Yeah, my house is completely linux except for one windows machine. I need to be able to open other people’s Adobe files for editing, and that’s just not reliable outside of windows/mac.

But, if I was only working on my stuff and didn’t have to integrate into outside workflows, I wouldn’t be so adverse to switching to GIMP or Krita.

WDYM that’s not normal? Every time I’ve been to the ER, it’s been packed and had to wait hours if you had something less urgent. I had broken my pelvis and one fixator pin had come loose from the halo, but the local hospital couldn’t fix it, so I had to get a friend to drive me two hours to the closest hospital that could, and then had to wait another four hours until they could re-align my bones and tighten the fixator again. If the triage nurse decides you’re not there for an emergency, they absolutely make you sit there until you give up and go away.

I keep hearing that Canada has horrible wait times, but it sounds the same to me? Does your ER not regularly run out of beds?

It’s Crysis at max for the newer generations

Yeah, it can turn into a full miniPC. I assume the tech has gotten even better since 2017.

My 9 year old phone can be connected to a display with a USB-C to HDMI adapter.

Carolina style, with a nice mustard vinegar base

My DM’s gonna love it when I start asking about elevation changes in more specific detail.

Whenever I play D&D, I turn into the mapmaker. Send help.

My hypothesis is that it’s a frog in a pot of water scenario. Western Union started the first charge account in 1914, so we’ve had a long time to get used to the water heating up. It probably did start with honest intentions to make things work a little smoother, but I remember the early days of digitizing records, and there was a LOT of loose data just there for the taking.

I remember that I used to work at RadioShack in the late '00s, and I had to escalate up to district because we discovered a treasure trove of old paper store credit applications that had been cached somewhere in the backrooms, and my manager wanted to just throw them in the normal garbage and not risk the cost of the extra shredding coming out of her bonus.

These things had SO MUCH INFO, handwritten out onto a paper form; name, birthday, SSN, mailing address, street address, then all that info of the spouse/cosigner that wanted to be on the account too. I could have made so much money on the black market, looking back.

Yeah, I used to be really athletic as a teenager, but then had a fall, dislocated my knee, and had to put it back myself because I couldn’t afford medical treatment pre-Obamacare.

Now, twenty years and many injuries later, it turns out I’ve got a connective tissue disorder that makes my joints really weak. It was never addressed, so my feet keep going to first position for extra support, but thats wrecking my hips.

I don’t know how to be active without hurting myself further, and I can’t afford a pro to spot me.

Jraphics Interchange Format?

Don’t worry, I can do it automatically at the ATM machine.

So that’s why I get a funny taste in my mouth after an Ambien night.

Do you call people “smoothskin”?

It’s no secret that the US offered free flights to Cubans that disagreed with Castro, and this resulted in a large population of Cuban-Americans that want Cuba to go back to the “Cuba of Yesterday”

Why does beer keep getting singled out when red wine and bourbon produce similar effects?

Edit: Also a bit peeved, because I’ve got hashimotos and talked to a dietician about diet affecting my hormone troubles, and they assured me plant hormones didn’t have an effect on humans.

Is this a skibidi toilet?

The second link says it affects estrogen levels though, which is why I’m confused.

Is this new research?

Edit: the corroborating link the article provides doesn’t really show much about how the study was conducted

Editedit: found what they were citing, but it’s from the 90s, so it’s very much not new, and it doesn’t actually support what the article is claiming.

The studies described in the previous sections strongly support the hypothesis that congeners present in alcoholic beverages can produce measurable estrogenic effects, even at moderate drinking levels. Specifically, those studies found the following:

• Alcoholic beverage congeners exerted estrogenic effects both in an experimental animal model and in post-menopausal women.

• The estrogenic effects of alcoholic beverage congeners were detectable using a variety of estrogenic markers, including the pituitary hormones LH (in OVEX rats and postmenopausal women), FSH, and prolactin (in postmenopausal women); uterus weight (in OVEX rats); and the estrogen-responsive liver proteins HDL cholesterol and SHBG (in postmenopausal women).

• In both the experimental animals and the postmenopausal women, the changes in the levels of all estrogenic markers were consistent with the presence of biologically active phytoestrogens in the congeners.

• Red wine congeners and bourbon congeners produced similar estrogenic effects in experimental animals and in postmenopausal women.

I thought phytoestrogens didn’t affect humans?

it seems odd to including gaming for Grandma

Why? Back in the 90s, my great-grandmother learned how to use the family computer (it ran DOS) because she wanted to play the Wheel of Fortune video game.