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Comment on World's top condom maker Karex to raise prices sharply as Iran war strains supply chain in ~health
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Comment on World's top condom maker Karex to raise prices sharply as Iran war strains supply chain in ~health
myrrh Link Parent...anecdotally, many women i've known who started their families as teenagers fit the demographic of folks championing teen pregnancy......anecdotally, many women i've known who started their families as teenagers fit the demographic of folks championing teen pregnancy...
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Comment on “60s lounge” and Laufey in ~music
myrrh Link Parent...methinks that was a mis-typed "new age"......methinks that was a mis-typed "new age"...
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Comment on Young people are falling behind, but not because of AI in ~finance
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...historically, the answer has always been fresh horizons for a new generation; they never solve the prior generations' problems so much as leave them behind to occupy unburdened new spaces.........historically, the answer has always been fresh horizons for a new generation; they never solve the prior generations' problems so much as leave them behind to occupy unburdened new spaces...
...i use horizons and spaces metaphorically: the temporary autonomous zone could be physical lands, polities, societies, technologies, arts, markets, wherever novel social intercourse sows a new commerce free of zero-sum rent-seeking, at least for a little while...
...from one perspective, those old problems die with the old generations, but from another they always evolve to colonise unspoiled spaces until a fresh horizon emerges elsewhere, waves of innovation, exploitation, and atrophy washing across the sea of civilisation...
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Comment on No-stack web development in ~tech
myrrh Link...i'm old and my beard's pretty grey so my interactivity sensibilities lean vanilla, but i've never used more than a basic text editor, image editor, and FTP......i'm old and my beard's pretty grey so my interactivity sensibilities lean vanilla, but i've never used more than a basic text editor, image editor, and FTP...
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Comment on Do I not need to use blue light filter on my screens if I already have eyeglasses with Anti-Reflective coating? in ~talk
myrrh (edited )Link...my eyeglass providers offer two types of coatings: antireflective and blue-violet filtering...the former has no significant effect on blue light but you can recognise the latter (even with the......my eyeglass providers offer two types of coatings: antireflective and blue-violet filtering...the former has no significant effect on blue light but you can recognise the latter (even with the 'clear' option) by a subtle warm color-shift when holding the lens over bright white paper...
...as for whether they affect circadian rhythm to the same extent as display night mode, i'd venture not; the lens manufacturers claim only a 20% reduction in circadian blue light, which is a pretty negligible difference even presuming that the lenses wrap around your entire field of peripheral vision, which is itself unlikely...
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Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music
myrrh Link...is ex eye too hard/prog/post-rock for your pop-rock criteria?..`cause colin stetson kind of owns the heavy sax crown so far this century, methinks......is ex eye too hard/prog/post-rock for your pop-rock criteria?..`cause colin stetson kind of owns the heavy sax crown so far this century, methinks...
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Comment on Zombo.com - Now under new management in ~tech
myrrh Link...why does it load so slowly?..is it still running on a celeron?.....why does it load so slowly?..is it still running on a celeron?..
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Comment on From $250 million megadeal to empty offices: the unraveling of Bad Robot in ~movies
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...yeah, the early episodes are just as brilliant as the latter but if someone's turned off by its immersive pacing and brooding themes, those remain throughout; appreciation really demands that......yeah, the early episodes are just as brilliant as the latter but if someone's turned off by its immersive pacing and brooding themes, those remain throughout; appreciation really demands that viewers inhabit the experience with focused attention in a manner antithetical to lighter-attention passive consumption...
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Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk
myrrh Link Parent...the metatextual form of house of leaves is fun to watch unfold but its characterisations i found really sophomoric, kind of the two-dimensional stereotypes you often see inexperienced authors......the metatextual form of house of leaves is fun to watch unfold but its characterisations i found really sophomoric, kind of the two-dimensional stereotypes you often see inexperienced authors lean upon...
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Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk
myrrh (edited )Link...possibly the most prominent example of a memetic antagonist is robert chambers' king in yellow and countless works inspired by it; on a lighter note there's monty python's funniest joke in the......possibly the most prominent example of a memetic antagonist is robert chambers' king in yellow and countless works inspired by it; on a lighter note there's monty python's funniest joke in the world, athough in that instance the idea is more of a memetic hazard than adversarial agency...
...two RPG examples which've recently endeared me are emmy allen's gardens of ynn + stygian library, both of which feature brilliant examples of conceptual foes which i'd rather not spoil in open text...
gardens + library spoilers
the idea of thorns has brought the gardens of ynn to ruin.
the stygian library is haunted by conceptual wells which erase ideas. -
Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
myrrh Link Parent...finally broke down and enabled alphabetical clues for the final six words: ohmigosh, that makes it so much easier!..finished in just a couple minutes afterward......finally broke down and enabled alphabetical clues for the final six words: ohmigosh, that makes it so much easier!..finished in just a couple minutes afterward...
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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
myrrh Link Parent...ugh!..banging my head against the last 7 of 77 words, trying to finish without using any clues......ugh!..banging my head against the last 7 of 77 words, trying to finish without using any clues...
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Comment on Can we talk about rice cookers? in ~food
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...i lived my first thirty years cooking rice in pots on the stovetop, so my vietnamese wife boggled my mind when she unpacked a rice cooker upon moving in; seemed like an absolutely frivolous......i lived my first thirty years cooking rice in pots on the stovetop, so my vietnamese wife boggled my mind when she unpacked a rice cooker upon moving in; seemed like an absolutely frivolous gadget cluttering our kitchen countertop...conversely, she'd lived a quarter-century never realising that rice can be prepared on a stove!..
...it took a good decade cycling through a series of hand-me-downs before she finally won me over, and since she'd always said her dream was to someday have a zojirushi, we bought their flagship model for our fifteenth anniversary, our first brand-new rice cooker: i think we went through at least a half-dozen brands those first fifteen years, and the zojirushi really is that much better...
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Comment on Can we talk about rice cookers? in ~food
myrrh Link...can't go wrong with any zojirushi, really, and they offer models catering to every segment of the market depending upon how simple or sophisticated you want to get with the feature set.........can't go wrong with any zojirushi, really, and they offer models catering to every segment of the market depending upon how simple or sophisticated you want to get with the feature set...
...conversely, you can go very wrong with cuisinart or kitchen-aid, and the performance difference is profound, but they'll still get the job done if you don't really care about the quality of your rice; it's all edible...
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Comment on Interesting material types for fantasy resources/macguffins other than crystals or metals? in ~creative
myrrh Link...sentient kombucha with psychic abilities......sentient kombucha with psychic abilities...
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Comment on Does anyone have experience exchanging actual letters with a pen pal? in ~talk
myrrh Link...i had a south korean penpal back in 1986 or `87; kind of a random program in which our honors english class participated...as noted above, sustaining the dialog was perennially challenging......i had a south korean penpal back in 1986 or `87; kind of a random program in which our honors english class participated...as noted above, sustaining the dialog was perennially challenging...
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...i was hoping someone might drop in with IPA; thanks!..i hadn't cracked-out those rusty pronounciation symbols since 1978... (awry rhymes with SAWree; fixed the breve diacritics i couldn't......i was hoping someone might drop in with IPA; thanks!..i hadn't cracked-out those rusty pronounciation symbols since 1978...
(awry rhymes with SAWree; fixed the breve diacritics i couldn't discern on my tiny desktop display)
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
myrrh (edited )Link Parent(FŌtō-GRĂFē and fəTŎ-grəfē, ŎW-rē and ə-RĪ) ...i first learned to read and picked up the formative bulk of my vocabulary abroad, contextually but without english-speaking peers nor broadcast...(FŌtō-GRĂFē and fəTŎ-grəfē, ŎW-rē and ə-RĪ)
...i first learned to read and picked up the formative bulk of my vocabulary abroad, contextually but without english-speaking peers nor broadcast media, so there are a lot of words i tend to pronounce in fashion which makes perfect sense to a self-taught six-year-old...
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
myrrh Link Parent...i'm a native english speaker and experience a similar phenomenon with words i've learned through reading versus hearing: for example, photography/photography and awry/awry are each pairs of two......i'm a native english speaker and experience a similar phenomenon with words i've learned through reading versus hearing: for example, photography/photography and awry/awry are each pairs of two entirely different words which happen to share the same meaning and spelling...
(i don't have an internal monolog but i do pronounce words in my head while reading)
...it's a common narrative and certainly dominated the zeitgeist fifty years ago, but these days i see a lot of red hats doubling-down that demographic...