i think i lost the USB receiver of my wireless mechanical keyboard :kek~1:
i packaged the keyboard and receiver for the oakland trip
then i thought “thats a dumb idea, the keyboard doesn’t fit in the suitcase”
now i don’t know where the receiver is

I got my first COVID test ever in April 2021. Is it possible that most of my health problems are due to having caught and recovered from covid sometime in 2020? :PES_HmmSpecs:
Hmm I remember being quite sick for like 4 days in late December 2019 and then a week or two later in January 2020 again for like 4 days

I thought I discussed this possibility with my doctor multiple times in 2020.. ugh will have to ask the new doctor again next week during regular checkupI got my first COVID test ever in April 2021. Is it possible that most of my health problems are due to having caught and recovered from covid sometime in 2020? :PES_HmmSpecs:
I thought I discussed this possibility with my doctor multiple times in 2020.. ugh will have to ask the new doctor again next week during regular checkup

I first tried to get a COVID test in January 2021 but my insurance, my doctor and medical group kept tossing me around til I finally was able to get one

Local free testing site: uninsured people only. If you are insured, talk to your doctor
Doctor: we don’t do COVID tests. You need to talk to your medical group
Insurance: talk to your doctor
Doctor: you misunderstood. I didn’t mean your insurance, I meant your medical group
Medical group: talk to your doctor
Doctor: oh you talked to your medical group… Oh ok let’s make the appointment with a lab in Chinatown.
That process took 3 months

what I did in the very beginning
looking it up online showed me Walgreens
Turns out it was drive through
I walked up to the window by foot and they were like “you need to be inside a car”

so this is the California law regarding voter data

> California Elections Code 2194.
> (a) … the affidavit of voter registration information…:
> 3. Shall be provided with respect to any voter …. to any candidate for federal, state, or local office, to any committee for or against any initiative or referendum measure for which legal publication is made, and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic, or political purposes, or for governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC&sectionNum=2194.

it’s pretty broad. It’s used by:

• candidates and campaigns to organize their voter outreach
• researchers to analyze voter behavior patterns, for example see if there’s a race based or geographic trend for parties
• sometimes by campaigns to run “hit pieces”, like for example finding that the Republican Governor’s candidate in 2010 had never voted in her life – not sure how legal this last one would be

but it always needs to be elections related. You can’t use it to stalk your ex, or plan a school reunion, etc. It’s hard to enforce, but in theory, it’s one hair removed from the common definition of “public”. Like to get the data, you need to submit a written request to the state or county office where you sign under perjury (or something like that) that it will only be used for elections.

So this property owner information website that dill used seems to have the correct voter reg data. It looks detailed enough.

This use of the data would not be legal.

The website tried to skirt the issue by meekly putting this disclaimer:
> Voter registration data is public information and sharing this information helps maintain a healthy democracy. However, if you are concerned about your information being shared, you can request that your information be redacted.

seems pretty weaksauce to me.

The laws I cited are California’s, but it shouldn’t be too different from state to state

man i was watching the 626 music video that vic posted
and i had a dumb epiphany
oh yeah there’s chinese people in LA too
:facepalm:
there’s not many chinese people in ktown
but in other neighborhoods there are
so if there’s like 40 young chinese people speaking chinese lined up outside Hangari
that’s not necessarily tourists from china
they could just be from some neighborhood
man i like almost never go to the 626 and it had been erased from my mental map

i’m getting bombarded with ads from the shitheads who bought the staples center ad. the ad reeks of “we are gonna get em those dumb millenials money – just throw in a spotify and netflix perk into the card and they’ll fall like lemmings”
the ad is so patronizing
“don’t like fees? we don’t either. we don’t have fees”
bet

the narrator has a slight russian accent and whoever wrote the ad lines is not fluent in english

probably somewhere in the small print: “definition of “computer” are products listed in the “computer” category of crypto dot com”

Yeah most machine translations translate word to word and call it a day. (Plus some tricks here and there) They can’t convey the intent of the original because technology is not at that level. The sad thing is most white people in tech just know some European languages (in the case if Europe) or Spanish (in the case of the us) and this word-to-word translation churns out acceptable text for euro-to-euro translation because they share a common latin language ancestor.

So in their eyes it’s omg this is the best thing since sliced bread. And they fire all their translators and switch to computer only. Which is what what some city level govts in the US started doing.

Word-to-word translation comes crashing down when fundamental grammatical structures are different. Whee does that happen? When the languages are far apart. Such as European language with non-european language.

So in the US, south Asians, Arabs, African immigrants, east Asians, pacific islanders get fucked by this shitty translation and the whites don’t have the slightest idea, living in Spanish translation quality bliss.

idk about this ff7r
i’ve only played ff7, ff8
because back in 1999 a cousin in LA had the PS2
and didnt really touch the series since then
i checked out a couple Windows releases of FF10-12 on Xbox Game Pass but couldnt really get into it
im having trouble getting started on any RPGs at all the past few years
or any games really
Seems like a game that I will have a very hard time adjusting to. I’ve never played games where you control character with one stick and pan the camera with another. I didn’t manage to get used to Nier Automata, so I expect this to be similar

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i finally did it
i ran the keurig
without a cup underneath (to get ahead the 15 seconds it takes to pull up a cup)
and then i forgot about it
so the keurig spilled everything

youtube showed me all the past spidermans in a row and i can’t tell which ones
1. i watched
2. just saw little tidbits in passing while someone else was watching it on tv
3. saw some highlight action clips on youtube
i recognize all the main characters and villains

but i don’t recall when and why i had watched each

i’m just an uncivilized guy who mindlessly watches one action/thriller blockbuster every 2-3 years and calls it a day

windows facing east = get sunlight into the room in the morning, it’s warmer and overall the room is much brighter
windows facing west = get sunlight into the room in the afternoon, it gets too hot in the afternoon so you have to put blinds. recipe for depression

woa it hasn´t even started raining yet and we are having blackouts
my ccomputer turned off
and came back 2 seconds later
the PSU somehow managed to keep it on
I could hear the lights in the house flicker on and off repeatedly for a few seconds in a quick succession going “bzzzt bzzzt”
then a minute later it happened again
at which point I just turned off the computer. im not gonna risk frying the motherboard
i waited 50 minutes and it hasnt happened again so i turned it back on
do i need to replace this PSU
:monkaHmm:

i think at this point maybe we have to accept
that gen z’ers just have a different food photo aesthetic
no longer in the realm of instagram
but rather dominated by tik tok
it’s tiktok-influenced photography
that’s why he keeps taking these portrait photos
he can’t see in landscape
there needs to be room for a catchy joke subtitle
you don’t get that in landscape

like this. the photo is primed for this.

I’m thinking of buying a small fridge and turn off the regular family sized fridge that came with the apt because it makes a lot of noise

Idk I need to think how much of the current fridge space I can optimize – for example if I’m going to have this bag of dumplings sit in the freezer for 2+ months, maybe I should just throw it away. Etc.

Maybe something like this 3cu one

I currently don’t use too much fridge space

As for the old fridge, just keep it there, powered off, use as storage cabinet
I’m also gonna measure the current fridge noise in decibels, maybe the difference in noise won’t be big

current noise level is 44db when it’s working. most mini fridges claim 37db

also i wonder is it making a lot of noise because i often forget to completely close shut the fridge door

> why did she censor the knife blade?

youtubers and streamers are not very informed on the legal side of things
rumors go around ssaying “oh hear hear, so and so got banned from X platform because they showed a knife on stream”
and viewers and commenters keep passing on the message because they think they are helping the youtuber
to the point it just becomes a “fact of life”
that’s probably why she blurred any knife
the funny thing is, I think it is highly likely that the original source of the “you can’t show weapon on stream/youtube” was probably some right wing weirdo who was angry that they or their favorite right wing streamer got banned, and tried to twist the ban into a “oh look youtube is so stupid the creator just showed a gun on stream and that was cause for a ban, so stupid”
when the cause of the ban was probabbly a bigger problem like espousing nazi viewws or something
butt they tried to attack youtube using that line of argument
and after a while, the whole fight and argument got lost
and only the random context-less “you can’t show weapons on stream” stayed as a groundless “truth”

someone do a linear regression of greek letter assignments to covid virus variants over time and carve a stone calendar where the last day is when the omega designation gets placed
then hide the calendar in a cave or something

> Can I join ICE if I have daca?

are you gonna post it on the facebook group?

“i wanna join ICE, and my brother says that i shoould be able to with my DACA. but I’m EWI, does that complicate things?”
“btw also i haven’t renewed it after trump promised to pass the dream act take care of us and cancel DACA in 2017″
“my friend who already joined ICE last year says that I should be able to apply from Ciudad de Mexico”
“how do I apply for CBP to subsidize my flight and lodging costs while the consulate is processing my paperwork? I’m low-income”

“prompt responses would be appreciated because I just landed in CDMX; meeting with my uncle who is hooking me up with notarios so it’s getting kinda busy”

“i packed some edibles along for the trip. what forms do i need to fill out to file this with customs? you know, to keep things documented”

“Alonso is also with me because family wanted to get all this taken care of and over with. Alonso is 14 years old, btw, so he needs to get back before classes start”
“Alonso says he has some headache. are there spots in the city where he could get vaccinated without an appointment? He almost didn’t notice the kitchen fire last night until the alarm went off”

“auntie says that I got a court summons in the mail at our home in America because of the store window that got broken because neighborhood bad hombres were having a fight with my friends.

i think this is the third one.

i don’t think my job interview and consular process would be done before the trial date though. maybe i can arrange to have ICE send a letter to the court requesting an extension?”

i sorted through some of the boxes and random shit i had left stored inside the closet
now i have a roadmap to get rid of shit in storage through 2022
this might be the biggest accomplishment of the day unfortunately

in this sense it’s nice to have a big apt, you can have projects on hold for months on end without them impacting any of your daily routines because there’s space to stow away so much stuff

i’m gonna go to the salvation army thrift store thursday to donate blankets and oversize clothes

i found that amtrak has a $7 cancellation fee
but if you reschedule the reservation, which is free,
then it’s considered to be a new reservation
and then it fits wtihin the time frame during which fee-free cancellation is allowed (not sure how long the time frame is)
and then you can cancel it for no fee
-_-

the implicit message i’m getting by the govt not going too gung ho on the booster is something like:
“guys, normally boosters (and this early) wouldn’t be something we even strongly recommend (seems a bit of an overkill) but because covid-19 is still a pandemic and there’s millions of people with the virus walking around,. we want to be extra cautious and that’s why we recommend the booster shot.

HOWEVER, our biggest concern is the 30% of the population that has not even taken the first dose, so we will be busy with that group for a good long while – in the meantime, please take your booster. mostly to keep yourself safe, and yeah it will also help the general public health.

now, get out of the way while i go to talk to some republicans”
that’s the message i’m reading from the govt… without actually knowing anything about what a booster is or what they do :kek~1: