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Or they’re constipated…

Konjac is supposed to help with cholesterol and acne too.

But mainly constipation.

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  • Upset stomach
  • take pet to animal hospital
  • grab niece from day care
  • a personal matter
  • Dr’s appt.
  • the office is too hot
  • the need to watch training videos in peace
  • urgent issues
  • having to do something work related in the morning, off site, so why go in after your done.
  • biopsy
  • the tax office to register your car
  • something broke and you need to get it fixed.
  • the thing that broke didn’t get fixed the first day, so now you need a second one
  • the thing that broke happens to be your ac, so you have to take your pet somewhere to cool off.
  • your niece has lice and it’s up to you to take care of it.
  • you need to pick someone up at the airport
  • thier flight got in late, so you need to pick them the next day instead.
  • a cold, not covid
  • a different cold, still not covid.
  • your car needs an oil change.
  • a different doctors appt.
  • to swing by somewhere that closes at 5.

Ok, look, i have about 300 of these. One for almost every day of the week. Lady (no, not me) is always making an excuse to leave early or not come in at all. Does it piss some people off? Sure, but nobody has stopped her yet.

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I think alot of people are baffled as to why the Democrats aren’t doing the same, or at least aren’t comming up with some way to stop it from happening.

The idea is that they take the high road. They don’t want to be seen stooping to the rude tactics that the Republicans are using. But, in the end, they just end up advancing the Republicans agenda even further, although at a slower pace.

It’s frustrating, and somewhat suspicious.

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Does it help that the phytoplankton may adapt?

Adaptation of phytoplankton to a decade of experimental warming linked to increased photosynthesis

I mean yeah, it’s in a controlled environment, but it seems like encouraging news?

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No, we cant rely on it to fix our problems. Hell if anything it will adapt and then get exploited later on. Humans just ruin everything…

I wish we were better and hope that we will do a 180 and try to preserve what is left, but I wouldnt bet on it.

As much as I’m genuinely fearful of what we are going to endure in the coming years, especially the next generation, part of me feels like we deserve what we get. All we can do is prepare the best we can, cross our fingers, and ride the ride.

It’s pretty shitty that we’re taking everything else down with us, but it does give me hope that maybe nature will surprise us, and not all will be lost, even if it seems that way.

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I remember somewhere, I believe it was the congressional hearings where they called all the heads of the biggest companies to testify for something…a couple years ago…when Bozos refused to show.

Well, anyways, a congressman asked Zuckerberg why this happens because he doesn’t appreciate them listening, through his phone microphone, to conversations hes having. Zuck replies that the algorithm knows you so well, that it pretty much predicts what your going to say at the exact time you say it…were definitely not listening to you from your phone speaker, he says, thats technology we just dont have.

Or something to that effect. 🤨

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Beside the obvious don’t reddit, it happens alot in the kbin (web app) and lemmy apps too.

I’ve taken to stopping to randomly copy my comments to the clipboard, or if it’s an extra long response, writing it in a different app and then copy pasting it.

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Maybe it’s the browser (on vivaldi on android) I’m using, and part user error. If it errors out, it still keeps the comment, but im also used to lemmy throwing an error and then still posting, so I hit back to double check, and if I return my comment is gone and I have to restart. The comment does turn into the post in front of my eyes, so maybe I should trust it.

I also have trouble when I add pictures, the add picture box doesn’t go away unless i click off the “popup,” if that’s what you want to call it, sometimes I’ll just hit the wrong button, cause everything is tiny, and it will jump to another page all together and when I get back, I have to start over.

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Probably a whoosh, but I find this meme funny because about a month before the reddit protest, the was a pokemon go protest.

Niantic pretty much ignored public outcry much like reddit. They demolished remote raiding, which became popular during covid. This forced people, including those with disabilities, to pretty much obtain legendary pokemon in person.

This can be a huge task for those in rural areas and of course the disabled. Many rural areas just do not have enough of a community, or gyms, to meaningfully upgrade said legendary pokemon. Instead, Niantic gave preference to (the $$$) people it could glean location data from, typically those in a city.

Many people, we’re very disappointed and left pokemon go as a result.

I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…

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That was the general premise, but they definitely could have gone about it a different way. They cut everyone off, raised the price of passes, and keep adding more pay to play quests.

In my larger small town, even after this renewed push and the addition of campfire, there are still not enough people to successfully capture multiples of the most valuable pokemon.

Capturing the best pokemone requires at least 5 medium to high level players. Anytime we go into “town” to play, we just sit there staring at the screen waiting for even one more player to join in at any of handful of surrounding gyms. Very rarely (we could count on 1 hand) we happen across a group of people playing. By the time we get to the location they are supposed to be at, the group is long gone. I cant even imagine what disabled would have to go through to find other people. On top of this, it’s regularly over 100 degrees outside.

After the change, a whole bunch of new features that reward playing in person were added. They should have led with these features, gauged community engagement, and then consider moving away from remote participation. Instead, they went straight for all the ways they could alienate a large portion of their player base, while digging deep into the wallets of the ones who stayed.

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