Apparently so.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/woman-who-got-trump-tattoo-on-forehead-now-wants-to-erase-it-asks-strangers-for-help-removing-controversial-ink-101725499788568.html

Yes.

EDIT:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haptodysphoria

Noun

haptodysphoria (uncountable)

1. An odd, disagreeable sensation felt by certain people when handling peaches, velvet or other fuzzy surfaces.

Well, peaches don’t bother me at all, and I can’t think of any other fuzzy surface that does. But I don’t like the feel of velvet at all.

And while I haven’t touched it recently — maybe partly because I avoid it — I’m pretty sure that, like OP, it bothered me more when I was younger.

EDIT2: I don’t experience anything like it being in my teeth, as OP does, just find it distinctly unpleasant. I remember looking at portraits of women wearing velvet dresses and thinking that they had to be outright masochists to have their entire body draped in the stuff.

I also can’t think of any other fabric that I have a similar dislike for. I don’t much like scratchy wool, but finer wool is fine, and even with rough wool, it’s not the same sensation at all.

EDIT3:

Now I’m just imagining what this this would have to feel like:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/62721fdc-78a9-487c-bebc-50b9270adbbc.jpeg

Gahhhh.

can’t even read

I can have it read to me in synthesized GLaDOS’s voice, even!

All my teachers look like north korea concentration camp guard

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/27/i-thought-it-was-fake-news-secrecy-around-north-koreans-fighting-in-kursk

Even in elite units such as the Storm Corps, North Korean soldiers are systematically underfed and malnourished, according to accounts from defectors shared with the BBC.

Emaciated?

The plane will initially be transferred to the United States Air Force, which will modify the 13-year-old aircraft to meet the U.S. military specifications required for any aircraft used to transport the president of the United States, multiple sources familiar with the proposed arrangement said.

Setting aside intelligence and influence concerns mentioned by others in the thread already, I can’t really see how this is faster than modifying planes already in the US. I mean, it’s a plane with luxury stuff. Surely the issue isn’t putting luxury stuff in the thing, but putting security stuff in.

Hell, if the USAF has to start over from scratch, I’d think that it’d take longer, if anything.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5156686-trump-boeing-air-force-one-delays-frustration/

Trump vents frustration with Boeing over Air Force One delays

President Trump is airing grievances with Boeing over delays in delivering new Air Force One jets, telling Republican governors on Thursday he was “getting a little tired” of the hold up.

“I bought a plane. It’s really two planes, Air Force One. Now if Boeing would build the damn thing it would be nice, too. We don’t build like we used to. We don’t build too fast,” Trump said at a reception for the Republican Governors Association.

Like, I assume that time is Trump’s beef here.

EDIT:

Yeah, this seems to agree with that:

https://www.popsci.com/technology/why-does-air-force-one-take-so-long-to-replace/

Why a private plane isn’t a viable option

President Trump, realizing the pair of new 747-8 planes might not be completed by the time he leaves office, has suggested sidestepping Boeing altogether and modifying a used private jet instead. The suggestion to sidestep Boeing entirely and “convert” a used aircraft could face several challenges, experts said. The extensive modifications required to make such an aircraft capable of functioning as the president’s plane would essentially mean starting from scratch—a process Boeing has already been working through for years. As a result, a converted used jet could potentially take even longer to become airworthy than the two 747-8 models currently in production.

“Honestly, at this point, any changes you make are likely to make it take longer and cost more even if you’re reducing capabilities,” Harrison said.

“It [a converted plane] just wouldn’t be anywhere near as capable as the Air Force Ones we have today,” Aboulafia added.

Not to mention that I kind of wonder what it is that makes the existing, older, aircraft such a problem. Whatever it is has to be something that the Qatari royal plane does. Maybe the existing ones don’t have some sort of fancy convenience? It used to be the norm for leaders to travel on warships, and I suspect that considerably more tradeoffs were made there.

https://github.com/heralden/steam-chat

Apparently there’s an API for non-group chats and an open-source terminal client (maybe others as well). Good odds that that doesn’t send notification. If not, could be modified.

looks a bit further

Bitlbee, an IRC-to-other-chat-protocols gateway, apparently has support for Steam client chat.

https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-steam

I know that that won’t send any indication, since IRC doesn’t.

It makes other chat systems be aggregated together and look like an IRC server; you then use an IRC client of your choice to talk to people on other chat systems.

decisions than reddit where clicking on a thread, you know, opens the thread instead of what the thread links to.

Are you familiar with

https://old.reddit.com/

?

Do I have enough petrol for the trip/day/week, I just want to go home but I have to find a station, is there one on the way, do they have premium.

I bet that there’s some sort of fuel container that one can get to extend range.

kagis

Looks like it.

https://www.frontaer.com/extra-motorcycle-fuel-tanks/

I can charge a phone on the car’s accessory circuit and charge the car battery if there’s gasoline in the tank, so that seems like that’d be more useful.

The de minimis exception probably should go away, Trump or no. The only argument I can really see for keeping it would be that getting rid of it adds to transaction cost, but aside from that, it just doesn’t make sense to impose tariffs on people importing in bulk but exclude people importing small quantities.

If — and I don’t know if this is actually the case for this guy — your business model fundamentally depending on leveraging being exempt from paying tariffs when a number of competitors had to pay them…I mean, you were on pretty dangerously thin ice to begin with.

then write a new book and throw that at him as well.

No, the Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. A law you are punished for must be on the books before the crime you commit that it prohibits is committed.

The federal government is prohibited from doing so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_9:_Limits_on_Federal_power

No Bill of attainder or Ex post facto law shall be passed.

And state governments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_10:_Limits_on_the_States

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

This isn’t for re-election for her existing seat, but whether she should run for representing all of Georgia rather than just one district. My understanding is that she had to move to the congressional district that she was in to get sufficient support to win a House seat.

checks Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene

Having originally announced her intention to run in Georgia’s 7th congressional district,[47] Greene instead began her campaign in the 6th district, where she resided, on June 4, 2019.[58][b] She stated her commitment to balance the federal budget and restrain Congress from using its constitutional power to spend new money into existence, adding: “If we look at our country as our household, we’re going to go under foreclosure because we’re overspending.”[58] Greene also criticized her expected primary opponent, former U.S. representative Karen Handel, for supporting large omnibus spending bills and a series of electoral losses: “She’s lost seven races in her entire political career… She steps down from seats that she does win so she can campaign for something else. Basically I would call her [a] professional campaigner, but she loses.”[58]

On December 13, 2019, Greene announced that she was shifting her campaign to the 14th district after incumbent Tom Graves announced he would not run for reelection there.[59] The district includes much of Northwest Georgia, stretching from the Georgia side of the Chattanooga metropolitan area to the exurbs of Atlanta. Members of the House are constitutionally required to live in the state they represent, but not necessarily in the same congressional district.

Greene was considered an overwhelming favorite to win the seat in the general election, as the 14th district typically votes heavily Republican.[86] In 2017, the Cook Political Report ranked the district the 10th-most Republican in the country.[87]

I mean, everyone is entitled to their vote, and my guess is that they’re probably going to take an economic hit, so I have a hard time dogpiling on top of that, but I don’t think that it was a move that was in their interests.

Six months back:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/teamsters-favor-trump-harris-endorsement-00179879

Teamsters members heavily favor Trump over Harris ahead of union endorsement decision

Now:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-03/trumps-tariffs-hit-truckers-and-port-workers

Tariffs bring shipping slowdown, threatening trucking jobs at L.A. ports

A 2023 report found that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach contributed $21.8 billion in direct revenue to local service providers, generating $2.7 billion in state and local taxes and creating 165,462 jobs, directly and indirectly.

A decline of just 1% in cargo to the ports would wipe away 2,769 jobs and endanger as many as 4,000 others, the study found.

Last week, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said arrivals could drop by 35% over the next 14 days.

This threat looms large for members of ILWU Local 13, a union representing longshoremen who unload cargo and support port operations.

“They’re just wondering what’s going to happen,” ILWU Local 13 President Gary Herrera said of his members. “Some of the workforce will not be getting their full 40 hours a week based on the loss of cargo. Job loss is definitely a concern.”

According to Herrera and port officials, there will be more than 30 “blank sailings” in May at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, which occur when cargo ships cancel planned trips. That will mean 400,000 fewer containers will be shipped through the ports, officials said.

The impending downturn at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles comes not long after the twin facilities reported booming activity, tied to a labor dispute that shut down major ports on the East and Gulf coasts. Nearly one-third of all cargo containers delivered to the U.S. travel through Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Navdeep Gill, who owns the Northern California trucking company Ocean Rail Logistics, said his business is already moving 60% to 70% less cargo as a result of the tariffs.

Gill’s truckers, who haul goods from the Port of Oakland, typically move 50 containers a week. Recently, they have been moving 10 to 15, Gill said.

“When we are not doing anything and the trucks are not working, then we lose money,” he said. His company hauls industrial goods, paper and food products.

“We have fixed expenses like insurance that we cannot bypass, so we’re losing money,” Gill said.

Over the three-day period ending Sunday, 10 container ships are expected at the Port of Los Angeles. That’s a decline from the 17 container ships that typically arrive every three days at this time of year, according to a memo from a trade group that represents shippers.

“That is going to have an effect on the work opportunities for not just us, but for truck drivers, warehouse workers and logistics teams,” said Herrera, the union president. “This is the ripple effect of not having work at the waterfront.”

Search for “longplay <game-name>” on YouTube and you’ll find video of someone playing just about any game.

That’s not very much information.

Are you talking about a commercial service? A free one (well, aside from mining your data)? Software that you run on local hardware?

You have the NSFW flag set on this post, but the post itself contains no NSFW content. Are you wanting something that can generate NSFW content?

The article says it is paid…

Well, yes and no. I mean, they get a paycheck if they use paid time off, but they’d need to use some of their supply of that, which is going to compete with things like time off for being sick, going on vacation, etc.

I’d think that they already have that due to the TSA.

Tesla told Austin workers on its Model Y and Cybertruck lines to stay home for the week of Memorial Day, three workers told Business Insider.

Setting aside the Musk/Trump shennanigans and their impact on the Tesla brand as a whole, though…they’re also talking about the Cybertruck.

I can believe that maybe they keep demand for the Model Y at a sustained long-term level, but I have a hard time believing that the Cybertruck is going to take off. I mean, if there’s enough commonality across lines, then maybe they can use the Cybertruck workers elsewhere, but I just don’t think that the Cybertruck is going to become a big success.

Like, at some point, they gotta cut their losses on that thing.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/tesla-cybertruck-sales-musk-b2746688.html

Tesla Cybertruck sales underperformed in Q1, dropping more than 50 percent compared to sales in Q4 of 2024, reflecting a larger theme for the electric vehicle maker, which has faced market volatility and decreasing sales as its CEO has taken a role in the Trump administration.

In the last quarter, Tesla sold roughly 6,400 Cybertrucks – more than double the number from the same time last year but significantly fewer than the 12,900 sold in the final quarter of 2024, according to research firm Cox Automotive.

It’s the second consecutive quarter Tesla has seen a dip in Cybertruck sales. Sales peaked during Q3 of 2024 with roughly 16,600 sold.

The Cybertruck was introduced to the electric vehicle market in 2023, and at the time, Musk touted that more than one million people had paid a $100 refundable deposit to reserve one.

It also dropped production targets for several Cybertruck lines over the last few months, workers familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Production lines have reportedly also been thinned out; now, some are said to be working at a fraction of their previous capacity.

There could be only one Rusty Shackleford.