They should contact IJ, the Institute of Justice.They will represent people free of charge on any kind of issue where the government is trampling on people’s rights, and their goal is to get cases into the higher courts and to the supreme court.

This is just awful that this happened to these women. It feels so violating to have somebody rob your house and it must feel even worse when the government does it, especially when you know that there’s literally an amendment that’s supposed to stop them from doing what they did.

They put beef jerky in bags that are exactly the same bags that they put dog and cat treats in. Whenever I go to the store and I’m waiting in line and the bags of beef jerky are there, I usually pick one up and start shaking it to see if any men come running. Do you want a treat, you want a treat?

They come pretty close if you start adding all the ingredients in real ramen. Throw in all the veggies and meats and eggs and soy sauce and you’ve got it!

And the warrant needs to be specific, not general. The warrant is required to be for a specific place and a specific person or specific thing.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

That’s good to hear. Has your anxiety reduced at all? I hope so. Do you know about some of the breathing exercises that you can do? These are things that you can do even if you’re in public to calm yourself if you start to feel nervous.

Look up box breathing or square breathing. It’s basically just inhaling and holding and then exhaling on the count of 4 for each one. There are variants of this too where you breathe in for 4 hold for 2 and then breathe out for 4. It’s important to remember not to force this if it feels uncomfortable just go at what feels comfortable for you and you can build up until you’re at these counts. These methods are very helpful and practical so much so that they’re used by trained military and other professionals while in situations where they need to calm their anxiety.

Another method is to count to ten slowly, while you breathe in on one, breathe out on two, breathe in on three, breathe out on four and so on up to ten or more.

The biggest hurdle is just remembering to use a breathing exercise when you feel anxious. But if you make a routine of it where maybe every day, when you wake up, you do it.And if you keep doing that, you’ll get used to doing that and you’re more likely to remember later on if you feel anxiety that there’s this breathing thing you can do to help yourself.

How else do you interpret what he says other than that he’s threatening to kill her, since that’s what’s been happening the last couple of days, one woman is dead and two people are injured. We all know about qualified immunity, but are police and ice agents actually allowed to threaten to murder people? Are there no exceptions to qualified immunity when it comes to threatening to kill people?

Or we’ve already been to them and ruined them with wars and pollution and doomsday weapons and moved on until we’re on the last habitable one…

In my experience, caffeine is really bad for anxiety. I’ve been off caffeine for over 20 years now. I still get a little bit of it because it’s hard to cut it out completely even when you drink decaffeinated coffee and decaffeinated tea. And if you eat chocolate you’re getting a little bit of caffeine, but I don’t drink caffeinated beverages.

The reason I went off caffeine is because I was having an irregular heartbeat, and I had to go to a heart doctor. He suggested before he put me on any medication that first I try to cut back on my caffeine intake. I slowly weaned myself off caffeine over a couple weeks and because I did it slowly, I didn’t experience any of the problems people usually have. I didn’t have headaches. I wasn’t tired, none of that.

And once I cut caffeine out completely, I was really surprised how much better I felt. First of all, my heart went back to normal, it went back to beating regularly and normally and that felt really good.

And secondly, I couldn’t believe how much better my anxiety felt. I used to sit in classrooms and my hands would just be like shaking, and it was, you know, really stressful. You know how that is. And I just thought that was something I was just gonna have to deal with, but I didn’t realize it was the caffeine that was causing it. And when I stopped the caffeine that completely went away. And I felt so much better.

Everybody’s different, and some people might not be able to cut caffeine completely out and feel okay. Some people might need to have some caffeine to feel okay. But just cutting back a bit of it, you know, just see if you can cut back slowly, cut down to about half and see if it reduces your anxiety. I don’t regret stopping caffeine at all. It was a very good thing to do.

As I’m sure you know, when you start feeling anxiety, the feeling of it like your hand’s shaking causes you to feel more anxiety.And it just kind of like circles around and becomes more intense, and the caffeine really does make that worse, because like I said, the caffeine can be what’s causing your hands to shake and you think it’s anxiety, but it’s the caffeine, but then it becomes anxiety because of your worry about the anxiety. If that makes any sense?

Sorry, this was so long. I hope that it helps you. I wish that somebody had told me about this sooner and I’m glad that I realized it.

I agree. And it’s not just the public as a whole. My local news ran a story about how they’re going to be doing this on an individual level. The example they used was for fast food, but it would apply for what they’re doing in grocery stores as well. The example was a woman pulls up to a fast food chain with her children and their friends in the car. They order and the price is significantly increased because the AI has identified that she does this once a week on that particular day and realizes that she’s going to be willing to pay it. And then the car behind her pulls up, and they could order the same exact thing that she ordered, but they would get it for a lower price.

Individualized price surging is the fresh hell that’s even worse than applying it on the whole to a larger population.

It sucks to be a widow or widower looking for support groups to help you cope with the death of your spouse, and the only available groups are at churches who then turn the group into a mini church sermon. These churches should not have tax free status when they won’t even offer the most basic help for communities without trying to convert vulnerable people to their cult.

Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy:

Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and Maddaddam

This dog is so relaxed and imperial. They should be the leader of the Earth.

More Corgis!

Aniara

Kudos to your truly unpopular opinion. I disagree but wouldn’t fight you on it. But what are your thoughts on nuts and caramel? That’s a hill I would die on.

Maybe it was mostly the eggs. More than one person that lived to be the oldest shared that they ate eggs regularly: Emma Morano, Violet Brown, and Susannah Mushatt Jones. Emma Morano said she ate three eggs every day. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/the-worlds-oldest-woman-reveals-the-food-she-swears-by/elxvgsctf

This is so freaking cute that I had to zoom in and then I saw the little feetsies sticking out!

Thanks for making me smile

It’s this for sure, but it’s also that they want you to come out with them, so they’re waiting for you to go first.

That’s why, when they do go out and you shut the door, they immediately want to come back in cause they just want to be with you.

Doesn’t this situation call for companies that could decide to block AI and double down on the human workforce? And those companies who do would be rewarded by all of us who hate AI and they would succeed by the supposed rules of the free market. Why isn’t any company stepping up to compete against AI run companies? Wouldn’t it be an amazing opening to compete and win?

Also, it wasn’t talked about in the article, but one of the big arguments for why this AI thing has to be so inevitable is that we have to compete with China. They think we have to start this race with China, to try to win AI.

First of all, I think we might have already lost the race. Second of all, even if you don’t agree that we’ve already lost. What if by embracing AI, China and all the other countries are destroyed by it? What if it just makes so many mistakes and errors that it just destroys their economy and destroys their country?And then the countries who were cautious about AI would be fine.We’d be the winners, not having succumbed to this ridiculous urge to use everything AI.

People always forget that anything and everything hooked up to a network is hackable. I’ll say it again. Everything hooked up to a network is hackable.Including this shitty AI stuff. If we put everything into AI, even if we win, another country could just hack us. And screw everything up. The bottom line is.There is a space to say no to AI and succeed.

I know I’m not that super articulate about this, but I would love to see somebody else write about these ideas with more finesse than I have, so that we could all start talking about this more and stop letting this inevitable push to AI just keep going without pushing back.

It’s so cute. It’s like an amalgam of all the rodents: mouse, rat, guinea pig, hamster, marmot, tribble.