I’d love to live in a place like that. when they build anything here, I know its taking away current infrastructure, small businesses, and open spaces with an over priced, cheaply built, high rise apartment building.

most people have massive air fryers under their stove tops, they just dont call them that.

lol no you’d be pitting yourself that way.

you could slam on brakes and maneuver to their rear to pit them, but that probably won’t turn out well either.

just buy what would make you happy / comfortable

Smoking asbestos you can

I can’t wait until this is all over and Steve Carell stars in a farcical comedy about him.

Even Bev?

abort ice

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https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/io.freetubeapp.freetube

why not just freetube for android?

pretty sure if someone “tries to run you over” you’re allowed to shoot them in the face.

make a lamp or a nice vase

try using something other than ubuntu-based systems, like CachyOS or fedora. It’s likely a hardware issue. I’ve always had problems with Ubuntu-based distros that i never seem to have with arch-based or fedora-based.

it’s never safe to leave a firearm in a vehicle, even if just for a minute, even if it’s in a locked compartment inside a locked vehicle.

I agree with this sentiment. It’s all too easy for someone to break a window looking for literally anything to walk off with a new firearm. This is why my “car gun” is only what will fit in a backpack or messenger bag, and that bag does not stay in the car without me.

I’m not sure anyone else in my life would have responded differently so I can’t just replace everyone who would have responded in the same way.

This makes sense and I would still give them a chance myself. Just understand that if they’re not willing to accept you that there are people out there who will.

Also I don’t know if this will help or not, but I feel like you have a sort of reverse situation to an experience of mine:

I found out in my late 20’s that I had ADHD which had a profound impact on the way that I saw myself and how I thought about my own actions and life leading up to that point. It was a huge paradigm shift to see myself from this new angle and I told family and friends and they had the opposite reaction to your friends in that they shrugged it off like it was no big deal, though to me, it was a huge deal. Then, a lifelong friend told me something that made me understand where they were coming from. He said (and I’m paraphrasing), “you had ADHD when we were 12, and when we were 18, and now you still have it in our late 20s. You haven’t changed at all. Nothing is new, you’re just aware of it now. I knew you then for who you were and I know you now for who you still are. I get that it’s big news to you, but to me, it’s just another day of the same guy, except today he has a new word to describe himself.”

Maybe your friends need to realize that you didn’t just get schizophrenia and that you’ve had for however long you’ve had it / known them (if that’s the case, of course). That you were the same guy the years and weeks and days before you told them as you were the day after you told them, and the only thing that has changed is their awareness of a label that you had the whole time.

That’s really shitty of them and I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t personally deal with schizophrenia, but I have family members that do and one of my dad’s best friends when he was young dealt with it. Untreated, I understand it can get pretty overwhelming in certain cases, but doesn’t make anyone a bad person or not worth hanging out with.

Hopefully they’ll figure that out or you’ll find some better friends soon.

After I finish my Sec+ cert and find employment again, a Ham license is on my todo list

Haven’t heard of this, but I’ll look it up, thanks!

I do know about some smaller projects using LoRa-based mesh to send texts, such as https://waveshark.net/products/waveshark that look interesting as well.

Edit: I now see meshtastic is essentially the same thing

What happens when they shut down the internet itself? Im still trying to figure out what to do about communication if the cables are cut and the cell towers go down.

Not attempting to detract from your message at all either, that is still very important work.

People named Al are not necessarily artificially intelligent.