Iraq as a whole is struggling for income, because they can’t export their oil, thanks to Mr. Wonderful President Trump’s stupid war with Iran.

I think that teeth grinding thing tends to happen anyway as you get older.

My dentist said I grind my teeth because I snore, i.e. apnea, which is a serious medical condition that can affect brain health later in life due to oxygen deprivation during sleeping hours.

This affects your ability to get long-term care insurance here in the States, because risk of dementia, stroke, etc. is much higher.

If a housemate/roommate/spouse/significant other says you snore, you should get yourself checked out by a sleep clinic and be prepared to have them prescribe a CPAP device.

Back to the grinding, like an idiot, I didn’t follow my dentist’s advice from 10-15 years ago to get a mouth guard, and my molars have been ground completely flat, resulting in multiple root canals and implants right now.

So you’re doing the right thing getting that mouthguard.

Cheers.

It’ll probably think that humans are nuisances to its drive to make more paper clips, and ex-ter-mi-nate.

Nutty Putty. The answer is always Nutty Putty.

The orange ones are inkjet printer cartridge caps that go over the ink-dispensing ends.

Skipping meals now and then is energizing, I have found.

Skipping meals because you can’t afford food… That’s never happened to me, but I’d imagine it’s soul crushing.

You have Trump to thank for the bad rice harvest too, because a good chunk of that Middle East petroleum that is blocked because of the war that he started would have to making fertilizer.

If you think it’s bad now, wait until next year’s rice harvest…

On The Beach was adapted into a good movie in 1959

Climate change affects power generators.

When rivers dry up, it obviously affects hydroelectric generators.

But it also affects nuclear power, because they’re dependent on a constant source of cool water. If a river water level drops below the nuclear power plant’s water intake pipe, the plant has to shut down because it can’t cool the nuclear reactor vessel

I remember the good old days of Usenet before it was overrun by spam.

Lemmy feels similarly vulnerable because the mods and admins are human, but I feel like we’re flying under the radar only because we’re not big.

I mean sure, the Fediverse has defenses, such as defederation, and networking tools are much better than they were back in those days.

I’m not technical enough to know where the vulnerabilities are, but I still fear that determined, well resourced attackers could still make it unusable.

That’s a big “if” but one can dream…