Some people are so sucked up in a COVID denialist media bubble they can’t help themselves. Seeing a mask isn’t just seeing someone minding their own damn business, it’s evidence of an existential threat to society.

Yeah, it’s stupid as shit, but that’s how they function. Nonreaction or minimal reaction as you’ve been doing is definitely the way to go. Anyone confronting you over a mask in public is probably not stable enough to have a discussion or argue with.

Disagree, as a society we should embrace rewarding good behavior with stickers. You don’t have to wear it or take it if you don’t want it.

Huntington Beach, CA. So, so many public meltdowns in the Karen/Kevin sense get uploaded to the internet from there. Lots of drunk people and road ragers.

Not saying that’s not frustrating, but don’t fixate too much on the ups and downs of it if you’re not set to retire soon. What the stock market is doing now is barely going to impact the value of your retirement fund in 20, 30, etc years.

True southern hospitality—like giving a stranger a ride home because you happened to see them walking along the road—is something I’m big into. I always try to do what I can to be that person. Which usually embarrasses my husband and he’s telling me to mind my own business, lol.

All the funerals I’ve been to in the south had a big gathering afterwards with a ton of homemade food, and I think that should really be standard. My (non southern) husband was surprised the first time we had to stay and eat and talk to everyone afterwards.

The latter has been popular in rural areas too for years, because the alternative is driving your kids from house to house. I would have made it to like 5 houses a year max if I’d tried to walk as a kid (and probably got run over, lol).

My bad for misunderstanding you.

Please share any studies you have showing AI is better than a person at summarizing complex information.

So he’ll stop “trying” to get there (using the hype to scam people) if Harris wins, right?

Might want to rethink the summarization part.

AI also hasn’t made any huge improvements in machine translation AFAIK. Translators still get hired because AI can’t do the job as well.

You don’t know what I’m willing to wear on the street, Swedish tax laws!

I honestly kind of like the variety that smells like almonds. I had a soft tofu dessert once that tasted how that almond scented soap smells, and it was really good.

You sound overly anxious, it’s only nuclear war if the internet has gone down.

My therapist didn’t discourage my drug use in the least. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

May I introduce you to our lord and savior, Aldi?

Hmm, I wonder if Georgia has a history of having to ban wearing masks in public because of insane racists harassing voters? 🤔 I wonder if one of the current nominees has also encouraged supporters to go to polls to intimidate people?

Is this a response from the election fraud complaint hotline? If you haven’t already kicked it up to them (and to your representative) that might be worth pursuing. At bare minimum it shows whoever planned this (assuming this isn’t Good Ol’ Boys covering for each other) shouldn’t be in the position to be making these decisions, when they’re making ones that are so clearly terrible.

I haven’t stopped wearing an N95 in public since 2020. I’m not going to say nobody has ever been weird to me about it, but the vast majority of people are more interested in my colorful hat than my mask. YMMV depending on location.

Your local library might give you free digital access to most (or all) of those, if you haven’t checked.

The one I would also most like to do, if only it was safe and I wasn’t disabled: wingsuiting. Even if I wasn’t disabled I still wouldn’t do it, just because I don’t want to die by smashing into the ground at 60 mph. But moving through the sky like that sounds incredible.