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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is giving only formula long term "healthy" for a baby?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was fed formula. I have no allergies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We are in agreement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a historian, but wasn’t that boom hugely from war profiteering and the fact that none of the bombs went off in the USA? Our factories were all spun up and ready to go while most of Europe was rebuilding. Oh, and the decimation of German and Japanese industrial or technical powers.

  But to your point, many graphs showing how much wages have flattened disproportionate to production do show that the period in question was a better time for the average worker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t update my db often enough to need syncing. Maybe every other week or so I just pull the latest backup from my desktop from backblaze b2 to my phone, or if I change something on the phone, I send a copy to myself using signal “note to self.” Then I manually merge the databases.

  Pretty low-tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Format your cells to be text and there should be no data related behavior like you describe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though development seems to have ceased for a few years now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because a rock falls down doesn’t mean it “naturally follows” that some rocks fall upward too. There is no way to invoke a system that stores excess energy as fat if there is no excess. Could some energy that is actually needed get stored as fat? Okay, but… Not for long, as the body would need energy, since it isn’t getting calories. Unless it is getting calories from food.

  I went from 175lbs to 125lbs in four months during divorce proceedings. My metabolism didn’t change. I wasn’t on a new miracle drug. I was depressed and didn’t eat, and I took up running a 3.2mi circuit around the bay where I live.

  To your point, I bet OP’s diet would help you bulk up, just not likely with muscle. Chow a few gallons of ice cream each week. Eat American fast food three to ten times a week. Put cheese on everything. Ignore the “added sugars” part of the nutrition label. My weekly intake fits in a single shopping bag. I doubt OP can say the same. They weigh 2.5 times my weight.

  Willpower is much harder to muster for a whole year, and its exceedingly difficult to avoid bad calories in this country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And our bodies are just machines. We can’t create fat if were using the calories we consume. I don’t really get anyone who “tries” to lose weight for years. If you keep putting more food in your body than you need, your body converts it to fat. The idea of since “strange reason” that a body won’t lose weight is silly. There’s just no way for a body to keep weight on unless they are taking in more calories than they are using. So if OP can’t bear to eat less, they need to get really active. There really isn’t a mystery here. Its math. If you only add to the equation, the figure only increases. This is a willpower issue. … Or maybe we found the one obese American whose body defies caloric mathematics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Charge backs aren’t just granted arbitrarily though. I spent almost $1k on getting my wheels refurbished. When I got them back, they had done more damage rather than repair them, and now the wheels cause major vibration.

  Visa denied the charge back because a “service was provided.” Despite the owner telling me on a recorded call that he’d never refund me or make it right, and sending over forty pictures of before and after. I’m out the money and Visa couldn’t care less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw the same “barely” articles you mentioned that reference the CST as a source. They didn’t actually describe the event the way your discussion partner did. She supposedly stepped in front of his car, and his grabbing her arm seems more out of frustration. He didn’t save her from an accident. He was the driver of the car that would have hit her. He avoided an accident, got out of his car, grabbed the girl and “lectured” her. Seems like a slightly harsher consequence than necessary, but it does sound like an assault of some degree.

  That said, I help people – and even in public!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes, childhood memories feel like faint memories from a past life.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you know what that feels like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol! I’m glad you picked on that. I won’t badmouth them, but the user experience does that for them. That guy from the party must hate himself, haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was at a party about fifteen years ago. A guy introduced himself and we gabbed for a fee minutes. Then he asked what I do for work (IT sysadmin at the time) and I told him and asked the same. He said he was in sales for a tech company. I asked which one, and he stepped close and whispered, “Oracle.” I could see he was prepared for me to bring the hate. He saved himself when he told us he was actually leaving for a gig at Dell. Later, k learned from the host that he made that part about leaving up because he felt bad. I later learned he went to work for Nutanix. Poor guy hated his own employer, and it was obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kissing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Try not to get hot and bothered from a kiss. I fail this test every time.

  Be like, “I’ll just do this quick thing – oh wait! Suddenly I’m breathing harder. Oh! Their hands are all over me now. IT’S ON!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏳️(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?🏳️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good catch. I don’t usually see SAS as /dev/sd* so I assumed. Same basic cables, though *usually better made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏳️(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?🏳️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this. SATA cables are cheaply made and can present issues that seem to indicate drive failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Burns my nose and feels gross, like leaving conditioner in my hair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the year 2000 we had the 2nd season of "that 70s show"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The stars saved us time and went straight to jail for sexual assault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted this to be false but I see that there is currently a minimum renunciation fee of $2,350. I assume there are likely other consulate fees that may bring or closer to $2,500 at the very least. What a scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the one where Fry and Bender join the army for gum and get sent to fight balls

  The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. She bounced three meters in the air. Then she bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then she bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would be hilarious if, one day, the Nobel Peace Prize was decided by no rules cage fight. Pay per view, of course.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …Or to post on shower thoughts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m lucky! Mine (2015 pro) has been awesome, except for when it was going through a Demon AVR. Its fine when direct to the TV or through the Onkyo. It has flaked out before though, and I never updated to the “experience” version that introduced ads on the home screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the same OLED I have. B7 or C7. It’s starting to band on red, but I got at least… 7 (?) years out of it, and the bands are only mildly annoying. Similarly, I have never connected it to the internet, and don’t use any of the apps.

  It’s not very bright, but I’ll take that over washed out or blotchy blacks. I’ll shop for a used OLED like this when I’m ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And for the click-averse:

  The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

  -Credited to Arthur Schopenhauer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t yet. Actually, the corrupt bureaucracy has withheld residency status so far without bribes. That said, here was the path I thought I was on when I moved.

  The idea is to have been in the country for most of the year (no less than 14 days out of country), at which time you can apply for residency. Once you have residency, you must maintain it for 5yrs.

  Citizenship for Permanent Residence Holders

  1. You have been a holder of Permanent Residence for a minimum of 5 years.
  2. You have been resident continuously in Belize, this means that upon being granted Permanent Residency you have not resided outside Belize for periods that exceed thirty consecutive days or accumulate to a total of three months in any twelve month period.

  I didn’t want to muddy the waters with the reality of what happened once I moved, as the OP was about motivating factors. Power corrupts. And ultranationalism is infectious to other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When my country first elected a rapist con man president, I started looking. I was born and raised in (and never left) New England, and so I also wanted a place that’s warm year round. It took me four years to tentatively settle on Belize, in late 2019. I made my first visit in Jan 2021, as the pandemic messed up my 2020 plans. By October, I had sold EVERYTHING and moved with two cats.

  Reasons (or things I didn’t even know I wanted):

  -No DST messing up my sleep schedule.
  -No more days with 17+hrs of darkness.
  -CARIBBEAN!!!
  -Every Belizean I met (exception: gov’t employees and police) is friendly and warm. In N.E., people avoid making eye contact and answer greetings in a way to stop further conversation, but in Belize, the people genuinely want to know how you’re doing and remember everything you tell them.
  -No car required
  -Culture with proud participation from the public; holidays with vibrant parades, and entire village ecstatically engaged in all aspects.
  -Tarantulas walking in the street (my partner and I love them!)
  -Path to citizenship without $0.25M investment
  -Citizenship there comes with a CARICOM passport, meaning can live and work in most Caribbean nations.
  -Food! Fish caught 30 minutes before it hits my plate.

  Things that pushed me away from the USA:

  -Truck nuts
  -Nazi and/or Confederate flags on trucks everywhere
  -Cost of housing doubled from 2017 to 2021
  -Consumerism -Embarrassed to be a US citizen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. She bounced three meters in the air. Then she bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then she bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is fighting back censorship - Freedom To Buy Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite so. Got it working now. Free is free!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is fighting back censorship - Freedom To Buy Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. The landing page was overwhelmed, and j didn’t read that it was a load issue, not a simple 404. Thx!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is fighting back censorship - Freedom To Buy Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird. The links are all dead, but if you go to the GOG press release, they link to the store page for each game, where they aren’t free; any of them.