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YES! Scent blindness is a very real thing.

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter"

Attributed to many different famous people and authors, but valid regardless of who said it.

It's probably other things I'm reacting to as well... shampoos, purfume, cologne, cleaning products, furniture coatings. I don't always know which it really is.

The fabric softener/detergent comes up because it's so universal and hard to avoid.

The chairs in a doctor's waiting room typically have enough on them to infect clothing with the smell, and for me to subsequently react to the clothing. Such a PITA.

Yup, those are also terrible for me as well.

When my body gets really angry from the terrible stuff, any lung irritant starts causing me trouble like wood smoke or even just somewhat hot (high-temp) oil.

I don't want to end up there again.

I'm so mad at the industry that sells these toxic products to people and poisons us all. Their crap makes me really sick, but they are unhealthy for everyone. I always wonder how many other people are sick from this stuff and just have no idea why. From skin issues to whole-body shit like mine.

Fabric softener and strong detergents are the main issues. They are SO STRONG. I've had trouble with 3 different public spaces recently.

Wearing a respirator and washing with activated charcoal after helps enough, but random folks can't understand me well enough if I talk with the respirator on.

I just had to back out of a organizing commitment due to being allergic to the meeting venue (and most meeting venues. Public spaces and I have not been getting along lately).

Supplements helped, but it seems I still can't be in random rooms with random people, so no in-person organizing :(.

DAMN! That's a VERY nice machine! I've never owned anything that nice. This Gentoo box is a 2015 MBP, so an old 6 core I7 with 16GB of ram. My Gentoo server is a 6 core i5 with 16GB, but newer and compiles noticeably faster.

But, I do avoid expensive to compile software. You won't need to.

I'm cool with that :).

DO IIIIIIT!

Yeah, compared to the actual impact of what's likely to happen here it's... well... there's definitely a joke about peanuts and nuclear engineers in here somewhere.

For something like the tax code every detail is either right or wrong. You can only know it's right if you look it up and/or know it.

That means there is no piece of the work an LLM can do for you *correctly*.

Doing it is less work than checking it's work, which means they aren't checking it.

We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps.

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Of course, the U.S. actually had a strategic oil reserve back then, so... this is not a likely outcome at all.

Honestly... on the global scale of things, extremely well. If we can pull of the outcome in 1973 at this point we will be very lucky and doing extremely well. That's not to say it'd be "good" in an absolute sense.

On the political scale of things, it was an absolute and epic failure.

Ah... yeah, agreed 100%.

I saw so many people taking the headline as literal fact on bsky yesterday I started to get annoyed/disappointed with folks I follow not checking sources before resharing.

What you're saying makes total sense.

Did you mean "protesting" children? or "protecting"?

He's right unless we oust most of the AIPAC funded Dems... which we need to try to do, but it's a longshot for sure.

My own Senator Peter Welch of VT is not ever going to vote for any sort of blowback on Isreal. He might sign a strongly worded letter, but that's it.

Fundamentally she's a 3'rd way Dem, which is to say that she's just an old-school Republican. Biden was also 3'rd way Dem. He got pulled a bit left and passed a stripped-down green-new-deal because of Bernie in the primary... but his base policies (DHS etc.) all reflect standard 3'rd way stuff.

Post Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table. 4:19 PM • Mar 8, 2026 CEverybody can reply 276 reposts 699 quotes 685 likes 36 saves 184 ① 975 685

This is an irresponsible, misleading post that misrepresents what Leavitt said. There's enough awful stuff happening. Don't confuse people.

You, sir, are doing something right.

That's a rather accurate freudian slip there.

Specifically, I'm mad that the market didn't even try to pivot fast enough to make something that meets my needs... and that trucks became luxury vehicles for rich people so cheap simple practical 4wds aren't made for the U.S. market anymore.

I wanted an electric car so badly that I actually got a cheap one, and then broke it because I live too rural for something fragile with low ground clearance. There weren't reasonably priced high-clearance electrics available, so I bought another ICE vehicle and I'm still mad about it.

It's just bad reporting. She didn't say anything about the draft. She said they might put people on the ground in response to a question about mothers being worried that mentioned the draft.

Massively misleading headline... please check the original interview.

They aren't... it's a dishonest headline

... I'm pretty sure those are alpaca?

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explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it