There’s a Sawbones episode on fluoride and its effects on teeth (and why it’s good for you), if you like to be educated and entertained at the same time, I highly recommend listening to it! Great podcast.

And yes, fluoride is good for adult teeth, too.

Is this satire? SoaD is one of the most political bands I know?

Daring to suggest that MacOS is enjoyable to use is also something that will get a lot of people angry for no reason.

Not trying to be mean, but why not use fractions if you need to be more precise? If you need to express “halfway between 20°C and 21°C” you could just say 20.5°C.

Here, I’m not who you replied to, but you’ll get my “uninteresting” fact anyway: The US customary units (at least most of them) are defined using the metric system.

Oh, fanfiction for me, too. My partner does know this about me though. I can’t actually think of anything that they don’t know about, hmm.

What’s best is probably hosting your own git server (for hopefully obvious reasons).

Your comment says “Microsoft Studio Code” and “MS Code”, neither of which is a thing (as I tried to point out). The actual software you’re talking about is “(MS) Visual Studio” and “(MS) Visual Studio Code”, and that naming convention is pretty common for products (and other things) that are different but similar (think Photoshop and Photoshop Express, PSX and PS2, C and C++ etc.).

Are you talking about Visual Studio Community/Professional/Enterprise and Visual Studio Code? Because if so, I don’t really agree. Visual Studio is an IDE (VS Community is the free tier) whereas VS Code is a code editor (as the name implies).

It’s more like they’re using the wrong sign for addition / using addition instead of subtraction to confuse you. The shepherds start with x sheep. They pay 30 and have x - 30. They should get 5 back, but they only get 3, so they have x - 30 + 3 = x - 27. If the sons had given them the last 2, they’d have x - 27 + 2 = x - 25 = x - 30 + 5.

If you want to view it from the trolls’ side, you need only multiply everything with (-1).

I wholeheartedly agree, people use the term “AI” nowadays to refer to a very specific subcategory of DNNs (LLMs), but yeah, it used to refer to any more or less “”“smart”“” algorithm performing… Something on a set of input parameters. SVMs are AI, decision forests are AI, freaking kNN is AI, “artificial intelligence” is a loosely defined concept, any algorithm that aims to mimic human behaviour can be called AI and I’m getting a bit tired of hearing people say “AI” when they mean gpt-4 or stable diffusion.

Something that has happened to me is that I had set the network interface in qBit but the the interface that my VPN used had changed (disabled and enabled) and the interface in qBit didn’t actually exist anymore. Kind of a niche issue, but yeah.

Liszt.

Someone else here said to spend time reflecting, but I found this only made things (edit) worth worse for myself.

My secret weapon is distraction, it’s the only thing that truly helps when I’m in a, uh, dangerous (for me) mood. Distracting yourself with things you love doing helps distancing yourself from the situation and makes you realise there is more to life than your ex.

No amount of talking about my feelings or reflecting on the relationship has helped me as much as listening to music, drawing, baking, exploring new online communities etc.

You know how people will say if you start lying to yourself that you’re great and happy, you’ll eventually start believing it? It’s similar to that, I think, you remind yourself often enough that there are other things you love and that make life worth living.

So, yeah, time + filling your life to the brim with things and activities you love.

(not OP) I’m curious, are you not able to “play back” songs in your head then, for example? This is such a foreign idea to me - sometimes there are melodies playing in my head without me even initiating it, in a way. I’m wondering if there are people this doesn’t happen to.

Not who you replied to, but you can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine (archive.org) to view an older snapshot of the site

I told myself the same lie, week after week, until some day I realised it wasn’t a lie anymore.

Really feels like bottom of the barrel r/funny stuff, the kinda stuff we really don’t need to be bringing back…

Also if your partner just died for three days I think you should get a pass at being angry and upset but maybe temporary death is more common than I thought.

I’m not sure if this is a joke or not, but in case it isn’t: Windows isn’t stable at all, third party drivers or not. I’ve never had a Windows PC that I would describe as stable, including the preconfigured laptops and towers I’ve had. They all bluescreen and crash or freeze more or less regularly (but stability isn’t what I care about when I run Windows).

Whatever the fuck my brain runs. It’s done a pretty okay job keeping me alive, and that’s worth something, right?