They’re not as good at preventing STDs, but they’re decent at preventing pregnancy.

I wish they would. It might mean fewer fire alarms tripped by vapes. (I work in a college library and it’s not funny have to evacuate the building just because someone decided to vape in a study room.)

You can also ask a librarian for help. We like finding things and might be able to get a copy through interlibrary loan or other connections. We also like girl scout cookies, especially the ones with coconut.

Can confirm: am allergic to latex and use LaTeX. Benadryl and barrier cream are my friends.

Thankfully, I’ve not heard of that around here. The public library I worked at was chill about everyone visiting, including several people I’d consider “problems”: dude that always sat next to the teen section and complained the teens were loud while being louder than any teen, and other dude that would sit in the middle of a row of public computers and turn off the ones on either side because she didn’t want to sit next to anyone else.

The only time we kicked anyone out was when someone was vaping. The only time someone got banned was when they were racist in response to being told they couldn’t vape in the library.

ETA: “around here” is suburban New England

Yep, part of evaluating a work is knowing whose work it is. I’ll read a paper on, say, lung cancer by SirTobaccoLobbyist differently than one by DrCancerResearcher. If I don’t know whose work it is, it’s very hard to contextualize.

My dad used to disable the motherboard speaker because the noises games made back then were more annoying than fun. We eventually got a soundcard, and that was awesome.

Good pupper.

There’s the k870t. I have one and like it.

Robert Evans wrote a post on it and did multiple podcast episodes.

The TL&DR is that AI-generated children’s books are crap, without a coherent storyline or any literary niceties like “foreshadowing” and “beginning middle and end”. Kids are still learning what stories look like, so if you hand them AI-generated stuff they might know it’s unsatisfying, but they can’t put into words why their books are wrong.

Yeah, but I bet the dumpster or poop bin is on the other side of the yard or parking lot.

You could take a length of yarn (maybe 5 inches?) in a matching color, string it through the dropped stitch so it doesn’t fall down further, then weave in the ends.

This would disrupt the pattern, but it’s an option if it’s somewhere not too visible and I didn’t want to redo a lot of work (say, I’d noticed after binding off or something)