“Help me build my echo chamber.”

Found the idiot.

You don’t have to care about every single thing in the world. It’s perfectly valid to not want to deal with or think about trans people as long as you’re not actively trying to sabotage them. I’m sure there are dozens of “movements” you are unaware of, and can’t bother to give a damn about even if they were explained to you.

Usually I agree here, but this is completely silly in context. We are all perfectly capable of helping OP interpret and follow the directions, because you don’t need to have eight years of medical experience to understand the instructions on the back of the medication box. We’re also talking about over-the-counter medicine here, and it’s basically guaranteed safe for all but the most excessive doses, which OP is not in any danger of exceeding because they’re asking if its okay to take a second pill, when the box already said you can take two simultaneously every “x” hours.

I worked in Red River for about a year and a half and it was pretty great. It was like Colorado Lite up there, and presumably much more affordable–I just had a condo paid for by my employer so I dunno. It’d be tough to live there without a remote job, I admit.

Taos was cool, but a little small/touristy. Santa Fe seemed great, but I heard it was expensive so I dunno. The rural areas did feel very impoverished overall.

I agree that it had its own feel. The native New Mexicans I met out there were just kind of their own people doing their own thing. The state had those fruit/pepper/produce stands here and there on the side of the road that you’d see in like Brazil. The landscape and terrain was this pretty mixture of desert shrubland right adjacent to mountain cypress-type ecosystems, at least in all the places I went to.

Would be worth going back again one day.

I spend a lot of time on Lemmy, sorted by Top>Day or whatever, which seems to provide mostly fresh stuff every morning. I’m on Telegram being an attention whore in my local art community/fandom/convention planning spaces. I browse art on websites, and Google like a madman in relation to my broken project car that I’m trying to restore. I am big into Outer Wilds, and was spending a lot of time on that up until recently. YouTube for offroad recovery videos (Trail Mater and Matt’s Offroad Recovery), which is silly because I don’t like offloading. It is fun to see the physics/mechanical aspect of how big truck recoveries work

I like to work with artists from Europe, so sometimes I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to track people down on Russian Google/Facebook (Yandex/VK) haha

Whenever I “ghost” someone, it’s usually because the friendship isn’t working for me, or it didn’t turn out to be what I thought it was. I put “ghost” in quotes because I don’t really block people, I’ll just stop initiating and then put the onus on them to maintain the relationship for a bit until I feel better about it.

So far, none of them have really cared enough to pick up the slack, so blocking them wasn’t really necessary. Good moves on my part I guess.

Andrew Prahlow - Travelers

Yeah, it’s silly. It’s an entire industry built on “frivolous”, optional consumption. They are making a killing even WITH piracy. They (the studios, etc.) make so much money that they can afford to selectively offer their product only to certain streaming services, region locked, and some of them have even paid to develop their own streaming platforms just for fun.

All they have to do is put their product on the real market, let any platform stream it for a licensing fee, and offer things that people actually want to buy: physical media and silly trinkets.

They’re trying to squeeze blood from a stone. If they were struggling, they’d just let me buy their product for a reasonable fee instead of making me jump through hoops and watch commercials.

I remember these from my childhood, but had forgotten about them entirely. I might actually pick a couple of these up for camping and to try out around the house–would be much better than taking a full sized can opener with me on trips, anyways. Thanks!