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Only in these games when you die in game, you also die in real life.

Start your plans to escape now even though it’s a few years away.

Find sympathetic family members or close friends who’d be willing to take you in. Preferably someone who your dad doesn’t know, or at the least doesn’t know where they live.

Act as you usually would around him, don’t have him suspect anything.

When the time comes, spring your plan into motion. Notify your contacts that you’ll need to be picked up. Pack essentials into a bag. Include vital documentation (birth certificate, social security card, ID) since those can be difficult to replace. Bring your pets if you have them. Leave in the middle of the night when he’s sleeping. Don’t leave a note. Turn off read receipts on your messaging application. Minimize as much leverage as he has over you.

You’re escaping abuse, so your own personal safety here is paramount, don’t feel like you’re obligated to him in any way. He will try to manipulate you if he knows where you went, so it’s best to just ghost entirely.

If it doesn’t come with a discount like a rewards program with free coffee every now and then, I’m not interested.

I would imagine the networks in especially congested areas (New York City Times Square) might struggle under the load because there’s so many damn people celebrating.

Considering that the US Mint can literally print money, I can’t think of any reason either. I guess it won’t affect inflation as much, but still mass selling it will increase the money supply available to the government.

Silicone-lined metal might work. Not directly exposed, not flimsy like plastic, and with a rubberized grippy texture.

I recently ended my job hunt not too long ago. You need throughput in putting out resumes and cover letters. Use ChatGPT and have it generate cover letters for each job posting. Edit it so it doesn’t obviously read like it was generated from an LLM and get rid of any experiences it hallucinates on your behalf. It works better if your template resume is similar to the job posting in wording.

Generating matching resumes and cover letters used to take up about an hour for me per application before ChatGPT. Now it takes about 15 minutes per application. Use that speed (and decreased mental labor) to your advantage. More jobs applied to means more potential hits.

Applying for jobs is the suck, so use whatever tools you can to lessen the suck.

Sounds like you should pursue a career at NIST so your hobby can align with a profession. They’re all about keeping track of time to extreme precision with atomic and optical clocks.

How are they not getting the book thrown at them by Microsoft?

That’ll be it though. No Half-Life Alyx Episode 3.

Abort

tryAgain

Fail

I had to specifically mute all of my notifications because I couldn’t find out what app was causing them and it was driving me nuts. Steps below for a Pixel phone if anyone is interested in how to mute notifications without having to go into vibrate mode.

For a Pixel 7 phone:

Settings -> Sound & Vibration -> Default notification sound -> My Sounds -> None

This is a difficult question these days to answer. There are a few categories where I always stick to established brand names, these are typically electronics or anything electrical like portable battery packs or wall chargers. Poorly made items in those categories can start fires. And when it comes to silicon, there’s only a few to trust anyway since there are only a few major fabs out there.

I usually follow the site:reddit.com search method but I’ve had to further filter my criteria by only looking in enthusiast subreddits instead of the bigger ones like /r/AskReddit.

It gets difficult though for general goods that don’t really need well known brands and whose performance doesn’t matter as much but it’s hard to tell the quality online. Lawn chairs, pizza cutters, sushi kits, clothes hangers, rope, and shower curtain rods are good examples. These usually come down to luck of the draw.

Just get an Apple Airtag and have him carry it around in his pocket (just make sure he doesn’t leave in there it so it doesn’t accidentally get washed). If you need to see if he’s at home just check it’s location with your phone. Place it on a keyring with a house key.

Measuring cup is still a cup 💁‍♂️🥤

I think you’ve been pranked.

Is it even possible to get it out without taking it apart?

I’d imagine if the user was in China, it’d be an automatic deduction of social credit score, or a visit from the secret police.