You can reliably quickly tell if a news source is credible depending on how many appeals to emotion and superfluous adjectives/descriptors are found in their articles.

A lot of it is about parsing multiple sources, and extrapolating the data from the spin.

This site will show you how to tackle any stain.

Right? Somehow schools survived until at least the 2010s without every kid having a cellphone in them at all times.

Oh god, Ive been using them wrong this whole time?!?!

I guess I am so used to other social media I had assumed it was a like button.

Cat also lacks Smudge’s sass

Fr. I thought we would have gotten this out of our system by now.

True. I pretty much grew up on the “no smoking” wave through the late 90s/early 2000s and watched it disappear from public spaces.

It was a trip when my dad brought me to Detroit in my teens for a concert, and lit up inside a restaurant. I saw the server walking over briskly and thinking “Dad, wtf are you doing??”. But then she just dropped an ash tray on our table and went on her merry way.

Thats when I realized that the whole world hadn’t signed on to the whole “no smoking in public spaces” paradigm.

Screen time is definitely having a measureable impact on our ocular health

Over time, staring too long at screens can change the structure of the eyeball and lead to atrophy of the glands that keep it moist. Research is now pointing to excessive screen time for the rise in eye disorders, such as dry eye and myopia, which are becoming more common and affect more young people.

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While myopia or nearsightedness has a genetic component, it has been shown to progress faster in people who overuse screens. Human eyes can also become chronically dry if the meibomian glands — a sebaceous gland that helps create protective tear film — become obstructed or atrophy. Meibomian glands secrete meibum, which is a specialized substance containing lipids that protects the eye surface.

It’s different than the watery tears that flush the eye. Without a healthy tear film, eyes become dry, sensitive to light and irritated. Research has linked staring at digital devices for long periods without proper blinking to degraded gland function, even in some children.

How much sedentary time we spend in front of screens. We already know it is ruining our eyes and our sleep cycles.

I would argue that its not acceptable now.

Right? Just fancy it up as an adult.

Make yourself a little roux/béchamel sauce and start chuckin in some grated gouda, gruyère, havarti, or whatever kind of cheese you like until you like the taste. Mix in some cooked elbow macaroni and you’re set.

It takes slightly more time and attention than the usual pot of neon-orange comfort, but its waaaaaaay better.

Also: you can remove some of the “graininess” of the real cheese by throwing in justba slice of American Cheese. The emuslifing salts in the slices helps the cheese proteins break down and gives your sauce a more velvety feel.

Seconded learning an instrument.

There is no “beating it”. There’s no final boss, there’s no credits roll, no end in sight. You can always get a little better, there is always something new to learn and reach for.

I cannot, for the life of me, go see either David Wilcox or Kim Mitchell in concert.

Every time I try, something comes up. Most recently, I tried to go see Kim Mitchell, and he had a heart attack before the show and had to cancel.

The strangest thing is that they’re both Canadian acts, and I live in one of the biggest cities in Canada, so its not like they only come around once every five or ten years. Its become like a yearly occurence of finding out why I wont see them this time lol.

I really dont get this “Lemmy/Mastodon is sooooo haaaaard to sign up for”. I’m a barely technoliterate 30 something who’s closest thing to coding knowledge is the Missingno cheat in Pokemon Blue, and I figured it out. Its not that hard.

Like, the instances/server thing is the only real extra step you have in signing up, but besides that, its like signing up for any other website.

Cheapest and easiest way to get into espresso-adjacent drinks. Is it going to give you that espresso experience? No, but for literally 1% of the cost of an actually decent espresso machine, you can up your coffe game extraordinarily.

Get an Aeropress, a good grinder with fresh beans, and a digital temperature kettle, and you’ll be shocked at how good coffee can taste.

Right? We are literally in the 21st century, but still cling to the ideals and customs of the industrial revolution.

Just the thought of it chills me to my Core.

Can we leave the karma system and awards with Reddit? Allowing voting in comment sections for pseudo-moderation by the users is good, but when it turns into a scoring system the conversation devolves into a competition to see who can craft the most palatable opinion to get the most imaginary internet points.

Despite all my thoughtful and helpful comments I made in my 11 years on reddit, you know what my top comment was?

• Comes in
• Kills the Queen
• Tanks the economy
• Leaves

What a legacy.

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