There are deadlift deadeners that you can buy. If the guy sets up a proper floor, the noise could be reduced a lot. You could ask him to set up a proper platform with the deadeners

There’s no alternative yet right?

I’m literally working on a project integrating a major European bank into a major US cloud (not my fault).

Maybe we build a new Twitter or Facebook, but we are still heavily using US cloud

First part is interesting. I didn’t think to try changing the wording and avoiding saying shy. Maybe saying something like “So is sounds like it’s really important to you to make friends with other kids”. I’ll think about it

She has a lot of friends and loves playing with them. Neighbors, school, etc. She basically wants to always play with kids or me, but admittedly, I can’t keep up with a 5yo energy wise. And she is always asking to play with friends.

In an art class, she has a new friend and they laugh and talk the whole class. She also will joke with the teacher. She cried before going the first couple times, and adamantly “hates” the class before the class, but everytime comes out happy and says she loved it.

Maybe you are right about getting out of the way. I’ll try having a phone call in the hall or something next time.

Europe would probably do it over a long term by simply not rolling treasuries or slow sell off.

I think this is a long game to play

He’s right. Dumping is would be dumb. You need to quietly hedge the dollar devaluation first.

On a serious note, it probably wouldn’t have the desired impact.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/who-owns-us-debt-2025-02-10/

Even if the whole world ex-US dumped, the US holds the most

I worked for one and I happen to know they violate European data laws by spying on employees (surprised?). An internal lawyer told us to keep quite about it and that they would find a legal pathway to punish those they wanted to punish.

I like my Bosch one. It’s battery is swappable with any Bosch tool.

Does this work on normal Android? I still have some phones on normal Android

https://www.streetepistemology.com/

Check this out. I used to do things like this with hard core right wing (trump flags, cleaning their guns everyday).

My goal wasn’t to convince them, but get them to think critically and feel safe around liberals. The ones I talked to were usually convinced leftists were out to get them. I was a leftist who would literally just listen to them, watch Fox news with them and then we’d get burritos and hang out.

I want them to think of me and other friends, when they see videos of ICE beating up people. I’ll never convince them to vote blue, but maybe I can convince them that we can disagree about politics, but still be friends

It would be cool if this was ActivityPub compatible so we could follow Instagram from Mastodon. As much as I hate meta, there are some artists I would like to follow still

Echo chamber in different words. I grew up with a lot of conservatives. Hard second amendment people. They listen if you listen

Yeah, she’s told me in pretty much every occasion that she’s scared the kids or teacher will be mean, but after a couple classes she’s fine. Similar with play dates. She’s not stressed by social situations at all (other than new ones), in fact, she craves friends a lot and often tells me that she wants to play with other kids. I’m school and neighborhood, she’s often the leader and organizes the games for kids.

I’m not trying to make her extroverted to be clear, but I’d actually say she’s more extroverted than me. Shyness isn’t introversion. In fact, my push for a hobby is to effectively get her more friends to balance playdates that she wants.

We also want to ensure that conservatives are repeatedly alienated so they build their own networks and never see other points of view! /s

She’s scared kids will be mean to her. None of the hobbies are things she’s scared of. She loves doing them with me and neighbor friends.

What coping mechanisms would you suggest in this case?

I’ve tried a number of different hobbies and it’s a struggle usually. With an art class she was crying beforehand, but I sat next to her and she was fine after the first class. She has fun and laughs as she makes silly stuff.

The “forcing” is just the first couple times, but she’d literally just stay home eternally if I didn’t make her do things. Other than at least one exercise/movement hobby for health, I kind of don’t care what the hobbies are, but want her to do something.

Part of it is a chicken or egg. I go into these platforms and there’s nothing there, so I don’t check them. Organizers see nobody checking them, so they don’t maintain them.

My current plan is something like this. Basically make unofficial accounts for groups that interest me (clearly labeled unofficial of course). Then hand them over when there’s enough traffic.

Groups I organize I just make two channels

Okay. Just to note that if you put graphene on a pixel, you aren’t giving them more data. Just because it’s a Google pixel doesn’t mean they’d have you data in GrapheneOS

Is it really 100%?! How much to import from the US? And China?