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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[News] Mangadex Staff FAQ Page About Recent Takedowns and Policy Changes⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a thing? I’m not part of any groups, just a weirdo that occasionally does a one shot or short series for practice (with horrific typesetting and redrawing because I am garbage at that and I have no e friends haha)

  I tend to just post them on a random wordpress site I made and they still usually find their way to mangadex and co with no promotion whatsoever which is weird

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[News] Mangadex Staff FAQ Page About Recent Takedowns and Policy Changes⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I self host. nas+komga+mihon beats mangadex/bato/etc every day

  I hope scanlators get back into the habit of releasing rips onto their sites, torrents, or some other direct platform instead of these sites that inevitably turn to shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the person, resilience factors, support, access, what the addiction is, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually do live in a somewhat rural area down the street from a dairy farm. I’m not in the Midwest though, I’m a dirty coastal elite in PA

  Institutional investors invest in rural real estate as well. It’s calmed down a bit since 2021 when they were really aggressive but they see farmland as a stable investment

  investigatemidwest.org/…/farmland-values-lose-ste…

  I do agree that zoning needs to be fixed and suburbia needs to end though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cast iron is generally safe but not entirely without risk. Old pans are sometimes made with lead and some newer cheap pans from sketchy sources are made with cadmium and/or lead

  Generally if you get like a lodge or whatever you’re fine though. Biggest risk there is that it leeches iron into your food, which is usually beneficial unless you have some uncommon health concerns

  A stainless steel pan are also generally safe but have similar issues: low quality pans and excessively scratched pans can leech nickel and chromium. 304 and 316 stainless ($$$) are more resilient against this issue. Stainless takes a bit more technique than cast iron for stuff like eggs and fish but it’s not that tricky (preheat pan, add fat/oil when hot, basically). It is also far more responsive to changing temperature (rather than retaining it) and much lighter so it’s easier to use for sautéing and such. Cast iron is superior when heat retention is needed: stews, soups, curries, roasts, etc

  Ceramic coated cookware is a mess. Some did use PFAS/PFOA and still does, some ceramics have lead and cadmium, and some coatings just suck. I got one pan to experiment with that was lead/cadmium/pfoa/pfas free but the nonstick properties dulled after 2-3 months of daily use. It was not scratched or chipped; I took care to not use metal implements or wash it with abrasives. I did use high heat at times though which potentially degraded it. It was like $50 too. Researching online after I see there are “good” ones for $80, fuck spending that on a single pan.

  I’ll stick with cast iron and stainless steel. Can use metal utensils, covers basically every scenario, and cheaper. To be clear, “well sourced” doesn’t mean expensive. A 10” lodge cast iron skillet is $20 online. A tramontina 12” 304 stainless frying pan is $35.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And then there are big brains with bidets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re artificially high because concentrated wealth is buying up the supply. As of 2024 as much as 25% of the supply is being purchased by institutional investors in some markets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A sleep test if you have the resources (health insurance and such). Most common cause for apnea is obesity but there are other potential factors like issues with tonsils, sinuses, septum, turbinates, and/or adenoids that wouldn’t require a cpap but other things like surgical correction

  Additionally lifestyle changes can make a huge impact especially if it is related to obesity

  Nowadays you often can do sleep tests for things like apneas at home, you usually dont have to go to sleep centers. It can be worth it to make your dad aware of this. Ive had older clients who were very avoidant of sleep studies before they found this out because before a few years ago it was far more common that sleep studies were a much bigger pain in the ass. Youd have to go to the sleep center and sleep there, hooked up to a bunch of machines, uncomfortable bed, not necessarily on your sleep schedule. Now thats really just reserved for certain sleep issues like narcolepsy and severe insomnia

  if you can’t get a sleep test and cpap the old school way to manage apneas was to sew a pocket to the back of a tshirt that held a tennis ball, which would force you to sleep on your side. Not ideal but better than dealing with the health impact of an apnea. Not to inspire fear but apneas are terrible for your health. They cause you to wake up briefly and return to sleep.

  This happens fast enough for you to not remember and as a result the “cycle” of sleep is interrupted. If the apnea is severe this can happen many times per hour or even per minute, causing you to never get restorative sleep. You “sleep” all night but feel exhausted all the time because you never enter the deeper cycles. Luckily it’s not an immediate danger at all but after years or decades the effects compound just like having a consistent extreme lack of sleep would

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In this instance at least the regulatory process is simple though

  Say what you mean, mean what you say.

  We can maybe have some nuance over lifetime being the lifetime of the consumer buying it vs the lifetime of the company although that has to be carefully worded to prevent situations like this. But it’s probably somewhat fair that if your company completely fails the product is done. This should be clear that the company has to completely fail, not a “apple sells lifetime subscription and decides the product isn’t viable so they kill it” situation or “subsidiary company of google fails and google could easily partially refund the lifetime subscription fees as the parent company” situation

  But I would argue it’s not as much about legal complexity here but about regulatory capture. There are really two forces on this issue: businesses looking to keep a lack of regulation and continue utilization of vague misleading language, and consumers that would benefit from regulation against said language.

  The businesses are aligned, obviously have vast resources, can influence propaganda on the matter, and can lobby lawmakers directly.

  The consumers are fragmented because of the propaganda and a lack of education on the issue, they don’t have strong representation among lawmakers, they don’t have resources, etc. they are scattered unless someone decides this specific issue is annoying enough to get up in arms about and make some kind of action network over, gathering people and support. While it is a serious problem there are just so many serious problems facing consumers and Americans right now, so why focus on this?

  And thus, our regulatory bodies yet again fail us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That shouldn’t matter

  If we had the most basic of regulatory practices over businesses in this country, especially the tech industry, this practice simply wouldn’t be allowed. Even the bullshit doublespeak “life of the product” version

  Lifetime means lifetime. If you can’t honor that don’t offer it. If you go back on it you should be harshly penalized.

  Looking at you t mobile, rolling stone magazine, filmora, Dropbox, salesforce, mcafee, etc

  This should also include if you remove features from lifetime subscriptions and make them contingent on paid monthly subscriptions (looking at you adobe, Evernote, and probably plex in 3-5 years)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life is Strange road-trip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cooool

  I recently played through 2 and true colors. I have the lost records game too. I haven’t gotten dual exposure yet because I know if I’m patient enough it will be free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it were up to me copyright would be nonexistent for non commercial use. Who gives a shit if someone makes a fan project of your precious idea

  Commercial use I don’t know but far less than lifetime. Disney has fucked our brains with propaganda here. Creative processes flourish by remixing and making derivative works. That’s literally how Disney got to where they are. Realistically if you can’t make money in the first 10-20 years of release how likely is it that you will ever make money? Should we really stifle artistic freedom for the 0.0001% of creators that make something and take 30 years for it to catch on?

  Not to mention that this doesn’t mean your gravy train is cut off. If people buy your book or cd or whatever after 21 years you still make money. We could even make a compromised law that derivative works are okay but as long as you’re alive commercial use of the original work is protected, eg if someone wants to just sell a copy of your book or use your song in an ad you can demand payment or stop them? Although this is stupid because then you get into the pissing match of what defines the boundary of a derivative work

  And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

  Like what’s at my local theater right now:

  Thunderbolts: milking the marvel IP still

  The accountant 2: never heard of the first one but it deserved a sequel, apparently

  Minecraft: not a sequel or remake, at least, but cash in license nonsense to print money from kids and nostalgia bait the older zoomers that grew up attached to ipads

  Final destination: bloodlines: good thing there’s not already like 8 final destination movies that are progressively shittier

  Lilo and stitch: not the original, a live action remake. Fun fact: the writers guild doesn’t cover animated films so when Disney remakes these classic animated movies as live action they can reuse the same story and screw the original writers

  Mission impossible: the final reckoning: I bet this isn’t the final reckoning

  How to train your dragon: live action remake, probably using the same Disney loophole to fuck over writers

  Interestingly they’re also showing a mystery horror movie Plus some others that to be fair seem like original IP: sinners, shadow force, the last rodeo, ballerina

  Then a bunch of classics like one flew over the cuckoos nest and raiders of the lost ark

  7:4 garbage to original. 64% “we’re out of ideas”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or, hear me out, if we had more reasonable copyright and IP laws the permission wouldn’t be necessary for a completely dead 28 year old game that fans spent a great deal of effort reviving with no help or financing from the original rights owner

  If the person who holds the code refuses to give it out because they are a jerk then so be it I guess but the law should not stop them from doing so in this scenario. It is absurd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the decompilation project created a bunch of interest and now Lego will capitalize on their tremendous effort because they own the IP and can shit out a port? awesome, super fair

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to say. Consoles have certainly gotten more sercure and people finding vulnerabilities are far less likely to just give them out for free these days

  But there is incentive to hack any console and nintendo has historically attracted the biggest dorks. Additionally they also seem to historically make pretty huge blunders, though the switch exploit was nvidias fault tbf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI absolutely is the new search but only because the major search engines normal people use have completely destroyed their core products functionality for advertising revenue

  AI will likely follow suit. In 5-10 years chatgpt or bard or whatever will give you a completely and obviously biased response promoting a product or service with a sponsored interstitial that is labeled as sponsored before you get the answer to make it seem like the obviously biased answer isn’t a gamed response

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I am murdered please don’t do this. I do not care if you feel like it will help you process the events

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even here I’ve posted about how advertising is a destructive force that ruins everything it touches and literally should not exist and there are people that are so indoctrinated by the industry that they rush to defend it

  “But how will small businesses prosper without the ability to annoy you with direct mail marketing and Facebook campaigns!”

  And truly misunderstanding the difference between something like a business directory, that you willing submit yourself to as a consumer, and can be listed and compiled objectively without competitive advantage for rich assholes, vs advertising, which intrudes on your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hint books were an experience back then. I remember the hint book for myst had this whole narrative about some other person who got trapped in the book, which was supposed to be like the player. It was this whole story of how they solved all the various puzzles. I remember it being quite long but I was also like 9 so maybe it was just like 10 pages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More like the focus group thought the masks were “super gay fauci shit” so home depot went with “guy wearing $2 safety glasses that don’t even have a dust seal”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone give me money so I can find out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had a gold leaf thing, aside from a shot of goldschlager, but I have wondered this

  Maybe the next time I make a dessert I’ll pick up some flavorless, odorless gold to really take my treat to the next level. What a stupid trend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Plans Split iPhone Launch Strategy: Pro and Foldable in Fall 2026, Standard in Spring 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  gonna be wild to see what this thing costs with tariffs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All those old games were so punishingly hard

  You’d play leisure suit Larry or whatever and get 3/4 of the way through and get stuck. Then you’d check a walkthrough and realize you didn’t check the trash can on the first screen of the game for a key item and now you’re fucked and literally have to start over from the beginning

  Or you’d get to a death condition and get a screen that just mocks you: remember to save early and save often!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, basically every game that runs on scummvm is a good candidate here: leisure suit Larry, kings quest, police quest, the dig, sam and max, Indiana jones and the fate of Atlantis, all the sierra and lucasarts ones

  Myst series is another good one. Journeyman project trilogy. These all ruled when I was like 12 years old

  I miss when games were confusing and aimless by default. I know there are still games like this but I feel like the default now is a game that’s like “oh hey, go down this hallway full of locked doors! Except one door is unlocked, that’s a secret area, good for you! But otherwise go down the hallway to the next hallway!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peepee poopoo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to send out my reminders by hand and made it very clear, pretty much what you wrote

  I don’t know why you would emulate a script

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cognitive dissonance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people supposed to have secure/private communications in the digital era?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean for their medical records? Like I would write their medical records into an encrypted file that they hold the key for?

  This is an interesting idea but it would be reliant on the client self funding services. I also don’t know if it would be legal because I am not a lawyer and generally the government wants access to your data

  The other aspect that I absolutely glossed over here which was probably a bad idea is that payers retain the right to your records for auditing purposes to ensure their funds are not being wasted (which is a whole textbook of issues).

  The vast majority of time this transmits data that is typical for medical services and is somewhat minimal - time and date of service, CPT code(s) (aka what kind of service was rendered, diagnosis code(s) relevant to service, who the service was for, charge rate for the service (how much money I bill). The stuff you see on an explanation of benefits. Insurers don’t typically see actual progress notes.

  However, they reserve the right to do so in a few instances: if you file a grievance against the clinician, if they feel the clinician is doing something wrong, or if they simply decide to do a random audit (this is astoundingly rare with commercial insurers but happens much more routinely with government funded plans like Medicare and Medicaid).

  In the first instance it’s generally a good thing; the insurer is acting as an advocate for you because the clinician did you harm in some way. In this instance the insurer is actually one of the best people you can have on your team. They don’t actually care about you but they are aligned with your mission; if they can prove clinician malfeasance they can usually recoup tens of thousands of dollars of insurance payments going back years.

  The second two are where things are muddier. When that insurance ceo got got a light was shone upon the ugliness of these systems for a brief moment but now no one cares again. Audits are increasingly being triggered by automation: if you are an outlier in terms of utilization then you run the risk of getting your therapist’s practice raided by Optum. Insurance regulations are contractual, not legal, and are often conflicting and obscenely complex. They are written in such a way that it is essentially guaranteed that if complex cases are audited they will find issue with dozens of notes. And the law is on the side of the insurance: they can go back years and rescind payments

  So what can end up happening is that you come to therapy from a hospitalization. You aren’t doing well. You see me twice a week because of this for 4 months. You do better. We see each other for another 6 months weekly. You regress, and we go back to twice weekly for 4.5 months. You have optum insurance (a subsidiary of United, but they aren’t the only ones who do this), and their internal systems flag you for high utilization of services

  They contact me and tell me that is anomalous and as a result they will be doing an audit of records. They don’t just audit you though, they audit anyone I work with who has optum for the last 3 years. Any note that has even a minor issue: did I not make use of an intervention clear enough? Did I forget to change the session times to actual times from the default 5-6pm? Did we have a session where you were doing poorly and it was more just me listening to you vent and process? All those are retroactively rejected. Now my practice suddenly owes optum thousands of dollars, sometimes tens of thousands. I’ve had colleagues with group practices where this ends up being a 20-30k bill due in 15 days or their contract is voided and all their optum clients are fucked.

  The problem is self funding services is a mixed bag. With overheads even as a telehealth only practice the minimum I can charge for a livable wage of about 50-60k a year is a sliding scale of $45-60 and frankly that only works because I have about 50% of a caseload that’s commercial insurance clients that pay double that. Even with that 45-60 is a huge ask for a weekly or biweekly service, 90-240 a month is a tremendous expense for most people. Therapy should cost nothing, or maybe like $10 a session at most, but if I charge that I will starve. I don’t know a resolution here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people supposed to have secure/private communications in the digital era?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is funny but in serious mode many of my clients have pretty bad religious trauma and the protections for lawyers and priests and stuff fall apart if they were used fraudulently so even if I just got it and never said anything to my clients it probably wouldnt actually work

  This is a bullshit law. You should be able to speak to therapists and medical staff freely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people supposed to have secure/private communications in the digital era?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but I don’t think the answer is to be dishonest to you about the reality of the situation

  I do believe our government has failed us here and that therapy should be protected communication the same as speaking to a lawyer, for what it’s worth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people supposed to have secure/private communications in the digital era?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is legally impossible to have a truly private conversation with a therapist, any therapist should explain this to you. The only relationships where records cannot be subpoenaed are conversations with a lawyer and confessionals with clergy. This is bullshit but it is where the law stands

  Any therapist who practices ethically should make this very clear to you prior to engaging in treatment

  Any therapist who has their records subpoenaed should question the subpoena and only release records if absolutely and truly necessary.

  We have not really had situations where a therapists records are being subpoenaed to justify disappearing an individual and the therapist simply acquiesces in the modern context. If so, I’d love for you to point me to a case where such a thing happens. 95% of subpoenas for therapist records are for custody battles, divorce proceedings, and disability claims. The remainder (which is probably a smaller number) is generally related to criminal cases where a defendants competence is trying to be determined. In these cases the records are often being subpoenaed by the defense to establish a lack of competency.

  I will openly concede we appear to be heading towards times that may very well test the moral code of the therapist community in regards to this issue. To further complicate things unlike during WW2 there are now many paths to circumvent a clinicians resistance. If I for example flat out refuse to release a transgender clients records, or alter them, the government will likely go after the vendor of the software I have used to store my records for the past 6 years. I am all but sure they will acquiesce. The overwhelming majority of clinicians are in the same position as me. Many are not independent and don’t even have autonomy over their records; a subpoena may come and they never see it. The agency simply releases them because it is run by executives that do not want to interrupt revenues. It is a scary time