hehe... place where I work has two paid holidays (time and a half) for those that work...
... but cut everybody's hours by juuuuuust enough the week before so that anybody working today won't see an increase in their paycheck.
Huh... I've never seen that style of fan before.
That's a whole lot of words to say that these sex trafficking laws are often used to go after sex workers and people soliciting sex workers.
Surprisingly, a box fan, a plastic bottle (bigger is better), and a shallow baking pan can come in handy.
Fill the plastic bottle(s) about 3/4 full and leave in the freezer (or fridge if you don't have space in the freezer) to get cold.
Put the baking pan in front of the fan with the cold/frozen water jugs in it to catch the condensation and turn the fan on.
Replacing an already existing fan is doable with patience but trying to rewire a house and cut a hole in the ceiling might be outside of comfort zone for a non-electrician.
Signal user IDs associated with accounts that are left dormant are eventually recycled and made available to new users. The individual or organization who took control of the Signal tips line for confidential sources may have been able to take over after the ID went dormant, despite still being listed on the organization website, and began soliciting tips posing as The Intercept.
Well that seems like a huge oversight by, The Intercept. Or is this some "cover our asses" article and somebody set the password to "password" or something?
You might "test listen" a few episodes of "The Dollop". I typically like listening to the guys riff but sometimes they just won't know when to stop a cringe bit.
Otherwise, The Dollop should be pretty solid.
Could also try a handful of "The West Wing Thing" episodes. Dave Anthony, from The Dollop, and his co-host slowly descend into madness by watching and talking about (almost) each and every episode of the early 00's hit TV series, "The West Wing". I para-socially found their rage to be cathartic regarding a show that I've never watched but seems to have influenced so many Democrat and "centrist" political creatures of the USA.
me right now smashing the "Number 6" button
No guns... on MY FOURTH OF JULY?!?!? Oh fuck that!
plagiarism 9000 machine
Well... yeah.
interesting ideas when I DON'T mention possible inspirations
Remember, this isn't a "thinking" software. Its a word calculator. If you were to prompt it about the "US TV show Friends" and the character of "Ross", it will mention the character and on/off again love interest "Rachael" as that is a very statically likely series of words that are associated with the words "US, TV show, Friends, character Ross".
If you're life is stable enough that you can get decent meals before and after as well as decent sleep, its probably not too bad in the short term. Low fat food with high protein. If your blood check shows too much fat you won't be able to donate.
The anti-coagulant can make your lips tingle/go numb (usually not that big of a deal) while you're being drained. If you find that the tingling/numbness last longer than the procedure, over the counter antacids should reverse the anti-coag agent.
Having light skin and visible veins can make it easier for the technicians to successfully stick the needle in your arm correctly.
If anything feels wrong during the stick, let the tech know ASAP. You might not (probably won't) get paid unless the procedure completes, even when its the techs fault for sticking you wrong. So its best to have them try to reset the needle to be as comfortable for you as possible since you're stuck in one spot for at least an hour.
I usually felt like shit for the rest of the day after donating. I really needed to eat and sleep immediately afterwards but I also had an hour drive to get there and was in town to do grocery shopping, so couldn't.
I did it for about a year during the height of COVID until I kept getting repeatedly kicked for having one thing or another off with my blood. Unsure if there was actually something off with me or the plasma center had too many people wanting to donate and needed to keep the numbers down.
Remember folks, always carry your epibeanis pen.
My promotional plan NordVPN service is about due for renewal.
I was wondering if any tech support hexbears had any suggestions. The basic plan for Nord is going to run about 150$ US at its full price.
So far I've stumbled across some favorable mentions of Mullvad and the price seems better at about 60$ a year. I'm going to assume that all VPN services are going to make it difficult to seed anything, but if there still some around that dont block all the porta I would like to know more.
Mostly i just fart around on the hexbear at home or with my cell phone. I'm not serious about torrenting but there are things I'm interested in and I've notived are hard to find and don't have many seeds, wouldn't mind helping out without having to figure out how to set up a whole other server to do the thing.
Edit:
Survey says!
-AirVPN
So far its been okay. Bit of a slog getting it on my phone but seems to work okay.
Also a bit of a slog getting things set up to actually seed the occassional thing but that's just because I know about 25% of what I think I know.
Actually got one of those online coupon things to knock a few bucks off as well.
Thanks everbody, you're all swell. 
So, in my recent transition from an ancient Windows OS to a Linux distribution I installed Transmission for torrenting. I had a decent experience as a user who isn't super nerdy about this stuff with the Windows version I was using.
Using it with Linux has been similarly easy but for one thing. When trying to seed torrents, after about 10ish minutes, the torrents in the list will turn red and with the word "Stalled". I can pause and restart the seeding and it clears the "Stalled" from the item on the list but it will come back after a short while.
This never happened when I was using the Windows version and I haven't been able to find an answer about what this is supposed to mean in this context online.
Anybody have any ideas what this means and what I should do to fix this if its a problem on my end?
Edit: NordVPN is blocking the ports. Weird thing is, earlier this year before switching this PC to Linux, my ancient Windows OS was running Transmission and leeching/seeding just fine through NordVPN. 
For whatever reason my brain has decided to think about this.
VLC will record the Desktop and Space Rangers but not Transformers: Devastation Though the game screen it captures for is a different size than what is captured with the Desktop while either game is running. Seeing what happens when Transformers runs results in a white screen being recorded while the game window is in focus.
My ancient Radeon graphics card and Windows 7 operating system (don't at me Linux folks, I know I know) has some screen recording stuff build into it. Will record the Desktop just fine, records only a black screen while the game is running and its window is focused for one game but records the other game just fine and at an appropriate size.
For curiosity's sake what would I be looking for as reasons or solutions to this?
Edit:
Running everything as Administrator seems to help in OBS. Who knew? 
OBS seems to play nice with Transformers: Devastation now, lets me draw the bounding box in the Game Source instead of trying to use the Display source.
Still haven't figured out why OBS is being wonky with Space Rangers not recording in "Game Source" but did get a lead on why the size is wonky in the recording of "Display Source". The max resolution for the CD version (the one I've got) is 1024x768 and my monitor is 1920x1080. (Unsure why there's a difference between what I see playing the game and what the software is recording.) And the only resolution patch I've found doesn't work on the CD version... :whomp-whomp:
... but I finally did it.
For whatever silly reason, I decided to play the 2005 version of Space Rangers ( a kinda difficult game on its easy mode) on its hardest difficulty setting and after a handful of bad starts and one very loooonnnng good run I managed to finish.
To celebrate I will use this emoji
spoiler
And as penance I will start reading Capital Volume 1 as linked by comrade Vampire in their "get in nerds we're reading all volumes of Capital" reading group.
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