“You look just like dad. And that’s very disappointing.”

I think the taste and texture may have become noticeably worse after the ban on artificial trans fats. It definitely impacted some of the junk food I used to buy in the grocery store. (I’m not saying the ban was a bad thing, just that a lot of us noticed the change).

Whatever the cause, I have noticed it, too.

I like Bernie’s idea of taxing every trade on the stock market.

I agree with your sentiment and I have definitely grown and my opinions have changed from the influence of people I have “met” online over the decades. However, none of the people who influenced me in positive ways were trolls, jerks, or snarky smart-asses. I really don’t think anything is lost if you block a lot of those type of people. I actually think something is gained. The amount of time and energy we are allotted to spend in this life are precious.

It’s a good tool and I encourage people to use it. Otherwise the asshole filter can start to take over. I’d honestly prefer someone to block me if I annoy them, rather than try to engage me in some snark-fest or pointless argument.

I also think it’s best just to block and move on if someone acts like a jerk. Don’t respond or tell them you are blocking them. Let them shout into the void.

One of the main things I look for is the person’s comment history. If they seldom post an original thought or comment and mostly reply just to be nasty and condescending towards other people, I will block them. They are basically using the people in forums as a bunch of paper targets to snipe at. Once you know to look for them, you can spot these type of commenters pretty quickly.

In highly controversial threads I will often spot new people to block that I did not even engage with.

They make use it at my job. I hate it.

You can advertise without paying millions to people who already have millions. And forcing them to reveal the cost to consumers isn’t preventing them from advertising.

I’ve been impressed with Fastmail. I also use Tuta, which is pretty cool (but I barely use it).

Thanks for the heads up. Fortunately, I’ve already transferred everything over.

IMO it’s worth the time and effort to learn the basics. You don’t need to be an elite level modeler because you’re not modeling for animation or games. I’ve had good luck with simple fixes and mods in Blender.

My experience is entirely with SLA, however, FDM might be a bit trickier.

We use both Azure and AWS at work. Azure is less expensive. But it’s also like comparing a corner 7-11 to a city-sized shopping mall. AWS is freaking huge and they add new services every week it seems. It’s kind of overwhelming.

There’s also Google Cloud and IBM and Oracle but they all suck for the same reasons AWS and Azure suck.

You might want to look into Alibaba Cloud, Digital Ocean, and/or Linode/Akamai.

I totally get that.

Check out Textpad. You might like it. The only nuisance with it is the default config settings are a little oddball (things like keyboard shortcuts, etc). But it’s highly configurable so you can set it up the way you like and then it’s good. It has more features than Notepad, but it’s still pretty simple and can do cool things like search files / folders for strings, has regex support, etc. But the extras stay out of your way and it’s pretty clean and simple for “notepad-like” usage.

I was good at math until Cal III when I hit the wall. I’ve forgotten almost all of what I learned, though. So I’m not really good at math anymore. Unless you enter certain career paths, most people won’t need to use advanced math in their day-to-day. I bet you’re good at some non-math stuff.

Exact same story here. They are also extremely good roasted:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-brussels-sprouts-recipe2-1941953

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

or

https://www.textpad.com/home

Calculus III kicked my ass.

“A mile long, you say?” --CVS executive

Still working my way through the Matthew Scudder series by Lawrence Block. I’m on book 4, “Stab in the Dark”. The settings are dated, but for me that’s a feature not a bug I also like his writing style (for the most part), very efficient but evocative.

I’d like to thank all the lemmies who suggest Kobo e-readers to folks. I love my new Kobo. It’s so much better than my old Kindle. To be fair, the Kindle is several years old so it’s not really apples to apples here. But I love how good the Kobo is AND I didn’t have to give Amazon any money for it.

Anti-incumbent voting is way up across the globe. People are pissed off about inflation (corporate greed) and they just knee-jerk “vote them out”.

Please remember that most people don’t pay attention to the details of economic policies or politics very much. They only get a general “vibe” from whatever bubbled media and bot content they consume. People have voted against their own interests for generations because of this phenomenon.

I’ll never forget years ago when my father was listening to Rush Limbaugh and that asshole Rush said, “I understand my listeners are hard working people who are very busy and simply don’t have the time to pay attention to these political things so that’s why you can just get your information here, I will tell you what to think.” Not an exact quote, but close enough. That type of thing has been going on for generations.

I’ve heard it used to refer to Notebooks but only by much older people (and I’m already middle-aged myself). I’ve never heard a binder called that. But, the linked article does mention spiral-bound notebooks, so I wonder if that’s why she conflated it in her mind.