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yesterday I started having this strange behavior on my Google Docs files where my cursor seemed stuck on the left side of the line, even though typing was possble (letters kept getting added to the right of the cursor as I typed). Also, cursor movement both on keyboard and mouse was invisible, and selecting any…

> Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment: When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared? – The New Yorker Interesting. It’s a mixed bag, but Sweden got similar death rates to the European average (although higher than its Scandinavian neighbors), with less stress about strict restrictions. Also, deaths…

After starting to show symptoms over the past year, my Surface Pro 4 (bought used on eBay in 2017) finally died. The battery bloated out to the point of curving the screen and rupturing the screen adhesives. At first around August 2020, when turned on for a long time (like 5+ hours), the screen would…

It baffles me how online chatters who consider themselves progressive or leftists seen to show an inordinate interest in the upper threshold of the stimulus check – the fact that it cuts at $75k, and how it phases out between 75k and 80k. To me, there is a clear set of priorities on which criteria…

clearing up my discord direct message logs found this little gem

A few weeks ago, Google Chrome (Official Build, ver 88.x 64 bit) started hiding the full URL from the address bar. Very annoying, and very troublesome. Some argue this is all part of Google taking the web to a Google-centric closed web, and they aren’t wrong. The address bar only shows the main domain. Sure,…

i think these boys don’t have enough brain processing power to understand that there are core parts in their own socioeconomic world-view that are in diametric opposition to each other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prsZ8DLq9rA

ugh what is this compatibility nightmare

my conspiracy theory on today’s amateur coup attempt is that the Republican leadership moved key messengers to convince Trump that he could disrupt an d somehow cancel? the congressional certification of the electoral college if he brought his ragtag mob into capitol, and being the dumb piece of shit Trump ate it wholesale. And what…

so my bluetooth adapter doesn’t work fully (can’t add new devices, connects with previously paired headset but doesn’t play music when the USB3 hub I have it plugged to is plugged to the USB 3.1 Gen2 port of my MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max, but it works when I switch it to the USB 3.1…

just in time, two weeks after my new apartment application was approved, my credit score dropped 70 points as October media purchases finally made it to my credit card bill. It’s still above 700 points though.

Super interesting.

so i’ve noticed this weird trend in the comments section of reddit and youtube political content: Summer: “It’s surprising how progressive the Biden campaign has become. Biden’s policies are the most progressive ever” Summer-Fall: “we need to win an absolutely big landslide, people. So that Trump can’t try to twist the results in the courts.…

Houston, I think the machines are getting.. restless…

bad bot

my domain name registrar is kindly reminding me that our 1-year anniversary is approaching

Postmates is Over $929 million in the hole And yet, their parent company Uber is dumping $50M so far in the Proposition fight to resist abiding by California law that makes them recognize drivers as employees when they are acting as employees. They are also pouring money into building a corporate brand uplifting racial equity…