2/5 - Decent troll effort, but I’ve seen much better around here. Get gud.

As a fellow American, I’m going to make a big assumption here and advise you to engage with more people outside. Lemmings are great and all but we do not represent the real world. I can say this has helped me and man, am I worlds better for it.

Right now, the internet is quasi-weaponized against everyone’s better mental health. A lot of people are being fed propaganda that aligns strongly with their beliefs, with many people being sucked into a narrow, amplified, and semi-fictional view of reality. You have to dig deep to find real journalism, facts, and then puzzle together a less biased worldview; few people are there to do any of that legwork for you these days. It’s all exhausting and a recipe for mental illness if you do it constantly.

Instead, try to get out there and just talk to one person; better yet a stranger. Even if it’s just smalltalk. Even if it’s about the weather with a librarian or a checkout clerk. ANYONE. If you can make your way to a club, mutual-aid hub, local meetup, whatever… that’s even better. The goal is to just verbalize with other humans. The rest will follow from there.

Ironic. 60lbs is risky for those without free healthcare.

The moment I seriously started to wonder about my dad’s ability to assess social situations, he asked me to help with some labor out in a muddy field. I had to point out that I was wearing dress shoes and slacks at the time…

For me, the big problem with adapting to modern electric (resistive coil, not induction) was the fact that the coil takes time to get to temp and stays hot after you remove power. That hysteresis is a problem for everything but boiling water, and is completely unlike gas or induction. It takes practice to get used to it - I always wound up keeping a burner clear so I could move my fry/saute/whatever off the heat when needed.

The heat cycling you mention is another one. It can cause spikes in temperature, especially when you’re doing something small like sweating half an onion or something like that.

Back in the bad old days, electric ranges were 100% analog with no PWM. Power in was determined by a variable resistor, so the coil was always humming along at 60hz, just at a different wattage. This was a better arrangement, IMO.

AFAIK, Cialis and Viagra (and their generics) are prescription only. So you can’t just have a discussion with the pharmacist to get those.

There’s gotta be a way to fingerprint the output though. Like some kind of shibboleth that gives the model away based on how it responds?

Ooh, you’re right. That’s a damn good aptronym if I’ve ever seen one.

True, but IMO it makes a lot more sense to support markdown under Wordpad than Notepad since the controls and doc-style layout/rendering support is already there.

it only exists so they could easily shove copilot into it.

No idea. I want to say ‘yes’, but the last time I installed Power Toys was under Win2k.