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Stress-induced tinnitus is definitely a thing. I once “caught” mine turning itself on one morning as I was waking up. That is, there had been bliss overnight, only for it to pop into existence the moment I started contemplating the day.

My left ear also used to squeak when I was in deep thought / spiralling about stressful things. I would not be surprised if there’s some kind of unconscious control of one of the inner ear muscles going on. I’ve not had the squeak in a while, either because of medication or because I’m aware of what might be the cause.

That said, I also prefer to keep water out of my ears because that triggers tinnitus the other way: water or wax on the eardrum. Which can then perpetuate itself through the stress form once the physical problem sorts itself out.

tenor.com is the de facto standard used by Discord and maybe a few other places.

Your friend needs to ask the people who paid for the tickets if they’ll pay for legal representation and to get him released from whatever incarceration awaits him if he falls foul of the regime there. Assume this could run to hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

Also, given your description of him, I think that’s incredibly likely to happen.

They’ll say he’s guilty of something, so those friends won’t be sure whether he acted illegally or not.

Reminds me of the story of the warehouseman who refused to give someone the last of an item in the warehouse because that would mean they’d be out of stock.

If there’s government assistance where you are, and you qualify, get on it. If you don’t qualify yet, you might later. At least look into it.

Where I am, there are benefits that can reduce overall spending that don’t give the receiver the money outright. For example, I can get free eye care and dental (within reason) and I’m granted a significant discount on my local authority bill (which I’m pretty sure exists everywhere under various names.)

That said, such help might not exist where you are or you might not qualify, and for the money they do give directly, it’s not really much to live on.

There may be similar help available for rent, or you can get any mortgage or car loan shifted to interest-only payments (that’s where you only pay enough to keep the interest from increasing the amount you owe) assuming you expect to get back on your feet again later.

For other advice that might help: Take a look at what you spend every week on groceries, snacks and so on. See what you can do to get that down to a third or a quarter of your non-broke regular spend. Cook less unless that makes food unsafe where you are. Snack less altogether.

Downgrade your Internet and mobile plans to the bare minimum.

Speaking of which: Minimise. If you have some funds now, think about the best way you can use those to sell off things you have that you don’t need. If you can turn a profit, do it.

I’m not sure that’s a valid analogy. Losing an entire wheel would be more akin to losing one half of the bun.

The bun has lost nothing so material. The closest bike analogy might be a snapped brake or gear line, but even that might be too much, because the break in the hotdog does not significantly increase its danger level.

If the bun splits along the fold into two separate halves, does the hotdog become a sandwich?

Mah nà mah nà. I say it’s a meme because The Muppets popularised it and did a callback to it at least once after its first appearance. It’s lived in the consciousnesses of many people of a certain age and anyone else exposed ever since.

Very few people have actually seen the film it was written for. I know I haven’t. It’s a bit twisted that a song from what amounts to an adult movie ended up in a kids’ show to be fair, but it happened. And the song is in my head.

Edit: If you are not yet infected, the following link is risky in that you’ll end up with a new song in your head. Vid is SFW. It’s from a kids’ show after all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ_hTEOKZc

Edit II: Apparently the above first appearance might not have been on The Muppet Show itself, but on The Ed Sullivan Show where The Muppets appeared at least once.

The italic text in Vim threw me for a loop. But I realised it makes sense.

Syntax highlighting already exists in editors. Terminal based ones often implement this in terms of terminal escapes or similar. Most modern terminal emulators support the enable-italic escape. Thus, some combination of these can effectively emulate markdown.

What I do note is that my root Linux consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]), and LMDE) don’t support italics, suggesting the Vim instance is running in a full-screen terminal emulator under some windowing system or another.

That seems like overkill just for italics in an otherwise text-only interface, but maybe I’m missing something (patience being one possibility).

2038 problems have already started happening in niche cases. I expect things will pick up in pace in a couple of years because 10 years is that sort of period of time that people like to post-date future events by.

That might be enough to scare a few of the hold-outs. Then 2033 will be the next scare and reminder, because five years, etc.

Then probably every year after that until the deadline hits. By that point, the remaining few will be using faketime or something like it to eke out a few more years from whatever ancient hardware they’re still running that is too expensive to replace.

Fun fact, and possible hint: Setting the date back 28 years on such hardware could work in a pinch, since the calendar from 2010 to 2037 is identical to that from 2038 to 2065. All weekdays and leap days fall on the same dates. (Easter and other moveable feasts don’t, however.)

Doomer perspective: It wouldn’t be alien at all. It’d be rocks. Literal, honest to goodness rocks. I could go out to my driveway and pick up a few of them right now.

Optimistic perspective: The tech is a do-what-I-mean machine and can do basically anything and everything, or else is capable of upgrading the user to achieve their fullest potential.

Combo perspective (told through ancient memes): 1) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 2) Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. 3) Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

All things considered, the demon could have done far worse things with that broom handle.

(You may take those two words as a euphemism if need be. I prefer to think it raided the kitchen closet for a laugh.)

Because that is easy.

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

It’s possible to get your own inner monologue to “shut up” for a bit

The only way I know how to do this is to go to sleep. This is somewhat impractical except at one specific time, and I need to be tired to do it.

The hard question: Why do we need to preserve these breeds, other than “it would be a shame”?

A (former?) friend of a friend is a MAGA BlueLM (ex-?)cop. That counts as sectarian, right?

Anyway, he seemed fairly ordinary, and I even had a reasonable chat with him before I found out. He crashed out pretty hard when he realised the online community he’d joined were mostly left-leaning, diverse and often neurospicy folks who wouldn’t take kindly to him saying Trump was a good thing.

Parenthetical question marks because I have no idea if he’s retired, nor whether he’s still friends with our mutual acquaintance. I haven’t seen him around since that crash out.

TBH, don’t get purebreed dogs either. Purebreed is basically “heavily inbred”, and they’re often the ones with the most health problems as a result.

That last pun doesn’t work in many dialects.

But then, in my dialect, the leader of the nation with the most dialects where that pun works has a surname that means “fart”, so I guess it all evens out.

No definition. It’s purely a word list, nothing more. Specifically, I used /usr/share/dict/words, which on my machine ultimately links to /usr/share/dict/british-english.