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And yet for some reason it's been giving me (a cis man) lots of (thankfully good) trans content, while my trans roommate keeps getting the right wing nonsense you do. idfgi why the algo can't give her the good (or even just the okay) shit, since it's clearly capable of serving it up to me.

Maybe I just need to do a day's watching on her account to see if it helps fix her recommends.

Maybe on average, but you've got my ass who was put in the gifted program from 2nd grade on, with a single mom who was working two jobs and thus wasn't around much, and who couldn't afford childcare so I had to spend most of my before and after school time with my physically violent and abusive grandmother. Not that being in said program did much good (between the bad home situation and my ADHD, I was constantly in trouble at school), I didn't even finish my bachelor's in the end, but there were a few of us "smart" kids with fucked up home lives in there too.

Sounds like Midco to me. From what I've heard, they live up to their name and are extremely mid as an ISP.

It depends, does your fiber ISP just have an Ethernet jack going to the modem they gave you, with an ONT (the part that takes in the physical fiber and outputs Ethernet) on the outside of your home or in your building's telecom room (if you're in an apartment or condo), or does it have the actual fiber strand entering your unit and passing directly into the modem device?

If it's the latter, odds are you'll need to keep their modem (as it serves as the ONT as well), since a lot of fiber ISPs are extremely picky about what connects directly to their optical network. You should be able to put it into bridge mode, connect it with Ethernet, and let whatever router you buy handle things like DHCP. If the former (this is how my fiber setup is), you should be able to connect your own equipment directly, so long as you have things like PPPoE credentials and whatever VLAN tag settings your ISP requires available to put in to the router you purchase.

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Meanwhile we've had more than our normal annual rainfall already, and it's barely July.

I mean, I'm here for things still being green instead of brown and on fire like they usually are by now, but I'd be willing to share.

Oh yeah, I moved out again before it was truly feasible for me to do so since my horrifically violent grandmother was impossible to live with, even as a young adult. Even now that she's been dead for almost six years, I still refuse to move back in with my parents to save money despite their invitation, because they proved to me that they'd rather look like the good kids to the woman who not only abused their child physically and emotionally when my mother was single and couldn't afford other childcare--as well as my mother herself when growing up, than keep their own actual child safe, whether as a child or adult.

Sorry, your actions proved your words about 'always having a safe home here' to be a goddamn lie multiple times in my life, and I'd be a fool to ever trust those phrases.

Apple should have not made it proprietary then, the connector that's on literally every single other rechargeable device I own at this point, from my weed pen and ecig, to my laptop, phone, and headphones, is truly the objectively superior option. Ubiquity wins out every time, when I can be assured that everything I own can be charged with one cable.

Also how are you breaking USB-C ports or cables so much? I've had USB-C phones for almost eight years now and never once have any of my cables or ports gotten damaged to the point of unusability, and I'm definitely not the most gentle user out there.

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes maybe?

That was actually the 2G days with GSM and cdmaOne, UMTS (what AT&T used for 3G) is a form of wideband CDMA. China even developed a hybrid of the two for their homegrown 3G system that used time slices and spreading out data across the full spectrum within said slices.

Also fun fact, Hedy Lamarr invented the core concept behind CDMA.

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Are they all that afraid to say it though? This is speaking pretty loudly on its own.

Because I was stoned and don't have any sort of strategy for how I pick my first guess? It's a casual game, not something that needs in depth analysis or whatever.

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why do I only seem to have luck with useless things like this

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I think it's down, Boost on my phone works fine but the webpages are just giving that blocked message both on mobile and VPN.

edit: aaaand it's back

Even the brooding mountain people aren't quite as intense as the West Kansas/Nebraska contingent from east of the Front Range. Three years at a junior college and taking a job out in Sterling turned my friend's little brother from a shy and somewhat nerdy suburban kid who was broadly apolitical into a straight up white nationalist. I've got family on the Western Slope (aka the land of Boebert) who, while still being right wing trash, are nowhere near as rabid as the plainsfolk.

We're at least three different regions shoved into one square state trenchcoat.

I really appreciate that right now, today's been extra rough.

Almost makes me wish for the early days of all this, when people were pulling the cringe 'thank you for your service' style shit they usually save for the troops. Beats the waves of active antipathy all these people send our way now.

Woo, between the suburban grocery store hell I work at and the bus line to said store that has had someone pitching a fit over masks every single day I've taken it to work, I'll be joining the covid party.

Thankfully I'm boosted, but still, I'm already dealing with running the department when we were already short because my idiot boss still thought he was invincible in his early 30s and didn't get vaxed, only to spend a month in the hospital, nearly die, and is still out another month later while he's on 2L of O2, and had two other coworkers die within the past two months.

Add my worry about my immunocompromised, long term care facility worker mother who lives in the heart of my state's chud capital, and it's just fucking exhausting.