The quality of research done by people who advocate for “do your own research” is only as good as their education.

I have a friend who is my age, graduated college with me and likes to do his own research. I love the guy, but his ability to parse complex information is simply bad. He thinks that his own research on medical issues is superior to that of all doctors simply because he interprets what he reads in whatever way he wants it to mean. He never even tries to debunk anything.

I love the guy, and I’ve known him more than half my life now, but I have to simply humor him on medical advice.

I won’t use Brave for the same reasons, but not having uBO was the worst part of switching to iOS until Orion released.

To add on to this, Tidal and Deezer are excellent alternatives to Spotify.

Orion on iOS supports uBO too. It’s from the Kagi search engine people. I’ve been using it for a while now, and I like it a lot.

There are NO LIGHTS!

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve had this experience too, and also since I turned on the feature in Voyager to track votes per user, you’re at a +7 with me

I’ve thought about pulling a Schumer and sending a very strongly worded letter

My stupid shampoo brand reformulated and started putting wheat and corn protein in the mix, neither of which I can tolerate in my diet. I had painful zits all over my scalp and one particularly painful one in my ear.

I didn’t realize I have to read the ingredients for my fucking soap now too.

Garnier Fructis, BTW

Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

I have this thought experiment I have been running in my head for years now. Don’t read too much into this, it’s just daydreaming.

Essentially, this existence is something that can be experienced from some higher dimension where other beings live. For whatever reason, they choose to enter our dimension and live a full life here before waking back up in their own.

Assuming the ‘me’ that exists here at least resembles the ‘Me’ in that higher dimension, why would I choose to come to this part of human history?

The answer is that I came to witness the height of human civilization and technology before that same technology ends humanity.

</daydream>

I sincerely hope I’m wrong about that, but the curses of this age have yet to be truly felt in my opinion.

You’re a history buff. Do you think that humanity has ever dealt with a greater concentration of wealth and power?

That’s fuckin’ combat. The man in the black pyjamas, Dude. Worthy fuckin’ adversary.

Very cool. Looks professional!

I printed a seven bay case, but for 3.5” spinning rust instead of SSDs. It was an ambitious thing to print when I had just started printing. It took something like 300 hours of printing and 4 spools of filament (inflated due to reprints).

If you have not watched the movie, The Big Lebowski, then you should sometime. It’s one of my favorite comedies, and even close to 30 years after its release, it remains really funny.

Incidentally, you’re commenting in the Lebowski community, and people were quoting lines to you, which you are clearly unfamiliar with.

Just assholes like yourself

This is a steal for $4

Bitch, I’m adorable

VEGETA YES

Kaio-what?