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The maintenance on the steel hull would require a return to territorial waters, at which point you'll need registration (read: taxes). The tender you use to resupply would also require registration and often insurance to enter into marinas.

No, I don't keep secrets from my partner. But we do hold each other's privacy as sacrosanct, which requires a balance. We are monogam-ish and currently want things to stay that way. When one wants monogamy, the implicit corollary is assumption of all responsibility for a partner's sexual satisfaction. The "mono" and "-ish" parts require maximum reasonable transparency, communication, and self-awareness so that we are all fulfilled and and informed.

Through a few decades of dating and many imploded relationships, I have found that being open with my partners is the surest way to get exactly what I want. And I'm seriously twisted and pervy.

Squid, my deepest empathy for your medical journey ain't worth shit, but you have my empathy regardless. Without boring anyone with unrelated detail: I've been there. Kudos for your self-advocacy.

So I wrote a very long and angry email to the patient advocate

This right here, everyone. This person's entire role is to cut through red tape. In my experience, the patient advocate is the Winston Wolf of their hospital departments.

As an aside, Flying Squid, I always appreciate your contributions to the Lemmy community, even when I disagree. Thank you for being you.

The Blue Dot Effect (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap8731) demonstrates that when stimuli, especially negative stimuli, become rare, human brains broaden the accepted criteria for those stimuli.

Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their concept of it. When blue dots became rare, participants began to see purple dots as blue; when threatening faces became rare, participants began to see neutral faces as threatening; and when unethical requests became rare, participants began to see innocuous requests as unethical. This “prevalence-induced concept change” occurred even when participants were forewarned about it and even when they were instructed and paid to resist it. Social problems may seem intractable in part because reductions in their prevalence lead people to see more of them.

From my maritime first responder training: "You're not dead until you're warm and dead."

When the bridge was designed, cargo ships were much, much smaller.

You're in for a treat! I hope you enjoy them as much as my partner and I do! Both the audio and print books get read at least once a year.

Yes, someone please come free us! I am being held hostage by Windows and Autodesk Inventor.

My coworker and I made our own Sriracha and kept a bottle in the work fridge. It was labeled and dated. The lunchroom thief was raiding our Sriracha, which was no big deal in and of itself. The dick move was that this person would make a mess on the outside of the bottle and not wipe it off. So we put some one million SHU capsaicin extract in the bottle, which we enjoy, but melts the face on most people who aren't dumbasses like us.

Total fail: it turned out the thief also preferred the hotter sauce.

If you haven't read Ross Gay's "Book of Delights," and "Book of (More) Delights," do yourself a sweet, happy favor and read them soon. They are an eyes wide open refreshing change from just about everything else, all without resorting to Pollyanna naiveté.

If you're into audiobooks, he narrates these two, which is some icing on the cake.

And we took it back!

I'm on board with the atheism and apathy parts. What is the simple logic problem of which you speak?