The modern web so fat that when it sits around the house, it sits around the shockingly robust infrastructure we've collected that provides us great convenience while it slurps up our privacy.
No wonder my coffee tastes funny! I've been putting milk in it instead of filling it up with pandering! Thank God Kraft is here to remind us that they're just like us poors. Although, if they really wanted to relate to their customers, they should rebrand as "Maxwell Lost my job Because I Couldn't Afford to Replace a Flat Tire and now I Can't Afford Rent"
FINALLY! I recently started understanding more about stocks and investing, and what Memecoins are going to bring to the table is the removal of things making sense.
Y'all have set up this false dichotomy in which you've ignored the real majority of chrome installs on windows: children, grandchildren, and neighbors who just want to move on with their life. So they install "the one that looks like a beach ball" and they install a bunch of risky extensions that'll make reading and printing the internet easier.
Source: I used to work in computer repair and technology literacy. But, mostly my own ass.
Fossil fuels are from shit the dinos ate, like plants and other dumb crap. The belief that coal-rollers are cool enough to burn liquid dinosaurs is easily the single biggest lie of the oil industry.
You think that's something, you should see the diesel-powered fans they needed to cool those things! All so that they could watch ancient YouTube videos on postage stamp-sized monitors.
I have a platter stack from an old Datapoint server, each platter is somewhere around 9". The story, as I've heard it from multiple sources, was that a screw or screwdriver (I forget which) fell into the enclosure overnight and dented one of the platters, throwing it out of balance and causing the hard drive to vibrate like crazy. When someone came in the next day, they found the hard drive standing, unplugged, in the middle of the room. People were trying to figure out who unplugged and managed to move this incredibly heavy and expensive piece of equipment, and then deduced from late-night employee reports of what sounded like construction in the server room that the hard drive shook so violently that it "walked" to the middle of the room, unplugging itself.
I can definitely confirm the dent and that it appears to have happened at speed.
Dementia runs in my family, and I've, unfortunately, had a lot of experience with nearly every type of dementia patient in family members I've helped care for. The solutions, in order of how optimal they've been for each afflicted family member, have been:
In-home healthcare
Group home
Nursing home/care facility
The thing that makes in-home healthcare so optimal is that your family member has a less difficult transition and receives the highest individual care. But it can still be a nightmare for you and it can be incredibly expensive.
Group homes are often a bit more of a black box, since getting certified as a group home is easier to game than it should be. But you still get that highly individual care, and someone is almost always around to help out with a fall.
Nursing homes and care facilities are the same as a company in that the quality is only as good as every cog in the machine. We've had some incredible experiences at nursing homes, but it's all too often that the one nurse, the one with an incredible attitude who's been there for years, leaves, and suddenly the morale and quality of care globally plummets.
No matter what you choose, there's one important thing to remember: because this family member can't take care of themself anymore, they're relying on you for their own care and happiness—you can't provide care and happiness when you're drowning in misery. If you can afford some form of professional care for this person, that will be the best solution for you, and ultimately provide the best solution for this person who you obviously care enough about to have this level of concern.
If professional healthcare is financially out of reach, contract some of the nursing homes and local community centers to ask them for information about programs and services. Let them know that you're doing this on your own and can't afford professional care. They'll almost always be more than happy to tell you about free or cheap services and programs that will greatly lessen your load.
If you zoom in on that emoji, you can see in the background where The Undertaker is throwing Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeting 16 feet through an announcer's table.
Keeping you on edge?