Yep. Growing up in cattle country, you’d hear ranches brag about how many beef cattle they’re raising, and it gets shortened to “I’ve got 30k heads of beef this season”.

I’ve always heard that apartments are what you rent, and condos are what you buy. Besides, if the Republicans are on board, it’s because they see a path to fleece the little guy out of even more money.

I agree, and I’ve got good news. California has multiple programs to aid in the upgrade to solar, like the DAC-SASH program, which will completely cover the cost in low-income areas, or the PACE financing program that lets you borrow the money against the house and pay it off over 30 years via additional property tax.

There’s more, but it’s a little weird that nobody else has brought this up at all.

Last Christmas I was having a hard time tracking down a book I wanted to gift. It was out of stock at all the big stores, but I found it at https://www.summerbeambooks.com/, a small bookstore down in Oregon.

This is what I’ve been taught as well.

My parents were involved in a cult, and I never would have made it out if I didn’t have normies on the internet telling me that being in a mass marriage ceremony to Jesus at 17 was fucked up.

Oh that’s cool.

Do you use the rivet kind or the screw kind?

Good news, buttons are super easy to sew on yourself.

I buy them in bulk, because I sew, and treat them like a handyman treats a flathead screwdriver. They’re a little less likely to accidentally cut your shirt, and it’s easier to get into tight stitches, but that’s about it.

You could say that they ate and left no crumbs, but I don’t think bread that thin would leave crumbs to begin with

For context, my local transit authority has decided to do away with monthly passes and instead give you a fare cap if you use a debit/credit card to pay your fare. They’re tracking who is taking what bus, and when.

By your logic, the bus drivers are also at fault for the surveillance state.

This is my hole. It was made for me.

No, they’re going back to vomit flavor chocolate. There was a recent change that made it even worse, and they’re undoing it.

The full article is behind a paywall for me. Is this better or worse than other fields?

I guess theres another reason picture books for babies are also called “board books”.

I’ve been called on multiple times, but always get excused because the bus system isn’t compatible with their scheduling.

Oooh, a marbled salamander!

It’s the knee-high socks and thinkbook with linux. Turns out just anybody can buy them!

Not to downplay your situation, but isn’t autism entirely about the symptoms when it comes to diagnosis?

It’s a touchy subject. I personally think it should be, but people love to misinterpret talk about what’s causing symptoms as wanting to get rid of autistic people.

Regardless, I don’t hit enough criteria to be diagnosed, and got “sensory processing disorder” instead. The overlap in symptoms is because the tumor is in my thalamus, which is the sensorimotor processing station of the brain and has strong implications for autism as well. Furthermore, I have bone spurs in my neck that are compressing my spine, another tumor on my T9 vertebra, and a history of TBI that has left me with memory problems. Altogether, I deffo ping as neurodivergent, it’s just that people think the only neurotypes available are “autistic/adhd”, or “neurotypical”.

There is also no guarantee that dealing with the tumor would fully restore your brain to the way it was before.

Yeah, and mine’s inoperable because it’s too deep in the brain. They can’t even do a biopsy without potentially doing more harm. Same goes for the one on my vertabra, it can’t be removed because it’s through the bone itself. I think some people are adamant that there’s an easy fix, because they’re confronting their own internalized Just World fallacy and are struggling to come to terms with the fact that this shit can just happen, to anybody for any reason, and that scares them.