For me, the permanent cure for hiccups was being in the hospital with broken ribs. Getting a case of the hiccups when you have broken ribs is not fun.
With pain as my teacher, I quickly learned how to stop hiccups with willpower alone. And I’ve been able to do it ever since. I get one hiccup, tell myself “that’s the last one”, and it is.
or if I should try to find a good quality version instead, since what I usually find is in the supermarket where it’s almost universally cheap junk
Or take the opportunity to check the second-hand market for it! Craigslist/FB marketplace, thrift shops, ebay (used, private seller), garage sales, etc. Tends to be a lot cheaper, great for the environment (because less resources needed for new production and less stuff in landfills), and keeps your money away from evil corporations.
Why would you ever have a backlog in the first place? Why would you buy a game and then not play it?
Put the games you want to play in the future on your wishlist. When you’re ready to play a new game, pick one from your wishlist, buy it, play it.
The games aren’t going away, they’re not going to run out of digital copies. Why would you ever buy it before you’re ready to play it? It doesn’t matter whether it’s sitting in your wishlist or your hard drive, so let them sit in your wishlist, where it’s a lot cheaper for them to sit.
(Okay, sure, games go on sale on steam occasionally, and you might want to pick one up while it’s on sale. Even then, though … games tend to get cheaper over time as they get older. Just waiting and buying it later might ultimately be cheaper than the ‘on sale’ price.)
Man, I still eat like shit, but when I switched to drinking only water (instead of mainly soda/juice), I was easily able to lose the excess weight that had been building up.
No other changes. Just drink water. Only water. Water is good.
I keep a pitcher of cold, filtered water in the mini-fridge by my desk. That shit is delicious. And I don’t even miss anything. If you’re struggling with the switch to water, get yourself some good water.
Yep. Just like the fuckers walking around with $2500 sunglasses.
Those sunglasses don’t do anything that a $20 pair can’t do. And they don’t even look all that different.
The important part is that they enable absolutely disgusting consumerist snobbery, allowing some very vapid people to think that they’re better than other people because they have the expensive sunglasses.
In just about any kind of product you can think of, there are brands catering to this kind of conspicuous consumption.
A lot of it comes down to a mix of snobbishness, sunk cost fallacy, and tribalism.
You can’t admit that your $5,000 pair of headphones sound exactly the same as a $300 pair, because:
You’d no longer be able to pretend that you’re better than the people who have $300 headphones.
You’d have to admit to yourself that you completely wasted $4,700.
You’d have to realize that the tight-knit community you’ve formed with other $10k headphone people isn’t really bettor or even really distinct from communities of people with $300 headphones.
Sounds a bit low, honestly.
Though, to be fair, even a lot of raving morons don’t support Trump.
A lot of that crowd is elderly. Even if none of them change their opinion, he’s still going to be losing them over time.
My grandma voted for Trump in 2024 … by mail, from her hospice bed.
Hopefully, she won’t be voting in 2026 or 2028. (Though I wouldn’t put it past my family to cast another mail-in ballot for her ‘because it’s what she would have wanted’.)
Same here. I block all kinds of communities, often just because they’re not relevant to my interests.
I wish I knew a way to block a community without having to visit that community first, directly from my front page where a post from that community is showing up.
Guess that’s why I haven’t seen it then. Haven’t touched the configuration since I first got it how I like it years ago.
You can actually disable the AI agent
Kate has an AI agent now?
Been using it daily for years, never seen a hint of that. Maybe it’s just because I haven’t updated to the very latest version.
They could already easily track your face because your aunt uploaded a picture of you to Facebook and tagged you in it.
What they’re trying to do here is connect your face/identity with your Discord account, so that they can more easily track down dissidents who say naughty things online through Discord.