Be me, have a circadian rhythm disorder, pop some gummies and trazodone and play Switch in bed until brain shuts off, spend 10 nights wandering around Gnoll Stronghold in Baldur’s Gate 1 trying to help Minsc find Dynaheir before I crash. Wander around everywhere multiple times, wtf, did she die of boredom? Finally decide to turn screen brightness up. She right there. Gnolls quit spawning, placed on endangered species list

The problem isn’t scarcity in resources or lack of available work, the problem is that everything is zero sum and resources wind up locked out because there are a couple hundred assholes that look at numbers on a screen like it’s the only thing that validates their existence.

People are starving and can’t buy houses because people like Bezos or whoever have 20,000 million dollars they’ll never use sitting in some bank account they forgot about, but they need more, so they disenfranchise the class that brings them wealth.

Less jobs = better margins, but that all rests on the assumption that people absolutely must work full time and for the lowest bid

We all may as well grab shovels and bury the wealth of the Earth in a big hole in the ground because that’s what happens when we inflate the worth of the wealthy. Resources just vanish into the ether

when my wife, mom and dad ask about what I want for a party

Tell them what you want for your birthday, even if it’s ‘something quiet and small’ or anything along those lines, give them time to respect your wishes. I went on a nature walk with my wife for my 40th, blew the minds of my super-extroverted in-laws, but hey, that’s me, who I am.

When people start assuming you’d want something even though you don’t, might make you feel obligated to do that something, might make you feel weird for not wanting to, but you’re you and they might be having a hard time wrapping their head around it (might ask you ‘really’ multiple times), but do you and they’ll respect it

That feel when you order 5 burgers alone and they ask “to go?” and you nonchalantly say “naw”

There’s no silver bullet for shin splints but the thing that worked for me was to ditch pavement for 2-3 weeks and basically slog up the steepest hill I could find on a dirt trail. I used to run to and from work, 3-5 miles 10-12 times a week, not a really balanced way to do things (no long runs), but when it’d act up I’d just walk to work and on the weekend spend 2-3 hours basically running up one big dumb hill and walking back down, try to get as much feet of gain per hour as I could (made it a little less boring to focus on that). Basically strength training for someone who would rather be running than strength training. Couple weeks of doing that and I was ready to go pulverize my ankles again for a solid couple months.

Edit: emphasis on walking down the hill, tremendous impact if you’re on some 25% grade, recipe for disaster if you’re throwing yourself down that thing for hours

MAGA terrorists have assaulted newspeople, destroyed cameras, whole 9 yards. Might be some of that mixed in with everything else. Fear of retaliation or whatnot. Most of these people have public-facing jobs with little to no security detail and Trump’s supporters range from civil to psychotic

Focusrite is great, I have a 2i4 I got >10 years back mainly to route sound through both headphone and speakers on desktop with analog volume knobs for each, but thing has XLR and phantom power and all that. I’m not musically inclined but I’ve ran an electric guitar and a midi control through it to Ableton without a hitch a long time ago. Their entry level stuff seems rock solid for this even

“All-cause mortality” simply means death from all (or any) causes.

So for smokers, you got a buttload of people with this thing in common, and rather than look specifically at something like deaths from lung cancer, you take a step back and look at deaths from anything. And then go in and try to find correlations and help to understand those correlations.

It’s kind of a chicken and egg scenario, because some of those causes might not be from smoking, but from a person’s proclivity to smoke.

For example, smokers might possibly be more impulsive than non-smokers (generally speaking) and there might be a higher risk of motor vehicle fatalities in the smoker group, but the cause wouldn’t be smoking, it’d be underlying behavioral differences that would make someone more likely to smoke.

It’s basically looking at mortality from a distance as opposed to looking at very specific things up close (but with the data it lets people zoom in on everything)

Enacts a bunch of draconian bullshit that cause homeless to move 10 miles away

“We fixed homelessness!”

As a Minnesotan who pops gummies every night, I can safely say I have no idea how many leaves are on a marijuana, but a maple is 3 points with 3 points on each of them and 2 teeny tiny little legs at the bottom

Or we all hope Reddit continues as it is, not as a hotbed of original content like it was 10+ years ago, but as a place to rehost content found on other sites, and watch it fade into obscurity so better-run platforms can fill the void

I sit in the back of my car in the parking ramp on my lunch break, throw my Nintendo Switch on a seatback headrest mount, and play Diablo II like I’m flying first class. First time I’ve ever had something with 4 doors and I’m using every damn door

With Lemmy you can make an account on one instance and set default sort to the top posts for the past hour, make an account on a different instance and set default sort on that account to top posts in the last 12 hours or Hot or whatever, bookmark them both, and have a neverending stream of new content.

People already noted other reasons that I agree with but my current setup being 2 accounts with default sort set up like that, I vastly prefer this to Reddit’s layout

Also grapes on occasion

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