Ominous!

imo the state monitoring your private messages is basically on the same level as opening and reading physical mail or perhaps breaking into your house to install bugs and cameras

What?

In a meeting today a PhD physicist whom I respect very much pronounced "leeward" like "lee-ward" instead of how it's actually pronounced ("loo-ard") and I had to psychically fight off the spirit of my New England Fisherman grandfather from correcting his pronunciation in front of like three VP's.

I also recommend downloading anyapk to get around the restrictions later

praying for everyone Black in Belfast rn. hella Black ppl lost they homes as a result of this antiblack terrorism.

Watching older people struggle to use the McDonald’s kiosk genuinely makes me sad. It’s ever increasingly clear that technology literacy courses provided on a state level as a public service are necessary to assist people with the rapidly changing technology landscape. Society changes fast and rather than abandoning people to individualized solutions we need a socialized response to helping people adjust.

I went to get bloodwork done a few weeks ago and they had one physical receptionist and three kiosks. I reflexively went to the human receptionist but she wouldn't speak to me and directed me to the kiosks. So I went over to a kiosk and tried signing in but it needed my health card to be inserted into the machine. My insurance provider has switched to fully digital cards so I couldn't insert it into the machine. The machine tells me theres a scanner on the bottom that it can scan cards with. It wants me to rest my phone on the scanner. It fails to scan my card 3 times. On the fourth time the little stand to hold your phone literally falls off the machine. Eventually I get it to scan my card. I wait for two fucking hours in the cramped little waiting room with like 30 other people and I give up my seat to an elderly man with a cane because there were only four chairs in the waiting room. The singular human receptionist is only processing people every like 10 minutes. So even though I got there when they opened at 6am I didn't get called to her desk to confirm my paperwork until 7:45am and I didn't get my blood drawn until 8:30 am and I was subsequently late for my 9 am lecture because I still needed to drive to school. All of that to find out I have a severe vitamin D deficiency. It was hard enough for me to navigate. I couldn't imagine being elderly or disabled or speaking a language other than english, spanish, or chinese (which were the only languages the kiosks offered). The kiosks were way too high for a wheelchair user to reach on their own and were filled with small print that someone with vision impairments would struggle to read. Never mind the fact that the the whole thing was slow and poorly laid out. But yeah God forbid they hire a second and third human receptionist then maybe they would process people faster than a sloth. The whole system is designed to make you miserable and hopeless and waste time.

people like the idea that there is an identity they can claim that will absolve them of the responsibility to examine their beliefs and actions and adjust them accordingly to better align with their values and desired outcomes but there isn't, we all have to practice humility and do the work regardless

work tomorrow is one of the worst things that can happen to you

Extremely frustrating how people can "respect" you as someone who isn't Christian but still expect you to sing praises for Jesus, including other non-Christians?? "Well you still have to admit he was a pretty cool guy—" I don't have to admit shit actually! That guy can fuck off and so can you!