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I think LDS folks have a little too much trust in other LDS folk.

“Brother So-in-so works for doTerra, Sister So-in-so sells it and says it cleared up her eczema. These people wouldn’t lie to me!”

And so they take whatever they say as truth. I don’t think it’s what I would describe as “childish gullibility”. But too much unchecked trust in members of their circles (still gullibility. But I wouldn’t call it childish). And then it compounds. Well, Bishop So-in-so wouldn’t participate in an MLM if it were immoral so it must be good!

I think this is at the root of the problem in Utah. Between that and the Utah moms wanting to make an easy buck.

Source: LDS myself living in Utah County. My wife and I often discuss why there is just so many MLMs that are clearly (to me) scams that run unchecked.

Yes. They are forcing them all to migrate to Ms accounts.

I haven’t looked into it because it seemed straight forward. But now you have me curious.

The clients always authenticated before launching the game and required a valid session to join even private servers. I’ve assumed the change just disables the option to join any games similar to if they weren’t properly authenticated.

I've done a handful of National Park trips in the last year and a half (Yellow Stone, a few in southern Utah).

I would say National Park trips are "expensive" in ways other than the cash it takes to get in. We tried to plan our trips avoiding the major holidays and spring/fall breaks of the local school districts, etc.

- They're overly crowded. It feels like a theme park. Looking at a waterfall and you're standing shoulder to shoulder with strangers. It's crazy.

- Parking is nearly impossible to find. Some days you have to pay for parking and bus into the park.

- Every campground was full. Hotels and BNBs are not exactly cheap in those areas.

We'd ask workers/etc about the traffic and they'd always say stuff like, "oh yeah, this is nothing. You should've seen it X weeks ago!"

So, sure the National Park itself is peanuts to get admission. But it was disappointing in a lot of ways. For those reasons, I would be more interested in paying more dollars to see State parks, if all the other "costs" were "cheaper" :)

Same where I am. Most of the city has competition because it’s most new developments out here and a few fiber companies were able to get in the ground early. My neighborhood is older so we only have Comcast. But Comcast buried fiber here to “future proof” ages ago, they just haven’t lit it up. And they’re the only company who got their hardware in the ground. So I’m stuck on their cable.

As it turns out the service here is good, so I shouldn’t complain. But it’s still frustrating that they are just sitting on fiber and not using it. And also that there’s no competition where I am.

If I ever move, then I’ll know better and pick a house with fiber already. :/

There are a few patterns here I didn’t dive into in my original comment above.

1. I don’t use a lot of apps. I prefer web for most things. It turns out the apps I do download are from bigger companies (YouTube, Netflix). It’s annoying to be nagged by these companies. I already pay them $x/mo and now they’re asking more from me? Please leave me alone.

2. Many apps are first asking if I like it THEN prompt me to review if I say yes. It is my understanding that this is against the rules for the Apple App Store. If it’s not it should be. That’s shady behavior. It’s so common that I’ve been conditioned to not even believe that the first prompt is even real. I feel like I’m literally being Phished for reviews here. I don’t like it.

So yes, I’m to the point where I assume all nag-ware is employing some manipulative dark pattern and I default to 1-star review. Yes I will one star review some apps that don’t deserve it. But at this point those developers are playing in the same sandbox as all the bullies and I can’t tell them apart anymore. I have to protect myself. I don’t have the mental energy to try and distinguish between the good guys and bad guys anymore.

It is my opinion that Indie developers need to find a better way to market themselves. The water has been poisoned on reviews.

Sorry if you disagree with me. But that’s where I’m at now.

I don’t have time to expound too much, but I really love America’s Test Kitchen’s two Gluten Free books “The How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook” volumes 1 and 2.

Every recipe we’ve tried have been great. But the reason I wanted to share it here is how ATK analyses and shares how they decide the best ingredients for different recipes. Gluten is a very important (and more nuanced than I realized) ingredient in traditional cooking and baking. So when you remove it there are a lot of surprising effects. (And some unsurprising ones). So ATK takes you through those nuances.

It’s really fun to learn and I’m not much of a cook myself :)

I follow the same rule. But I will also then go one star review it.

I will also one-star review any app that prompts me to review it by first asking me if I like it (sneaky sneaky!)

FWIW: I think most members of the LDS church have a good sense of humor for things like this done in good taste, even if they're not 100% representative of their beliefs.

source: am one myself. This is true for the other members around me as well (friends, family, etc)

Sorry and welcome to the club!

Unsolicited referral: America’s Test Kitchen has a cook book series called “How Can It be Gluten Free Cookbook”. We have 2 of them, I think there’s only 2. Literally everything we’ve tried has been outstanding! And the lessons they teach about what makes things work are really interesting.

I haven’t ever heard of this. Seems really interesting. Thanks.

Another thought I’ve had for a long time: why not just lift the limit on Congress? My understanding is that Congress set a law to cap it (as opposed to the constitution specifying it) Which made sense 100 or even 50 years ago when members of Congress needed to be physically present to vote in DC.

But today in a world of the internet, video conferencing, etc. it seems like that limitation is arbitrary. Much smaller districts would exists. Making gerrymandering harder. Making a the house look a lot different than the senate. It would make the House more like … a mayor who writes and votes on laws in DC instead of locally.

Pretty sure Cell Phones in the US are still able to call 911 even without a sim card or an active plan.

So a sim-less phone would still allow for an emergency call in that sense.

GameMaker and RPG Maker just never quite stuck with me the way Zelda Classic did. But my kids are getting to that age where they want to "make games". So I'm hoping something like that would be fun for them.

I remember getting the Ti83+ in High School and trying to make a Snake game. I followed a tutorial, and I barely knew what I was doing. But man, was it fun!

Zelda Classic holds a special place in my heart.

My older brother downloaded it thinking it was just a Zelda 1 clone. I discovered it had a quest editor. And it was a very magical moment for me.

I spent hundreds of hours never completing any of my projects. It was the first online community I ever joined and actively participated in.

Eventually I yearned for for power and discovered Dark Basic. Now I’m a software dev.

Zelda Classic was a major spark in my life. And it’s a really cool piece of software. 100% original code, (obviously the default assets are lifted… from another project). It’s got to be a 20 year old project at this point.

I can relate to that quote (as I'm sure most people can).

When I was in middle-school, Pokemon TCG was still really new and popular ... "with children". Me and my friends played together, but I was horrified of the idea of anyone else at school finding out. I remember walking to a friends house with my cards and ran into some of our school friends walking the other way, and I did everything I could to hide my box so they didn't ask what I was carrying.

What a childish thing to do ;P

Now that I'm older, I hang my most prized Pokemon cards behind me like a poster. I don't care if my webcam picks them up during work. And I love to tell people about it.

I make sure to never show shame around my kids about "little kid things". Or even "girly" things or "boy-ee" things. When my son started to show shame for liking "pink" things, I slowly started including pink and purple as my favorite colors when my kids asked. I gently yet swiftly squash any "barbies are for girls" type of comments when they're spoken around me.

Sometimes I'll walk in on my young teen son shamelessly playing Barbies or other dolls with his little sister. I say nothing except things like, "Looks like you're having fun!" It makes me sad to think of the day when the wrong friend finds out and teases him for it. Hopefully by then he's gained enough self-esteem to not listen.

I’ve found scripts online to help me change the committer on entire repos when I realized I had used the wrong config. Something like the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2919878/git-rewrite-prev...

Then you have to force push.

Note, you will still have the same number of commits in the same order with the same diffs, but they will be new commit ids.

You’re “rewriting” your history. Which in the case you outline is perfectly fine. But note, anyone who’s pulled down the branches you’re changing will need to reset rather than pull your changes otherwise git will attempt to MERGE the new history with the old one.

You know, I remember many times on my neighborhood’s Facebook post age people saying things like “thanks whomever reported my barking dog. I had no idea it was a problem now I owe $500. Why didn’t you just tell me?!” or whatever. So I was like, oh yeah I’ll just be a cool neighbor.

I texted several of my neighbors once. Completely polite and to the point “hey, there are dogs barking all day lately. Can you double check yours isn’t one? It’s really disruptive. Thanks!”

One of them passive aggressively never spoke to me again until they moved. The other texted me back berating me. How dare I even suggest their perfect dog…

I will call the cops anonymously from now on.

We’re planting clover in our park strip to augment the lawn.

We had some naturally move in last year and we really liked it So we’re going to help it out. It was soft, and keeping the lawn green/alive/pretty in the park strip is notoriously water wasteful.

Also, I want to be able to specify areas I’m familiar with somehow. So instead of it telling me turn by turn how to leave my neighborhood, for example, it just says “leave the neighborhood going east”. Then it could say “you want to be going north on I-whatever, you’ll end up North of CITY.” And then it shuts up until I’ve gone past CITY on I-whatever.

ah! Thanks for clarifying.

Tangent, but I thought it was a funny commentary: I was watching the olympics with my kid (<12yo) and the Coinbase commercial came on (Didn't see it during the superbowl, but I assume they were the same?). And after the commercial ended my kid said, "was that... some kind of app for gambling or something?"

Yes. Something like that. :)

I know there’s some serious chicken/egg issue here, and solves a different problem than Google or DDG. but I think what I need is a way to “Like” or “Favorite” a page I’m on (maybe just a bookmark?) and that triggers my personal search indexer which will then index that page.

Then maybe optionally “follow” other people’s favorites as part of your own results. Imagine someone crawling Twitter or SoF and you just “follow” their index and it gets merged with your results and disable/enable them for specific searches.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately because I often am trying to remember something that helped me or I wanted to remember. But I can’t find it in my FF history. And Bookmarks feel too clunky.

We always make sure we say things like “oh wow. I’m really glad you asked me that. Thanks!”

Not only invasive but restaurant websites are so buggy.

For example, I tried ordering a Papa Murphy’s pizza the other day online. It used one of the major food ordering sites. It described “toppings. Pick 5. $2 per topping for extra toppings”

So I chose a few toppings. It added $2 per topping. Period. Didn’t matter if it were red flakes, Parmesan cheese, bacon, onions, olives: $2/ea.

So I’ll just order over phone from now on so I don’t have to worry about these crazy bug fees.

Tangential and honest question: how do eviction moratoriums help? I can see how a short ban on evictions can help prevent a spike in a homelessness crisis, but long term I really struggle with it. Is the assumption that all/most landlords have infinite money to support non-payers? Are governments subsidizing 100% of the missed rent?

Blizzard's (not sure about Activision games) ongoing support for most of those platforms has been pretty crap recently anyway. Diablo2 Resurrected removed mac support but they did add consoles.

OW only support Windows.

I guess SC2 and D3 had support for many platforms, but not Linux.

It's a crap situation that I don't think is being improved or worsened here.

NESticle has nearly as much nostalgia for me as plugging in the NES. There was this magical feeling at the time. I can play my favorite games on my computer? Don’t have to blow in the cartridge? Save states???

I agree and would never advocate termination of any common utility service, especially not water. I was careful to say that depending on those things alone and pretending like everything is honkey-dorey 100% is silly.

It was just one example. But stuff like this does happen. Just the other day another nearby city mailed all its residents that there was a problem discovered LAST SUMMER, but all is fine because it’s fixed… now.

I don’t know what the solution is. But it’s scary when it happens.

There was an even near me a couple years ago:

https://kutv.com/news/local/sandy-estimates-600-homes-affect...

And a follow up a year later:

https://kutv.com/amp/news/local/exclusive-cause-of-sandys-wa...

This is of course cherry-picked. And having a million smaller deployments is harder than one big centralized one. But the anecdote here is that even in a well-off, large suburb like Sandy, the infrastructure that is meant to “protect” the residents actually poisoned them.

It’s hard to say, IMO, that municipal run water on its own it guaranteed to be safe.

I bought an HP Color Laser printer a few years ago to avoid the Ink Jet nonsense.

Turns out it’s not Ink Jet, it’s HP. Lessons learned.

The printer worked flawlessly until I went through my first toner cartridges (the carts shipped with the printer are intentionally smaller so you have to replace them)

I noticed the 3rd party replacements were $80 for a full set whereas 1st party were $200. I got the 3rd party. It’s been such a headache ever since. The MAJORITY of prints from my iMac fail. Google suggests the Mac drivers have a bug that cause OOM errors on the printer. Funny thing is it always succeeds from Windows or Linux. So I half bought it, and just put up with it.

Fast forward a few years (a week or two ago) and my wife points out that there was an HP update and the printer works perfectly! Yay! The color cartridge is basically empty and needs replacing. Worked perfectly for a week until the printer popped up an error message “non-hp chip”.

All speculation and anecdotal, but I just can’t help but feel like they’ve ended their charade and are actually being “honest” with me now…