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Comment on Do you wash your carpets? in ~life.home_improvement
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Comment on Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is available now in ~tech
TallFroGuy LinkOne hour on: No web client, no searching for posts or hashtags, no followers tab (ONLY algorithm page) and the algorithm is dominated by all the existing instagram verified accounts that came...One hour on:
No web client, no searching for posts or hashtags, no followers tab (ONLY algorithm page) and the algorithm is dominated by all the existing instagram verified accounts that came across so it winds up being just as inane as the twitter's blue-dominated algorithm.I'm going back to twitter with BlueBlocker.
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Comment on Does anyone else habitually go unshod for health reasons? in ~health
TallFroGuy Link ParentClinical trial as per my other comment. Hookworms naturally have a mild immunosuppressant ability to keep the body from rejecting them. The theory is that after evolving with that for tens of...Clinical trial as per my other comment.
Hookworms naturally have a mild immunosuppressant ability to keep the body from rejecting them. The theory is that after evolving with that for tens of thousands of years we basically dewormed the world in two generations and that's where the rise of allergy-ridden children has come from.
Since no ethics board is going to approve intentionally putting parasites in children, we're unlikely to ever prove that theory but it does have mild clinically measurable effects on adults with certain symptoms so when the trial was over basically all the participants choose to keep them (hookworms can't complete their reproductive cycle within the gut so we will only ever have less than the 40ish we were initially infected with). In a few years they'll die off naturally or I can go to any chemist and have them gone within 48 hours.
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Comment on Does anyone else habitually go unshod for health reasons? in ~health
TallFroGuy Link ParentCoeliac disease, too. I was given a bandaid squirted with 40-44 microscopic larvae as part of a clinical trial and unless I get in the habit of pooping on the ground and walking on it, that's all...Coeliac disease, too. I was given a bandaid squirted with 40-44 microscopic larvae as part of a clinical trial and unless I get in the habit of pooping on the ground and walking on it, that's all I'll ever have (at least for a few more years until they naturally die off).
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Comment on Does anyone else habitually go unshod for health reasons? in ~health
TallFroGuy LinkNot I. I literally have hookworms intentionally for medical reasons but grimy feet just ick me out the way wearing boots in bed or sand in socks would.Not I. I literally have hookworms intentionally for medical reasons but grimy feet just ick me out the way wearing boots in bed or sand in socks would.
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Comment on What do you like to do when you’re sick? in ~talk
TallFroGuy LinkBinging "Whose line is it anyway" episodes until my cheeks hurt from laughing was my go to. To the extent that I would put off enjoying more seasons once I was on the mend so that I would have...Binging "Whose line is it anyway" episodes until my cheeks hurt from laughing was my go to. To the extent that I would put off enjoying more seasons once I was on the mend so that I would have episodes left to watch next time I was sick.
Sadly when they rebooted it they finally bothered to copyright claim the older seasons so I can't just go to whoselineonline and watch them all in one place now. Last time I couldn't even figure out which (if any) streaming services have the rights to older episodes in my country and just watched watched random netflix stuff instead while mad about it.
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Comment on Diablo IV discussion thread in ~games
TallFroGuy Link ParentI'm so glad it's not just me in this camp lmao. I learned more from listening to a "diablo lore explained" youtube video than I did from hundreds of hours of arguing with my lanbuddies which aura...I'll preface this by saying Diablo 2 was one of the most important games of my adolescence. ... Story wise, I have no clue what the hell is going on, but I've never really been into the lore.
I'm so glad it's not just me in this camp lmao.
I learned more from listening to a "diablo lore explained" youtube video than I did from hundreds of hours of arguing with my lanbuddies which aura was best.
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Comment on What would cause moral panic if invented today? in ~talk
TallFroGuy Link ParentI'd argue that both had and has a moral panic around it already lol.I'd argue that both had and has a moral panic around it already lol.
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Comment on VR headsets, what do I need to know? in ~tech
TallFroGuy Link ParentThere's some good deals out there second hand from people (like me) who bought one and then after the few months went back to other consoles.There's some good deals out there second hand from people (like me) who bought one and then after the few months went back to other consoles.
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Comment on VR headsets, what do I need to know? in ~tech
TallFroGuy Link ParentI promised myself this wouldn't be me but in the end it was lol. Wound up selling it to a mate who wanted to try it for $200 on the theory that if I ever want to try it again, technology will only...I promised myself this wouldn't be me but in the end it was lol. Wound up selling it to a mate who wanted to try it for $200 on the theory that if I ever want to try it again, technology will only be cheaper (and then literally the same month I shipped it they announced a $100 price rise lmao)
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Comment on VR headsets, what do I need to know? in ~tech
TallFroGuy Link ParentSeconded. I bought my Quest with the cable to play a much wider library of PC games but the fact that I needed to have a cable plugged in AND clear room in the same room as my desktop PC as...I’ve logged probably 4x as much Beat Saber on because there’s zero overhead to just grabbing it for a 10 minute break between doing other things.
Seconded. I bought my Quest with the cable to play a much wider library of PC games but the fact that I needed to have a cable plugged in AND clear room in the same room as my desktop PC as opposed to just marking out some free space anywhere in the house meant I just always opted for the simpler headset-only games instead.
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Comment on Any recommendations that are on audiobooks.com? in ~books
TallFroGuy Link ParentI was initially very disappointed by this thread because those books and many others aren't available in my region (Australia) but looks like a free VPN to the US is all it takes to add them to my...I was initially very disappointed by this thread because those books and many others aren't available in my region (Australia) but looks like a free VPN to the US is all it takes to add them to my library.
Just as well I can access the US library because they charge their subscription in US dollars and it is therefore about twice as much as I pay per Audible credit.
The Blade Itself is now downloading and I'll give it a read :)
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Comment on Any recommendations that are on audiobooks.com? in ~books
TallFroGuy Link ParentThanks, most of these are new to me and the few that aren't I enjoyed so I'll work my way through them :) Someone gave me the advice to just read the short stories as the fun little B movie...Thanks, most of these are new to me and the few that aren't I enjoyed so I'll work my way through them :)
The Witcher (Andrej Sapkowski, read by Peter Kenny) (tbh, didn't love these, but many people do)
Someone gave me the advice to just read the short stories as the fun little B movie fantasy horror flicks they are and then stop when it gets to the ongoing storylines and that was perfect for me.
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Comment on Any recommendations that are on audiobooks.com? in ~books
TallFroGuy Link ParentLinking this bit of the text from your first link to show just how bad the numbers are. He's actually turned down great deals himself in order to bring attention to how bad the deal is for all the...Linking this bit of the text from your first link to show just how bad the numbers are. He's actually turned down great deals himself in order to bring attention to how bad the deal is for all the smaller authors:
If you want details, the current industry standard for a digital product is to pay the creator 70% on a sale. It’s what Steam pays your average creator for a game sale, it’s what Amazon pays on ebooks, it’s what Apple pays for apps downloaded. (And they’re getting heat for taking as much as they are. Rightly so.)
Audible pays 40%. Almost half. For a frame of reference, most brick-and-mortar stores take around 50% on a retail product. Audible pays indie authors less than a bookstore does, when a bookstore has storefronts, sales staff, and warehousing to deal with.
I knew things were bad, which is why I wanted to explore other options with the Kickstarter. But I didn’t know HOW bad. Indeed, if indie authors don’t agree to be exclusive to Audible, they get dropped from 40% to a measly 25%. Buying an audiobook through Audible instead of from another site literally costs the author money.
The book "Chokepoint Capitalism" is "audible-exclusive - as in, audible is excluded from where you can buy it" because the author only agreed to publish it Amazon would take the DRM off and they simply won't allow even a single book without their DRM. Hearing its chapter on Amazon's book deals really showed how it's all even worse than I thought. At one point book publishers (already an anti-competitive ologopily) got together and accepted a deal with apple that gave them even LESS money per sale just to break Amazon's monopoly bargaining power, only for Amazon to turn around and successfully sue them for colluding to raise prices for consumers by doing so.
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Any recommendations that are on audiobooks.com?
I'm big on audiobooks and trying to move away from the Audible monopoly starting with the book "Chokepoint Capitalism" (which is about monopolies like that). Unfortunately, the smaller library is...
I'm big on audiobooks and trying to move away from the Audible monopoly starting with the book "Chokepoint Capitalism" (which is about monopolies like that).
Unfortunately, the smaller library is hampered even more by the dodgy search (I just finished two books in a trilogy, why are you showing me the spanish translations of the author's other books?) and I'm struggling to fill my wishlist which has never been a problem on Audible.
So far I'm really liking Chokepoint Capitalism but looking for any suggestions once that's done. I've read a decent amount of mainstream fantasy (Stormlight archive, Wheel of Time, Robin Hobb, Tolkien), some popular scifi (Aasimov, w40k stuff, recently enjoyed "Armor" by Steakly), a lot of light nonfiction about finance, history and pop psychology ("The Big Short" or anything by Michael Lewis, "Debt: The first 5000 years", "Girt", "The man who mistook his wife for a hat") and have recently been on a big Ken Follett kick (historical fantasy?)
Any good listens that I should give a go?
PS. sorry for sounding like a shill post for audiobooks.com. I swear I'm not trying to drive clicks that's just the name of the company and recent Brandon Sanderson drama has made me aware of how much power Amazon has over the only way I consume literature nowadays
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
TallFroGuy Link ParentGMing is great. That was going to be my jam this year until I ran out of juice on that too lol Highly recommend doing MS-paint-level scrawling doodles of these and posting them anyway. It's my...GMing is great. That was going to be my jam this year until I ran out of juice on that too lol
My players have requested I draw so many moments from the campaign (mostly jokingly but I do actually want to).
Highly recommend doing MS-paint-level scrawling doodles of these and posting them anyway. It's my favourite type of DND content to consume because you just get a goofy out of context snapshot instead of the pages of backstory and context that always appears when I try to explain my best campaign moments to others.
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
TallFroGuy LinkThe drawing zoomies have been eluding me ever since I quit caffeine but always on the lookout for something that strikes a spark again. Anyone out there with the opposite problem (too many...The drawing zoomies have been eluding me ever since I quit caffeine but always on the lookout for something that strikes a spark again.
Anyone out there with the opposite problem (too many exciting ideas, not enough time)?
Mate I barely wash my towels.