The irony is that Digg has supposedly been working to absorb a lot of the Reddit refugees. Apparently if they’re not landing on Lemmy, they’re landing on Digg. It makes me wonder how many of the users have been around long enough to actually remember the Digg mass exodus to Reddit. I’m sure a lot of them are the newer users, who weren’t around for the Digg purge.

Yeah, I’ve been here a while now, and Lemmy absolutely feels like old Reddit, before the bots and corporations took over.

I also have issues with the fact that major pharmacy brands like Walgreens and CVS put homeopathic remedies right alongside real meds. Make sure to actually read the labels on medicines, because lots of them are pure placebo. Zicam is an extremely popular cold medicine that claims to shorten the duration of a cold or the flu by like 50%, and it is completely homeopathic. There are lots of homeopathic labels scattered throughout the pharmacy, so checking the labels is extremely important.

If you ever see something on the ingredients label like “{ingredient} X6” then that means that ingredient has been diluted 6 times. Homeopaths claim that more dilution makes the med stronger, like how fresh water is better able to dilute salt water. But many are so diluted that there likely isn’t any of the medication remaining.

Yeah, the move from software to hardware processing is what will make the biggest difference. Software processing is very resource intensive.

Or just set a “*.arj” file exclusion in qBitTorrent’s built in blacklist, (Options>Downloads>Excluded File Names) and use Cleanuperr to automatically delete+blocklist+repeat search for the torrent.

Basically, if Cleanuperr detects an “empty” torrent (because every file was excluded when it was grabbed) then it will automatically delete the torrent from your list, blocklist the torrent in your respective *arr client, then retry the search.

Ah yes, the inevitable “protests should only happen when it’s convenient for everyone and 100% approved by the authorities” comment.

In no particular order…

• Sly Cooper trilogy. The second game is the best, but the third has its strong points too. The first game feels like a tech demo in comparison to the second.
• Final Fantasy X (though I’d actually recommend playing it on PC with the Untitled Project X mod)
• Ratchet and Clank. The second and third games are the best. Deadlocked is divisive for many fans.
• Jak and Daxter trilogy. 2 and 3 are very different from the first game.
• GTA San Andreas.
• Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2. Ideally you should actually play these on the PS4/PS5/PC, because those are the directors cut (Final Mix) versions of the games. You can’t skip Chain of Memories either, which was originally only available on the GameBoy Advance; Look up a plot summary if you don’t want to play CoM, because the gameplay is very different from KH1 and 2.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Persona 3FES, and Persona 4. Nocturne is from the mainline SMT series, while the Persona games are a spin-off. All three are available on other systems as well, (P3FES recently got a remake, for instance).
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening. It’s a prequel, so you don’t need to play DMC 1 or 2 first.
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. It’s also a prequel, so you don’t need to play MGS 1 or 2 first. MGS Subsistence is the director’s cut version of the game, with some added gameplay improvements.
• Okami. If you like Zelda games, you’ll enjoy this. The combat is more akin to a DMC/God of War hack-n-slash, but the dungeons feel like Zelda dungeons.
• Resident Evil 4. The recent remake is also stellar.
• Shadow of the Colossus. Don’t read anything about it beforehand. Go in blind.
• Odin Sphere. A hand-drawn side scroller, with a great story.
• Viewtiful Joe. Same devs as Okami, also cell shaded but with a very different art style. Stylish, fast paced side scroller.
• Psychonauts. 3D platformer with a wild setting.
• God of War trilogy. See where the series started, because the recent games are very different while still maintaining a lot of the same.

If you’re buying credit, just fucking buy a Usenet subscription instead.

70 MPH is the standard highway speed limit around here. And functionally, the traffic tends to flow ~10% higher than whatever the posted speed limit is. So a 70 MPH highway will tend to flow anywhere from 75-80 MPH instead. Cops won’t even bother pulling you over unless you’re well into the low 80’s.

We even have an 85 MPH highway. Since it’s mostly through a rural area and has an extremely fast limit, people 100% treat it like the autobahn.

The only time people actually respect highway speed limits are when it drops to 55 MPH. Lots of small towns will drop to 55 MPH, and the rural cops tend to set up speed traps for anyone doing over 55. They’re brutal, (and fighting them usually requires showing up to court in the middle of fucking nowhere,) so speed trap towns are basically the only time that drivers will actually go slightly below the limit.

70 MPH via car, vs… What, like 15 MPH on a bike? Also, there’s no way I’m riding my bike on a 70 MPH highway; I’d have to take a different (much longer) route entirely, just to avoid getting killed by a truck.

No wonder Americans don’t use public transit, even when the system exists it’s ridiculously difficult and expensive to use.

Here is my daily commute to work:
The Public Transit option is literally greyed out, and Google goes “lmao get a fucking car, peasant.”

If I were going to minimize my car usage and strictly use public transit, it would be a ~20 minute bike ride (in the opposite direction of where I work) to the nearest bus station, to get to a public transit service that doesn’t even cover where I work. Then I’d take a bus to a train station, and ride it south through two cities. Then I’d make a transfer to a northern line, and ride it back north through those same two cities (and a third additional city) in order to get near another rail line. Then it would be another ~20 minute bike ride to transfer from one rail system to another, because the public transit in the southern cities doesn’t service the city where I work. Once I’m transferred to the service that covers where I work, it’s another ~20 minute rail ride, followed by a ~10 minute bike ride after getting off the train.

All in all, it would be about 2.5 hours of public transit riding, (and about an hour of riding my bike in +100°F/38°C weather), just to avoid driving 10 minutes. It would also require maintaining two separate transit passes, because the southern and northern transit systems don’t work with one another. Yeah, it’s no wonder I take my car to work.