popemichael

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I prefer it to real spam. Way less greasy with more flavors

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can the current president hunt the former president for sport now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Companies even do this if you have a 5g modem.

There is a 2 hour window at the end of the month in which I am miserable.

I'm at the tip of the US's Wang and have zero access to wired internet, so I am stuck. 😞

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Coincidentally, I just got a knock-off Soda Stream from Phillips. It's over $150 cheaper and works 2x-3x times better. I wanted to build something similar for a homemade soda bar concept, and discovered how truly cheap it can be to make soda and carbonated water at home. I was shocked at what a simple concept it is, and how much of a profit these sodas water companies make. Phillips even charging $50 for their system is a total rip-off.

Truthfully, I think the increase in quality in the Phillips machine is due to fewer parts is an "exception that proves the rule" as these in-bottle carbonators seem to work better with fewer parts. It's just a pressure hose connected to a co2 tank. Literally, all of $6 if you were to build one yourself from parts on Amazon (or $3 if you got he Alibaba route)

I truly believe that the fewer parts the better in any DIY or commercial product due to the less chance of a failure in a part if there are fewer parts. This works fantastically for the "lower quality" producing companies, like Phillips.

My inventive and engineering entrepreneur friends and I call this "fewer parts the better" concept, a "Murphy's law compensator" as the fewer parts there are, the fewer parts that can statistically "go wrong"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Dr Who

Before I watched the "New Who" episodes on the stern recommendation of an obsessed girl friend, I was extremely reluctant.

I just saw more and more friends and aquatences go into watching the series, normal as one can be.

Them, they watched the series on Netflix.

It changed them, giving them an almost unhealthy level obsessed obsession with the show.

I too had the same change, but on a much less level than some.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

It's challenging to cook when one lives alone. I came up with a frozen buffet system.

I make several main dishes, several side dishes, and several desserts. Subsequently, I divide the foods into portions that I would normally eat, then I freeze.

That way I can grab 2 or 3 items, microwave, and eat whenever I'm hungry.

Doing this, I only need to cook once or twice every shopping cycle.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

I believe that a lot of issues lile this would be solved with legalized sex work and the destigmaization of mental health treatments.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

I'd rather remain comfortable not buying games from Ubisoft and EA.

I refuse to waste a single dollar on every game from both companies, since we were all bent over and continue to get bent over because they just don't care about anything but making more money.

A good example from Ubisoft is the handling of the Driver series. They kept on releasing the games in the series in a near unplayable state before when most people had dial up.

A good example with EA was the failed DRM with Spore. They only let you install the game 3 times, which glitched out to the point where people had to turn to piracy (warez and crackz) to play a game they paid for.

We vote with every dollar spent, which gives me hope when people rally around good companies that do the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You don't need a custom ROM… That's like lobotomizing someone because their laugh is annoying.

Search for the "side button" or "side key" to change the options.

That said, the screenshot command is what I remapped it to. This is so I can screenshot on the fly without having to do gang signs on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Explosions&Fire and its sister channel ExtractionsAndIre

The person who makes these science videos does it in such an entertaining and funny way that you forget that it's a science channel. He uses homemade tools and chemicals to make explosions and fire and SO much more…

The best part is that he puts his videos up, no matter if he fails or not. In fact, he fails more times than not on ExtractionsAndIre. I've been watching him for years and years, and any day that he posts a new video is a wonderful day.

Undoubtedly, he's been my inspiration to muddle through chemistry experiments without the proper background nor proper safety equipment.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

No way in hell I'd trust just one backup method for my data.

A 6 TB drive is less than $100 on Amazon and two cloud backups is like $30 extra a year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just closed 47. All of them Amazon...

My best friend is having a babby...

Xmas...

Starting a small business and tools are needed...

I just moved to south Florida, and the bugs are the size of house cats, so I require a salt shotgun...

SO. MANY. HOLIDAY. DEALS.

Like I've never been a shopping addict, but I had a budget of about $1000 for all of that, and I blew through it QUICK.

I could see how it could be addictive, but I do know when to walk away.

 

My father just died in his sleep. He had passed by the time the paramedics arrived.

They still did their best, which I am very grateful for, but they even an entire trash bag full of used instruments that were stuffed under the bed for some reason

I'm glad that I found it sooner over later but it's mildly infuriating that they just discarded their medical waste under his bed.

(NSFW some blood)

I've been taking care of him for over 5 years and it's made things a lot harder for me, seeing all of that all over.

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