Or is this just a poor old man being harassed?

Currently typing with bandaids on both thumbs so please excuse typos and missedspaces.

Did some mechanic work a few days ago and forgot gloves. I washed with a nail brush and dishsoap as always but Now im suffering from both thumbs being inflamed and sore emanating from where thenail meets the thumb. I tried sucking and scraping to clean and cut the nails as short as i can. My usual trick is to scrape hard soap in under the nail before scrubbing, which works really well most time, but no cleaning method has worked this time. I can just barely see some black at the deepest part which i assume is engine oil. I dont think its some metal shard, since its both thumbs, didnt grind anything and usually splinters hiding spots can be pin-pointed by pushing on it but idk for sure. Also no pus leaking.

How do i get it out??? 😭 Whats your secret to dealing with inflammation?

Im thinking either some hydrogen peroxide cream on bandaids or moist gloves to soak in to loosen things up before trying to get whatever gunk is still there. I usually heal very fast, two other cuts from the same time are healing well and fast.

Idk anymore and its really frustrating…

Wishing you a good day and happythumbs!

In my opinion, AI Slop is content made with AI that is low effort. People feel and know the quality of something, and if it feels like slop, it feels like slop.

AI being used is not a deal breaker for me as long as the product is good. AI isn’t magic and it takes skills and knowledge to use it and to judge what the model outputs.

You may see it differently however, some might believe that the use of any AI tools whatsoever turns any app into slop the moment the first commit with AI code in it is made.

What do you think, what does AI Slop mean to you?

My elementary school teacher told us once that Americans only poop once a week. The climate is colder in North America, so their intestines pack the poop together very densely such that they only need to poop once a week. She said you'd be sent to the doctor if you poop daily in America.

Is this true?

For me, it would be GLaDOS.

What about you, what is your favorite media villain?

I like a whole lot of mediums, but my absolute favorite is the humble drawing. If pressed, I'd say pen on paper is my preferred category.

I love how one can take the simplest of materials and create a window into an abstracted reality. It's a raw medium, where it's hard to undo what is already there, so one has to either incorporate errors into the final piece or avoid them entirely.

So what is your favorite medium for visual art? Have you attempted it yourself?

Hola a todos. Hace unas semanas pasé por una situación familiar bastante complicada. No tenía con quién hablarlo en ese momento, pero sentía la necesidad de sacarlo de mi sistema. Decidí escribir una carta muy íntima diciendo todo lo que no me atrevía a decir en voz alta, y el proceso fue increíblemente terapéutico.

Cuando las cosas se calmaron, me quedé pensando en ello. Soy programador web desde hace unos 3 años, y se me ocurrió una idea: crear un espacio (tipo red social o blog) donde la gente pueda desahogarse de forma totalmente anónima, sin presiones, sin el ruido social típico de las redes actuales y sin juzgar a nadie. Algo así como un diario personal pero con la opción de compartirlo si quieres.

Llevo un par de semanas programando este proyecto y me gustaría saber su opinión sincera: ¿Les resulta interesante una idea así? ¿Se sienten identificados con la necesidad de desahogarse de esta forma? ¿Creen que un sitio web así realmente ayudaría a las personas? Los leo.

For me:

lmao = la-mayo

lol = lawl

rofl = rawful (rawful-copter)

lmfao = el-em-ef-ay-oh (like that one ancient party band)

You shouldn't text and drive, but I keep noticing myself doing it anyway. As part of my efforts to return to the caveman days and spend at least some of my time disconnected from the internet, I want to stop this. However, I have terrible impulse control. So the only solution is to put my phone in the trunk before I start driving, and use something else for the tasks I would normally use my phone for. Here's what I want:

• gps
• podcasts
• audiobooks
• music (Ideally, music would function as "radio with a skip button". I want to choose a familiar channel that I know I will probably like, and occasionally hear something new - but my local radio stations won't work because they don't play the Tony Hawk video game soundtracks.)
• everything free forever
• no ads forever
• minimal configuration/setup (I don't want to manually download music and create playlists)
• works offline
• lockout of everything except fast forward/rewind/pause/volume while car is in drive
• integration into my existing steering wheel controls (fast forward/rewind/volume)
• ability to run additional apps (like iOverlander) when not driving
• A pony

Things I don't care about:

• Open source
• Not being tracked
• Voice controls
• Having all these features in a single device
• Sleek design (I will mount it using 2x4s and wood glue if needed)

My car is a 2013 Corolla with a broken stereo that I've been meaning to replace anyway. I know there are a number of products out there that more or less fit my needs and/or could be hacked together into something workable, but I'm asking the hivemind. Tell me what to do nerds! Tell me how to live my life!

Edit:

Probably I will end up with a head unit with android auto, but I've never used one of these before, and don't know how well it will isolate me from my phone. Will I need to get a separate cheap-o phone to use it with to ensure distraction isolation?

If I do go this route, I am wondering about make/model recommendations so I don't buy something that will break immediately.

Finally, is paying for spotify just the way to go these days? I’ve been avoiding it by using newpipe for years, but newpipe doesn’t have radio-like functionality to just pick a station and listen.

Two questions:

1. How do you find new podcasts to listen to, and;
2. What are 1 or 2 podcasts that you would recommend to others?

I mean the scenario of a serious collapse of civilization with the use of nuclear weapons.

I wonder what is best grown from vegetables and what is not? For example, what about potatoes, beets, carrots, cabbage and cucumbers? I want to understand how to feed myself and other people, even if there are crop failures, droughts, bad soil, soil depletion, or something else. I doubt that forests will always be able to provide food, they will only be a good addition, but you should not expect stable food from them, as I managed to see, besides, I am planing to survive not alone, but with a group.

As for the location, since after the collapse, hungry crowds will rob villages and farms that they can reach or know about, I will have to build a house from scratch somewhere a hundred kilometers from cities and civilization, Although maybe I'll be lucky to find an abandoned house? and plow the land and so on, and unfortunately, I don't have the ability to prepare everything in advance, and I've never grown vegetables before and don't know how difficult it is in the long run, especially as it used to be, without tractors and other things, but only with the help of a hoe and hard work.

I'm also wondering what healing skills I should know? Will basic first aid skills be enough, or should I write down or memorize how to deal with severe food poisoning, serious illnesses caused by exhaustion or parasites, etc.?

In general, if it is not difficult for you, please tell me where I can get the necessary and verified information without wasting extra time on videos or articles on YouTube, especially if they are edited or completely made with the help of AI including also articles? I don't trust AI generated content, the authors of which I don't know if they check the reliability of the information or if they check for five minutes or a maximum of half an hour, believing that everything seems logical and can be posted on the network.

I'm sorry that the post sounds so strange or perhaps paranoid, it's just that there are so many things to talk about that I decided to cut it down somehow.

Could be in any context. I do it a little on UFC fights but that's a relatively low amount and I can afford I to lose any time I do. It seems like it's becoming a really wide spread problem though, at least in the US. At the same time I don't see why it should be illegal. Granted I also don't think any drug should be illegal.

Mine is tow the line rather than toe the line.

I imagine someone as a tugboat--towing the line of what is expected. I like that imagery better than keeping a foot on some fucking line. Plus using toe as a verb is dumb.

What are yours?

My pixel 7 is shitting the bed and I am considering upgrading and just installing graphene immediately on the new phone as part of my degoogling journey.

Is there anything I need to know about this? I work in IT, so I'm tech savvy. This is my first time installing graphene, however.

I'd be upgrading to a pixel 10 probably.

My carrier is verizon