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That doesn't seem like a good idea as a lot of people would try to reduce salt intake due to blood pressure concerns, where the alcohol in this wouldn't be a concern for that as it would likely be cooked off

It seems like a lot of the productivity crap is that people feel that they're being productive when they're working on the stuff to make them productive, when in actuality while yes they're working, they're not working on what needs done.

An example to me is note taking, it seems like the productivity people seem to fixate on doing it perfectly and in the exact right way to maximise productivity, instead of just taking the notes in a good enough fashion and doing something else with the saved time.

Bank transfers, online purchases (most banks reqire 3DS now and usually won't let you buy things online without the app on a phone), some don't have a web interface, and others if they do require you to approve the login to that from the app

The biggest thing that sets Balatro apart as not gambling to me is you never bet anything of any value. Anything you do only affects that individual <1h run. No money involved, no long term items, literally just fake chips and fake dollars for that specific run, and when you win/quit/lose you're back to the same position you started at.

Balatro having an 18+ age rating is insane. The only thing gambling about that game is it uses poker hands for scoring, and has an element of luck. How is that different to any other mobile game with a luck component (see 99% of them) with a scoring mechanism inspired by poker?

To me gambling requires betting of long term/valuable resources. In Balatro, the only thing that you'll affect is each individual run, you're back to square one after each as it's a rouguelike. Games like Clash Royale where you can spend actual money on chests for items that affect the game long term, not just for a single match, to me is actual gambling, whereas playing a poker hand using fake chips that only affects that single <1h run absolutely isn't.

It looks like whoever came up with the ratings just saw it uses poker hands for scoring and represents a score with chips, therefore it's gambling, and gave it an 18+ rating, when you're not actually gambling anything (either real world money, or long term items in the game)

I used to use Kbin before it stopped working.

Somewhat vaguely related to this, not all bank notes in the UK are made equal. Good luck getting someone in England to accept an Ulster Bank, Danske bank, or Bank of Ireland note, despite them all being pound sterling notes issued in the UK worth the exact same amount.

The alternatives were for the most part replaced with plastic because of plastic's remarkable qualities. There's very few relatively inert materials that are cheap to manufacturer, durable, light, can withstand (reasonably) high temperatures, can be formed into whatever shape you want, and can be as hard or flexible as you want.

Glass bottles used to be much more common but they're more expensive, very easy to break, and heavier, which also increases cost of transportation. Paper containers for things can't be allowed to get wet which often makes them impractical. Metals are expensive, potentially reactive, heavy, and inflexible.

Yes plastics are very environmentally problematic, but they do solve a lot of problems that aren't really solved by any other kind of material.

I truly believe that it's the user experience that makes the difference between lots of piracy, and very little. Take video games as an example, they're hardly cheap, however other than retro games that are difficult to play otherwise, almost everyone just buys the game on steam/gog/epic/whatever, because the experience for most people is:

1. Open Steam 2. Search for game 3. Buy game 4. Play game

Whereas if I want to watch a movie, I honestly don't even know where to start looking for it, there's no simple way to just pay for it on the movie app, keep it forever, download it, and watch it when you want. You have to do this ritual of finding what streaming service it's actually on, hope you have a subscription to it, if not subscribe to it, probably find it's not even available in your region, and if the stars align you might be able to watch your film for the next 30 days.

Or you can go on one of the many pirate sites, search for the movie, click the play/download button, and you're sorted.

I do pirate movies quite frequently, but moreso because it's the only realistic way to type a name into a search bar and just play the damn thing.

Mystery Biscuits!

It has happened before due to another higher priority warning suppressing the "too low, gear" warning, so if there's a lot going on already including other warnings, it's not inconceivable that it was overlooked and the plane didn't issue a warning depending on the circumstances.

What would the reason for being intentionally draughty be? The only thing I can think of is if they were burning candles/gas lamps to improve air quality?

They exist but I can't use them because I need my bank apps to work, and magisk can only trick some of them.

I am not a hardware engineer or anything of the sort. My laptop has a slide shutter over the webcam, but this obviously does nothing about the microphone. How difficult/error prone would it be for the power signals to the microphone and camera to be individual wires/traces and have a physical switch that breaks the power or data connection physically? Surely these are very low voltage so the switch could be like the iphone mute switch?

Adam's never claimed to be a chef or want to do things like a chef would, he tends to focus on how someone at home could do it, where things like preparing 50 onions as quickly as possible don't matter as much, hence the difference in style. I think both practices have their place, adam just home as he's never been trained in food and so all his cooking is for the home

That's actually how my headphones (sony 1000xm3 I think they are) can be paired, there's an nfc chip on one of the sides which if you tap your phone to will turn on bluetooth, turn on the headphones, connect, and the headphones will beep and say bluetooth connected. It's the most seamless wireless connection I've had with bluetooth

What I really want from a phone seems impossible to get now. I want a phone I can run all my essential apps (whatsapp, firefox, all banks, obsidian), which will run open source, degoogled android (lineage or graphene), that's cheap, has a headphone jack, and a fingerprint scanner. This seems impossible. My current phone is ideal other than the bank apps will not run if I flash lineage to it or even unlock my bootloader, which is an issue since if I don't have them I essentially can't live in modern society due to 3ds.

The likely solution is an old phone with everything stock just for the banks, and this phone with everything else. That's not ideal either if I want to check my balance when I'm out, or travelling, and don't have the 2nd phone. Maybe someone will make a tiny android for €30 or so with the lowest possible specs for this use case. It could be sold as a device for putting banks and 2fa apps on.

Maybe this is less of a thing outside the UK but the banking apps absolutely is a problem for me. I have banks that only have apps, no websites, or require the app for 3ds that will refuse to open with safetynet failing. It's not even just safetynet, at least one of them has it's own seperate tests to stop it working.

This is the only reason for me (and presumably a fair few others) not to be using Lineage, I can do without google wallet etc but I can't do without access to my own bank accounts

This is the only reason my phone's not running Lineage. I need those apps mainly for 2fa (some banks don't give me any alternative) or for one or two with no web app.

It feels like a total artificial duopoly, you only get to use your essential service on android or ios.

I really want to use Lineage, I really do. I have a device thats supported and can easily unlock the bootloader, but I'd need my bank apps all to work, and I know that they don't. Even if they did, I don't want the uncertainty of them not working when a few don't have a internet banking without an app, and others require an app for 2fa, otherwise I'd use Lineage in a heartbeat.

This feels like an issue for the EU to step in on, a functional duopoly created by apps for essential services that almost everyone needs requiring one of 2 platforms to work.

I was on that sleeper a week ago, most soviet thing ever! How long did it take for your conductor to take his top off?

It's not so weird to me, I don't know much about melatonin but testosterone (probably the most popular steroid) is also just a natural hormone

What I find quite interesting is in the northern irish dialect, plural you is quite uncommon, usually plural you becomes yous or yousins, because irish has seperate words for singular and plural you

I'm guessing you live in GB. In NI tensions are higher due to it (unionist opposition to the protocol), shipping's often more expensive, or items won't be shipped to us (try putting a BT postcode into displate, or ordering batteries online), and it's more difficult for companies to operate on an all Ireland basis. We also have "only for Northern Ireland" items in shops which are items that can't legally be sold in Ireland or GB despite being identical, in a shop like Tesco that operates in all 3 areas, causing more difficulty to shops than necessary. Here we've only seen negatives, in an area with a complicated relationship with borders, where the single most effective thing we had to deal with that was a set of common laws and trade area (europe), and none of this was even considered by Westminster before the referendum.

Edit: forgot to mention this. Someone in my family has a vehicle in Ireland and in NI, we sort of live between the two countries, pre-brexit that was completely fine as their drivers licence was european so there was no issues, but post-brexit they cannot get insured in Ireland due to insurance companies refusing to give insurance to someone with a non-EU licence.

Possibly forming concrete underground? Doesn't concrete absorb CO2 while curing?

I'll preface this with I'm not american, and I'm from a country that historically doesn't have a problem with racism against the minorities these policies affect.

These policies always seem a bit ridiculous to me. I've done nothing to discriminate against these people, so why am I being treated worse because of the actions of people I had nothing to do with? Affirmative action policies are discriminative, just not to the group they're targeted at helping. Why can't there just be equality and leave it at that?

My personal opinion is you can't discriminate based on information you don't have, so universities/employers etc shouldn't get information on a candidates race/gender/whatever that's not relevant, because that way they can't have discriminated using it

Annoyingly I don't think this is working with NI, I tried starts with Bally (which there's a lot of in NI, ballymena, ballymacash, ballycastle etc) and I only got a couple in Scottland

My old secondary school took the A level physics students to Geneva while it was shutdown, honestly the tour of the place is great. The Antimatter Factory (yep its a building full of horrifically complicated machines with ANTIMATTER FACTORY on the front) is really interesting too.

I liked Discord's solution of chosen name + short identifier, although I might have changed 4 numbers to 5 base64 digits, because no matter what the username, over a billion people trying to use the same name is unlikely, and 5 base64 digits can still be shared easily.

What domestic flights even are there? The only ones I'm aware of are Belfast to assorted cities in England.