Companies even do this if you have a 5g modem.

There is a 2 hour window at the end of the month in which I am miserable.

I'm at the tip of the US's Wang and have zero access to wired internet, so I am stuck. 😞

Oh well.. whatever. Never mind.

Before June 2023, I was a mod on several Reddit communities for about 13 years and outside of Reddit since the turn of the century. I just kinda stepped back once the Reddit BS happened.

10 months later, my happiness and over all quality of life has improved. Not only am I no longer stressed (bye bye moderation based nightmares!), but I have way more time to dedicate to my passions and goals.

I thought that dedication to holding together a few niche communities and battling the "bad guys" defined me and gave me a sort of immortality.

I was VERY wrong.

Our great grand kids won't be trolling reddit archives, telling everyone how "cool" grandpa was.

The greatest thing I ever did to improve my QOL was step away from moderating and leading communities on the internet as a whole. Doubly so if they involve political talk.

I can just about hear someone saying, "Do you know who I am?" or "Do you know who my father is?"

This situation just screams of the diabeetus-loving tomato sauce company bribing the local police.

We may not have seen his encounter with the "future Federation" reminding him of the "temporal prime directive"

That said, can you remember your work mates from half of a life ago?

Human memory is good, but a life of adventure and an over abundance of scotch can give one "Swiss cheese memory" ala quantum leap

I lived in both 'French Canada', and France at one point in my life.

In my experience, they all consider themselves the best thing France ever made and the other side are the equivalent of "rednecks"

To be fair, they both can be right.

Coincidentally, I just got a knock-off Soda Stream from Phillips. It's over $150 cheaper and works 2x-3x times better. I wanted to build something similar for a homemade soda bar concept, and discovered how truly cheap it can be to make soda and carbonated water at home. I was shocked at what a simple concept it is, and how much of a profit these sodas water companies make. Phillips even charging $50 for their system is a total rip-off.

Truthfully, I think the increase in quality in the Phillips machine is due to fewer parts is an "exception that proves the rule" as these in-bottle carbonators seem to work better with fewer parts. It's just a pressure hose connected to a co2 tank. Literally, all of $6 if you were to build one yourself from parts on Amazon (or $3 if you got he Alibaba route)

I truly believe that the fewer parts the better in any DIY or commercial product due to the less chance of a failure in a part if there are fewer parts. This works fantastically for the "lower quality" producing companies, like Phillips.

My inventive and engineering entrepreneur friends and I call this "fewer parts the better" concept, a "Murphy's law compensator" as the fewer parts there are, the fewer parts that can statistically "go wrong"

Gamers are the true indigenous people.

We were typing in games printed in magazines and hand written from friends.

That are the plots to most manhwa, too.

I just eat that shit up, thougg.

The recent popular "manhwa recap" longform trend on YouTube is the nourishment of my soul some days.

Dr Who

Before I watched the "New Who" episodes on the stern recommendation of an obsessed girl friend, I was extremely reluctant.

I just saw more and more friends and aquatences go into watching the series, normal as one can be.

Them, they watched the series on Netflix.

It changed them, giving them an almost unhealthy level obsessed obsession with the show.

I too had the same change, but on a much less level than some.

Gotta love the marriage between tramatic brain injuries and an under funded education system.

She reminds me of my 3rd ex wife.