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Transgender teen attempts self-mastectomy before pool party

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Sounds a lot like they're hoping it's a phase and will "work itself out".

My oldest is NB, they're 15. I like to think we're about as open-minded as it gets, but I still had the thought that it might be something brought about by seeing people they look up to being a certain way and not from internal, intrinsic reasons.

I hope your daughter's friend ends up ok. If nothing else then knowing there are people out there that think of him might help with feeling isolated and misunderstood.

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New terminal apps: Warp and Wave

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By default, sharing a sudo password between PTY sessions is not allowed by your operating system. This can be a frustration when using Waveterm because every command is treated as a separate PTY session. To get around this, Waveterm will cache your sudo password in local memory (not written to disk) and share it with a session when provided.

Holy crap, no thanks. That's legit awful.

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Insurance is absolutely, unambiguously, the worst. I had a stress echocardiogram denied by insurance yesterday because they don't think I need it. A test to try to identify a problem, what's my alternative? Wait to see if I drop dead? I guess in that sense I don't need it but c'mon. And I'm on one of the "good" plans.

It seems like "deny everything and we'll save money on the people that can't/won't fight the denial" is actually common practice now.

I hope their actuaries get to experience the bullshit and have time to regret their contributions to human suffering.

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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

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Depends entirely on the self checkout system in use. My local Kroger has a system that's absolutely awful to use. Seconds between placing an item in the baking area and the register acknowledging it, and if you scan another item before it's weighed and acknowledged it'll yell at you. A few times of that and an associate has to come by and unlock it.

Most of the ones I've used at Walmart will handle me scanning and bagging as fast as I want for the most part.