Probably because old folks know that mermaids are a myth and don’t identify as mermaids ( although ai think I saw a docuseries about a 30ish year old thinking he was one) Where as furries bleed the line between what might be fetish realm, and what might be some people actually believing/thinking they are a furry animal–which would be considered a delusion.

I had the luck of working at two places where HR took the real meaning of Human Resources to heart. One place saw their role as maintaining the “resources” in good stead like they would for their machines or tooling, since a broken resource can’t further your company goals. They offeres check-ins to see how things were going, any gripes, any way to spread workload.

Current one has been great too. I had one employee being quite toxic about other employees as an odd way to create internal allegiences and it was creating a difficult situation. I talked with HR rep and they took care of it. That employee now acts professionally.

Sometimes HR is OK, but read the company culture first

People often do things they enjoy when connecting with others, tlhinking that is what others need–especially extroverts and mostly when they aren’t self-aware. e.g. when my wife heads out with friends she tries to plan things for me to do (or even friend hangouts) so I won’t be bored. But that is her as an extrovert thinking how she would be if I went out. I have to reexplain each time that I won’t be bored–i will catch up on reading, podcasts, bike ride, etc, enjoy some solitude, and if I felt the need then I would reach out to a friends.

You may need to have a candid chat and explain that as an introvert you need quiet alone time to recharge your battery–while extroverts charge their battery by being busy or outgoing.

At the Cancer institute they offered me CBD pills for nausea. People smoking weed is terrible, like they learned nothing from everyone on oxygen tanks after cigarette smoke destroyed their lungs

This guy fawkes

Lots of technologies could be used to improve things, but corporations just look at profit, not improving the human condition. Just like Ford patenting the system to listen to you in the car and serve you better ads, AI will trend toward making more ad sales, and models trained will lean to this always. It is why OpenSource stuff is so important, its the unpaid or low paid people doing cool stuff to solve actual problems that innovate to a goal of solving , not to goal of monotizing. Like Windows 11 is ad bloatware. The amount of tech and money MS could leverage and instead they build an ad OS, that they are now backporting to Windows10.
Meanwhile OpenSource devs build a linux distro that turned my 13 year old laptop (that choked and died on running W10 (was OK on W7)) into a peppy machine that handles web streaming, zoom calls, and opening files as fast as a brand new laptop. When money is not the end goal lots of good things happen

When i met my wife she had a lof of anxiety about planes; white knuckled flights, tears,took calming pills, barfing etc. Last year she tried skydiving for her 50th birthday. I can’t believe she actually did it. :)

I love me an old map. Sadly I lost my Orienteering compass many moves ago

Use google translate, it has lots of languages to transcribe to

Yeah being locked into an application sucks. I was lucky that the Proprietary CAD package we run had a linux version. Sadly Siemens decided linux share was low so dropped the GUI version of it, but left us cli version for batch processing work, so back to Windows to be on latest release.

What is your use case?

Check for Iron and B vitamin deficiency if doc didn’t already suggest it.

My dad had some albums, maybe Mike Oldfield or others…there was a train going through a station, and hearing it pass from left to right in stereo was amazing at the time

? I mean here personality is ugly, but google images make it seem like she is not physically ugly. Not that that really matters.

JK Rowling is just mad that gender doesn’t fit the sorting hat.

Ideally it is a way for somebody who put a lot of time and effort into something (as a loss) to get paid for their work. But our current system favours patent trolls and billionaires

Insecurity

Yes, my wife is always amazed or puzzled by how I know exactly what I’m missing. Like it will be I need peanuts, or greens, etc. Once I have those I instantly feel full and satisfied. If we don’t have the specific Item my body signals I’m hungry and will nag me for food all day (i assume it hopes quantity will bring in the nutrients needed) There was recent science about the gut nerve signaling your brain when it needs things, and not a one way nerve from brain to gut like they previosuly thought

I find that with a lot of sports enthuisists, some make it their entire life, so there are no chill times. One guy even said are you into Hockey? I say No, never watch it and don’t follow a team. He proceeda to tell me intricate details about a game he watched last night.

Some people aren’t self monitors. A lot of stupid/ignorant people are loud, but being loud can also be lack of awareness of their volume, hearing deficit, or cultural