Core 2 Duo.

Uhh… Did nobody check with Intel about this?

I’m at least 80% sure this site is all AI spam.

I have a terrible feeling it’s a compromised webcam.

I suspect that’s kind of the point, or at least works in their favour. If you don’t know about it, you’re probably pretty new here and therefore a better candidate for a victim.

I had a single post federate onto my instance a couple weeks ago. Not sure what’s going on.

Saw it coming but I didn’t think it’d be that quick.

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I had a couple hours free before work today and my cursed brain won’t let shit like this go without looking it up, so I went and did a quick scan of the literature. Like I said, it’s outside my field so I’m probably missing a lot of nuance (and I welcome any actual psychs to check in and correct me), but Psychiatric Epidemiology is a thing, and they’re well aware of the association between socioeconomic position and mental health. These seem to be the people working on policy, for example building an evidence base for UBI. Of course all that relies on governments that actually give a shit and are willing to listen to evidence, but yeah, class-conscious psychs are out there. They’re just not taking clients.

Psych isn’t my field, but in dietetics and nutrition there’s a tendency to treat socioeconomic and societal issues (aka material conditions) as kind of a force of nature. This isn’t true for 100% of people in the field, but the ones that do catch on tend to end up in policy, advocacy, public health or other niches that actually try to work on systemic issues rather than in clinical settings. I wouldn’t be surprised if psych was similar; it’s not that those issues aren’t acknowledged by the field as a whole, but the individuals who end up in clinical settings don’t focus on them for whatever reason. There’s likely a lot more behind the scenes who are actually working for change, you just don’t see them because they’re not working with individuals.

Surprised you haven’t heard, it’s a whole big thing. They lost access to their domain and shut down federation while it gets sorted out. Last I heard they have the domain back and will refederate once some other technical shit is in place. Try !HexbearEmbassy@lemmygrad.ml for updates. I miss them too.

Behind!

If you’ve worked in hospitality, you know.

Subdermal armour. Like a flexible, slash-resistant, heatproof mesh under the skin. I work in a kitchen so it’d be nice to be able to ignore those pesky little nicks and burns.

Thank fuck. I’ve missed you folks.

I definitely relate to that. I spent a good chunk of my formative years just hanging out at the mall after school with my friends, sitting on the outdoor balcony with ridiculous coffees, openly smoking although we were underage, and just shooting the shit. Maybe we’d have hit up the music store beforehand and we’d chat about what we’d bought, read the liner notes and talk about the artwork. I miss music stores too, but I think a lot of people my age do. The mall used to be somewhere you could just hang out. I don’t know what’s changed, maybe it’s me. In my area they seem to be as busy as ever, but they all seem so sterile and hyper-optimised now, even though the floorplans are still the same as they were decades ago.

Me, I miss the proliferation of arcade video game cabinets. I miss arcades too, but I don’t think that’s out of the ordinary for old nerds. Going to them for a lock-in session was always a fun event, even by myself. Also having one at nearly every mall and being able to just go there and drop a few bucks and kill half an hour while you wait for a bus. What I really miss though, are the machines they’d just have randomly in places; corner stores, video rental places, restaurants, bowling alleys. We’d spend entire days riding around, scouting out new places for good games, which place had the cheapest Street Fighter 2, discovering weird obscure import titles no one had ever heard of. Of course now if I have a few minutes to kill I can game on my phone, but it’s such a non-event. Arcade cabinets were special, they had -presence-. When you found a good one you kept that location burned into your brain, told only your closest friends, and when they removed or changed it, it was such a tragedy.

Not quite to that extreme but same problem here, amongst others. Although I only played the demo.

Tried the demo briefly without knowing much about it. It’s weird and janky. Audio levels are all over the place, perspective feels off, conversation camera clips inside characters or cuts off their heads, object physics don’t work right. Ladder interaction is counterintuitive. Some of this might have been rectified since the demo shipped. Little bit too much inventory management for my liking. Level design is … strange. That might be a demo issue too tho. Seems like the authors feel some kind of way about communism but I didn’t play it long enough to figure that out. Shame, it feels like there’s the bones of a good game here.

There’s a couple things at play here.

Firstly, the math. Nutrient requirements in a given population tend to be normally distributed (there are a couple that aren’t). RDA is considered enough to meet the requirements of 98% of people. EAR (estimated average requirement) is the middle of the bell curve, so most people’s actual requirement will be closer to that. RDAs are used for diet planning in individuals though, so as to minimise the risk of deficiency. There’s a huge margin of safety between EAR and anything that would cause problems from excess (e.g. Vitamin A toxicity) so using RDA won’t cause issues there. Actually working out an individual person’s requirement for a specific nutrient is a bunch of really complicated biochem, so it’s easier and safer to just aim for the RDA in that context.

Secondly, RDA is kind of a misnomer. You don’t actually need to eat that every day, because the body stores and uses a lot of nutrients as needed. It’s really supposed to be used as more of an average over time. This is why it’s important to eat a good variety of different foods within the main food groups. Meatless mondays don’t cause you to instantly collapse from iron deficiency.

Third, there’s a commercial aspect to it. Food manufacturers love using RDA because it lets them imply their product is healthy, and they love it when public health messaging is “eat more X” when X is a major component of whatever they produce, or something that’s cheap to fortify (e.g. iron fortified cereals). This way they can encourage people to freak out over “oh no, I need this product or I won’t hit my RDA!” Really, most people better off eating generally healthy (roughly 50% fruit and vegetables, 25% protein and 25% whole grains) with a good variety of foods than aiming to hit the RDA of everything, every day. There are a few caveats to that for certain nutrients in some circumstances, but on the whole, no. You don’t need to hit your RDA every day, but it probably should average out over a week or so.

Depends on the reason and what you find most motivating. Addiction is tricky and it’s rarely just one thing. Caffeine is physically addictive but there’s also psych and lifestyle aspects to it.

If it’s about the caffeine, try switching to coffee or tea. If you want to go cold turkey, caffeine withdrawal peaks at about three days with symptoms lessening to minimal after about nine.

If it’s a convenience thing, try keeping a water bottle on you and just drink that. If you find water too boring or your local water tastes bad, try it carbonated and/or with a twist of lemon or other fruit. I’d suggest avoiding places where they serve it, but that’s near impossible. You could take note of what situation you’re in when you tend to do it, and try to rejig your routine around that. You could also not keep it in the house; it’s a lot easier to not put it on the shopping list than resist the temptation when it’s right there. Then there’s health and money. Of course you know they’re not great for you so I’m not going to harp on that, but you could try focusing on it more (but try to frame it in a positive way; not “ugh soda is bad”, but rather “hey drinking water is good!”), or give yourself a goal to save up for purely with what you save on soda.

It’s outside my field but a very brief scan of the literature seems to indicate there isn’t one “ideal” sleep schedule; chronotypes seem to be a real thing. Anecdotally I feel like it also varies with the weather and time of year, amount of sunlight etc.

The cheaper ones will probably be a shitty NES-on-a-chip, and half the games will be ROM hacks of other games.