I really should think about it more. You are absolutely right. My problem is I almost never need painkillers, so I almost never need to worry. Not a good excuse in the slightest, though.

Maybe I am mistaken. It’s one of those things I have heard enough that I don’t think about it and it becomes background that my brain kinda tunes out of my thoughts.

…It’s still not a good idea for those who are taking blood thinners.

Can confirm. Every time I go in to get my INR checked, I am always asked if I have taken any tylenol products. I don’t fully remember why it’s not a good idea, but I wanna say it might increase blood thickness, which increases potential for a blood clot. And I don’t need to explain why that is a bad thing.

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I am wrong. Another person corrected and it’s NSAIDS like ibuprofen and aspirin that can cause issues. Specifically raising the risk of bleeding. I thank them for the correction so I don’t just spread misinformation.

You’d think I remember this considering I have been on blood thinners for over a decade, but my memory has never been the greatest for over a decade.

You never hear people shout “Fuck firefighters!” or “Fuck paramedics!” whenever they do their job, but whenever a murderer… I mean police officer does theres, it’s not uncommon to hear “Fuck the police!”. Wonder why?

/s

Speaking of banks, my parents had problems with their old bank about 3 or so years ago that someone/somepeople/whatever were constantly getting access to my mother’s bank card. They ( parents/bank ) would just keep replacing her card over and over after the last would get deactivated.

Took a long while for them to decide to finally switch to end that bull, after finally taking advice to switch. Suddenly the card compromises ended basically immediately, which is how I know her phone wasn’t completely compromised.

It was frustrating because every time it was a thing of card got compromised, deactivated, and new card sent. Only to be given advice that fell on deaf ears because they’ve been with that bank they were with for a long time… as though they didn’t switch away from another bank they banked with for basically my whole childhood for similar reasons to the problem card bank.

I would assume that it might keep going until it dies if it’s battery powered. As for non-battery powered, like the replacement valve in me, probably gonna stop when the blood stops flowing. So gonna assume it’s the same for non-battery powered mechanical hearts as well.

As fucked up as it sounds, if it’s early enough that there isn’t any chance of it being considered alive, I’d let the family decide whether or not to do it on their own because not every family is capable of that type of constant care and/or affording the bill to pay someone to help.

As for a week after birth, as fucked up as it sounds, if you truly cannot afford the constant care, then probably putting them up for adoption to a family that can afford the care is better, IMO, than not being able to afford to care for said child and having potentially seeing them die from lack of care you cannot afford.

Sometimes you need to make hard decisions to keep afloat financially.

If it’s not music lyrics/no lyrics music, some other thing I have on my mind that isn’t something I came up with, a remix of something I have seen, or a memory and/or dream, I usually end up having fantasy conversations where it’s me but using someone else’s voice. Specifically because I don’t currently like my voice and think I sound like a gremlin.

GenAI user discovers thinking, has first ever thoughts in their life.

At this point, I’m just celebrating because I would take even democratic socialism in this country at this point. Also, I guarantee the majority of people aren’t gonna care to distinguish the 2, sadly.

It’s good that they’re talking about recommending you train employees on how to avoid clickfix stuff, but maybe it’d be wiser to disable access to terminals/script editor type stuff for departments/staff that really don’t need it.

Why would someone in something like HR need terminal for anything? What use case would they have for it? Yes you should do training, but also ask these good types of questions too! And act accordingly! Can’t clickfix someone who really doesn’t need terminal if they don’t have access.

Okay but why does it have to be Chinese genAI when it could be… and OpenAI is teaming up to spout racism while also spreading the facist machine.

I may not like the Chinese government, but even I know genAIon its own, regardless of who it comes from, is the real issue.

Asterisk on free. Steam version, last I checked, is normally $9.99USD full price. Cheap enough if you wanna support the devs, but having a free version to see if you and your friends are gonna like it also really helps.

I have become a big Brok The InvestiGator sucker, so I am absolutely looking forward to the spin-off survival visual novel Celsius Strays.

In Brok The InvestiGator, rats are known as squealers and are banned from Atlasia, where the game takes place. That’s a very minor spoiler since they’re mostly a nothing burger group you basically don’t see at all after the first chapter.

But in this spin-off game, which has a playable demo, you play as the chief of the squealers. The whole entire plot is centered around you making choices to help your colony survive as the hot months are coming soon. Your choices can end up getting more food, more things like bedding and clothing, machine parts to fix a water purifier thing, and I think one other thing I can’t remember right now. All supplies needed for the survival of your people.

There’s also a plot featuring a mystery character that is brought in during the chapter 1 demo, so I am absolutely pumped to learn about this mystery fellow and how he plays a role in what happens in chapter 1 that really kicks things in motion.

The moment I found out about it, I immediately downloaded the demo and played through it. For the most part, it feels like it has a pretty dark story with some minor comedic relief so far, with a little lighthearted moment in the end of the demo.

Need some clothes to go with it, but I am optimistic I might be able to get a somewhat high ranking at a costume contest at the college I am attending that is coming up. Entering the fantasy category since I already have a snow leapord fursuit head that has 3 eyes. Seems pretty fantasy for me. Just need some clothes to fit both the theme and with my head/paws/tail.

I’m being reasonable and not saying I’d win since there will undoubtedly be better costumes, but I’m still hoping and aiming for a high ranking.

Never use a web browser again. I’d be somewhat fine with upgrading every single package by CLI ( AKA no appimages ever again ) or finding out about everything new by going through videos instead.

This is why I try, if possible, to find them online for free. That’s been my first step whenever needed. Last time I needed a book and lab access code, it cost a little over $150USD!

Probably suspense of disbelief, or whatever it is. That, and it’s a pretty meta thing that would probably only work best in a comedy cartoon.

I know the show Chowder had an episode where they “ran out of budget for the animation” and did a pretty short gag where it switched over to the VA’s and how they had to fundraise to get back to their animated forms. But I don’t know many other shows that could or even did that type of meta humor.

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4th Wall Break!

Probably one of the best use cases I’ve seen for machine learning ( not the other LLM mega junk ) has been a recent game used it to allow the PVP/E CPU enemies to adjust to the map terrain.

There are probably much better uses for machine learning, but I haven’t personally seen them AFAIK nor can I think of any others since my brain is falling asleep and I’m struggling to stay awake right now.

I never understood the hype of VR goggles beyond things like VR Chat combined with body trackers. Fun to watch people make an ass of themselves in VR games, but that only lasts so long before it gets boring.

That’s my take, at least.