobody can run a daycare!"

Fun fact: Back in the 2000s, megacorps put out ill conceived re-imaginings of old properties, but they had not yet developed the technology required to call you racist for pointing out it sucks balls, so people just pointed out it sucked balls.

This darker, gritter re-imagining of Loony Toons ran for 2 years.

The worst thing the spaniards ever did was burn all the books. I bet there's a lot of interesting stuff we'll never know...

Not enough wrench

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXWbdxOAuDs

An absolutely S-tier explanation of the smith chart, and also the concept of reflectance through a wire.

There's a device called a Time Domain Reflectometer that will induce a small pulse on a line and use this characteristic to listen for reflections, and that represents changes in resistance over a line. In this way, you can find damage in electrical cables without going inside of them. The same concept works in optical systems, so there are also optical time domain reflectometers which similarly send a light pulse out and look for light reflected back.