rudyharrelson
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- Comment on Elevated 2 days ago:
Thanks for the link. My first question was, “What brand, what item?”
Per the FDA, the recalled item is Cabot Creamery Extra Creamy Premium Butter, Sea Salted. The butter, which is sold in 8-ounce packages, contains two sticks of butter in a cardboard box.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con may have the same stick drift problem as original Switch 1 week ago:
they make too much money off people buying replacements.
Didn’t they start offering free repairs at some point due to it being such a widespread issue? Or did they stop doing that at some point?
Between the damage to their reputation it would cause (knowingly releasing a very flawed product despite having already publicly apologized for it years ago) and the potential for more class-action lawsuits down the line, it seems like it’d be profoundly shortsighted for them to do this.
But maybe the profits from selling replacements outweighs all that in their eyes. I sure hope not. One would hope the profits from a considerably more expensive console and moderately more expensive games would be enough.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 week ago:
I definitely don’t want to downplay a crisis, but I feel like I’ve been seeing headlines saying “all the bees are dying and we don’t know why” every year for nearly 20 years now.
I’m no bee expert. Just seems to me, based on the headlines, bees would’ve been extinct 10 years ago.
Some cursory searching led me to Colony Collapse Disorder which, apparently, has no agreed-upon cause. Apparently devastating losses to honey bee colonies started being reported around 1900. But it also mentions:
In 2024, the United States Census of Agriculture reported an all-time high in commercial honey bee hives (mostly in Texas), making them the fastest-growing livestock segment in the country.[38]
Link to the source cited there: https://archive.is/nfeb2
Apparently last year saw the largest honey bee populations in US history. Though apparently that huge boom in honey bee population is a threat to other native pollinators, so I guess that presents its own unique problems.
- Comment on Sun God 1 month ago:
It doesn’t exactly unsettle me, but pondering the mind-boggling scale of celestial bodies and the cosmos can certainly be… humbling, I guess?
I had a co-worker a while back who couldn’t talk about the great scale of the universe cause he’d get freaked out. It didn’t come up much, but when it did, he’d be like, “Please stop, it’s stressing me out” so we’d change the subject.
- Comment on blocklist for AI music on youtube. 1 month ago:
I’m a big fan of this one:
“Somebody that I used to Know” by Linking Park
I’m sad to see that the original got taken down, but someone reuploaded it here.
- Comment on If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan? 2 months ago:
Based on your description, “pan” seems appropriate. I don’t think ratios really matter when it comes to this kind of terminology. You appear to be, to varying degrees, attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender.
- Comment on Our brains remembers at random cringe and awful things we did in the past to prevent us of doing them again. 2 months ago:
Much appreciated! I’ll give it a read.
- Comment on Our brains remembers at random cringe and awful things we did in the past to prevent us of doing them again. 2 months ago:
When those memories come up, choose a different response. Laugh at yourself. Forgive yourself. Love yourself.
Any recommended reading on this topic? Choosing a different response when these memories come up is really difficult for me, personally. Even when I acknowledge that I’ve grown as a person since then, the memories themselves still just feel jarringly awful.
- Comment on It's that time of year again 3 months ago:
I resolved to get back in shape last year after sitting on my ass for a good long while. Happy to say I’ve stuck to it and am in the best shape of my life at the moment (at least strength-wise; my cardio is still trash lol).
For anyone else looking to hit the weights, I started with a simple 5x5 workout. I didn’t bother downloading any apps or anything; I just keep a simple .txt file on my PC tracking my progress. Personally I’m not a fan of how hard the Stronglifts website tries to sell users an app and spreadsheets and such, but their guides are useful.
And I love Dr. Mike’s channel. He’s been consistently helpful ever since I started hitting the weights again. Gives great advice in my experience; super knowledgeable guy.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 3 months ago:
Regulations virtually always lag years behind technology, don’t they? In the interim period with absolutely no regulations, we must take it upon ourselves to protect ourselves and loved ones from being exploited.
Given just how wealthy the AI bubble is making some people, we may not see any common sense regulation for quite some time. Best to adapt to that reality imo. Gonna tell my friends and family to call me by my hacker alias, “X360N0_sc0peX” on the phone or I’ll assume they’re a bot.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 months ago:
It’s interesting to see some of the back-and-forth on this topic between different proponents of free software.
I listened to this talk by Linus Torvalds a while back and it relates to the GPL license used by the Linux kernel and why the kernel hasn’t changed to GPLv3. Apparently Linus doesn’t find this practice by Tivo and other hardware manufacturers to be an issue.
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- Comment on Mellencamp was right: "Life goes on...long after the thrill of livin' is gone." 5 months ago:
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- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 5 months ago:
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- Comment on The Beginning of the End 5 months ago:
