Qwyrdo @Qwyrdo@witches.town

@masklayer Where I am there are a couple ESL programmes; I think some might be free or sliding scale?

But Urdu => English is rather specific and I don't know where classes like that might be.

I'd probably start searching the web in Urdu for something like "English for Urdu Speakers".

Uhm... so my shopper:

1) Didn't know what tarragon was;
2) got me 4 things of fresh herb, not the one I was expecting.

o_O;

I guess... tomorrow? I'll have to go to the coöp myself to return the extra 3?

@theotix That's not how you wear glasses! 😮

@KitRedgrave @cryptovexillologist The real friends were the exoplanets we found via transit on the way.

@kittybecca Qapla'!

Uh, sorry, shopper: thyme is NOT a valid replacement for tarragon. 🙃

ATM I honestly can't tell if my nerve symptoms have improved or not.

That's the tricky thing with bulging discs, I guess? The pain might decrease, so you think you're better.

But you're not, if you still feel that electric tingle. And that can be hard to pinpoint.

Is it real, or is it just in my head?

@ThatVeryQuinn Ugh. I can relate hard to the questioning and desire to reconcile, to give 2nd (3rd & 4th) chances.

Things went bad between my penultimate ex & I once I realised she was gaslighting me & manipulating both me and our mutual partner. Exacerbated by chronic pain, in my case.

Mistakes were made, all around. I was avoidant. Our mutual was avoidant. We didn't address our problems & it blew up on us.

I'm sorry to hear things were, arguably, even ickier for you ∑:s

Ooof. That was a long talk with Giene. I love him but he almost always wears me out >_<;

One annoying thing about this right-side pain is that it requires me to shift my weight to my "bad" side.

This is messing with my walking game.

I am occasionally tempted to shave or otherwise alter my eyebrows so they have that Vulcan upsweep.

And yes, that beamed-over you is a *copy*. Which means you could be any number of places at once, provided suitable frames were available.

And if you can be copied as a gigantic data set, you can be *edited*. You could wake up with different skills, different interests, different memories. And unless the person(s) doing the editing are nice and tell you what they changed, you'd have no way of knowing.

@gobham I do believe I am C Major, according to Charpentier.

It just occurred to me:

If humans ever develop the technology to upload minds to machines, "travel" at light speed becomes possible.

Travel in scare quotes because it's not people or machines traveling, it's information.

You'd still need to send hardware out at annoyingly lugubrious speeds, otherwise there's nothing to "catch you" at the other end. But a fully mechanised mission could reach Alpha Centauri in roughly 80-100 years.

Once that station is in place and fitted with high-gain antennae, though? A copy of you could be there in just over four years.

(Con't...)