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  • In Apple-land there’s bizarre quirks that are in the swipe-typing function too. Try swiping out “white woman” or “black woman” for example and it “corrects” it to the same incorrect phrase (“whites woman” or “black roman”) every time despite getting it right originally.

    It’s a huge shame that (in my humble opinion) peak touchscreen typing was a decade ago when I used Windows Phone 8.1. It’s been a slow decline since that only became apparent in the past couple (maybe few) years to me.


  • It’s a Clicks keyboard case, got some long-timers in the mobile journalism space involved and looks pretty neat. I’d have gotten one but no model for my 13 mini personally but they support a number of iPhone and Android models. (minor caveat but USB-C iPhone’s have to toggle between data and power I believe - or something like that for the USB-C port built-in.)



  • The UPPP sucked more recovery-wise in my case, turns out I’m down 4 lbs after 1.5 weeks resting. The instructions said the throat pain would intensify over the first week but it didn’t seem to get much worse for me, just bad for a few days and then slowly got better. Whether it fixes up my snoring/sleep apnea remains to be seen. Hoping it does but we will see. This would have more impact on my SO’s sleep, but I do have a CPAP so I could make do with that.

    the septum correction/turbinate reduction has made all the difference so far with not much pain, but I suspect I got lucky pain-wise. If I had to choose, it would be this one every day of the week.


  • Sounds right, it’s just an all-or-nothing gambit or both you and the major party you align with would lose big.

    You’ll have to appeal to the masses, get them willing to vote since voter turnout is not good, get awareness and enough energy to convince people to gamble on a vote for your third party since if each only get half of all voters on “their” side, the opposition wins. All while fighting the established party and all the funds, big names, etc. that empower it.

    Heck, the US Democratic party has seemingly been willing to lose democracy than allow any progressive candidates to rise in the party.


  • thanks!

    I’m still recovering from that (plus a UPPP) - the post-op instructions for the nasal operations spoke of potential splints and other packing to be dealt with at a post-op appointment but I didn’t have any of that and recovery was 1.5 weeks (just passed) of no exercise, bending over, lifting objects above 20ish lb and minimal sneezing, no blowing nose, plenty of rest but I was able to function after a weekend on my butt. (surgery friday AM)

    Bloody and later clear drainage for the first couple/few days, nasal rinses (that Neil Med saline packets and bottle) for cleaning.

    The UPPP was included for sleep apnea/snoring and recovery is longer, I was on a soft, lukewarm/cool/cold diet for several days and I’m mostly back to normal but no spicy foods and a hint of pain still.

    The pain when swallowing from this one was the worst of it in the first several days - my nose seems to have gotten away without much pain or disruption at all since it was clear virtually all the time post op but the directions indicated it likely would be blocked. Hydrocodone was prescribed but I only used it a little bit and got by with tylenol (the infant kind because syrup instead of pill and it happened to be at Costco)

    The tough part was remembering to stay hydrated. I found a wedge pillow helped with drainage.

    I was more reluctant for the UPPP but insurance dictated it and not a lighter-touch procedure. no complications on any of them thus far but it’s too recent to call final results.

    I said night and day difference especially laying down, but doc says as swelling goes away there’s more improvement to be had!












  • ugh I remember my last straw on Facebook was my high school alumni group becoming a shit-storm of sea-lioning and a couple folks blocking people and also spamming nostalgia-posts to drown out and push down more serious discussion. A high school famous for it’s science-focus but alas, the older (but not much older) folks were openly commenting about that black-people-crime-percentage “statistic” and gay people.