AlligatorBlizzard @ AlligatorBlizzard @sh.itjust.works

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I was assuming you were talking about B Dylan Hollis until you got to the name of the channel.

Who took this picture of me hauling ass over the icy sidewalk to catch the train the other night?

Found the Minnesotan, lol.

I'm honestly astonished they don't require payment info on file to collect them by this point - initially it's a way to bribe people into making an account, and now they could bribe a bunch of people into giving payment info and lowering one more barrier to actually buying from them.

Heroic is also on Windows and Mac. It works with GOG too so that's one less launcher necessary.

I didn't until I started using a VPN.

I've never seen captchas like that before, I wonder what kinda weird shit the next generation of captchas will be once we've trained the machines to solve these?

Gregorian chanting is fire tho

Sled Storm. I picked it up again recently and it's still a lot of fun. The racing is competent but probably nothing exceptional, although apparently it was one of the first snowmobile racing games so maybe it doesn't belong on this list? The tracks aren't super open, they're more like Mario Kart tracks with shortcuts which my family always liked, you couldn't really get lost. I played so much couch co-op with my family in that game.

10/10 soundtrack though, it introduced me to Rob Zombie's music as a kid. (Funny story, the only Rob Zombie film I've ever seen was the Devil's Rejects in a Waffle House in rural Florida at 3am on an employees' shitty laptop.)

Damn it BP, clean up your oil spill! Look what you've done to the wildlife!

Unfortunately, because it might be the only way to learn about an alternative treatment that wasn't advertised to your doctor.

This was almost exactly my situation and I'm still in favor of banning pharmaceutical advertising to the public because those same ads that drastically improved my life have harmed millions of others.

I'm a transgender man, with a moderate needle phobia. I transitioned over a decade ago, and back then testosterone gel was basically never used for transition (the cost was significantly higher and insurance coverage was almost non-existent back then - I did have insurance coverage though) and there was misinformation around it in the trans community in the rare instance gel was discussed - but the only reason I or pretty much anyone else knew it was an option was the obscene deluge of ads for it. I asked my doctor about it and she figured out the dosing for me. It's been a fantastic choice for me for a lot of reasons beyond just the needle phobia issues.

But testosterone replacement therapy, and Androgel specifically, is a case study in exactly why you don't want this kind of widespread direct to consumer marketing. Androgel basically created a market for their drug through this marketing. Men in their 60s complained about not feeling like they were in their 20s anymore (without any other negative symptoms of low T) and demanded a medication that could have increased their risk of cardiovascular issues and forced them onto the medication permanently, and they didn't even feel 20 again because they're not 20 anymore.

No, because eyeballs are meat grapes.

A grizzly glizzy guzzler?

Sure, but I wouldn't expect an elderly user to be one of the people with the natural ability to nuke their OS.

I've daily driven Bazzite, an immutable distro, since July, and I haven't seen the kind of Flatpak issues they talk about - or frankly any major issues, this whole experience has been way easier than Windows ever was with updates (it took me a few minutes to figure out Proton and Heroic launcher though). I didn't know about the new Fedora update until I booted up and my lock screen was different. My experience is that Bazzite (and likely all of the other uBlue Fedoras) is fantastic and absolutely ready now.

That said, nothing is more stable than something like Debian. Unless you've got some hardcore gamer grandma I think the immutable distros are a solution to a problem not present in OPs hypothetical.

Yup.

Less glare was nice, but the main goal was getting rid of my afternoon headaches.

Just going to be the one to say it...

Ew, HP.

I thought it went into early access a few years ago?

Yeah, it's got a steam release date of 2021 and it's still in early access. That said, I also bought it early this year or late last year and have played a lot of it too.

(IDK where I'm going with this other than to say that anyone with even a passing interest in the genre should get Timberborn, it's fantastic and just getting better.)

That can kinda be arranged, actually. Something that came up during one of Caitlin Doughty's videos is a nature preserve type place in Florida that they protect by burying people there to decompose naturally. I'm not going to look for more info about this on Christmas though, lol.

Someone tag the vegan atheist Lemming who uses Arch, btw.

I got the fluvid shots yesterday because I needed to quit putting them off. I'm usually in for a rough couple of days even with just the flu shot, but apart from my arm being really sore I'm pretty much fine today.