I’m with you on most of this except I’m the physical media person, and also run the Plex server for my f&f ;)
I’m going to be setting up a self-host game streaming server soon too, because I won’t -buy- digital-only.. but I will pirate it and throw some money at the indie devs when I can!
This shit is why I won’t buy anything that doesn’t have a physical copy.
I’m happy to rent stuff through a streaming app as long as it’s clear to everyone involved that’s what it is. But if I ever hit a buy button I would require access to it in perpetuity, the same way as a physical copy. But that’s not how that works, so if something is only available as digital media, and isn’t part of a rental platform, I’m not paying for it, end of.
(This mostly deals with games; I don’t spend money on much other media, but I refuse on principle and will pirate if it’s digital only. If it’s an indie studio I’ll donate directly when I can, but I’m not risking a financial loss like that. I can’t afford the risk.)
Exactly that; I spent essentially all of my time reading. In class, between classes, after school. I had no friends because I’d changed schools and was close enough to graduation to not be worth making new friends I wouldn’t keep contact with. So I read a lot. The librarians even gave me another card so I could inter-library-loan more stuff.
I used to get picked on a lot by my family because I was made of books (by hs I was going through 1000 pages a day on average), and often mispronounced words I’d never heard used..
In college I took a linguistics course and learned a similar lesson about speaking and both pronunciation and word choice, and how it’s not only highly regional and always evolving, but also influenced very heavily by native tongue and socioeconomic status (how many years of education, for example, or languages spoken at home), so judging people for being imperfect speakers or writers is pointless. They are doing this wildly difficult thing, communicating, and as long as what they are conveying is understood, it was a successful exchange! Yay!
This is precisely why I refuse to buy digital games. (And it extends to other media, but games are where I actually spend money)
I’ll pay for a rental service designed to be a rental service (ps+, for example) but will not buy individual games digitally. Who knows when they will become unavailable for some reason, and I can no longer download a copy. It’s bad enough when servers are shut down within 2 years of launch, but when the whole game gets pulled, then what?
I’ve decided I’m not even bothering with the next generation of consoles. So few things are even released on disc, with half the consoles being digital only, that it’s not even worth it. I’ll pirate instead.
Honestly if my friend did this I’d let her reorganize my kitchen.
She’s about the same height as me, and lives in a tiny place, so she’d probably have some good ideas.
Also my cabinets and drawers are a mis-match hodgepodge (they aren’t all the same depth or height; some of them have lost half their volume for unknown ancient-house reasons) so I’m always down for ideas.
The best popcorn is the popcorn you add weird toppings to.
Garlic and onion is my favorite, but you can use basically any seasoning shaker. I use a spray bottle of distilled water, spray on, add flavor shaker, done.
Super low calorie option that still tastes great. You can use oil if you want but it really doesn’t add much when you have actual flavors.
You can do the same thing with sweet flavors if you want, cinnamon sugar or drink powder mixed with sugar make for great sweet popcorns.
My former coworker got the exact same thing from chipotle every single day. Nothing wrong with him, just really liked his routine. Some people are like that.
Why can’t we fund both properly? Housing and healthcare? Maybe both should be a guarantee. Can’t really have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without food, healthcare, and housing security, after all.
It depends where you descale from and where the lead pipes are, but absolutely yes. In my case the lead is only feeding to the house and I would have my polyphosphate filter running about 15 feet after that so the only way it would seep back is long periods of stagnation or if the city pipes depressurized. Everything inside my structure but not going through the foundation (why I haven’t replaced it) is copper.
That’s basically what happened in flint Michigan. They changed the water supply which changed the ph, which de-scaled the lead pipes.
I have the reverse osmosis unit installed though for any consumed water (drinking, cooking, pets, anquariums) and that definitely would filter out lead. It’s as safe as I can manage here.
Same. My area is built into limestone. My toilets get crusty after a couple days.
I’m about to install a polyphosphate water softener cartridge before the whole house filters, to combat this. My pipes and appliances are scaled no doubt; I get a ton of sediment in my faucets.
Polyphosphate supposedly not only softens water but also descales everything it runs through over time, and it lasts a long time. (I plan to just refill the cartridge when it runs low, so it’ll be fairly cheap long term compared to a salt softener, and it’s the size of a standard single stage filter). Fortunately all the pipes in my house are copper, except the ones leading in which are lead but won’t be impacted by the anti-scale (and just in case I use a reverse osmosis unit for all consumed water, the water here tastes like shit so..)
I’m not like… in research or anything, but as a science communicator I really like to understand some of the nuanced stuff that I’m telling people about, and those dead ends are really frustrating because everything sort of hinges on that, doesn’t it? If that blank space is filled by something else the conclusion probably changes.. and that means the way I can talk about it has to change.
I could imagine it being much worse for someone who is publishing or working on a paper for publication. Especially when a lot of people don’t dive that deep and just accept it because the peer review process seems to have also.
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