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GenXer

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  1. 17 hours ago, Woland said:

    Crazy idea, but the state could work with county and city officials to identify problems and create solutions. The state could provide expertise and fund a portion of expense. Local leaders could pick up a share of the expense and monitor the maintenance of equipment and the education of residents. Schools go through many varied drills each year to prepare for a variety of emergencies… summer camps should have the same requirements.


    I’ve been told regulations are bad

  2. 7 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    It’s just a time zone difference. NPR is EST.

    Then the article should’ve adjusted for that and not listed events sequentially at 12:42, 2:14, 1:26 AM. Sloppy work, NPR.

  3. 11 hours ago, bolverk said:

    "NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials."

    Starts on Wednesday: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-5457759/texas-floods-timeline

     

    This timeline is wrong. It’s pretty irresponsible for NPR to make this mistake given the timing of the warnings are going to influence the perception of who is at fault.

    The mistake is highlighted below. NPR reports the post at 2:14 AM. The link shows the timestamp of 1:14 AM.

    The article describes events at 12:42, 2:14, 1:26. This confused me and led me to click on the link. Sloppy work, NPR.

     

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    Link to X at “2:14 AM” timestamp shows it’s actually 1:14 AM


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  4. We’re vacationing in maine in a couple of weeks. We’re staying in kennebunkport for a few days then driving up to camden.

    I’ve had oysters a number of different places but my standouts were a place in whistler and king elders pub in damriscotta maine. I’ve had damriscotta oysters in damriscotta, portand maine, and the hudson bay restaurant here in dallas.

    Damriscotta river has a number of oyster farms. I’m planning on stopping at Glidden Point oyster farms on the damriscotta river on our drive to camden. They have a seafood market on the river where various farmers bring in their oysters each day.

    You can order online as well, and they’ll ship them. I haven’t done this so I can’t speak to how well this works.

    https://www.gliddenpoint.com/
     

  5. Mrs GenXer’s ig feed has bern bombarded with oasis concert footage. The feed worked on us. We picked up tix to the pasadena show a few minutes ago.

    We got tix to the chicago show several weeks ago.

    This fall is looking up. 2 oasis shows, austin F1, father john misty, alabama shakes, garbage, stews, black rebel motorcycle club, lord huron and kevin morby, and probably a few others.

     

  6. Hanging on my patio with my two dogs (avatar checks out), and this comes on my ig feed. Breaks my heart. I’ve always really bonded with dogs. They’re wonderful.
     

     

     

  7. 32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Having a bit of writer's block.  Trying to figure out how to fit in the phrase "extravagant, decadent, guilty pleasure . . . tempered with a nagging feeling of violation."

    This is where ai really shows its value

  8. 22 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Lolol here it is

     

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-wearables-benefits-risks/story?id=123422287

     

     

    Wearables in less than 4 years


    Wearables have been a tremendous thing for type 1 diabetics. They’re expensive without health insurance and have a lifespan of only 2 weeks.

    As a T1D, the pancreas is defective and does not produce insulin; you have to inject it. The question is: how much insulin do I need? 

    The traditional solution is to puncture your finger tops with a blade, squeeze a drop of blood on a test strip, put the test strip into a small device, and the device reports your blood sugar. That’s a lot of gear to carry around all the time and your fingertips get worn badly after 3-4 tests everyday over the years. 30 years in my case.

    The wearable solution is to attach a device to your tricep area that pairs with an app on your phone. I can open the app and get my blood sugar at any time. It can send me alerts if I’m at risk of low blood sugar.  It can show me day over day trends using graphs and charts.  I discovered I have a thing called the “dawn effect” when my blood sugar is normal overnight and starts rising when it’s morning even though I haven’t eaten anything.

    A manual test 3-4 times a day simply can’t do any of this.

    There are drawbacks: it’s expensive if your health insurance doesn’t cover it, the device has a lifespan of only two weeks, the adhesive makes my arm break out in a rash so I spray some allergy spray on the skin before adhering the device, it’s too easy to bump off doing normal stuff.

     

  9. 6 hours ago, mdmost said:

    Try as they might they can never get back the feeling of an 80s arcade. There's no Rock-Afire Explosion. There's no more tokens. There's a few places here in DFW called Freeplay that scratch that itch with old arcade games. As a kid, I wanted nothing more than $20 in tokens and that could last me a few hours at Putt-Putt or Aladdin's Castle. Now when I play these games at a place where you pay a set fee and everything is free play, it's a lot easier to just get bored quickly with a game and walk away mid-game. At least Freeplay has decent food and beers.


    I ain’t walking away until I get my three characters on that leaderboard.

    I showed all those yale punks up in new haven how genX does it at barcade.

    JAM

  10. Once upon a time there was a streamer who made mad cash streaming…

    He didn’t understand federal taxes. At all. Not even a little bit.

     

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    Lacy the streamer likes money. Lacy the streamer makes money. Good for him.

    Lacy the streamer does not like the government taking his money. Donnie2Dolls gets his support because money.

    It’s actually impossible to explain to Lacy the streamer that it’s D2D’s tax code. Trying to explain it to your dog would achieve the same level of success.

    Lacy orders a new exhaust system. Streaming happens.
     

     

     

  11. Just now, Biff Tannen said:

    Too on the nose. I vote fake news. 


    That post may be fake but there’s likely 10,000+ people that are living that reality right now.

    T1D here with retinopathy. I have nightmares about losing my vision. It’s going to happen. It’s a question of when.

    A T1D girl I went to high school with lost her vision in her twenties and died at 30.

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