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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My gut reaction was population heat map syndrome, and while that might explain Stockholm, it doesn’t explain the band in the north.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Is he? They never actually showed the wedding between two MAIN CHARACTERS!

[heavy breathing]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Yay! I literally picked Satisfactory back up because your posts kept reminding me how much I liked it.

Congrats on your new flooring!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

152 days, not bad. I’ll miss your daily screenshots!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Again, I agree with the premise. I just think their methodology is a bit weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

GN is definitely not without merit. Their technical reporting and attention to detail is incredible (unparalleled in some aspects), and they (as far as I can tell) practice what they preach. There was a period of time where I watched most of their YT videos. I’m even using one of their awesome coasters right now.

Editorially, however, they are very focused on negativity, to the point of appearing to delight in it. It’s the reason I stopped watching/reading their content entirely. It’s a bit hard to explain, but it feels like they go out of their way to look for the most negative spin possible.

GN’s flavor of negativity is more shaming and mockery than constructive criticism. They even make/made (not sure if they still do) an annual video and T-shirt called something like the “hall of shame” with a list of their worst reviewed products of that year. I never saw a “hall of fame”.

When they do have something positive to say, it’s usually just a calm, measured explanation supported by data. When they have something negative to say, they do extra tests, interviews, elaborate dramatic skits, and multi-part series’.

I stopped watching around the time they published an entire exposé on LTT that stirred up so much drama it basically forced a restructure of LTT’s entire company. Was GN right? Yeah, but rather than approach them with concerns, they did it in a big showy public stunt. It seemed like they cared more about having the “big story” than wanting things to improve.

I get that exposing bad things in the industry is important, and their work has resulted in positive change. I just find it exhausting to watch/read when it’s such a large percentage of their content. GN is full of some very smart and talented individuals, but they give the vibe of that type of redditor who doesn’t realize that the “You technically correct, the best kind of correct” quote was intended to be satire.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are you referring to the cartoon version of that “other woman” meme?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah if there’s one things Humans excel at it’s killing things.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

The first species we Jurassic Parked are dire wolves?!

I swear humans are trying to speedrun their own demise.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Good. No one with any sense still uses that site.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

You know you live in the universe, but you never go see these things until someone comes to visit.

 

Disclaimer: I'm referring the the US medical system, but I imagine people in other countries may encounter similar things.

I cannot be the only one who has had this experience, but all my dealings with the medical industry feel like they were refined by a group of psychologists to exploit the weaknesses of those with ADHD.

The volume of calls, appointments, and paperwork I had to full out to get a diagnosis and prescription for treatment is completely unreasonable to expect someone with poor working memory and attention issues to navigate.

Then, to stay on medication, you need to schedule and make appointments with a psychiatrist every month, for the rest of your life, and if you miss a single one, you will run out of meds (and likely charged a fine), which will make it even harder to remember to make the next one. If you miss too many, that psychiatrist will refuse to see you again and you have to go back to your PCP to get a new referral.

Look, I understand that their time is valuable, but this system couldn't be designed any other way to be more accommodating to people who clinically forget things?!

It's like designing a wheelchair ramp that's actually just stairs that are 3x as steep as the regular stairs. Also, if you fall to the bottom, someone takes your wheelchair until you can climb back up.

 

For the curious, this is the Ducky Origin Vintage.

 

I'm configuring a Framework 13, and while selecting the ports, I came across a question that I couldn't determine from the pictures, product pages, or configurator:

Is there a dedicated USB-C port for docking and charging? That is, to say, if I don't choose USB-C for at least one of the expansion ports, will I still be able to plug it in to a USB-C dock? If not, how will I charge the laptop? Is there a dedicated charging port?

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