[–] 9 points 1 month ago

Fed Up by Daniel E. Lieberman. It's pretty depressing talking about corruption of the food industry, diet gurus fleecing people of their money, and how ineffective most diets are. It's written by an anthropologist who discusses where our diets come from and compared historically to what different cultures ate at various times. Very informative, very interesting, but pretty depressing about how shitty people are profiting from vulnerable people just wanting hope and health.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Cars have windows and can move.

    Houses have windows and cannot move.

    Therefore it's not the windows that make the car move, but something else entirely.

    • PJ Evans
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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Mine is 13 currently. She started pulling away when she was 11. I was waiting to be the biggest moron she's ever met by now. Earlier this summer though, I took a week off from work. She didn't go into her regular summer camp and just wanted to stay home and be broody. So, I went outside and started cleaning out some trees (still cleaning up from Helene)

    She came out to help. We started a fire together and kept pulling trees and branches from the yard, burned a big stack of firewood that got termites, She drove the lawnmower around pulling a wagon to gather stuff. She even drove my tractor for about three minutes before panicking and running it into a tree.

    That week, something changed. She's now back to being a daddy's girl. We watched the world cup together, she asks to ride with me when I need to go run errands. She and her mom have mended and became closer again for some reason. It's been great to have my big girl back, and I pray it's not just temporary. My nine year old acts more like a teenager now than the teen does.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Three women were sitting down and knitting onesies talking about being pregnant for the first time. The first woman reaches down and takes a pill out of her purse and pops it in her mouth. The other women just stare at her. The first woman says "It's a calcium supplement, I want my baby to have strong bones." then she goes back to knitting.

    The second woman reaches into her purse and grabs a pill and then pops that into her mouth. The other two women stop and stare at her. The second woman announces "It's vitamin e, I want my baby to have strong hair and good skin" The second woman then resumes her knitting.

    The third woman then reaches into her purse and takes a pill and pops that one into her mouth. The other two women stop and stare at her. She says "it's thalidomide, I don't know how to knit sleeves."

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Why it matters is because there are different workarounds for different games. Some can run just fine in a VM. Others have wine tricks or proton tricks that you can use. Still others run dockerized on winboat.

    Being evasive just means that people have to give you generalized solutions that may or may not work for your particular scenario. Help could exist for you, but you'll never know.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    FreeBSD is a massive pain in the butt, the only thing that really saves it is their handbook. The documentation is incredible , so if you're willing to put in the hours it's a great staple operating system.

    I do love the pkg system now, it definitely beats trying to build everything out of the ports tree. It's a fun thing to play with, but I don't suggest it to people for a daily driver unless they really want to learn about it.

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