I learned this about bleach a while back! I remember wondering why bleach felt slimy to the touch, even though it looked like it had roughly the same consistency as water. Turns out it wasn’t the bleach that was slimy, it was me. I am the slime.

lmao, we used to call them “Works bombs” as a kid, because we’d use The Works cleaner for it.

Just because those exist doesn’t make them mainstream. Less than 1% of players own any of those devices.

I generally prefer the app, in most scenarios. But it depends on what the platform is. Some will just perform better in the app because the app is the main focus of the platform, but others are just a web wrapper for the mobile site and just eat up space on your device for no discernible reason.

I find that it’s also generally easier to sandbox permissions on a per-app basis than a per-website basis. So even though a lot of times the app is meant to be a vector to harvest more data out of the user, in the right setting it can actually be more secure than just using the website. But that’s very situational.

Yeah, I cheaped out and bought a bottle of a store-brand cleaner which I think may be the enzyme type. It’s made a bit of progress, but not much so far. :(

In a DM to the mods.

We can’t all be Zimbabweans.

Not really a score, but a placement. Last week, I placed #43 in the world for the Power Shift game mode for the 4th season of The Finals, #26 in the NA region.

It’s not a competitive game mode and it’s not a true ranked leaderboard, but there’s not much I’m in the top 0.01% of, so I’m gonna brag about it anyway.

To be fair, this flew under the radar of most people for a long time, and it doesn’t seem like Honey has been very transparent to the influencers they partner with, either. I don’t think most of them could have possibly known what Honey was doing behind the scenes.

+1 to beating yourself in chess 😅

Somehow my Elo still dropped.

Probably 90%. Whenever my internet or power goes out, I have literally nothing to do at home. Maybe I should get a board game.

Just cherry picking from my sub list:

https://www.youtube.com/@chubbyemu Chubbyemu, a doctor who tells stories about strange/unusual medical cases and provides a lot of explanation for how various conditions affect the body.

https://www.youtube.com/@CorridorCrew CorridorCrew is a behind-the-scenes channel for Corridor, a visual effects studio who made a lot of classic YouTube CGI videos. They do breakdowns/analysis of visual effects in movies, showing how certain effects are made. They also do other edu-taining videos where they use CGI to visualize hard-to-describe concepts, like “What would it look like if you took every single ant on the planet and put them all into a giant ball, and what would the tidal wave of ants look like when the ball is dropped in the middle of New York City?”

https://www.youtube.com/@DarylTalksGames DarylTalksGames does video essays about various elements of video game design and philosophy. Not every video he posts is trying to make or prove a point of any sort, a lot of them are much more open ended and just kinda “thinking out loud”.

https://www.youtube.com/@FredrikKnudsen FredrikKnudsen does the “Down the Rabbit Hole” series, which are deep dive videos about strange, disturbing, or viral topics. He doesn’t upload much anymore (last upload was over a year ago, upload before that was three years ago), but the videos are still very entertaining. Some of his later videos may be a bit longer-form than you’re looking for (he’s done a few 2+ hour videos), but most of them are around 20-ish minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/@halfasinteresting Half As Interesting does short videos about strange, mundane, or peculiar things that you probably have never thought about, like how a dam in China has slowed the planet’s rotation or how Michelin inspectors keep their identities secret when reviewing restaurants. The videos are generally pretty short (6-8 minutes), and the ad read always takes place at the end so they’re easy videos to just hit Play and get comfortable.

https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows Into The Shadows tells stories about some of the darkest, macabre, and gruesome events in human history. Unethical human experimentation, wars you may have never heard of, pandemics, natural disasters, etc. I should point out that this isn’t a comedy channel, like some other channels that do similar types of storytelling, so this isn’t one of those with memes and MSPaint drawings strewn throughout.

https://www.youtube.com/@JimBrowning Jim Browning does fantastic videos about the industry of scammers. He explains how a lot of scams work, how the people behind them operate, and also leads efforts in tracking and taking down scammer groups.

https://www.youtube.com/@LegalEagle Legal Eagle is a lawyer who breaks down legal cases in the news. While he doesn’t necessarily hide his own opinions on the issues he talks about, the videos aren’t about his opinion, so most of the focus is on how the law would be applied to a particular case, what arguments are likely to be made in court and why they matter, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/@sora_sakurai_en Masahiro Sakurai, the director behind Kirby, Super Smash Bros, and other Nintendo franchises, spent the last couple years making videos aimed toward people trying to create their own game studio or just getting into the game development industry. The videos are tailored more toward somebody in a managerial role, but he also talks a lot about the more hands-on tasks, as well. They’re all pretty insightful, and even if you’re not working in a related industry, a lot of the personal/interpersonal management tips he offers can likely be incorporated into your own workflow somehow. Granted, he takes a very Japanese approach to everything he discusses, on both the design and business sides, not all of which I would agree is conducive to a healthy work environment, but to each their own.

https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections Technology Connections does amazing videos about how various things around your house work, and often explains how they don’t actually work the way you think they do. He breaks down the workings of appliances as simple as a $5 toaster, but manages to make it interesting and informative.

https://www.youtube.com/@Taskmaster Everything I’ve listed here so far has had some element of being educational to it. That stops now. Your mind needs a break. Put your feet up and relax, and watch clips or full episodes of the best game show ever created. It’s funny, clever, and very unique. On Taskmaster, 5 comedians are given a series of bizarre tasks to complete, often requiring quick wits and creative solutions.

E: Typos.

We can talk about more than one thing.

Most phones do, to a certain extent. The percentage it gives you is just an estimate because you can’t really tell how much energy is in a battery until you discharge it all; you can only tell how much is going in and how much is going out, and make an educated guess from there. Generally, that guess is close enough to reality that it doesn’t make any real difference, so the percentage still serves its purpose. I’m grossly oversimplifying, but that’s the gist.

Most phones these days will usually only charge up to like 95% of the actual capacity of the battery, and will call that 100%.

Definitely the Ocarina of Time intro for me. It was the first game to give me a real sense of adventure as a kid, and that theme song remains forever burned into my memory.

4/5 stars.

Is that not how this is already being implemented?

Depends on the context in which you’re sharing it.

If you share it with a title like “We need more of this”, then yeah, because you’re encouraging further acts like it. If you share it with a title like “This is the manifesto written by the alleged CEO killer”, then that’s not inherently glorifying violence, you’re just sharing something you found and being informative. But if you share it in response to the question “Hey Reddit, what are some fun things I can do in NYC this weekend?”, then you’re back toward the “glorifying” side. Context makes all the difference.

Whether or not anybody gives a shit about that distinction, though, is a different question.

Hadn’t considered that! Sad that that’s probably the most viable option if I needed to get it again.

I’ve got cluster headache. Only medication that had any noticeable effect was Prednisone. Not even that expensive of a drug, but more than I could afford out of pocket. Insurance wouldn’t cover it because they considered an oxygen mask to be a more appropriate treatment, even though I’d been using them for months with no improvement, and O2 only works for a small percent of people with cluster headache, anyway.

Couldn’t afford to get the meds. Not legally, at least. A coworker was taking Prednisone for a different condition, and managed to convince his doctor to double his dosage, and I paid him for the difference, until he stopped taking it altogether. Ended up having attacks again, and missed enough work because of them to get fired. Between the pain and losing my job, that was easily one of the lowest points in my life.

I wouldn’t wish our healthcare system on my worst enemies.