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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 129 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that'd mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don't care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the "free" button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, "Here's how much you paid in taxes, if you're cool with that then please disregard", I will not be satisfied.

 

Say I go to a restaurant and find a hair in my food. Are there any actual health risks?

Does it make a difference if I:

  • Find it in the dish, remove it, and keep eating
  • Take a bite, find it in my mouth, and remove it
  • Ingest it

This was inspired by a recent news story about a certain authoritarian butthole cosplaying as a food service worker. I did try to look it up (er, search it up?), but the top hits were lengthy meandering articles, or totally off-topic stuff like foods to prevent hair loss. So naturally I gave up and opted to consult the hive mind instead.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The player character may try to quickly skip through dialog they've already heard, so if they interrupt you, just pick up on the next sentence you were going to say.

In some engines, the player character may also be able to walk away mid-dialog. If this happens, feel free to continue talking while they're still within earshot, or berate them.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 12 hours ago

Klan.

I don't care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Side note: dang, you can do what now? I wonder how people have me labeled...

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago

I really do wonder if the first thought to cross my mind after witnessing the beginning of an irl avengers-level threat will be "wellp at least I don't have to go into work".

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sphygmomanometer

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago

I'm just guessing here, but I imagine it's for "marketing purposes". People sometimes (perhaps often) move around without changing their phone number, so area code alone wouldn't be enough to pinpoint where you live.

Knowing where you live probably helps with micro-targeting ads.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

I'd say those aren't my pronouns, but how would you know whether or not to believe me?

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not gonna lie... the headline got me to finally get around to donating.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 171 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Vance’s mother was able to buy private insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace, run by Ohio, after overcoming substance abuse, becoming financially stable, and earning too much to stay on Medicaid.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

The warriors of the resistance to the AI-pocalypse will wear red sneakers and wisecrack like it's 1994.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FEMA has a webpage for catalogging and responding to rumors about the hurricane response, though I don't see any as extreme as the ones mentioned in this thread: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/recover/rumor/hurricane-rumor-response

I'm skeptical of how much this will help after seeing how misinformation spread during COVID, but at least they're trying.

 
 

I've been donating to the news site Vox for a while now, and all their content has so far been free. I felt kinda bad about blocking the ads on their site and fast-forwarding through all the ad breaks in their podcasts. So in the spirit of actually supporting something I like, I started chipping in a few bucks a month.

But recently, they've started putting some of their articles behind a paywall. Since I was already donating, I automatically have access. But for some reason, I feel like I don't wanna pay anymore. It's not like it costs me more, but there's just something about dontating to a free site vs paying for exclusive content that doesn't feel the same. Maybe cuz I'm not a fan of paywalls in general, so I don't want to support companies that implement them.

Does that make sense? What would you do? And if you're not a fan of Vox, maybe think of some other free service/content, like videos from a streamer or a software project or something.

 
 
 

I'm a trans woman, and I've been experiencing pretty annoying levels of nausea recently -- like, daily, for a few months. It's not too disruptive, but I get hungry really sporadically, and I spend the rest of the time feeling vaguely queasy. I'm wondering if it's at all related to the drug cocktail I'm on.

I've been on HRT for about 2 years now. I take estradiol (4 mg/day orally) and spironolactone (100 mg/day). I get my hormone levels checked regularly at a clinic. The spiro used to be 50 mg/day, but I had to up the dose after my testosterone levels started creeping back up several months ago.

The T uptick seemingly coincided with when I started taking bupropion for depression. My T levels are back in range, and I've since switched out the bupropion for lamotrigine (a mood stabilizer). But now I have all this nausea.

Despite what I've described, my HRT prescriber and my psychiatrist both insist that this drug combination shouldn't be causing nausea, nor the jump in T levels. So, it's a mystery, and quite a frustrating one. I feel like I'm a big bag of pills that's been shaken up until it's good and dizzy.

Not sure if anyone can relate to this -- how many depressed trans women are there out there, anyway? But if you have any advice, I'm all ears.

 
 

though i am struggling with image uploads for some reason, so i guess i do get to participate in the chaos after all

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Culinary and/or philosophical advice welcome

 
 

and apologies if this one's too US-centric

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