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If you think TI’s set of manufactured products is insane, look at a Japanese Keiretsu like DKB or South Korean Chaebol, like Daewoo.

The wildfire season around LA is normally May/June to October.

https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/california-fire-season-in-depth-guide/

It is not actually currently a ‘dry season’.

It is actually right now, in January, the ‘wet season’.

https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/los-angeles/california/united-states/usca1339

What’s gone wrong is that there has been about a decade of persistent general drought, there’s been a near complete lack of rainfall in the current wet season, and the Santa Anna winds have been particularly strong.

… It is absolutely not the dry season in LA right now, by historical standards.

The climate has rather abruptly and rapidly changed, such that wildfire season is now effectively year round.

Rational National pointed out that the ‘Gulf of America’ name was actually a joke Colbert made back in 2010 when he was still doing the Colbert Report.

Roughly 2 minutes into this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtzFxY66F7s

Old article about MSFT donating to Colbert’s ‘Gulf of America’ charity aimed at cleaning up / mitigating oil spills from rigs that broke after Katrina:

https://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Donates-100-000-to-the-Colbert-Nation-Gulf-of-America-Fund-144192.shtml

We live in the Demented Clowns timeline, honk honk.

RFK Jr has seriously proposed sending drug addicts, which he defines as people taking prescribed medication for mental health reasons, as well as your more stereotypical hardcore drug addicts… to basically agricultural work / detox camps.

No meds, no phone, live in a barracks, do farm work… while you and everyone else are cold turkey quitting heroin, or fentanyl, or ritalin or zoloft or wellbutrin.

Over a decade ago, Obama proposed significantly expanding AmeriCorps, the tea party Republicans basically did everything they could to water down the expansion to amount to basically nothing.

I wonder if Twitter Republicans even know AmeriCorps exists…

Anyway, what we should actually do is mandate that everyone who earns double area median income for 3 years in a 5 year period has to spend 6 months working in a call center, retail, customer service, fast food.

Justice is so fucking good.

Followed by Tiptoe Through The Tulips, bwahaha!

The entire sound track of Hotline Miami 1 and 2.

If I had to pick one, Hydrogen by MOON.

Well I won’t be having any kids… never wanted them, can’t afford them anyway…

…but if I did have kids, who lived with me and supported me in my old age, I’d be humble and grateful for their help, and recognize that declining cognitive ability is just a thing that happens as you get older.

I’d call it reaping what you sow.

I had the feeling man (don’t know your gender but I mean it as a term of solidarity)…

I had the feeling that your situation was significantly worse than just IT problems.

I’ve managed to be in basically the situation you are in, once with a family member, another time with a partner.

Definitely look into how the formal process for being declared her caretaker works in your state/county.

Theres a good chance that there’s some kind of non profit group in your county, or pro bono lawyer or some kind of legitimate body that can help you through the particulars of how that works.

Definitely get as many relevant, official ‘i am her caretaker’ statuses and/or required evidence of such lined up before you try to start with the power of attorney stuff.

Getting durable power of attorney / living will / whatever your particular locale calls it, that’ll be much easier if you are already her caretaker.

… But yeah.

You’re not screaming into the void on this one…

I hear you.

Don’t try to do a million things at once, don’t completely do a 180 overnight and start bossing her around right off the bat… take the time to move through all the red tape correctly.

3, full, deep breaths, all the way in, hold for 20 seconds, all the way out.

I’d give you a hug if I could.

Tell her you’ll fix it if she gives you power of attorney.

No, I’m not joking.

If you are having to spend 8 hours to figure out how to help her manage her basic affairs, if you are constantly teaching her how to use a password manager and she cannot figure it out, she has diminished cognitive capacity.

If she has already delegated you to be in charge of all her account logins, she’s basically already given you de facto control over them, already acknowledged she isn’t capable of of managing her own affairs.

Gather a bunch of other evidence that she has trouble with basic tasks, can’t reliably perform basic household activities, manage finances, whatever, approach a lawyer and get the power of attorney document(s) drawn up.

EDIT: // Holy shit, just saw your other comment:

Well I also cook everything, grocery shop and fix everything (basic electrical, plumbing, woodworking, installations, etc).

Yeah, you are already functionally her caretaker.

Depending on the state you’re in (assuming you are in the US) you might be able to actually get yourself certified as her caretaker without much or any actual input from her, before you pursue power of attorney. //

This solves the cut out problem.

…

After that, explain your solution:

Print out a big list of all those passwords and logins for her.

Meanwhile, you’ve got them all as well, presumably you can just use her password manager and have access to it.

If she resets a password and can’t figure out how to log back in, fix it back to something you know, but don’t let her use this account for one week.

After a week, print out a new list for her with the new password you’ve set.

If she resets another password while in a 7 day timeout period, well now it’ll be two weeks for both passwords to become available to her, etc.

This may sound like too much, but she’s a cognitively diminished entitled brat, who has already conditioned you into being a doormat who is expected to waste a seemingly endless amount of time and effort to solve problems she creates, problems that people without a live-in technical support agent pay hundreds of dollars to solve.

She will not learn if she has no impetus to. She’s obviously used the ‘tough love’ model on you, use it back on her.

If she complains about this, doesn’t matter, you have power of attorney, send her to an old folks home, sell the house and move to an apartment, or rent a room out if it or something.

‘Affirmative Voice’ is not really a thing, as far as codified English grammar goes.

They may mean active voice:

Active Voice: The soldiers shot the man.

Passive Voice: The man was injured by the soldiers’s gunfire.

Or they may mean to simply be affirmative, as in, polite, reassuring, informative, non-confrontational, etc?

Or, if you take ‘voice’ to be the more technical definition within the realm of phonetics, they could mean that you should be pronouncing consonants and vowels in a manner that they personally find affirmative…?

Anyone who is telling you to ‘use an affirmative voice’ is ironically being vague and not really demonstrating a great understanding of English themselves.

It would be less confusing if they said something along the lines of ‘phrase your questions in a non-hostile, affirmative manner.’

English does not have a formally defined ‘affirmative voice’ the way that it does with ‘active voice’, ‘passive voice’, ‘reflexive voice’, ‘reciprocal voice’, etc.

Fun fact:

Will Smith was the first actor approached by the Wachowskis to be Neo in the Matrix.

He turned it down to work on Wild Wild West, and the role of Neo went to Keanu.

Most home wreckers are self aggrandizing hypocritical narcissists, so… yeah.

Sonuva… I just wrote almost exactly the same story about not realizing you even can steal a newspaper as a kid.

A newspaper.

Did not know it was stealing… I was … maybe 7?

Up until that point in my life, I’d only ever been to stores or restaurants that had free flyers or small community newsletters.

First time I was in a similar small store, I assumed full, 30+ page newspapers worked the same way.

After being informed that full newspapers cost money, and I had stolen it, I returned it.

The store clerk did not even realize I had taken the paper, laughed, appreciated my honesty, and gave me a tootsie pop.

Is the C stick actually a second analog stick, or is it basically just an 8 way pad with a stick on top?

Huh.

I’m from the PNW and I’ve always pronounced it Apple-Ah-Shuns.

For Norfolk… I’d basically pronounce that as Nor-Fuck.

They marketed the headset as being able to replace the functions of basically everything an average person uses a laptop/pc, cellphone, and tv for.

People routinely use computers and tvs for many hours at a time.

People routinely spend hours on their phone and basically always have them in their pocket or nearby.

They showed people wearing the things in planes, to watch 2-3 hour movies.

Sitting down in their (strangely TV-less) living rooms to watch 2-3 hour movies.

Doing … some kind of work you’d do on a laptop, but easily being able to keep the things on, kick a ball around with your kid, and then seamlessly go back to working.

Wearing the headset as you are unpacking at a hotel, and then taking a video phone call with them.

Not the thing ringing, you putting the headset on, and then taking a call.

No, you’re just already wearing the headset, having just arrived in a hotel, implying you just had them on as you took your luggage up to your motel, like a hat.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IY4x85zqoJM

Taken as a montage, you certainly get the impression that you’re encouraged to just wear the thing all the time, anywhere, that its an ‘all-device’ that replaces a whole bunch of other devices, and is easily used/worn in many settings for long periods of time.