Thanks for your concern!

I mostly never drink anymore. Not that I ever was a heavy drinker, but I’m old enough that it makes me sleepy now, so alcohol interferes with my life. So I just quit cold turkey years ago.

Also, it makes alcohol work better for the few times when I do need it - like now - because I don’t have any habituation anymore. So it doesn’t take much to hammer me real good. Like right now…

Yeah I have a healthy lifestyle. I tried yoga. It doesn’t do anything for me.

I’ll look up bioelectric massage. Is it like TENS? I do that too, it helps a little. Not much though.

Yes, but Sabula says he has no regrets.

And in case you were worried for the man losing his livelihood because he spoke up - unlike the rest of us - fear not: his future is quite secure!

Good for him!

No joke, but as a last ditch effort. Have you tried wearing a prosthetic, wearing clothing over it and then scratching it?

Kind of: I’m only missing my toes. So I don’t normally wear prosthetics. But I do have a pair of really realistic-looking silicone prosthetics that my wife offered me years ago, that really make my feet look whole again when I put them on.

I never wear them because they’re very uncomfortable and very fragile. But I figured they looked so good, I could try to fool my noggin into believing those are my real toes, then scratch the silicone and see if it has an effect.

So I sat down and stared at my siliconed up feet for a while, and even kind of felt like I could conceivably be feeling my real toes come back to a point, but when I scratched them, it was even worse because I couldn’t feet the scratching and the itch didn’t go away. It made it worse because it looked so much like it should do something and it emphasized all the more that it didn’t.

Also, the pressure from the silicone made the pain flare up. I tried that years ago and never tried it again because it was rather unpleasant.

Also, if you can take into consideration picking up a sport as a hobby (presuming you haven’t already tried), having most muscle in your body hurting might offset the focus on only that one particular area.

Sadly it’s winter now, and my usual winter sport is cross-country skiing, and I really can’t do that right now. Too much pressure on the funny bits.

I did try to waste myself at the swimming pool earlier. I’m busted and kind of sore everywhere now but it’s not really doing anything. It did provide respite for a couple hours because I could forget the itch while I was in the water, but if anything, it makes the cramps worse.

Right now I’m at the hotel and I’ve decided to try the most old-fashioned neurological distraction: hard liquor. I’m drinking myself to sleep right now. Hopefully I’ll get some sleep for starters, and maybe I’ll be so damn drunk the itch will let go of me for a few hours…

The POTUS needs his daily dose of CSAM during national security meetings at the Pentagon.

This sounds like an excellent cure for constipation.

There are only about a few thousand ICE agents. Every No Kings protest is hundreds of thousands of people, furious at illegal ICE bullying

You forget one key point: a few thousand heavily-armed, unaccountable, state-sponsored goons with complete immunity vs hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians who can’t afford a lawyer and don’t want to be sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador without even the option of seeing a lawyer - if they don’t get executed in the street right there and then.

Agents fear the public revulsion toward the heavy-handed approach of ICE under President Donald Trump, and the administration’s efforts to cover its own tracks as it did in the wake of Good’s shooting, is already causing problems securing criminal convictions. One former agent told the Daily Beast that he and his colleagues fear it has become more common for juries not to believe evidence they are presenting to the court.

I call BS. ICE never goes to court. Everything they do is totally unconstitutional and extra-judicial. When was the last time you heard of DHS trying to secure a conviction the legit, legal way?

What dividends?

He stole people’s money and he only proposed to give some back. The stolen money was never put to any good use that generated dividends.

And unsurprisingly, Dementia Don conveniently forgot his promise - like all his other promises.

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback. I reached out to them, see if they can help me evaluate their solution in the best possible conditions.

It’s not the Supreme Court that’s screwing things

for a change…

It wouldn’t be at risk of being screwed if you hadn’t slapped your dumb tariffs on everything and everybody, you demented orange turd.

Thanks! - and @szewek@mstdn.social @ponyofwar@pawb.social also!

And the little Googling I did seems to indicate I might be able to use it in vim too - which would be a huge plus for me 🙂

This is a bit concerning - from https://publicai.co/chat:

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This sure don’t look very Swiss to me…

Have you tried it personally? I’m just curious if you have first-hand experience with it.

Open source and public org might win me over even the performances are quite there.

Thanks! Mistral seems to be the biggest name that keeps coming up. But I’ll check out Jetbrains. Maybe they’ll let me do an evaluation for free if I ask them nicely 🙂

You can rest assured that Microsoft will fuck their European customers 10 times over before risking losing juicy multi-billion cloud contracts with the US government if the orange utan threatens them even a little bit.

Florida… 'nuff said.

More like reverse nominative determinism.

There’s a guy called Trump who was a failed casino operator. So it’s not unheard of.

It doesn’t take much education to know what a lying, fascist sack of shit Trump is.

With cleverer, more sneaky politicians, I might pity the man who didn’t know. Not with this one. All the morons who voted for Trump knew exactly what they were doing.