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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Until January. Then that will all stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t tried it yet, and I haven’t had a reason to look into it. My experience with Fi was that you pay $10 per Gb - it didn’t come out of your normal bank - and per-minute charges. When I was traveling, I used my company phone, or if on vacation, purely data with heavy up front-caching as much as I could at the hotel. I really don’t like surprise bill sizes.

  But to be honest, I haven’t tried Mint internationally, so I can’t say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so bad. I use gmail as a backup for some accounts in case something happens to my VPS or domain, and my Amazon account is still linked to it out of laziness, but otherwise I never use it.

  Oh. Except that I have an Android phone, and that’s linked to my gmail, although I don’t use any Google apps or services beyond Play. So I suppose my phone would stop working. Everything’s backed up, though, so maybe it’d be a good thing; maybe it’d motivate me to pull the trigger on a Light Phone. I kinda want a Minimal Phone because my F&F uses Jami, but that’d still be an Android phone, so it wouldn’t work either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fi isn’t that great. We were on Fi for years; I switched to Mint, my wife stayed on Fi until I was sure it was going to work. So far, I pay less for more, no gotchas.

  It was amazing when it first came out; now it has a lot of competition that beats it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Curse you. You stole my outtake.

  “In other news, Carlson fell asleep ten minutes in to Oppenheimer, and Barbie made him uncomfortable.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never stopped calling it Twitter. X is a window manager, a letter of the alphabet, or the most algebraic variable name. It’s not a name for a company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun. Ok, thanks for the info!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Omg. I must realized that, were I to do a search on PornHub, I’d absolutely find a video of this.

  Still not sure Why it would be less painful than an Epilady. It doesn’t seem as if an electric tweezer would grab more hair than threading.

  But, then, I’ve never had - not have I any interest in - any of these things. It sounds like you’re taking from experience, so if you say it’s worse, I’ll take your word for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right! So, threading is less painful than waxing, and it’s clear why, but why is it less painful than those Epilady-style tweezing? Isn’t it doing the same thing?

  You wouldn’t use an Epilady on your brows, probably. It seems like too inaccurate a tool; and maybe brows are less sensitive than groin-area skin. So, apples and oranges.

  Does anyone even offer Brazilian threading?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes their dog for a walk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly not the weirdest behavior you’d see in campus, and could almost be wholesome. Guy’s down on the ground interacting with his dog; what’s wrong with that? Also: it’s at night - could they see he was actually eating grass, or did it look like he was just playing with his dog?

  Also also: college campus… night… couple sitting on a bench… “sitting.” College couples never only sit on secluded benches in the dark. OP probably interrupted a handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it the same thing as tweezing? Pulling the hair out by the roots? Waxing is partially painful because you’re also irritating and pulling on the skin. It would seem that threading is closer to one of those rolling tweezers.

  I guess my question is: if they’re both grabbing the hair at the base and yanking it out with the follicle, why is threading less painful?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing women have a higher tolerance for pain. Or so I’ve heard.

  I don’t know. Women put up with a lot of painful stuff; threading doesn’t look like any fun, either. I guess it just depends on the individual.

  For those not willing to do that, the Cyperus Rotundus oil looks encouraging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of a long-distance friendship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To maximize the number of people who show up at your funeral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After I responded, I did some more reading. It looks like Cyperus rotundus is the way to go. It’s quite similar, though: waxing, threading, or tweezing, apply the oil thoroughly, and then daily until the next wax; repeat a couple of times, and Bob’s your Uncle. Same efficacy, except Alexandrite lasers work only on dark follicles, whereas Cyperus works on all follicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How bad was it, really? I’ve pulled plenty of individual hairs out with tweezers; some made my eyes water. If I were going to use an Epilady, I’d douse the area with numbing cream and go at it. It can’t be worse than waxing or tweezing, can it?

  Am a guy, so my experience in this specific scenario is limited.

  If Epilady is not acceptable, even with serious numbing, then I’d try the Cyperus Rotundus. The NIH report looked promising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fantasizes about living in China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not the intended audience, I guess. I get the pollution stereotype, but all the dead baby references went over my head. It’s as if someone was writing a bunch of stereotypes about America, and there were some Freedom Unit references so you almost get it, but then there are also a bunch of references to dead orangutans and you’re like: what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fantasizes about living in China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those used to come out of India. I guess everyone is outsourcing now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fantasizes about living in China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s anti-nation, so… anti-nationalism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fantasizes about living in China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon lives in China. Their meds are small bits of cancerous gravel.

  China will grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body shaving for ladies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is she sure she wants to shave? There are those rolling tweezing things which I’ve never used and sound like mild torture, but pulling the hairs out by the roots usually leaves things bare for longer, and there’s no risk of getting cuts; plus, with such pliable skin in that area, it’s probably less challenging to shave.

  Or, maybe an electric razor? There are also hair removal creams especially made for sensitive areas, and things like Cyperus Routundus and Oleum Cyperus oils. The linked NIH study says Cyperus Rotundus is as effective as Alexandrite laser.

  I’d try a lot of things before I took a razor to my bits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Lower Decks cast call for more seasons: "Until we're dust in the ground"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who do I write?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. will be releasing "WATCHMEN: CHAPTER II" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 3.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it better than the live action movie? Which, compared to some adaptions, wasn’t horrible, but still. Shortcuts were taken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Toughest Journey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Toughest Journey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mammoths, too! Hopefully we can get fully sequenced genomes on those.

  I haven’t heard of any concrete efforts to re-introduced mammoths, though - is someone working on that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Toughest Journey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I recently learned that, in the Cayman Islands, where they drove green sea turtles to near(?) extinction, they have had a successful re-introduction program. What’s interesting is that they collect, incubate, and hatch the eggs in a hatchery, and raise the turtles until they’re a year or two old, and then release them. By then, they’re too Big for the land predators, and 100% of the turtles make it to the ocean. They’ve brought the population back to tens of thousands.

  At some point, I guess they’ll consider the population stable and end the program, and let nature go back to what it was doing with the predators and all, but for now it’s nice to know that these turtles, at least, don’t have to face that sort of predation. It’s the least we could do, as a species.

  We’re also re-introducing mostly-Aurochs (re-bred, not genetically identical to the originals), and we’ll probably see thylacines brought back from extinction.

  I don’t know if anyone is working on Dodos, or whether there’s even enough genetic material to work with, but that’s one I’d personally really love to see brought back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retreat on the Rocks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, wow, this one is really nice. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. will be releasing "WATCHMEN: CHAPTER II" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 3.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard of this. Is it new live action films, the old one split in two, or new animated films?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you put it into a long-term deferred-tax savings instrument, that you e.g. can’t easily cash out, it might not show as an asset for purposes of a grant. Like an IRA, or CD, or gov bond, or something.

  Talk to a financial planner. Fidelity will be happy to have a conversation with you in hopes that you’ll set you account up with them. They may not be able to answer your question, but then, they might.

  And fuck people who try to guilt you about trying for grants when you have a retirement account. $250k is a great start if you’re 18, and will turn into a decent retirement fund if you leave it alone; but it’s peanuts in the big picture and certainly doesn’t make you “rich.” And if you spend it on education, you won’t have it for retirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upscale Fast Food⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  McFlakesOfCoal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upscale Fast Food⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gravel. Aquarium gravel, to be specific.

  It looks nothing like caviar. Not even the color is right, and caviar comes in many colors. Maybe caviar is the new “fingers” of deep learning generated art.