Passive vs active engagement.

These plates are a passive, very visual reminder. A tracker app requires you actively use the app, and not consciously/subconsciously underestimate portions.

Neither is a holistic solution, both require buy-in, each is going to have different effectiveness for different people.

What execs? The Prequels are basically the highest budget indie film project ever. Lucas had total financial and creative control.

Been watching through and was really thrown by the end of Season 2, where Tilly just… knows a Queen that’s integral to the plot? Apparently there’s a companion show of short side episodes? (also how the hell is she still a cadet? that whole side plot seems to just have been forgotten except for the occasional remark)

The character was interesting, the show has it’s ups and downs, but that’s only a tad better than Palpatine showing back up in a special™️ Fortnite event.

He let the crazy veil slip a bit during the Thai cave rescue drama, but Covid seems to have really pushed him over the edge.

Also you generally want the most financially prudent decision a business can make not to be “sit on the money until it’s worth more”.

Inflation encourages spending money, deflation encourages saving money.

Ah.

Yeah that’s kind of a dick move.

Halal/kosher is basically a “farm to table” supply chain requirement. Especially if you’re relying on donations it wouldn’t be simple to source. I wouldn’t expect any charity really to refuse supplies or try to source a ‘duplicate’ set of supplies for a minority of the people they serve. If they were in a Muslim majority area it would make sense to go to the effort.

…people didn’t just… stop researching fluoride after the 40s/50s. Newer studies have found less of a dramatic benefit, likely because brushing with fluoridated toothpaste is more common, but there is still a significant benefit. The countries that reduced water fluoridation and saw little to no change have universal free dental care for children.

A lot of the pushback relies on pointing out that there are diminishing returns. Multiple sources of fluoride don’t seem to have compounding benefits. But that completely ignores that the goal is to raise the baseline.

Not all kids are good at brushing their teeth, not all parents care or know to put it as a priority if they’re struggling. It’s not going to impact virtually anyone above the poverty line, but for the people who need it most it absolutely helps.

Fluoridating water is ridiculously cheap way to add a layer of safety. A ~15-25% reduction in cavities is absolutely worth pursuing.

So you just didn’t read the article?

One person hired a metal detector to hunt down the wedding ring they lost when camping in Sussex and found it within 20 minutes. Another rented a planer at £11 a day to fix two doors in her flat

A handheld pressure washer is £12 a day, while garden shears are £3.50

Renting is the “subscription” you’re complaining about. You’re right that rent-to-own is a scam at best, but unlike most digital subscriptions you’re using the thing to do something. Like with all rentals there’s a break even line where you would’ve been better buying the thing if you use it often/long enough. But the service existing is not itself a bad thing.

This isn’t new, everything has it’s place.

We rented a trench digger for the day from Home Depot in the 90s instead of buying one for thousands of dollars. That trench didn’t magically go away when we returned the tool. That we didn’t have access to the tool anymore was the plan.

Renting a U-haul for a move is incredibly more efficient than daily driving a giant box truck. Somehow, the things stay moved once the truck is returned.

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The working solution being 5 child comments deep on a wrong solution flagged as correct is my favorite.

Fair enough.

Top to bottom the design of the thing is just a testament to arrogance and “engineer’s disease”.

The DVDs are niceish, I bought them when they came out too. But they’re the same copy from when they made the LaserDiscs a decade before and not super great quality, even for DVD.

It’s… odd, that a movie with as much cultural impact as Star Wars you can’t view the version that created that impact in high quality.

Is it cannibalism? It feels more like a (talking) bear eating a human.

I do feel like the Stormtooper point got lost on Lucas too by RotJ honestly. In Empire they do pretty good except when they’re, again, explicitly trying to lure the hero into a trap. RotJ has the most weirdness of the originals and probably the most EU ‘redemptions’/revisions. With stuff like “here’s what was really up with the Ewoks”, Boba not dying, etc.

It bugs me that everyone harps on the controller. It’s far and away the least suspect part of this.

Multiple generations of hardware iterations by many competing companies, well defined and understood software interface options, literally billions of hours of testing, easily replaceable, several axes of control, and a huge portion of the population has at least some experience with one.

There’s a reason the military uses them when they can.

km/h =/= mph

30 km/h is effectively 20mph.

Most American cities you won’t get there faster either, for all the reasons laid out in the video.

Anything post-2022, and probably post-2020, is suspect on Reddit because it became abundantly clear how steerable it was and how easy to generate sales as long as you didn’t do anything too “suspicious”. Current ‘ad guides’ tell advertisers not to link things because just saying the name reads as more authentic.

Before that it was legitimately people discussing, e.g., the best flashlight for x-y-z purposes. But a decent amount of old stuff has been gutted by people deleting their posts/accounts.

The trash-guides they posted are for a majority of the “arr” stack (Sonarr, Radarr, etc) that monitor stuff you ask for and automate a lot of the download handling.

Jellyfin is a FOSS media server alternative to Plex. They each have their minor pluses and minuses. Personally plex has been easier to get non-techie friends/family to use.

Docker is a containerization system. Basically instead of setting up a physical computer, or one or more virtual machines, you have a self contained bundle of everything a program needs to run that is linked to storage/network stuff on your actual system. Then they talk to each other.

One thing to keep in mind is that this is all immensely scalable. Especially if you don’t care about long term storage of a bunch of shows/movies. You can set it up on your personal PC and it’ll work fine. Set it up on a dedicated machineand it’ll be a bit more reliable. Moving stuff around is generally pretty painless. ( as long as the trash-guides or some similar standardization is followed )