Anxiety is my constant companion. I’m always anxious and it only varies in degrees. It’s been this way my entire life. Nothing really changes that fact.
Do you deal with anxiety?
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Interview episodes from the Podcast 'Just Plain Sense' produced and presented by Christine Burns MBE from 2008 onwards. Original license CC-BY-NC-SAInternet Archive
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Once when I was a kid, my biologist uncle asked my sister, cousins and I for ideas on getting rats to pee, because he needed urine samples. (My sister was the only one who had an idea. It was, "just squeeze them!") Now I wish I knew how to make rats *not* pee while I'm holding them.
A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.Quassnoi (EXPLAIN EXTENDED)
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Why don’t they build moon landers like weebles? (I assume there must be a reason!) wandering.shop/@skrishna/11198…
IM-1 update: Guess what?They think…..it tipped over
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Combined answers from the Microsoft Community forum to the important question: "What's the maximum number of slides allowed in Microsoft PowerPoint?"
"Every slide is identified numerically by a Long number, meaning that the theoretical maximum is around 2,147,483,648"
"Personally, I make it a rule never to include more than 10,000,000 slides in a presentation. One slide a second is about all people can absorb at best, and very few audiences will sit there and absorb information at that rate for half a year."
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Did you know you can't use 'Beef Stew' as a password?
It's not stroganoff
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Dear Lady Chief Justice....
Open Letter to the LCJ: HMCTS guidance on public access to courts
courtobservers.org/2024/02/18/…
Dear Lady Chief Justice, We write on behalf of the Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network, a UK-based initiative focused on how the public can be supported to observe courts and access court infor…Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network
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There are a few weird differences between opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, and civil partnerships. In particular, in the grounds on which the partnerships can be annulled on the application of one partner.
The first is that same-sex marriages aren't voidable for reasons of non-consummation; basically it used to mean "PIV sex" and Parliament didn't fancy trying to define consummation for same-sex couples in legislation.
The stranger one is that only marriage is voidable for reasons of venereal disease.
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All sorts of people have tried to palm off doing real work on ChatGPT and friends. Has any legislature yet considered or passed legislation suspected of being autogenerated?
Bonus marks for working out how the rules of statutory interpretation apply to robotically created legislation
'Unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend'Katyanna Quach (The Register)
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Statement from Chair, Esther MacCallum-StewartPaul Taylor (Glasgow 2024, a Worldcon for Our Futures)
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If confirmed, it would be the fourth landing ship from Russia's Black Sea Fleet that has been sunk since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.Nate Ostiller (The Kyiv Independent)
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There are, I think, 4 Virginia-class SSNs under construction.
hii.com/news/hii-arkansas-ssn-…
... although they do have six vertical tubes for cruise missile launch.
Note for potential use by Charlie:
"The third ship of the [Seawolf] class, USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23), has a 100-foot hull extension called the multi-mission platform. This hull section provides for additional payloads to accommodate advanced technology used to carry out classified research and development and for enhanced warfighting capabilities."
That's nicely vague.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., (Sept. 27, 2023) — HII shared today (NYSE: HII) that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has reached a significant milestone in the construction of Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800).HII
Activist Bart Staszewski hails ‘meaningful and necessary’ apology as opening new chapter for state broadcasterAshifa Kassam (The Guardian)
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Sometimes I love negative reviews: "While the inclusion of non-binary and lesbian characters was great to see, the sheer volume was disproportionate" 😂
If you want disproportionate queerness go buy A Fire Born of Exile
geni.us/AFireBorn
books2read.com/u/b5WeP7
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@queerstatus : I'm feeling disproportionately queer today.
@lesbianBot: disproportionate lesbian
@nonbinary: non-binary people don't owe you proportionality
I felt this way about Mercedes Lackey books when I was like, eleven.
So here's hoping it's a pretween babyqueer just working some feelings out.
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A git implementation in awk. Contribute to djanderson/aho development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Holy 💩🐔🤭
He. Got. The. Interview.ru/Tucker🐔
🦖🐦📢❄️Buttttttt..... How does this play out in 🎎⛩️🎌👺🇯🇵
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Waterfowl are totally queer-friendly!
I had a transgender duck years ago. Our male duck died, and over the course of the next few weeks, one of the afab* ducks molted, grew male feathers, and started quacking like a male duck. The other ducks totally accepted that he was a male duck as he transitioned. It was very cool to watch.
*(I'm not sure if this is the right term to use for something that hatches... but it was absolutely a gender transition so I'll use that language!)
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@joesabin He lived at least a year after transitioning (I think he was about 2 years old when he transitioned). He got killed by a mink ☹️
He had a great post-transition life before his untimely end, though! Coastal BC is a great place to be a duck.
Whaaa... ?Gobsmacked, followed by a few minutes thought and search. Ah.
(NB: Sometimes when faced with abbreviations and #TLAs which clearly don't mean What I Think They Mean, I can't be bothered.)
Imagination on overdrive for a few moments there, though. Bombs may have been involved.
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Permit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.
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@sesquipedality My optician mentioned the existence of trifocals, apparently used by electricians, plumbers, etc, which become "close work" again at the top.
When I was working at Royal Mail I put my (reading) glasses on a string, but they got very bashed when I was wheeling trolleys round, etc, rather than reading addresses. In the end I left them on for walking short distances, but that wasn't good for my sense of balance. Luckily the glasses survived being bashed quite well.
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