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I picked beeswax because the petroleum-based ones smell terrible, and I found some that weren't much more expensive than unscented soy. They have a nice smell! But burning non-petr…

Almost every time I see a halfway polished “solo developer” game, they did not do all the work themselves. Especially, they usually hire out the music, maybe other sounds, and much…

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Lots of the central-eastern portion of the state is the beautiful Flint Hills area, which is obviously… hilly. Much of I-70 (the main route across the state east-west) features lon…

Should they avoid doing that because it’s working really well at putting their opponents in a bad spot, while costing them almost nothing? Those ships are bearing goods from (or ta…

> A practical example is health care. US Gov gives free healthcare to service members. This is in the military budget. A different gov which already gives free health care to every…

> The tailings from the mining operations are referred to as “chat” and were deposited into massive piles of small rock. We would play in these “chat piles” as a kid. Probably expo…

> It was wild growing up in that area with the chat piles hundreds of feet tall towering over these little towns. Especially when the area is extremely flat. Town I lived in (near,…

I once experimented with beeswax candles as my only after-dark light source. This meant no hyper-stimulating screen activities whatsoever, too. TV, phone, video games, browsing the…

Knowing how things work, knowing what should be possible and where “there be dragons”, and having a pretty well-developed “sixth sense” for all kinds of things is proving just as v…

> Individual gains from llm seem much larger than net productivity increases. I think a major source of this discrepency is people creating more work for their coworkers at the spe…

Yeah, “ackshually it’s a republic” is usually a case of midbrow “incorrecting” (political scientists regularly use “democracy” to label a basket of political systems that include d…

> If you have ever used nice commercial high-temp silicone spatula, it's an incredibly versatile and easy to clean spoon for cooking. A bit expensive at like $20 though. Pair with …

Microsoft accounts being an absolute pain in the ass to set up and manage, and the new launcher being aggressively terrible, are salt in the wound even if you finally gave in and m…

I half-assed try to avoid plastic in contact with (especially very) hot food or drink, and avoid it in long-term food containers, in no small part because I've seen things like pla…

Things like glass food storage containers are really expensive compared to plastic. And they still have plastic lids; like, I don't know what you'd even do without at least the sea…

MBA dorks do dumb things to language for no good reason, creating unnecessary jargon. Even dumber people around them hear them use it, and misunderstand the specifics of how it was…

> My current power move in the age of AI: do nothing. This was also my strategy before AI. At some point in my late 20s or early 30s I all but completely stopped doing any developm…

Pretend confusion, especially over the very terms of the discussion, is a really common shitposting tactic all over the Internet. Though yeah it’s maybe more common here. Possibly …

I’m pretty sure all the benefits of social media exist in aspects other than the engagement-driven “algo” feed.

> The Steam Deck is the only device I've seen that works 100% perfectly with Airpods, for instance, including Apple devices. Oh weird, mine have always made weird clicks and droppe…

You’d have to also have a qualifying healthcare plan so you could have an HSA in the first place, and enough income to easily cover any medical bills without having to touch your H…

Yes, it provides some benefits to fund one's HSA even if one spends all that money in the same year, but the cost of the program (in terms of tax income lost, including the time-co…

> The military thing is a much bigger flywheel. A lot of technology really comes out of military research or is supported in key ways by military projects. Yeah, I wouldn't call al…

Requiring certain healthcare plans to access HSAs is the only thing that keeps HSAs from primarily being (in terms of amount of tax income lost to the program) a benefit for the up…