Every time somebody like this pops up, it’s a great reminder that you can block people and you should block people.

You don’t need to explain to this moron why he’s a moron.

I believe I’ll block op

I used to use a boot CD with a password eraser. I think the last time I used it was win 7 though

Win+D show desktop!

First thing required on every new keyboard

What people don’t want to know is that you need to block as many communities and people as you possibly can in your first couple days here.

This place is jackass city, let’s get that straight.

Borax as insect repellant/ murderer.

Every apartment block has roaches, I’m not naive. But to get rid of the ones in mine I put a teaspoon of borax near the dishwasher kick plate and blew it under with compressed air. Sprinkled some around the perimeter of the cabinet beneath the kitchen sink.

Have not seen a roach in 10 months.

Edit: don’t try to bait food with borax, they won’t eat it, just get it on the walking paths. You want them tracking it into the hive where they all clean it up like cats and die because to an insect it’s like eating knives.

I actually don’t think it’s possible to forget. In the sense that pattern recognition and chain-of-event are thought structures baked into our very beings. We don’t intuit that most things are random in a greater sense, and probabilistic on a finer resolution. We’re always looking for self-satisfying, singular paths of causality and they don’t exist.

Touch red hot metal burn skin; Stab self in face make self not alive. A necessary abbreviated thought structure essential to human survival.

Extend that perspective to eat ween get beetus. Wait.

What is the field of nutritional epidemiology hoping to accomplish by obsessively searching for links (their magic word) between disease and dietary intake? It assumes, by the very nature of the question, that there is a direct causal relationship between diet & illness. There can’t be. Any sufficiently complicated system of interrelationships is going to have massive amounts of turbulence and chaos!

abstractive

Because there’s a contract dispute with the foreign agency contracted to manage our parks.

Which happened after severe cuts about 2 decades ago.

Don’t act all proud.

I live in Canada.

I will never again visit that shithole country called the United States of America.

I’m going to design and print a shirt that simply says

“Legal hotdog”

The EMF from power lines was a real mind virus that went around when I was a teenager!

I’ve been alive too long and have seen this pattern play out again, and again, and again. Feeling a little sad right now, actually.

For another example: all my life the common sense accepted wisdom, supported by real dermatologists was that to keep the likelihood of skin cancer to a minimum there is zero known healthy level of sun exposure. Well that’s all out the f’king window in 2025 because we now know the deleterious effects of insufficient sun exposure are vastly more severe compared to an increased morbidity for types of skin cancer.

I don’t want to be mr critical, but… there’s something wrong in our whole approach to these “studies” and I don’t know what fixes it. Any experts wanna help describe what I’m getting at with the right technical language?

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Try to follow the thrust of the conversation.

Truth.

Yesterday I opened a huge bung of ground beef that I got from Costco.

Fried up 1/3 of it up and when I tasted it… Damn that’s f’kking bottom round roast beef 😋

I’m not a nutritional epidemiologist.

But I’ve started to get into learning about it in the last few months.

It’s really starting to feel like this is a giant bullshit field, and as much as they are trying to find useful results, there’s something severely wrong with how they seem to arbitrarily assign causality and correlation.

In a contrived example: “People who live near power lines have more cancer” - “No, poor people live near power lines because they’re poor, and poor people have more cancer”

What are the kind of people that eat processed hot dogs? I can promise you they are not millionaires. I can promise you it’s not people who can afford filet mignon but decide to have a steamed hot dog. It’s not people who work out and take care of their bodies. It’s not people who cook.

So when a study is done like this, what answer are you actually getting? probably finding out that the type of people who eat processed meat are more prone to these conditions for a variety of considerations that are just totally left out of the analysis.

These are my solution, I have bad shoulders… I get them at the dollar store.

My grandfather had this thing called the bear claw! It was basically a strip of pointy plastic tines and it fit over an out-facing wall corner.

I found myself with a back scratcher in every room as I got older until I learned that the reason my back is constantly itchy is because my fine back hair.

I bought this thing called The Man Groomer which is basically an extendable back shaver, and now I don’t use back scratchers anymore… Honestly a humongous relief from needing to scratch my back like 75 times a day. Now I need to scratch it zero times.

Bread makers & pasta makers…

There’s like three new in box every time I go thrifting