This is what I do. I use strawberry on desktop, and all of it is linked to ListenBrainz for recommendations

Never heard that term, but I now know how to find more things to enjoy, ty!

Oh, wild, didn’t know that. I hadn’t gotten into it when it came out.

I did kind of toy around with the idea of throwing Endless Eight into the rest of the series every couple of episodes instead of back to back if I rewatch. I was kinda tired of it by 6, plus I think the deja vu every couple episodes would be fun

I do still think the confusion was kinda fun, in a certain way. That does explain why episodes 16-28 were chronological though

I mean, the entirety of my interaction with my parents was:

Mom: Dumped me on her mom, and grandma

Dad: Left the state to chase tail

So, y’know. Short list of things not to do.

In terms of adults in general:

• If a kid is failing in school despite knowing the material, maybe something is wrong.
• Do not give an 8 year old unrestricted access to the internet when LiveLeak was a thing
• If a therapist says the kid has depression/anxiety, don’t bring them to another therapist just because one of the drugs that’s prescribed for that can cause suicidal ideation in some preteens
• If a therapist lets you stay in the room while the session is going on, the kid is 100% lying to everyone in that room, maybe even themselves
• Don’t stay in the room with the therapist
• Literally those last 3 points are what keeps therapy from working for me. I can’t trust therapists at all. DO. NOT. DO. THAT.
• If you’re religious, and your religion is anti-queer, your child can still be queer, they’ll just be miserable, and not trust you

I think that’s it, really. Aside one thing: They’re people, not property. Treat them like people, and you’ll have a lot better time with them.

Honestly I think having someone pull a giant mallet out and squish me like a pancake would fix me.

For comparability with each other, this table from Hagezi’s block list on github is a good reference

Honestly the difference mostly comes down to the software you use, from what I can tell. Generally if you use an extension it will be more comprehensive in the blocking, since some sites (like YouTube) serve ads from their own domains.

Also, the Adblock format is what’s used by a lot of the software that blocks ads at a DNS level, at least that consumers will use. Per the table it supports Pi-hole, AdGuard, AdGuard Home, eBlocker, uBlock Origin, Brave (only in aggressive mode), AdNauseam, and Little Snitch Mini, which is pretty comprehensive.

Aside that there’s hosts if you want to do it on a Linux desktop. I don’t recommend that, as you need to manually update the list every so often, though I’m sure it could be automated if you really want to.

Personally I just shoved one of Hagezi’s into AdGuard Home and called it a day. I check it about once a week to see what domains are getting pinged most, and block any suspicious ones.

Edit: No idea why the table condensed that much in the picture, removing it since it’s not really useful if you can’t see the whole table

Here’s hoping they put their money where their mouth is.

You can already do that, at least in America. This isn’t a hot take, I did a report on it 10 years ago in college.

It’s also not just fat! If you flush “flushable” wipes, don’t! They don’t disintegrate like toilet paper does, and just clump together with everything else

Lot of people are talking about Qobuz’s music recs, so figured I’d drop this here:

If it becomes a problem, ListenBrainz gives good recommendations. I use PanoScrobbler on mobile to sync listens. Only issue I can see is that it is owned by MetaBrainz (not affiliated with Facebook), which is an American company.

If you listen on multiple devices, you can also use gpodder (self-hostable if it’s a concern) to sync your listens. I use Kasts on desktop, AntennaPod on mobile. Kasts is on mobile too, but the UI on mobile is… Infuriating at best

“Hackers have unredacted the Epstein files!”

The hacking: Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, click into open word document, Ctrl+V

There are several books which are hundreds of pages while measuring in the single-digits in sentences, it’s one of my favorite genres. Commas, semicolons, and emdashes are your best friends

I mean, there is the added difficulty of most of them having a sloped top, though I guess if you did it from the back of the TV…

Personally, I like it being there. I don’t dislike it any more than I dislike romance in media. When it makes sense, it’s great! It can add a lot to a story. When it doesn’t make sense? It can completely take me out.

Some of the best stories I’ve interacted with have been heavy on the sex, but they’re also heavy on a lot of other things, including using the sex as part of the symbolism for the rest of the narrative. Hell I played a game where the overall theme (at least, that I got from it) was “Consent makes things better,” shown via repeated mutual noncon.

I’ve also read some stories where it was all porn, no plot, and got bored about 7 pages in. If I just want porn, video is what I end up going to, I’m reading because I want a story with it. I’m not about to sit down to watch a 1:30 porno either; I’d need a little more justification than “I’m stuck in a dryer, help!” to stay invested for 90 minutes.

I tend to feel like there are wider forces at play with how sex in media happens, though. Especially when you look at some of the stuff coming out of other countries, and how differently they treat sex? A lot of US movies treat the sex as disposable. You can remove the sex, and get the same story, and I think that’s my actual problem with it. I remember accidentally playing the censored version of one game, and then I replayed it uncensored, and it was a vastly different experience. Censored, one of the characters was just an absolute monster with 0 motivation beyond being a horrible person. Uncensored, though? I felt kinda bad for her. The sex scenes humanized her a lot in ways that the rest of the game just… Didn’t.

All to say, it’s a tool in a box. You can do a lot with it, but a lot of people don’t do much with it, and it bums me out.

Yeah… I actually sat down and listened to a more recent album on FLAC and 128kbps MP3 and realized I had no idea which was which, so I figured that either my speakers, or my ears weren’t HD enough to be worth the storage space xD Switched my entire library to MP3 after that

According to my device:

• September: 30mb
• October: 153mb
• November: 652mb
• December: 889mb

Not sure why September was so low, but I’m not surprised it’s <1gb/mo. I didn’t really have unlimited data until a couple of years ago, and I don’t really sit around watching videos out of the house. It’s mostly music, which my music is all downloaded on my phone anyway.

The spike in November is because I moved. I started walking to the store, and the internet here is less consistent, so I’m using my data more.

I only have an FDM printer xD You can still do a lot with it, though, especially if you’re willing to get a heat gun involved. Though after printing out the character in my profile pic, I did realize there’s a lot of small detail that gets lost with FDM.

Alas, though, small animals, a cat, and poor ventilation make resin printing a bad idea for me

While not exactly misinformation, your comment is presented in the same way as most fearmongering headlines.

Ionizing radiation causes cancer, It Is Known; it’s why there’s a limit on how many xray scans you can get in a year, and why they don’t give out a lot of types of scans without there being a clear benefit over the risk, which is what all of medicine is doing, because there’s always risk.

The way the comment is written is something that will stick in someone’s head as “CT scans are dangerous, I shouldn’t get one” which is where you cross into the territory of people downvoting.

With a lot of genetic diseases, lifestyle choices can definitely contribute to how early they’re contracted, or whether they’re contracted.

The reason it wasn’t mentioned is because they weren’t studying the mechanism of impact. The goal here was just showing the link between being vaxxed for other things, and having a lower risk for all forms of dementia; it wasn’t to show why vaccines lower the rates. My guess is lower inflammation rates, since inflammation does a lot to us

Edit: The next comment down (at the time of writing) also shows a link between inflammation/viral infections, and dementia