No Starfield? Oh noes!

That one moderator has just downvoted every comment here and is likely responsible for the single downvote on this post.

mOr bAns?!

Edit: Aww shit! Two downvotes! Popcorn time!

Yeah, there has been a wave of horrid memes on that topic, recently. I don’t give a fuck about vegans or their supposed oppressors or any associated drama. Just make decent memes and then everyone can have a giggle.

You get a ban and you get a ban! Everyone gets a ban!

There is another aspect to this that we have seen with banks and social media companies: Fines are just a cost of doing business.

They can do whatever they want on Reddit, TBH. However, pointing Lemmy users to Reddit is a bad move in a number of ways. I won’t be touching Reddit for this, as an example.

Using Lemmy as a place to shit out advertising for a site that gives zero fucks about selling data to Google kinda rubs me wrong, especially since this AMA is just thinly veiled marketing… for a privacy app.

While “having the most reach” is a good argument for a few reasons, it doesn’t negate how Lemmy was used in this case.

Edit: Don’t let my sentiment get in the way of yours. I have nothing wrong with ProtonMail or what its goals are. However, I will get a little defensive of Lemmy and why many people are here to begin with.

Tell everyone about Lemmy and host an AMA here, maybe? Using Lemmy as a billboard for Reddit is kind of insulting.

The proper metric to plan around is longevity, unless you absolutely need performance now.

Performance and cost should be divided by time. Do you think that bit of hardware will be able to support software for the next two years, or five? That is one way to “compute” value, anyway.

A 4090 will eventually be outdated and unable to run new software, but that may not happen for a good number of years. If you want to get super deep, start crunching the numbers on power costs too. It may simply become too inefficient to run, eventually. (Hell, it’s probably super inefficient now, actually.)

I almost always buy top-tier “last-gen” tech, right after “new-gen” is released when I am saving money. When I have the extra cash and it makes sense, top-tier may also be a good investment.

Be honest with yourself and determine what matters most to you and put your money there.

So if I just kick a hole in a wall at a friends house, it’s ok to pee into it as well?

So you started rubbing yourself down in cationic surfactants until you turned brown and started living in trees?

Yeah, not only is the first page and a half ads, its promptly followed by another page of AI bullshit. Maybe you get some search results after that.

Quickly reading that as “bat fight” had me quite confused for a second.

Drinking after a hard day always seemed to make the next day harder for me as well. Funny thing is that I still drank every day. Now I don’t.

Days can still be hard. Weeks can still be hard. However, I know it will always get better sooner if I don’t drink.

I won’t drink with you today either, friend.

You can’t really burn anything that is classified as a canned meat product. What I see is a decent char and is totally acceptable. Did you “burn” the cheese? That has a fancy name or something, so it must taste good as well.

I suspect there is a correlation with tech adoption. This chart isn’t the end-all-be-all, but it’s a start. (The years aren’t consistent on the attached chart, btw.)

That is probably some good theory crafting, but I have no idea as that is a level of psychology that is beyond me. (That sentence looks a little smart-ass, but it absolutely isn’t, btw. 100% curious.)

Personally, I can say is that I tend avoid foods that cause pain and may even subconsciously steer away from them too. I don’t actively seek out things like tomato sauce, but wouldn’t likely turn down a free spaghetti meal either.

I do also tend to prefer cereal and milk, generally heavy fiber types. Antacids are great, but sometimes, just giving my stomach something harder to break down works fine too.

Just stay away from nearly anything that uses “healing ions” in its marketing material. If it’s not a straight-up fake product, it’ll likely kill you in due time. (Ozone generators are an exception unless you get a beefy one like mine, and then it can actually kill you.)

Edit: lol! I have seen that video and made my comment about ions before I clicked it. Good video, btw. 5 stars.

For anyone else reading, baking soda can save you hundreds of dollars on regular antacids. One you get past the taste and train your body it brings relief, it’ll be tasting like champagne soon enough.

LPT: Baking soda and water can burn your mouth and lips after a time as well, so keep it fairly dilute. More is sometimes needed, but not always better.

Second LPT: Get a second small box of baking soda for heartburn use and keep it sealed in a Ziploc or something. It will absorb all kinds of stuff out of the air and end up tasting really bad. (Name-brand baking sodas tend to taste a little less fishy as well, but not by much.)

Sorry, I know more about baking soda now than I care to admit. It’s really a super interesting chemical, even in its simplicity.

Cool. I didn’t want to suggest a disassembly if someone didn’t realize that wire likely coming out of the top of the tube wasn’t there to be a convenient handle.

CRTs are one of the few electrical devices that scare me, actually. It’s not that bad, but I choose to maintain a healthy level of fear in that regard.

Thanks. Thankfully, mine isn’t that bad yet but it’s been getting worse over the years. Hopefully, the meds help push the curve of stomach decline past my time on this planet. It’s morbid to think about that way, but I am kind of a realist about that kind of thing.

(I can handle not being a drunk anymore, but I am not giving up my morning coffee. It’s worth any additional suffering.)