thesohoriots
@thesohoriots@lemmy.world
- Comment on Aright, Elon has definitely gone too far now 4 hours ago:
I told you dog! Image
- Comment on why can't there be a soda dispenser for energy drinks? 5 hours ago:
I miss the old Panera, with the Lemonade That Kills You™
- Comment on Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture 1 day ago:
The man can boot more ket than a horse, I’ll give him that.
- Comment on In the U.S. in the 1980s, kids were told by this PSA that their teeth needed exercise, so they should chew crunchy food. 4 days ago:
That’s some straight up Mewmaxxing shit
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
It’s an older copypasta sir, but it checks out.
- Comment on I Bought a PlayStation Vita in 2025 1 week ago:
And that standby battery life? Sorcery.
- Comment on Anon is a winner 2 weeks ago:
Just literally any books other than Harry Potter instead. Joanne had a generation locked in. Every form of media, spin-off, merch, a effing section of Universal Studios, etc. with unlimited money, and she could’ve just disappeared to do whatever she wanted to. Instead, she gets online and mouths off incessantly, alienating a good chunk of her base, and revealing what an awful human being she actually is. She could’ve been illegally racing panda bears in go-karts around her back yard and no one would ever have known. Just doing eccentric rich person stuff. It’s one of the biggest disappointments.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
Dang, and here I am with a converted mirrorball and beehive emporium like a fool.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
Shoutout Cornelis Drebbel
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 2 weeks ago:
It’d be a big spend, but you can get some Hue dimmable A19s with a bridge for your home and set them to whatever color temp you need. It’s not accurate to specific temps (I can’t ask it for 4000k) but with a little tinkering in the spectrums and sliders you could get it close.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 2 weeks ago:
Image Perfect exchange, no notes.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 3 weeks ago:
You can also just take a trip to the Waffle House off I-95 in Florence, SC. It allowed smoking when I was there in 2014 and probably still does.
- Comment on bird flu 3 weeks ago:
I love a clinical trial. Sign me the eff up. That being said, as you mention, there are some issues with the speed of trials. And in particular, the demographic spread that volunteers for clinical trials in the US is a problem because it’s typically a monolith: white women, college educated, generally healthy, ages 18-35 IIRC. Proportional representation is hard to find, and distrust in public health is (for good historical reasons) low in minority populations. Pulling in a wider swath of people isn’t possible, and researchers are missing massive chunks of data from which trust could be built.
- Comment on Kay Granger’s Senior Living Revelation Draws Fresh Scrutiny to Aging Congress 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always thought we should tie an age limit to the average American’s risk of stroke. That might motivate some healthcare reform while we’re at it.
- Comment on Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris) 4 weeks ago:
It makes me wonder if Coke is desperately inventing some kind of chemical stabilizer that’ll usher in a whole new health problem.
- Comment on "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it" 4 weeks ago:
In the southeastern US, we have plenty of fatback in stores, among other odds and ends. The employees laughed when I had to ask what it was.
- Comment on Washing machine 🤤 5 weeks ago:
Set it on “waterproofs” for some Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend level nasty
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 1 month ago:
Steal his look at a reasonable price!
- Comment on Uno what really happened 1 month ago:
- Comment on How embarrassing 1 month ago:
Thoughts and prayers are considered “out of network” on this one my dude
- Comment on How to get back into academia for a masters degree after being out for 20+ years? 1 month ago:
100% on the not forcing yourself on anything in a PhD. I was ABD and my heart wasn’t in it anymore. The whole thing was a disaster, committee was unreachable, department was no help, and by the time I was done, I hated myself for ever doing it. It was an exercise in completion. Absolutely be open to saying “this isn’t fun anymore.” There is zero problem with just getting a masters — in fact, I think you get the most value out of one because it’s a concentrated experience on what you want to do. There’s a stigma on “mastering out” but that’s crap. Know your limits and stop while you still love what you’re doing. I wish you the best in returning to school!
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 2 months ago:
I was offered $21/hr to remote work at some google outsourced company for one of their LLM projects. It was going to be grueling work, full-time, no benefits. It took about 120 applications (two responses) to even get there, and they ghosted me after a second interview. It’s awful out there and I feel for you 100%. Best of luck, genuinely.
- Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? 2 months ago:
Tradition dear boy
- Comment on Just do what you think is right to do ...but seriously, pls vote. 2 months ago:
I vote for both bears and twinks.
- Comment on Am I allergic to my dog, and if so, what solutions do I have? 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of good advice here already, so I’ll just add the potentially expensive (depending on insurance) next step: allergen immunotherapy. I’m about as allergic to dogs as you are, and some of the advice I got was “why not make them an outside dog?” — first of all, hell no, they’re family, and second, I lived in an apartment at the time, so that was impossible.
The immunotherapy, or allergy shots, starts with the tests others mentioned. They can do skin pricks or blood draw, and to save you a lot of misery, I suggest the blood draw. Then you get vials drawn up that effectively tincture allergens over time into your body for about three-ish years, so this is a time commitment.
Some advice on allergy medications I’ve received: avoid Claritin and Benadryl due to their links to dementia in long term use, try Zyrtec and Xyzal to see which works best (Costco/sam’s has the best value for these).
A higher MERV filter in my air unit, based on what it could handle, and an air purifier helped me a lot.
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 2 months ago:
Because we need merchandising uwu
- Comment on Yeah but the one accessory she usually removed was the little swastika pin. 2 months ago:
The interrobang is back‽
- Comment on Has "Self-Driving" devolved? 2 months ago:
There are also many more Teslas on the road, and the “full self driving” incidents are more widely reported on since the new ownership likes to overpromise and vastly underdeliver. Other commenters have already addressed the tech side, but a few years ago, the Tesla-specific FSD was found to be active right up until a split second before some prolific collisions with emergency vehicles, leading to speculation on liability. Tesla aside, I think it’s just laziness on the part of drivers used to FSD doing the menial tasks of driving.
- Comment on Why is selling fake medicine legal in the USA? 2 months ago:
And, on whack-a-mole, when one vape import gets banned, another company starts right up doing a very marginally different chemical mixture and ships it out. They can say “well you banned X, but technically not X” and the whole process starts over.
- Comment on Hi-yah 2 months ago:
And a badass confrontation line
