There are a lot of cultures where seating in public is ad hoc, you just sit wherever, you generally don’t claim a table or area to yourself. In those situations greetings and socialization are pretty normal.

I remember going out to eat fast food with a girl and her kid a decade ago and some homeless guy asked if he could sit with us. I said sure, and he was a nice maybe 50 year old guy. He had clearly been around kids and enjoyed to normalcy of just hanging out with the three of us for 30min. The kid didn’t mind, but the girl I was dating though it really weird.

Though these new phones and most Samsung devices generally have high quality, durable, and reliable hardware, the devs are making pretty crappy choices about software changes and some hardware choices are just disappointing… This screen, the camera bumps, the old and outdated battery tech.

Samy is falling behind and mucking things up. They’re only likely to stay relevant because of their long standing history.

I mean, I wanna like their tech, but mostly I don’t right now, even though I used to love it… I can see business pros continuing to use their devices, but I don’t want an iPhone clone personally.

Somebody should definitely make similar sculptures but with whales, as they have ports on their back, and thus don’t need to be flipped upside down.

No straw, just kiss the fish!

She’s the ships counselor, who at any moment may need to have deeply personal and unofficial private conversations with anyone in need. Those discussions are officially informal. Thus she maintains a casual professional appearance.

It’s not jazzersize, it’s public lounge wear, she is at ease to help aid her clients ability to transition to an at ease state.

While doing official duty on the bridge it is appropriate for her to dress in uniform, but those duties tended to be momentary, not planned, so a wardrobe change would’ve been an odd choice.

She may have actually qualified as obese at times, as there’s an actual medical classification.

I don’t think that’s likely to be the case in that second photo you shared, she does have a heavy build in general, but there have been times since being on ST when she likely did qualify.

IIRC, obese is anything over a specific rage of BMI or BFP, whichever you use. So if a healthy BMI for you is 18-25 and you are 30 then you are obese.

I’m not a pro, so I’m not sure about the hard details, but the point I’m making is that obese isn’t a personal opinion of looks too fat. A person doesn’t necessarily even need to look it, but they could still qualify.

My SO looks fine at 30, but not much above that. I think they’re sitting at 28 currently.

• Outlander (2008)
• The 13th Warrior (1999)
• Braveheart (1995)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Waterworld (1995)
• Escape from New York (1981)

These and a few other similar ‘epic’ movies were my go to lullaby movies for decades.

I’d put them on late and fall asleep to them, but I’d also watch them through sometimes too. And I still throw them on sometimes, just for kicks.

Yoti too.

They hold and verify ID, then mostly just pass an OK to the website or service you wanna access. Similar to Paypal playing the middle man when shopping and clicking Pay with Paypal.

They do also have the ability to share other details, but according to their FAQ it’s always with your permission.

Likewise Paypal will share your name address and email, but that’s often necessary while shopping.

Logging in to sites with Google or Facebook has a similar effect, the login prompts often have check boxes that allow you to control the data you share.

The biggest problem of course is that Yoti or other similar services then know what sites you’ve been visiting, and if they don’t respect your privacy and/or keep logs of those sites that information can be hacked or misused by bad actors.

Thus they should only keep age verification use logs extremely temporarily, or anonymize their logs if storing to track general system use patterns, for maintenance and research.

I have an email address and other accounts from the '90s that still exist.

I use the email for junkmail and Craigslist.

Meh, in the end US voting rights have mm ratings…

Stitching is a hobby?

While back the doc said US Insurers increased the age for testing, so my insurance likely wouldn’t cover the cost for a test. So he didn’t do one.

Didn’t even ask if I wanted or could front the cost myself.

That was at 42 IIRC.

If I die as a result of that choice, I’m taking him and others with me.

Where’s the second comparison picture that shows what it would look like with more 3 or 4 story or underground parking.

Wouldn’t you want to also be on your own jury?

Direct and financial influence trumps merely financial influence. It could save the billionaire class millions in donations and bribes.

Look what it’s done for Trump.

Let’s get strapped!

Why do they last more than a year?

Why do they exist at all?

Hola, they had an issue with bandwidth getting gobbled up, it’s resolved but reliability won’t return untill next week.

Their post about it is hosted on the service you can’t see because it has the issue they are explaining in the post.

However if you search the fediverse for fedinsfw there are posts explaining this elsewhere.

They actually fixed the issue with their service, but the bandwidth alottment was already used up. Connection reliability should return to normal next week.

It’s kinda funny not funny, the post explaining the issue is hosted on the instance you can’t access because it has that issue.

Meh, far as I’m concerned they can still talk about all these events and facts but they should always do so in a positive and celebratory manner.

Not, this site remembers whatever genocide, but instead, this site remembers the soldiers/citizens who faught against a ruthless group who were at the time commiting genocidal acts against indigenous people… You don’t even need to name the group of assholes. But it’s fine to specifically name the heros and their heroic acts.

Perhaps post education signs that talk about positive changes to an area.

Like in 1998 John Soandso lead a campaign to restore the area you see before you to the healthy natural state it’s in today. Because of that campaign bla bla birds and native plants have returned to the area over the years since. Previous to John’s campaign the area had been heavily over polluted by nearby industrial factories.

Keep any of the bad stuff referenced as a relevant afterthought. Use the good stuff as examples of what to do, of people to look up to.

I saw some similar signs in NC last time I went through, like the ones celebrating the life of a master builder in area who had helped build many of the still standing historic building. Oh yeah, he was also black and a slave, but that wasn’t the point, so it was just kinda noted within the context of the details of his life… Instead the sign celebrated his craft and contributions to the community.

Whatever man.

I change up my writing style pretty much constantly.

And I switch between muliple accounts on several services, each representing a different fictional character.

And I use a VPN.