athos77

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you forgotten Infinity already?

[–] athos77@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

One thing people never count on is all the stuff your taxes pay for, that you end up paying for in other ways. Things like trash collection, sewer, water, library services, snow plows, etc. You move away and either you pay yourself or you do without.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 28 points 3 months ago

That's been obvious since the beginning.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 3 months ago

quelle surprise ....

[–] athos77@kbin.social 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They're actually assessing how much of an outcry there'll be, so they know how sharp the inevitable slap on the wrist should look.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 3 months ago

I wanna build a tree house and live symbiotically.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Were you doing this from the same IP address? Cause some places check for that kind of thing.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago

The New York Times did an article on it last fall. Here's a non-paywalled copy of the article or, if you prefer audio, here's the episode of The Daily where they discuss it.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 6 points 3 months ago

I still mask up when I go into stores or offices or whatever. Got all my boosters, too.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 4 points 3 months ago

It's possible Trump will win again. And even if he doesn't, he's not the only threat. There's so the emboldened MAGAts, a resurgent white nationalist / neo-Nazi / christofascist movement being weaponized, an unapologetically corrupt Supreme Court, a Republican party that's too scared of their own voters to do their job, a heavily militarized and intolerant police force, and plans to forcibly re-make the country with the next Republican president.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Sadly, no:

Bakers, bakeries and bakers shops were required by law only to sell their 'national loaves' when they were a day old because stale bread did not cut to waste like fresh bread. Source

[If you can find it, the BBC Timeshift episode 'Bread: A Loaf Affair' mentions this along with a surprisingly interesting modern-ish history of bread in the UK. It's narrated by Tom Baker.]

[–] athos77@kbin.social 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
 

Today, the National Institutes of Health launched and is opening enrollment for phase 2 clinical trials that will evaluate at least four potential treatments for long COVID, with additional clinical trials to test at least seven more treatments expected in the coming months. Treatments will include drugs, biologics, medical devices and other therapies. The trials are designed to evaluate multiple treatments simultaneously to identify more swiftly those that are effective.

 

Ex-redditor here, still adjusting to kbin, sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place.

Sometimes I run across a post that I just don't want to see again. It's not offensive or inappropriate stuff, so I don't want to block the user or the magazine. It's just sporadic content that makes me angry or depressed and I'd rather not see in my feed when I pop back in a few hours later.

Is there a way in either vanilla kbin or in KDE, to block a post from my feed? Like today, I've popped in maybe four times today, and each time there's some article with a large outraged screaming Trump picture on it and I just don't want to see it. I want a quiet weekend where I can occasionally check in on the news without raising my anger and blood pressure every time I accidentally run across that particular article again.

Edit: just wanted to thank you all for the help - I appreciate it!

 
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