I’d love for high school students to be taught how to ID and manage narcissists and psychopaths but that’s not gonna happen either, unfortunately

When I first heard about TDS, I immediately assumed they were talking about the MAGAts. Then I was like, SOB, they already co-opted the perfect description for their own mental illness! It really is always projection with them.

Exactly right.

Hack. When used to describe anything that some idiot realized was possible. For example, “I just discovered this amazing hack to save on my grocery bills. I buy garlic and potatoes then bury them in my yard. Six months later, I have more garlic and potatoes! Epic!!”

STFU

Yeah, this one gives me a headache. Clearly the product of some marketing douchebag trying to sell the public on their LLM. Now repeated ad nauseum by talking heads on every media outlet around the world, to the point that every idiot believes there is actually some intelligence behind ChatGPT and the like. Repeat a lie often enough and the majority will believe it. The term AI is now so commonplace and misunderstood, that most people won’t understand the gravity of a bonafide general AI if-and-when it actually becomes a reality. It seems like the majority is so convinced of the “intelligence” that they allow these LLMs full control over their phones, computers, appliances, vehicles and homes. WTF. FUBAR. How does it happen that we allow corporate controlled media and advertising to redefine what words mean? Makes me wanna hurl.

Vice Grip Garage

RRC Restorations

Martijn Doolard

These are my happy places

Be aware that disabling this also disables categories in your email. It really sucks that they tied those together. But I need to get away from gmail anyway…

I feel ya. It is a lot of details. Some details are more important than others. The very demanding guides out there are maximizers. Not all of that is absolutely necessary, especially if you’re growing a faster species like Golden Teachers. Basically every mushroom grow is a race against contamination. Every batch will eventually show contamination. The better the methodology you use, the more time you get until contamination. Practicing and experimenting with your methodology will reveal what steps are important for your situation and species. There are many ways to manage contamination and each guide is just one way to do it.

I say, give it a go and do what you can to inoculate in a sanitary environment. I’ve had some luck with those pouches without a perfect SAB. Maybe 50/50 and it depends a lot on the strain you’re using. I’ve had better luck with inoculating straight to BRF cakes.

All I wanna know is when Bluetooth will stop automatically switching to a new device but not automatically reconnect to the original device.

I’ve ranted about this myself. Glad I’m not the only one!

Word. I’m missing Eternity. Connect is my 2nd choice and it isn’t nearly as good

Now I have ice maker envy 🙄

I tend to agree with that. But with the way customer service is going these days, its still a gamble. I like longer warranties if only because it seems like the manufacturer has some confidence in what they produced

If your roof is not shaded by trees, a light colored roof makes a huge difference. This can be accomplished a number of ways. Replacing your roofing material with a lighter color is ideal but expensive. Coating it with something like Henry Tropi-cool is durable but the product is also a little pricey. The absolute budget way to do this on an asphalt shingled roof is with a slurry of masonry lime. I’ve experimented with all of these methods and the results are dramatic. In my case the coating paid for itself within one season and made the house noticeably more comfortable.

Beat me to it. Take my upvote!

Same! Only get to Lemmy when I’m on the throne!

Everything you’re feeling is normal. Stay optimistic. We were in your shoes not that long ago and went through the same thing. Keep breathing, deep breaths, maybe take up some breath focused meditation for 15-20 mins a day. Or even some yoga can calm your nervous system. There will be unexpected setbacks but you’re going to work through it all and come out the other side just fine. Personally, I’ve had to redirect my attention to just tackling one thing at a time and keep plugging away so I don’t get overwhelmed with the magnitude of all the issues together.

How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Anthony Bourdain. Still have a hard time watching his shows. Haven’t yet watched the last season of Parts Unknown

What about the Mullvad browser? Seems to work well and is very privacy focused. I’m surprised no one else has mentioned it yet…

Maybe someone who works for an airline can explain this to me. Most other industries that rely on a piece of equipment to function, have backups on standby. The number of backups is a function of the failure rate of that specific piece of equipment. So let’s say you are a trucking company, and you know from experience that one out of twenty trucks on average will go down in a given week for some repair issue but it’s in your company’s best interest to keep the freight moving on time. So you have 5% of your fleet on standby across your shipping route to keep your business functioning. It doesn’t seem like airlines do this, or they do it very poorly and don’t seem to have any incentive to improve. What gives??