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Yeah, I’ve been here a while now, and Lemmy absolutely feels like old Reddit, before the bots and corporations took over.

I also have issues with the fact that major pharmacy brands like Walgreens and CVS put homeopathic remedies right alongside real meds. Make sure to actually read the labels on medicines, because lots of them are pure placebo. Zicam is an extremely popular cold medicine that claims to shorten the duration of a cold or the flu by like 50%, and it is completely homeopathic. There are lots of homeopathic labels scattered throughout the pharmacy, so checking the labels is extremely important.

If you ever see something on the ingredients label like “{ingredient} X6” then that means that ingredient has been diluted 6 times. Homeopaths claim that more dilution makes the med stronger, like how fresh water is better able to dilute salt water. But many are so diluted that there likely isn’t any of the medication remaining.

Yeah, the move from software to hardware processing is what will make the biggest difference. Software processing is very resource intensive.

I think a fix for that is forthcoming.

It’s very specifically not forthcoming. The Sonarr devs actively refuse to implement it. They say that if you’re getting bad releases, you should simply use better trackers that don’t allow viruses. It’s pretty tone deaf, but every single “delay searching until an episode has officially released” request immediately gets rejected.

The “fix” is to set a file type blacklist in qBitTorrent, and run Cleanuperr to automatically delete “empty” (completely blocked by the filter) torrents in your list. It’s a workaround, at best. But it’s the best we have because the Sonarr devs think everyone has the time to babysit their private trackers.

Or just set a “.arj” file exclusion in qBitTorrent’s built in blacklist, (Options>Downloads>Excluded File Names) and use Cleanuperr to automatically delete+blocklist+repeat search for the torrent.

Basically, if Cleanuperr detects an “empty” torrent (because every file was excluded when it was grabbed) then it will automatically delete the torrent from your list, blocklist the torrent in your respective arr client, then retry the search.

The generosity of a $100 tip entirely depends on context. Waffle House? Yeah, it’s generous.

But there are plenty of high end places where plates cost $400 each, the wine can easily be $5000 per bottle, and a $100 tip wouldn’t even cover the wait staff’s tip-out at the end of the night. I have 100% seen billionaire propaganda about “Mark Cuban tips waiter $1500, look how generous he is” when it was just a standard 15% tip on a $10k bill.

I was going to make a “DEIsm is woke, DEIsm is getting abolished, etc” joke… But it’s impossible to create a parody so extreme that some users won’t mistake it for the genuine thing. Poe’s Law is in full effect here.

if anything it's actually safer than when we went to school

Gun violence is the #1 cause of child mortality in the US.

When Americans complain about everything being car-centric, this is exactly the kind of shit they’re complaining about.

My grocery store is a mile away, but I can’t legally walk there. There are no crosswalks to get to the store. If I’m going to fully obey the law as written, I must use a car just to go to the store.

It actually addresses this. Chandler was in a high paying job and lived below his means. And Monica’s (much larger, much nicer) apartment was rent controlled; The apartment complex still had her grandmother on the lease from the 1960’s, so Monica was essentially only paying a small increase in 1960’s rent.

That rent control was the topic of one episode, where Joey yells at the maintenance guy. In response, the maintenance guy threatens to tell the landlord about Monica’s grandmother being dead, meaning Monica would need to start paying full price for the apartment. Monica can’t afford the rent, so Joey has to do a favor for the maintenance guy and get back into his good graces.

Before the internet was widespread, it was extremely common for people to actually hang out in person. The show is set in an era where the internet was something you went out of your way to connect to, not something that was already integrated into every single device you used.

Especially since they all lived so close together, it’s 100% believable that they’d hang out together regularly. People also forget that the show takes place over multiple years, and we only see 20’ish episodes per year. Assuming each episode takes place across two’ish days, they’re still only seeing each other two or three times per week. If I lived across the hallway from my best friends, I’d probably hang out with them a few times per week too.

This is especially true from Chandler and Joey’s perspectives, where Monica’s kitchen is only like eight steps away from their own kitchen. Why bother cooking yourself breakfast, when there’s a professional chef willing to do it for you, and all you have to do is open two extra doors?

Ross wasn’t a grad student; He had his doctorate. Initially he worked at a museum of natural history, then eventually got fired (for screaming at his boss) and went to work at the university as a professor. Either way, in the mid-90’s, he would have been comfortable.

I don’t think Chandler is super rich, but he’s definitely comfortable. He doesn’t have the money to outright replace their furniture when it is all stolen, for instance. They end up using lawn chairs (and a canoe) as their living room furniture for a while. But yeah, he definitely lives below his means, because he always has money to pass off to Joey whenever he needs it.

Again, I think “worse” is pretty subjective. It was just different.

The first game’s parkour was extremely arcade’ish. The grapple being a Batman-style direct zip-to-point, that bypassed fall damage/gravity/objects in the way/etc, for instance. Once you unlocked it, fall damage became a complete non-issue because you could just grapple the ground and negate all fall damage via the zip-to-point. The only reason you’d ever take fall damage was because you fucked up your timing, and the only reason you’d fail to reach something was because you missed your grapple point.

The second game tried to dial back some of that arcade feeling. The grapple being a simple tug instead of a direct zip line, for instance. It just pulled you in the direction of your grapple hook, instead of zipping you directly to it. This meant it was still useful for mid-air navigation, but didn’t completely outshine the rest of the parkour mechanics like it had in the first game.

I disagree that DL2 was awful. It was different, and that pissed a lot of players off. But it wasn’t bad. My friends and I had a ton of fun just running around, blowing up Volatiles. The story was hot garbage, but you don’t play the series for the story.

I was amazed that I could see the leaves on trees as we drove home. Apparently that’s an extremely common experience among people who just got glasses.

Was gonna say… Every local store near me has literal pallets of rice available.

Musk’s daughter, and Trump’s son.

Notably, Musk’s daughter is sort of the black sheep of his family; Musk used IVF so he could selectively only have male children, and she is openly trans. She has a significant social media following, largely due to the fact that she has repeatedly put her father on blast. She deserves better.

There’s also the issue that infrared and UV light is extremely damaging in some cases. Our retina actually can see well into the ultraviolet spectrum, but the lens has a UV filter that blocks anything above violet from passing through. That filter can be overwhelmed though, which is why staring at a black light can be just as painful as staring at a bright lightbulb in the visible spectrum. People who have aphakia (missing the lens in their eye) can see into the UV spectrum.

That UV filter in your lens exists because seeing into the UV spectrum doesn’t offer a large reproductive benefit when compared to its drawbacks. Ultraviolet light is extremely damaging to cells. Especially when those cells are designed specifically to be sensitive to light. Developing retinoblastoma when you’re 8 years old (because the cells in your eyes have been repeatedly damaged by the UV light, and have turned cancerous) means you don’t survive long enough to pass on your genes.

That’s a shame, because the series truly shines with multiplayer. It turns a grindy incremental loot game into a reason to hang out with friends.

Probably a tenth of my friends list on Steam came from joining random public Borderlands games, and just hanging out with whoever happened to be playing.