I was eyeing a wash n fold for a while but then I moved and now there isn’t one anywhere close. I was procrastinating the whole thing because it felt too… lazy. But holy fuck I hate the laundromat.

Laundromats are fine

What’s your experience? I’ve been washing my clothes mostly always in laundromats for 20+ years. They are not fine.

• You need to spend so much time either hanging around or going back n forth. Every week I spend 1-3 hours of time that I wouldn’t have if I had an in-unit washer/dryer.
• Lots of maintenance/equipment problems
• Uneven availability of machines — you can show up and have to wait around because someone else came and filled every single machine at once
• Problems like the last person used bleach and it didn’t rinse properly so now there’s just bleach and your clothes get ruined
• machines are really limited in their settings, don’t allow the freedom to add things at different parts of the wash, let is soak for a bit, or other things you can do with a normal domestic unit
• people are always there with all their bed bug stuff

For most of human history there have been professional clothes launderers

For rich people sure. But for normal people?

thanks that is rly interesting!!

now i know

clicking thru to the original link and scrolling I don’t see a single comment agreeing with OP

didn’t expect that

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see also The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping

One question I would have is whatever happened in the old lib group? Wouldn’t be surprised if this person eventually got themselves run out of it or it folded due to chaos. There might be insightful gossip available to you.

For me personally, with situations like this I am inclined to consider the person’s age. If they were 17 and now 23 that’s a much high probability of change compared to 40 now 45.

But all this talk about change and no idea if person in question is even claiming to have changed.

a soviet term originally afaik

really???

I thought it was just an internet term. is it subcultural to the left even? i never noticed

to extend this, the way I was taught to think about it is that they might be a fed (cop, agent, etc), or they may just be a person who for their own idiosyncratic reasons, acts exactly the way a fed would act. I have met people I am 99% certain are feds. Or conversely am 99% sure are just organically destructive without any external motivation because it’s the only way they know how to be. And lots ambiguous cases where you go back n forth in opinion, or maybe in truth there is a mix going on.

But at the end of the day you gotta manage them and it’s not gonna be much different between the two situations. The org needs to be robust enough to withstand an intentional attack from enemies or the attentions of a nasty person. The longer a left project goes on, the more success it has and the more public it is, the higher the chances you will attract one or the other or both.

Tldr: if it quacks like a fed, treat it like a fed.

Once I was in a CPR class where the instructor was heavily emphasizing how important it is to not do the compressions too fast. No more than 1/second. Instructor was walking around telling everyone who was doing it the correct speed to slow down.

Also the instructor had a big section about how you need to organize all your information if you call emergency services (like 9-1-1) so you can tell it to them all at once in a logical order. TIP FOR CALLING 9-1-1: You do not need to volunteer information. They will ask you the information they need in the order they need it. Don’t even start talking until you are asked a question. Then, answer exactly the question you are asked and no more. The operator is aware they need to ask you your location, you don’t need to interrupt them to do it. They actually deal with people like you all day long, every day.

I will admit to have become pretty snarky during this class.

Is there a way to preload them into the browser or something?

Or do you just clone it and browse the images locally to find the name of the one you want?

I don’t get how people use the emoji thing it so sloooow. I guess youse just have them all memorized.

wait they make justified crushes?

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I like the vibe but not sure I’d call it top notch design.

I seem to recall there having been lots of russians in FLOSS. I think they have a hard time contributing because they are blocked from a lot of platforms lately. I’ve seen a couple of project pages with notices saying that development is indefinitely suspended because the dev has too much logistical issues. Specifically something about 2FA from ?github not being deliverable to russian phone numbers. But that can’t be the whole story because you can easily enough use a TOTP app instead.

last week I was looking up how to do some stuff with YT-DLP and found myself on a webpage covered in yellow and blue soliciting donations to the Ukrainian ?state? . (It wasn’t YT-DLP itself, but one of the zillions of downstream projects.)

A few months ago I was shopping for a tiny electronics component, a few wires with certain connecting ports on either end. Was having a hard time figuring if it was the right one, so reading the the comments. Every 3rd comment is about this conflict. “FUCK THE RUSSIAN C—TS” I recall it in one comment.

It’s so weird, I have never seen any political issue well presented among nerds.

lip gloss

Kamala Harris War Criminal

Which did you do first?

And are they both “high quality”?