being standard isn’t an excuse, it makes it even more egregious.

i wish agents would at least try to not be insufferable about it, tell me “yeah i know, that’s the way it is” or something so i don’t feel like i’m trying to communicate with some sort of advanced fungus colony…

there are 2 solid low-cost mobile carriers here in sweden, and i literally do this with them. Just hop back and forth every 4 months and you get some sort of deal every single time.

It’s profoundly stupid and makes me hate modern society just that little bit more.

i don’t think it would even be that much of a concern, really. Not only can one person have multiple children (so you can do one surrogate and one genetically yours), but there are plenty of people who’d just be happy they get to give birth to their child and couldn’t care less about genes.

similar DNA is bad actually, the whole point of sexual reproduction is to increase diversity to make the population as robust as possible. If you have a ship full of clones all it takes is one virus/bacteria/fungus mutating in just the wrong way and everyone will get infected.

Like, this is why we got a new type of banana some decades ago, it’s all giant monocultures which is hilariously vulnerable to disease.

i don’t think it’s that fucked up to have everyone with a womb be a surrogate mother, you’d just have to select people who are okay with it. There’s nothing wrong with being a surrogate, it’s basically just adoption except you get to give birth to the child.

just bringing a ton of frozen sperm and eggs is honestly the real answer i feel, why worry about bringing a bunch of living people who need resources and stuff, when you can just bring a quarter of earth’s diversity with you in the freezers?

The two downsides to this is that people can’t really have kids with each other, and if the freezers malfunction you’re a bit in the shit.

if you look closer you’ll note that it’s very much related to whether a company is publicly trader or not, as soon as people are trading stocks you end up with a bunch of people who don’t actually care about the company and those involved in it, they only care about making money.

a company that isn’t having stocks traded around is able to focus on things other than growth, such as making sustainable revenue or being a public good (or a personal good, like a small café that barely makes any profit and just exists because the owners want to run a café).

because capitalism

i keep my favourite music on my phone and use newpipe for everything else, absolutely fucking baffles me that most people keep paying for streaming services

if you want more sourness maybe try adding some powdered citric acid or malic acid, whatever you can find at a grocery store. It’ll be in the spice aisle.

i mean the whole point of energy drinks is that they have a stupid amount of caffeine

you seem to be talking about supplements, not vitamins. Fruit is decidedly not expensive unless you live on the mcmurdo antarctic research station.

OP is definitely hilariously exaggerating it, but it certainly can’t hurt to make sure your body has all the nutrients it needs, and placebo shouldn’t be discounted.

In my experience and from my good but not professional knowledge, the most objectively beneficial thing is just to stay well hydrated and eat something. You need that to feel good even if you’re not sick, and when you’re fighting an infection your body is going to be diverting energy to things like fever rather than the stomach, so easy to digest is very important.

And what’s something that has lots of vitamins and minerals and easy to digest calories while also being filled with water? Fruit! (noodles are also a good option, easy to digest plus there’s broth so you get more water)
Then add on the fact that e.g. citrus just viscerally feels fresh and like it should help with illness, and you have a very convincing reason to get a bag of mandarins to snack on while you’re sick.

It won’t cure a cold overnight, but it might well bring enough relief that it’s not a full week of wanting to die, and if it has absolutely no effect then oh no you ate a bunch of healthy stuff how terrible.

One thing i haven’t really seen brought up is that all of these symptoms are severe symptoms that the body has to resort to when less extreme measures aren’t enough.

I’ve noticed many times where i only got slightly sick, like a slight fever for not even an entire day, or i just suddenly feel lethargic and the next day i’m back to normal.
And when i do get severely sick, i make sure to take it extremely easy and keep myself hydrated and fed with something easily digestible along with just doing very very gentle exercise (like, stuff an old person would do at rehab). Since i started being this careful when i get sick it’s gotten WAY less miserable.
Like, instead of a week of just sleeping as much as possible because i have 0 energy and everything is pain; it’s 1-2 weeks that starts with the symptoms ramping up over a day or two, being uncomfortable but able to do things, then needing a few painkillers to be functional for 1-2 days, and then it goes in reverse until the sickness has petered back out.

why is that sad?

why would you be supposed to cut your hair in any specific way? are you in the army or something?

haven’t cut my hair in years, long hair supremacy.

i mean if you can’t give an estimate, don’t give an estimate. otherwise you’re just lying to the user and making things harder for them.

just show how much of the data has been processed and let the user make of that what they wish.

you kidding? he’d do a whole rant on how design should be intuitive and you absolutely shouldn’t need to read the manual for something as basic as this

probably pull out a whole international standard on button design