Yeah, temperature is weird like that.

I'm an American, but one with an education and an appreciation for the one true system, SI, which is pretty close to metric.

Meters and kilograms make total sense to me, even if I'm conditioned to think in feet and pounds. But temperatures in Celsius just don't click. I have to consciously try to remember some equivalent Fahrenheit values to get a feel for it.

If you told me the barometric pressure in Pascals I'd literally understand that more quickly, since I deal with pressure measurements and settings at work.

But then you are treated to the ultimate satisfaction of "YOUR SOUND CARD WORKS PERFECTLY"

An executive whose job it is to increase profits by systematically denying care to vulnerable people. (which also causes death, and more of it)

They didn't even need to meet that high a standard, lol, even though they should have.

I'm just your garden variety Lemmy computer nerd and I use oyster shell in my own little back yard pond. Baking soda is also useful, which is sodium bicarbonate rather than calcium carbonate.

The carbonates help keep pH stable and help the all-important bacteria in the filter do their thing.

Moo god, it's full of stars!

Don't forget that he was elected as a convicted felon, and those felonies were largely committed in the process of cheating in the 2016 election.

This is yet another page, or maybe a new chapter at most, in the same old story.

I'm a medicated ADHDer and I treat coffee like just yet another medication.

I was never a coffee drinker (or medicated in general) until my 40s. But now I literally prepare myself a cup of coffee in the morning and at lunch time, the same times I take my adderall. The combination is working great, even if it doesn't fix everything.

I agree with you, and I think weed really helped me even though I'm not using any right now.

Sometimes it's extremely beneficial to be chemically pushed into a good mood and satisfied with just existing, when otherwise existence just seems to be misery and pain.

But it is not a permanent fix. It's a band-aid while you find more permanent ways to improve your life. But band-aids can hurt to take off when you're done with them.

That's basically the average the country is left with between the decent people and the tens of millions who voted for idiotic racist rapist fascism three times in a row.

It's like a third don't care, a third do care, and a third are enthusiastically in favor.

And because of that, unfortnately, a lot of regular people also think the entire point of technology and wealth is to never have to do anything substantive.

Iirc it was indeed designed to be terrible back in the day to protect bits on machines by camming out.

Hospital Corp. of America

That is the most on-the-nose American-ass name I've ever seen for one of our companies, not just a healthcare one.

It's right up there with the places of worship named "church of god."