There are quite a few anecdotal cases of people dying shortly after retirement, or shortly after a spouse dies. Death is complicated and sometimes people “hold on” for weird and unexplained reasons.

People in terminal condition have a habit of dying when loved ones are out of the room.

Does Jimmy Carter feel like this election is something major he needs to accomplish before he goes? Maybe. Or maybe he just keeps busy with all of his volunteer work and other philanthropy, which is keeping him around.

Maybe he’s just one of the lucky ones that happens to be healthy and sharp at 100 for reasons we don’t know.

AKA: Good Day by Nappy Roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8iinkhR3w

You are not immune.

You do, and don’t fool yourself that you don’t.

You probably don’t click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you’re slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you’re looking for something in that product category, regardless of it’s a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you’re going to have a bias towards what you’ve seen in the past.

Most of my ad-blocking isn’t to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it’s to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.

Well you certainly accomplished a lot. I’m proud of you.

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

Outdated advice (unless buying older stuff) Brother has enshittified like the rest.

I worked retail for several years. After a while it just becomes normal. It helps a LOT if you’re actually walking around and not just standing in one spot.

I can walk for a few miles without sitting down without being uncomfortable at all, but standing in one spot for 15 minutes bothers my feet.

That’s an interesting question to ponder.

It probably depends on when you were taught to code, and what language you learned on/most familiar with.

This is exactly how I learned to write psudo code in the 80’s… We were also diagramming our code back then, with a pencil and paper, using a template.
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Kind of like with this thing.

Now I usually do a bit of a hybrid, but it also depends on how complicated the programs are. I’ll do some python/comment-psudo-code.

It doesn’t really matter what the process is, as long as it works for you, and doesn’t interfere with collaborating with anyone you work with.

That and planned parenthood.

If there are two orgs that care deeply about privacy, but do a lot of good in the world, those would be it.

The bigger the grid the bigger the impact of failure (which does happen) and the harder to get it back up.

You want a grid big enough to have some variety in use, generation, and weather, but not so big that one malfunction takes out everyone.

Aside from Texas, the US grid is just fine.

I watched it at a friend’s house.

You don’t know her, she doesn’t go to this school, lives in Canada.

Call the fire department, they have detectors that they can use to look for gas leaks and other things that can set off a detector.

You can also call your gas provider. One of those two should be able to track it down, it could be a lot of things, but two different smoke detectors going off in the same location is a huge red flag.

Best case, you have something kicking up fine dust, worst case, you have a smouldering electric fire in your wall somewhere.

Don’t panic, but also do not ignore this.

Assuming you are talking about hearing protection: I know people that like them, but I wasn’t a big fan. I probably didn’t do it perfectly, but it’s so time consuming and kinda expensive, so I didn’t want to keep trying.

I just use the disposable squish 3m foam earplugs and they do great. Easy to put in, don’t fall out.

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On repeat.

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That solves a completely different problem. The ISP can still see who you requested data from.

That’s more about security around retrieving the correct IP address from a DNS query, and doesn’t do that much for privacy.

It doesn’t really help. The ISP needs to route you somewhere to get the data, so they’ll need to know who you want to talk to. Even if they don’t see the DNS name (like if you used a third party DNS server) they can still associate the IP address with someone.

There’s things like TOR and VPNs that can route your information through other third parties first, but that impacts performance pretty significantly.

It’s actually more secure than that.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/https-protect/

They’d see the URL, but not the specific page.

They’d also theoretically see the size of the URL, and the size of the page, along with the transport type. So they can infer a lot of information from the exchange, but they couldn’t say for sure what you were viewing on a specific website.

The ISP can see every domain, but not every page. That’s what HTTPS everywhere was all about.