thesohoriots
@thesohoriots@lemmy.world
- Comment on Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris) 4 hours 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" 3 days 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 🤤 6 days 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? 2 weeks ago:
Steal his look at a reasonable price!
- Comment on Uno what really happened 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How embarrassing 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Tradition dear boy
- Comment on Just do what you think is right to do ...but seriously, pls vote. 1 month ago:
I vote for both bears and twinks.
- Comment on Am I allergic to my dog, and if so, what solutions do I have? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Because we need merchandising uwu
- Comment on Yeah but the one accessory she usually removed was the little swastika pin. 1 month 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
- Comment on Hi-yah 2 months ago:
He’s bound to have a couple shuriken on him though
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 2 months ago:
Federal holidays can be observed by private companies, but then who will run the movie theaters on Christmas for us to go watch CGI robots fight each other? Or serve us fast food on Labor Day? Etc etc. It’s stupid.
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 2 months ago:
National holidays don’t apply to private companies, apparently.
- Comment on Consume Saddam 2 months ago:
“So what’s going on here, just a routine owlectomy or a radical owlectomy?”
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 2 months ago:
I saw Snowpiercer on another comment so I assumed we were scraping the surface lol
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 2 months ago:
Wong Kar-Wai’s films, particularly his 90s Hong Kong vibes of Chungking Express and its spiritual counterpart Fallen Angels.
- Comment on Thank you! 3 months ago:
Boofaccino
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 3 months ago:
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
- Comment on The Crow reboot producer is surprised the original filmmakers aren't more accepting of the new movie 3 months ago:
“Why don’t they like it when we dig up Brandon Lee and take a shit in his mouth?” /s
- Comment on Pill bottle 3 months ago:
My dude, what are you putting in your iced tea
- Comment on What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security? 4 months ago:
Example of note: France won’t sell Sudafed, so bringing any might be a risk unless you have a printed and signed rx. That being said, their pharmacies are pretty good. Shoutout to the migraine medication with codeine in it.
- Comment on Defense 4 months ago:
Earn bonus points with the phrase “your reach exceeds your grasp”
- Comment on Daily discussion - what are your "unconventional" comfort films? 4 months ago:
I’ll throw on In the Mood for Love for the gorgeous atmosphere, colors, soundtrack, etc., never mind that it’s about two people trying to figure out how their respective spouses’ affair started.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
An interesting case (from a book which I unfortunately can’t remember the name of) from when Jack Benny’s career transitioned from radio to tv: he hated the laugh track, so much so that he demanded it be cut way back and lowered in volume. He also utilized it in an unexpected way: when he had a live audience in certain cases, if a joke or gag got an unexpected big laugh that he didn’t think deserved the reaction, he’d fill in a laugh track with a more muted response.
