Azdeus
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1 hour ago, Hurlshort said:
I wouldn't do it at 99/1. I consider my life worth more than that, and money certainly doesn't buy happiness.
True, it doesn't buy happiness, but it surely helps
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2 hours ago, Keyrock said:
The type of person that is likely to take that coin flip is impulsive and reckless enough that they are also very likely to live an unsustainably extravagant lifestyle and wind up in a worse financial situation than before the coin flip within a year or two.
I'd take it. 5000000$US is more than I'll make in my lifetime, I'd have to work 166 years for that money. Living of the interest alone would be quite feasible.
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On 1/20/2024 at 1:52 AM, Hurlshort said:
It lets me skip the ads after 5 seconds, so I don't really care. They have to make money somehow.
Of course I also don't watch anything longer than 5-10 minutes on YT, so I probably don't use it like some of you.
I'd mind it less if all the ads I get weren't for gambling sites and similar ilk.
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 I've been in stitches for the past day since starting to watch Love is War, my eyes are hurting from all the tears from laughing and the pain in my sides. The show is really cuuuute, sometimes painfully so, but the english narrator really lifts it and turns the humour to new heights!
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33 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:
Heh, yeah, I used to buy this jam, and have a shelf full of the jars. The work great, although they are a bit ... dribbly.
ÂWith the hand arthritis stuff really large fridge-storage I've capitulated and have a few of those hard clear plastic type wares, because of weight. >.>
I figure I probably still have all kinds of trace residue from later banned chemicals, those ones that linger for decades. Haha. It might be interesting to have one of those types of blood analysis' done to find out. Maybe I don't wanna really know, tho - too late now.
I remember the house I grew up in had asbestos tiles on the exterior and such lovely things. I dare not even begin to ponder what lovely residues hide in the walls of the house I live in now. The past 200 years have had alot of interesting ideas about what makes good bases for wallpaper and paint
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1 hour ago, LadyCrimson said:
Oh, yeah, I've always used wooden spoons/metal utensils. Hubby has this one cheap plastic wide spatula that he's had for 30 years and won't toss but otherwise. I also bought a lot more glassware/storage containers, don't heat plastic in the microwave, tried other variations of non-stick cookware that's made now and the only nonstick I'm concerned with to begin with is frying pans, everything else is non-coated metal, ceramic crockpot, all that. But almost everything non-produce in a(US)Â grocery store comes in plastic, wrapped in plastic, maybe a plastic inner lining coating of some sort etc. Certain things come in glass jars but not tons.
My mother would always save things like plastic butter/other food containers to use over, so it wouldn't be landfill trash, and I've always done that but then now you wonder if you should be storing food in them (so I don't anymore) and ... can't win.
I meant the blood-brain barrier aspect specifically, not mirco plastic/plastic contamination is harmful general. Seemed like the stuff I read where some tests were confirming particles were small enough to bypass that (vs. theory) was a few years or so old. But I didn't specifically research that, just random articles.
Almost all my drinking glasses are old mustard containers.
I've never really liked teflon frying pans anyway, so it wasn't precisely a hurdle to not aquire one, and I've got close friends and family that are woodworkers so getting butterknives, spoons and such hasn't been much problem. A good spatula for scraping bowls has been harder though.
The blood-brain barrier thing too from what I remember, but memory is pretty faulty and the first few hundred episodes of that podcast has pretty scarce content info
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11 minutes ago, majestic said:
Is the buzz gone? Can I complain about the 10 hours I wasted on Starfield yet?
Two more minutes, majestic!
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1 hour ago, LadyCrimson said:
More than fair enough.
I think my point was mostly that trying to avoid microplastics (in modern civilization) at the moment is kind of a lost cause. Especially for an older person like myself.
I mean it may improve 20-50 years from now with more bans, laws, manufacturing changes. But I picture some reading such articles and thinking if they mostly stop using bottled water they will be "safe."Â Tap water is likely to have a lot of microplastics in it, as well, at this point - although probably less than bottled water - and most consumer "water filters" use ... well, plastics of some sort.
I believe the knowledge/studies re: microplastics breaching the blood-brain barrier is relatively newish and it's still unclear exactly how much ... er, saturation level? ... is significant re: serious/much higher health risks. Between that and all the other chemicals most of us - especially in larger metro areas/lifestyles ofc - are likely absorbing/already have within, I've even seen mention re: the safety/viability of general blood donating in some future date, assuming nothing changes. But that last is quite speculative, of course. It was an interesting speculation tho.
Edit: disclaimer, am not any expert on plastics or polluted human blood. Just vague remembrances of articles I've read during periods of time where allergies made me want to reduce plastic materials in the home/life. Outside of non-"plastic" bedding/blankets and most of my clothes (robe not included), I sorta gave up. Â
Not entirely to be honest, you also wouldn't be doing it only for yourself. Getting rid of teflon pans, plastic spatulas, bowls and stuff like that would be helpful overall if everyone did it. We'd still be stuck getting alot of it from different food processing industries, and that is for everyones favourite regulators to deal with. The biggest hurdle is that regulators can't keep up with the market, when scientists learn the problems of PFAS and ban it, the industry is moving onto the entirely... not different PFAS2 and it continues.
I wouldn't be saying that it's new new, concerns been going on for a while. I remember hearing concerns about it long ago.
59 minutes ago, majestic said:Look on the bright side, at least none of us come from Wittenoom.
Could be worse, could be living and working in Asbest
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6 hours ago, Keyrock said:
I'm going with Bobcat Goldthwait.
A true man of culture!
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13 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:
Headlines were telling me that there's a gajillion more plastic micro-mirco particles in even 1 liter of bottled water than previously thought. Which of course is probably not a great thing for anyone's long term health. Is this supposed to be a scary revelation?
*unwraps a plastic wrapped piece of sugarless candy to eat*
*drinks a drink from glass/metal that probably still has oodles of micro-plastic in it because of the water filtering they do in factory*
*drinks home-carbon filtered water that still likely has plastic because of filter structure in the metal unit, but hey at least it tastes better*
*wearing a robe largely made of "plastic"*
*walks on carpet largely made of "plastic"*
*sits in a room with a bunch of heated plastic all day*I'm still waiting for the 3rd arm mutation. Which would actually be handy. Two arms is so limiting. Humans should've evolved with more redundancy, darnit.
Quite so, most people are infact unaware of such things.
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4 hours ago, Zoraptor said:
Do they pledge eternal loyalty to the King of Sweden? If not Poles are at least a step up on the Dutch pledging eternal loyalty to the King of Spain in theirs.
(always wondered if the Spanish had a Queen whether the Dutch would change their anthem to pledge eternal loyalty to her instead like the Brits do with their anthem... probably not given Spain was a Republic for a while, unless they changed it to pledge loyalty to their President)
Heh, more like "Po szwedzkim zaborze/after the swedish occupation"
Our own national anthem didn't even originally reference Sweden att all, it was about the Nordics since we were in a "union" with Norway. They added two verses to our national anthem in 1910, were Sweden is mentioned.
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2 hours ago, Keyrock said:
As a Pole, I can tell you Sweden whooped up on my motherland several times too. Looooooong before my lifetime, though, so I harbour no ill feelings. In fact, I harbour no ill feeling for the common folk of any country, Russia included. The ruling elite, on the other hand, that's a different story. Granted, I'm not exactly a fan of the ruling elite in Murica either (on the off chance I haven't previously made that perfectly clear), so there's that.
We were big enough **** to still be refrenced in the Polish national anthem
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1 hour ago, BruceVC said:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/sweden-states-all-citizens-must-be-prepared-for-war/ar-AA1mDNPb
You guys are not part of NATO yet so are you guys prepared for war...we never know who Russia will invade next but it wont be a NATO memberÂ
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They're trying to drum up support for people to join the army and be less pissed off about the reinstated mandatory conscription. Not that I think they will have any real luck to get people to join the army, especially after sucking dicktators. It didn't end particularly well when the army told people to agree to contract that allows service on foreign ground to run the US errands in Afghanistan.
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It's sanctioned, I'll show it to you if you'll just step into my secret chamber here disguised as an airlock...
Even if I were to play as dogmatic sometime in the future, I'm not going to bring her along anywhere. I'd put her in stasis with disengage only in case of emergency if I could.
I think you can purchase it from explorators.
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33 minutes ago, Sarex said:
I fully get you, but I am still having fun seeing how broken I can get characters to be. Although I just got to chapter 4 so there is a good chance I may also get bored. Also knock on wood, I did not get any bad bugs, but from what I understand chapter 4 is where most of them start happening. I am hoping that when I get to that point I will just switch characters and try something else. Although to be fair to the game, the story is not bad, plus it's WH40k so there is a lot pulling me there. Xcom 2 had the same issues, but there the story was not enough to pull me to the end.
For me I saw the heavy bolter that gets +1 rate of fire for every kill, plus gloves that scale rate of fire with BS and reduce recoil.
Yeah, ch 4 went horrible broken for me.
The only reason why I've put up with it is the setting, anything that has to do with the mechanics causes me to grind my teeth.
@majestic It's pretty neat in that he pops 600-700 damage over an 3x3 area and that he get's AP back from one of his background feats, and as a massive bonus you don't have to have Argenta in your party
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6 minutes ago, Sarex said:
For me it's Argenta that went around and killed everyone, and I now see some broken ass item that you can get from vendors. It would actually be funny to see how many shots I can get off in one burst with her.
I've grown bored with all the bugs in the game now, not to mention how badly balanced it is with stacking bonuses and whatnot, but one of the bolters I got hold of somewhere kept upping its burstfire rate so that I empty the mag each burst. It also dealt demolitions/10 bonus damage on each shot. With concentrated fire and some other stacking items I splatted what should be a pure horror boss in the first salvo.
SpoilerThe Halo device monster. As someone that came across one while playing endgame Dark Heresy, it was ****ing dissapointing to say the least.
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On 1/6/2024 at 8:29 AM, MrBrown said:
I'm getting a sense of deja vu here, wasn't this already a thing?
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9 hours ago, Sarex said:
F that B, I still finished her in one round.
Had Pasqal oneshot her and half her entourage with his plasmagun. 2xINT (Not int BONUS) extra damage actually has the game feel like it's actually 40k-ish/Rogue Tradery.
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This one made my year
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23 hours ago, Gromnir said:Â Reveal hidden contents
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HA! Good Fun!
Not gonna lie, I got stuck watching the entire playlist with episodes, I'm not particularly interested in the topic but the comment reads are absolutely hilarious
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Watched Die Hard and Lethal Weapon.
And ate christmas food.
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3 hours ago, MrBrown said:
So, reading about these buffs you have to apply during combat, it sounds like Owlcat wanted to bring all that buffing from WotR to this one too. Or is this based on some GW rulesset?
The ruleset is their own butchering from the Fantasy Flight tabletop roleplaying games. D100 based, but the similarity ends after that and the attributes.
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Been out of that foot brace I've been hobbling around with and **** does my foot feel weird. And really weak. I usually walk on my toes when barefoot, but nope, not a chance. I often do some "exercises" when standing still, just using the toes on one foot to lift myself up, that's completely out the window. Not to mention the foot is amazingly swollen from fluid build ups.
The worst part was discovering that the foot is too weak to depress the clutch on my car. I curse myself a wee bit for buying a reinforced pressure plate for 500nm of engine power.
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On 12/16/2023 at 1:50 AM, LadyCrimson said:
Hubby test drove a few Lexus'. They weren't any better re: his back being unable to handle even average freeway road jitter w/out pain. I guess $80k cars have no better suspensions (or tires, perhaps). He was a little annoyed with the sales reps because he told them what/why he was looking for and they all gave him blank stares as if they didn't understand what "smooth/soft ride" and a bad back meant. One told him to try the 4x4 versions ...
Personally I think what he needs is a custom car cushion type thing, maybe even one with side supports/straps. I find no matter how great car suspensions are, or how fancy the leather covering is, most car *seats* are quite lacking on any actual padding. Although specific tires can make a big difference too sometimes. Maybe those car dealers all have performance tires that aren't very "soft riding."
99% of modern cars have low profile tyres, that would be the simplest way to get a more comfortable ride. When I upgraded my car to a sports suspension kit I there was a crazy difference when I put my winter tyres on that has just 10% larger profile.
When I grew up my neighbour had problems with his back and he needed a good ride in his cars, he only had Citroen cars. I don't know if that is even true today or if they are available in the US.
Edit; My grandfather also had lots of trouble with his back and hips, he only drove Mercedes because of that.
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What You've Done Today - We do not remember days, we remember moments
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I think I went to a zoo when I was 10, but I was so frigging ill that I can't remember. I know me and my mother went somewhere on leave from the hospital.