i honestly just drink a lot of tea.

having friends who are younger than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards younger people.

as someone with a speech impediment, all of the people saying that only one type of stuttering is valid are wrong.

stuttering CAN look like this: "t-this is a-an example s-s-sentence"

OR this: "this-this is an example sen-sentence."

OR this: "t-t-t-th-..t-ttttthis is an example sentence."

OR this: "this is, uhm, an example, uh, sentence."

OR this: "this is an example sssssss-sentence."

OR this: "this is an examp-...this an example sentence."

sometimes the sentence won't even come out of your mouth at all.

there are probably many examples i'm forgetting, but that's the point! it usually is a mix of a few of these, but some people do one of them more often than others! some people with speech impediments have certain sounds that they almost consistently have trouble with (for me it's "st").

people with speech impediments also rarely-if ever-stutter whilst they're singing or whispering.

most importantly!!!! people with speech impediments are capable of saying a sentence without stuttering!! it can just be a gamble sometimes.

and if more people could portray the frustration that comes with stuttering and not being able to get words out, i'd be a very happy girl.

(fun fact: sometimes when my mouth won't let me say what i want to say, i get so annoyed that i just yell or grumble out "WORDS.")

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they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

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I read a while ago about how all wool even in like New Zealand and Scotland or whatever still has to be sent to China to be processed. now I don't know if that just means like cleaning and spinning it into thread or weaving it into cloth, or just cleaning. but I did remember sort of being shocked at oh shit. NO MORE TEXTILE MILLS. They have all of this raw wool but there's no more facilities local to actually process it. All of that got moved offshore and has never come back because it wasn't possible for people to turn a profit unless they were moving production somewhere where the standard of living was lower and there were enough skilled factory workers willing to do that work at what would not be considered a living wage in most supposedly first world nations.

I really really wish that people understood that once manufacturing and finishing goods moved offshore and once we started using factories in East Asia it was never going to come back to the United States because we had no interest in actually running factories and mills and mines and all of those industries that amassed wealth for millionaires in the early 20th century. What we have now are ghost towns, and foreign labor contracts, to keep Walmart's able to sell toasters for $5 each or whatever. That's reality. That's the reality we built and we don't have time travel. We can't go back and change our minds. We literally have to roll back the clock.

And in the 21st century all we've done is outsource more. in 1994, the airline that I worked for was able to get money from the governor to be headquartered in Columbia South Carolina specifically because we were going to build the reservation center there and provide jobs for hundreds of people. It was a small carrier with only I think four planes total, servicing a specific geographic quadrant of the United States.

Jobs like that reservation center? Are ceasing to exist. Customer service representatives are now in India or working from home as contractors (which is how companies save money by avoiding having to pay any kind of overhead, by offloading the cost of the overhead to the actual employees with no compensation. It's not as if they say okay here's the portion of your electricity bill and your cable bill that you are using to do your job 8 to 10 hours a day. Here's the stipend. here's how to get reimbursed for your expenses. there is no stipend. there is no expense account. They know what they can get and how little they can get it for and that's how we have billionaires today.

The only industries where people really talk about this stuff tends to be the automotive industry because when we think of manufacturing for some reason we think of Detroit and cars. but that's because America has chosen to be a car culture. That's the infrastructure that the country chose to invest in: highways. Sure there's a lot of freight that's shifted from one place to another by air or by rail or by sea. But the final deliveries involve trucks and cars. and the companies that manage the logistics and warehousing are very very slow to change once they have decided that they have finished evolving.

Not low cost high frequency rail systems, not robust public transportation systems. Not a competitive airline industry with multiple low cost airlines. now they block murders because the idea of Southwest Airlines competing with Delta on the same even playing field scares a lot of old white guys right down to their socks.

The only way this works is to go back to striving for a healthy middle and lower classes, normalise trade schools, abolishing tipped wages, and paying a living wage. FOR EVERYONE.

And even that America still relies on institutionalised slavery in the form of prison labour and the entire agricultural industry resting on the back of migrant workers.

It's going to require a level playing field that does not allow 1% to exist or an underclass to function.

No more billionaires, no more hoarding wealth, no more mergers and considarions, stronger and better enforced antitrust laws, capping executive salaries for the unspeakably wealthy, and all trades having strong unions to protect workers and ensuring a living wage all the way down to the very bottom of the ladder.

It means looking at all of the places where social programs continue to work and have abolished homelessness and poverty and applying them to more than just a tiny handful of small Scandinavian countries.

And as above have said it requires robust unions and regulators and investing in people instead of the 1% only caring about hoarding profits. It means making life safe for people and the environment and not continuing to treat everything like a resource to be exploited. We have to turn them into renewable resources.

We have to learn or relearn how to manufacture and finishing goods without destroying the planet and ourselves.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th: