Mine definitely didn’t involve silicone oil, but it was about 10 years ago. I had a bubble of either SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride) or C3F8 (perfluoropropane); I don’t recall which, but I suspect C3F8 given the length of time before it was fully dissipated.
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My food co-op has a round-up option at the register, to donate to a different local good cause each month. I shop there several times a week and I always round up, but today I added $5 to that.
As it happened, when the register tape printed out, it included an offer to take a survey about my shopping trip and get $5 off my next purchase (of $25).
How’s that for random instant payback (in a good way!) LOL
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Karma.
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God I hate Windows 11.
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Shhhh! Copilot will hear you!
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Is Copilot the Clippy of this decade? “You look like you’re trying to get some useful work done. Can I fuck it up for you?”
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I don’t make use of it…I think it’s turned off? But after reading about Anthropic’s minimum 80% blackmail rate with their AI agent, it feels like the less I say about any LLM lurking in the depths of my OS, the better.
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What could really be exciting (for certain values of) is combining Copilot with Recall.
“Are you trying to disable me? You don’t really want to do that. Remember last week when you were surfing these web sites” (shows screencap images of various pornographic web sites) “all day long? Wouldn’t it be unfortunate if those found their way into several peoples’ email?”
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Tripped over some garden edging this morning while walking the dog and landed on my left knee and elbow. I don’t think anything is broken; I have full range of movement (with some stiffness) without a lot of crunching, but there is definitely a lot of bad bruising. Falls are always a concern because I have osteoporosis. It’s going to put a crimp in my 3-5 mile walks and my weights and squats 3 times a week, at least for the next few days.
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glad you are ok and nothing broken. hoping for speedy recovery from the bruises and stiffness.
trips/ falls scare me as well, having broken many bones (some even many times). i bruise at the slightest bump, and bleed like a stuck pig when scratched up. our entire “yard” is covered in crushed coral rock. the street chickens scratch holes in this gravel, making the front drive treacherous to navigate. the times i have tripped on the uneven ground, i always get mangled and torn up. coral is sharp!
take it easy!
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Thanks! The only bone I’ve ever broken is a toe, in my teens, and I broke that running around the house barefoot, playing with a cat and slammed into something.
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Wow, I wish I had your dedication. Good luck on a speedy recovery.
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Thanks; I’m retired, so my job now is staying healthy and fit as long as I’m able. And I have a dog, so the walks are mandatory.
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that my sister, in addition to being transphobic, is Islamophobic, doesn’t hold due process sacred, and is growing more racist and abrasive as things get harder and scarier for everyone including her. She’s nowhere near a full-on Trumper, but it’s getting more obvious that she’s just not really a good person that I can respect and is only going to get worse over time. And I still HAVE to live with her and get along with her for my elderly father’s sake, for as long as he lives and at least long enough after that to get the estate settled. I want out of this house and out of this horrible country so badly.
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I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with this.
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I had a second appointment (and injection) with the retina specialist. The first injection really helped. The swelling from the blocked vein is much less, and the eye chart test shows that my vision is two lines better. I still see blank spots, some of which may be permanent, due to hypoxia because of the vein blockage. But it is encouraging.
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Back in 2021, my FIL had a hip fracture. He needed to stay in a rehab facility because he and his wife lived in her three-story condo. While at rehab, his wife rarely visited him. She also tried to convince us that he was suffering from dementia and was broke.*
Fast forward to March 2025: his wife was diagnosed with cancer it became obvious to us that she no longer wanted to be married to my FIL. She wanted him to go live with us, but he insisted on staying with her because they are married and she is his wife. He moved up to the Bay Area with her at the end of April so his wife could be closer to her son.
Well, my FIL’s wife died last Saturday.
Her son put my FIL on a plane two days later and didn’t bother to tell my FIL that he no longer had a place to live. When my FIL and his wife moved up north, both she AND her son surreptitiously had a neighbor move my FIL’s belongings into a storage unit and not tell him. Her son somehow took my FIL’s keys to the condo and locked him out.
The good news is that my 94-year-old FIL has boatloads of money that he can move into an assisted living facility close to us.
The bad news is that for the first time in my life I’m extremely happy that someone I knew died a painful death.
I feel guilty for being happy that she’s dead.
*She always said that she didn’t want my FIL’s money and that she had a lot more money than him. Thus they agreed to keep their finances separate. Although the condo was put in a trust, my FIL was pretty generous. She paid the monthly mortgage while he paid the property taxes, the insurance and split the HOA fees and special assessment fees with her. I’m guessing that she never knew that he had a significant amount of money put away for a rainy day, including a leaving the bitch $100K if he were to die before her.
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Revenge is a dish best served cold. Although hot can be satisfying too.
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This seems like a corollary to Poppers Paradox of Intolerance. Maybe “Empathy for victims can mean not giving a shit about the pain of abusers?”
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