I get France 24 in English via antenna and feel like the coverage is less sensationalized than US based sources. Maybe they have hot takes on French politics but I feel like I can keep up generally with world politics and avoid too much US saturation (though they still cover the US disproportionately).

Gotta either cut costs or increase pay. When I was living on $600 a month I roommated up, I applied for food assistance (SNAP), I bought a shitty craigslist car rather than picking up a car note, and I stuck to cheap cell carriers.

The last one is a place a lot of people could save a few dollars. T-mobile has a plan called t-mobile connect that is $15 a month with a few gigs of data. Works fine. Actually still use it now that I have a better job.

Ultimately you need to make more though. Think about all the skills you’ve gained in food service and retail and apply for another job you think you’d be good at. Imo anyone can do low level office work, for example. Sounds like you’re in the US, so keep an eye on Craigslist and Idealist.org (two engines where the jobs available are usually actually available unlike most search engines). Make it a habit of scrolling through and forming an opinion about what you would/wouldn’t like. Make a resume to fit (use chat gpt to help). Lie about things you’re pretty sure you could handle no problem but have no experience with. Once you get a better job do the whole thing again with the new experience to pad your resume.

Advice on difficult to judge things like how to sauté onions correctly without burning them; how to deal with yeast (what does it mean when your bread is hollow? What about when it’s hard? Doesn’t rise?); how to make a cheese sauce that isn’t too thick, thin, or chunky; techniques for timing stuff to be ready at the right time (ie ‘cook the eggs last’); balancing things with lemon juice (in general the stuff about balancing acids); seasoning soups so they’re not bland.

This just in, employees cost the economy billions by taking breaks at all ever

I tend to think that dogmatic opinions are not changeable via online discourse. You cannot rationalize someone out of these positions—that kind of change has to take place in person with some semblance of real human care and connection involved. So, I try not to post with the intent of changing the mind of someone already committed to a dogmatic opinion. That said, I think it can still be fruitful to reply to these people occasionally in situations where I think other people reading the thread might benefit from the information. My dad has one particular troll on his Facebook friends list that he occasionally replies to just to give the troll’s wider network an alternative view to consider if they feel like it.

Apple has a thing where you can set up people to break through silent mode if they call 3x in a row

Educating kids who want to understand American history is indoctrination, but getting them used to following arbitrary rules for 8 hours a day is what…

I think this falls in the technique group— I improved my stats quite a bit by focusing on using glutes for power. Easiest way to do this was to do a squat routine (one that I’d feel a bit) the day before so that I could isolate the glutes better during running day.

Avoid Alastair Reynolds imo. Lots of jumping around and meeting new aliens but not engaging on the character level well.

Yes they want to hear their own voice on a recording but make the audio sound close to the way it usually does from their perspective as the speaker…

A very simple approximation of your voice as it’s heard if you’re facing someone when speaking would be using a unidirectional mic and recording yourself with the mic pointing the opposite direction as it normally would be (in other words— with the polarity reversed).

A slightly better approximation would be if you did the same thing but with two unidirectional mics pointed at slight angles (with the polarity still reversed) to simulate the placement of your ears.

Obviously the quality of the mic would factor in as well—you’d want mics with a flat frequency curve. To get even pickier you’d also want to use headphones or speakers with a flat frequency curve to listen to it. Once you had the recording you could even take impulse responses of certain rooms and process the audio to get an idea of how you sound to others in specific rooms!

Texas removing tenure is going to have this effect too—chasing your experts away might seem like a republican utopia but I promise the people will follow the experts eventually.

I have student loans at higher rates

I hope the discussions immediately turn to better questions like “what does it mean to own an idea or a blueprint or a sound.”

I mean they’d already told us it’s like stealing a car, I thought we’d accepted that and moved on (with all our free cars).

Clearly nothing can change the status quo if it doesn’t also make trillions

AI doesn’t seem to do well when it trains on its own data so I do think there’s a possibility it’s a one trick pony. Once there’s too much AI content in the data it’s trained on it will devolve into nonsense.

This is so far above my head that I’m not certain what to be excited about, but I’ve always been convinced the answer is magnets so…

I would put a lot more weight on her choice to live with you (pretty good indication she likes you quite a bit) than on a quip she made in a single conversation. It’s very hard to make a relationship work if small things like this can destabilize things to the extent that you’re questioning marriage! Try to measure your relationship by zooming out a bit more and considering whether she seems to enjoy your company etc. If you’re very upset save the assessing for a time where you’re calmer and focus on something else for awhile.

Broo I knew something was off about that saga. Pretty bold, Coke.