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Because the ‘we’ in ‘we allow’ is also congress

As in, the desired results arent permanent. I’ll edit to rephrase.

Yet the big changes typically aren’t the cosmetic surgery, they’re the damage. Either literally, or an attempt to treat it.

They might remove some cheek fat, but even that is them trying to catch up: because degraded filler makes their face look puffy and their lips ill-defined.

The filler is spread put around their cells regardless. It is impossible to remove. As is any muscular damage from long-term paralysis.

And yes, agreed. Reconstructive plastic surgery has lower risk, but when it comes to soft tissue cosmetic surgery, the only winning move is not to play.

It’s largely incidental.

Soft-tissue cosmetic surgery doesn’t last. They’re foreign objects in the body, so over time your body tries to break them down. Lip filler slowly diffuses around the bottom of your face, for example. Botox paralysing muscles affects strength and elasticity.

So it’s a cursed treadmill. You can’t stop getting surgery once you start. A single surgery will look worse than your unaltered face if you only have one, so every few years you have to get it again.

But… all the old stuff is still in there. The muscle damage accumulates. The filler accumulates, and is impossible to remove. You might remove some of your own tissue to ‘reshape’ as it gets more advanced, but many just ‘top up’.

Either way, you are permanently altered. They don’t choose to look like this, they choose to make minor adjustments to look younger/hotter/etc that slowly turn them into this.

My ebike is Gusteau (Gusto), or Gus.

They’re called sleepphones and yes, they’re designed for side sleeping. Basically a headband with speakers. Each speaker is like a C battery, stitched into layers of felt.

The Bluetooth version has a silicon casing with a folding crease in it, to keep it flexible, but it’s several inches long and doesn’t seem to last long before I get whining. Idk how much of that is Bluetooth degradation vs the receiver’s wear and tear from folding or being lied on. It needs regular recharging (micro USB, or i think they have a cordless charge version).

The 3.5mm has a long braided cord, has never whined, and doesn’t have the chunky Bluetooth receiver. It gets charge from the phone. I always know I can use it when I want to.

Sleepphones also sells replaceable parts piecemeal so you can get just a band, just speakers, just BT unit etc.

Aww geez man, that’s even worse! I learned about adapters and figured I’d at least be able to tolerate (but resent) the switch. But that will prevent me using sleeping headphones at all… :/

Definitely the jack. I have special headphones for listening to white noise while sleeping. The Bluetooth version have a chunky panel, and don’t last long before they get that Bluetooth whine. That whine is a deal-breaker is a sleep aid.

So I use the 3.5mm version… if I use the charge port converted to a Jack, I can’t charge my phone while I listen to white noise and I’ll wake up to 6%. Rhe loss or the jack is why I haven’t upgraded my phone in years.

Ngl I suspect a smaller brand using sneaky bait and switch

Sure but that doesnt matter. The point is making insults they thing will hurt or humiliate you, because they feel humiliated. People do that by insulting presumed insecurities.

Women get called fat ugly sluts, men get called small dicked virgin losers. We’re just calling each other failures at our gender roles.

I figured it’s an issue with hagglers that haggle for haggling sake, and not about the value of the item.

If I want to sell something on marketplace, I put the price up, because I know somebody will ask for a big discount for a quick sale. I’m happy to move this faded couch set for $100, then I’m listing it for $200… and selling it for $100 to a person who offers to pick it up, too.

It’s that kind of reasoning and makes haggling pointless imo, because sellers either don’t take your lowball or they knew you’d lowball and charged high to start with so they have room to negotiate.

But as that one JC Penny guy accidentally proved, people love the illusion of good deals more than they love good value.

I’m reminded of a story somebody shared on reddit years ago.

An arborist, working with his team. One of his crew had the chainsaw kick and come back and severely main him. He’s bleeding so fucking fast. They need to get him to hospital, and they can’t afford to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

The woman in front won’t let them past. She’s going slower and slower to make a point. They’re honking at her, but she lines up with another lane to box them in. That car slows down too.

The guy is fading fast.theyre using his shirt to staunch the blood, but it’s not enough. After several minutes, they finally have an opening they can take. They speed past her little car, throwing the bloodsoaked shirt out the window to slap wetly on her windshield.

They meet up with emergency services - first, a cop. The woman pulls over to talk to the cop about their reckless driving. While arguing, the ambulance arrives. The injured crew member, and the storyteller, are taken to hospital.

It’s too late. He dies.

…don’t fuck around man. You never know. It’s no worth it. Do the safe thing and make space or pull over. Safety over spite.

I hear thats what European Truck Simulator 1, 2, and American truck simulator are excellent for. Driving around on long roads with meditative scenery.

Researchers dont get paid. In fact, they usually have to pay to be published on reputable platforms. Those platforms are the ones charging.

As for why they publish there if they never profit, academic success is dependant on publishing (“published or perish”), so academics will pay to advance in their field, potentially getting funding for future studies. (Not from the publisher, obviously; but from grant programmes that only fund you if you have a body of work already.)

This is why if you contact a researcher directly, they’ll likely be willing to give you the finished thesis for free.

AFAIK this fucks with artists, not Spotify.

Spotify doesn’t pay artists a flat amount per stream. Instead, Spotify’s profits are split between artists based on their streams. A single user heavily streaming is imperceptibly lowering ‘revenue per stream’ by increasing overall streams but only paying for one subscription.

By playing a bunch of songs, all you do is give those artists slightly more, and other artists slightly less – at least in theory. In practice you’re probably not steaming enough to change overall percentages.

So if anything, you are moving profit to support the artists that Spotify is promoting by putting in your ‘radio’. Which likely means instead of going to small undiscovered musicians, it goes towards popular established ones that Spotify assumes you’ll like.

But since this is probably not enough to move those percentages, you’re only messing up your own algorithm.

Where’s us weirdos that like to eat 1-3 at a time by one sticking to our tongue like a frog

ESU is inherently bullshit. So they’re going to make security upgrades for the OS millions of people are using, but you only get them if you pay? Even though they’re committing dev time to make and deploy them, the SECURITY upgrades to the OS yhat millions have already paid for?

What a grift. Either you’re paying ESU and there’s no dev work (free moneyyy!) or it’s literally a ‘protection fee’ for dev work they’re doing anyway (nyeehhh nice PC ye got there, be a shame if we extorted you for it)

Oh, they’re here. Our parking spaces aren’t big enough for American cars, so they park as far back as the curb will let them – you can see their towballs lining the paths like tripmines.

Gor a chuckle out of a ‘ute’ with the empty bed pulling a trailer with the tradie’s gear in it though. Awww, your two-cab lifestyle ute’s open bed too small for a 2x4 there buddy?

While thats also true, Im talking about reading comprehension, not Poe’s Law.

If you’re using "s, it indicates that it’s not something you’re actually saying. You’re quoting somebody else, including a hypothetical person that you’re satirising. It’s explicitly saying they’re not your real words.

That’s an issue of reading skill, and while we can certainly work to make writing more accessible for those that aren’t great at it, I don’t appreciate how people blame the writer for the treatment they receive for what is, at best, a mutual misunderstanding.

It’s gotten bad enough that I can say in the comment the person I am satirising, and again in a concluding statement. But without the ‘/s’, people still accuse me of being a monster for believing a heinous thing I deliberately used provocative language to describe.

If those "s were already in your comment, you shouldn’t have needed it :/ satire on the internet is getting harder to make I guess