My condolences. Where is this “competition breeds excellence” outcome that capitalism promised me?

Within the past year I shopped around for a new home internet provider. The legacy companies encouraged if not required talking to a human being to find out anything about service availability and rates and then be subject to a hard sales pitch. Appointment availability for the install was 2+ weeks out. The new fiber companies had all the info I could want clearly online, appointments available within 2 days, with minimal fuss. The legacy company humans were also often incorrect about their own product, potentially lying to make a sale.

If they act like a company from the 90s, they aren’t going to capture customers who came into adulthood after that.

That’s not even touching on the speeds they offer are slower than their competitors for a steeper price.

Multiple concussions and a spinal cord thing, probably not.

I am skeptical of the efficacy. So no, not without some serious studying on the practice, a doctor’s recommendation, and at least one second opinion. Comas aren’t without their risks.

In the US and Canada, however, the reference appears to be lost on some fans of the franchise […] seemingly unaware of the real-life Savile scandal that inspired them.

I’m not that optimistic. Plenty of US people would lean in all the more if they found out Savile had been “cancelled by the woke mob and ugly women angry at every harmless catcall”.

Awesome. I’m glad it was a fit for you and best wishes on more improvements to your sleep.

Apparently, Richter consulted with a neuroscientist specializing in sleep on it. And Richter has a sequel, Sleep Circle, which I haven’t checked out yet but have seen positive recommendations a few times online.

Yep, lately it’s been Max Richter 's album Sleep.

Supplemented with eye mask, melatonin, and an attempt to keep bedtime and wake up hours very consistent. When I can’t sleep, sometimes the last resort is to go sleep somewhere else, like the living room couch or the guest bedroom. For some reason, that can break me out of the rut and fall asleep.

When my brother’s brother-in-law passed, he gave all that to my brother. Both on the high end of tech/self-hosting capabilities. I’ve come to the conclusion much of it wasn’t worth it.

I’ll be focusing on ensuring access to financial accounts is passed on cleanly. And I’m working on digitizing all remaining physical photo negatives, then planning how to share all digitally with family while still alive. Since I don’t expect any to be interested in maintaining a server after I’m gone, I’m thinking I’ll keep it simple and just give everyone an external hard drive with all the photos. It’s up to them to do what they want with the drive. A copy to each sibling is increases odds it’s survives for a generation.

I’ll make project notes and plans available to anyone interested, but no hard feelings if no one is interested. And my music and movies can disappear for all I care. My tastes are pretty mainstream so I’m not thinking about archival value.

Goddamit. I was hoping that was just a meme people were starting to say about any cast list. But no, that creep is actually in the movie.

I so want to know who’s sex tapes he has that gives him this much blackmail leverage.

Is there a reason to not just use the laptop? It’s already bought and paid for. I would just setup it up for maximal ease; get a good keyboard and mouse and side table she’s comfortable with, bookmark everything for her, set the TV’s default source to the PC, make all the text 200% size or greater so it’s easy to read from 3m out.

Inflammation is measurable. Where are the studies correlating inflammation measured via whatever medical scans to depression diagnoses?

An incomplete article if the studies exist and weren’t mentioned. A useless hypothesis if the guy is already authoring books but hasn’t done any studies yet.

Waiting to board a plane and then I’m going to nap so hard. I should get some jet engine wash tracks for sleeping normally at home. I am usually asleep before the plane takes off.

Just watch the movie, there’s only one at the moment. Sequels are planned but not out yet. Or if you really don’t want to invest an hour and a half to watch the movie, there are probably recap videos on YouTube.

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Aye. Bookmarking this thread to remind people when I see complaints Lemmy isn’t taking off enough except for super technical topics.

Description from Letterboxd:

A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious high-rise in New York City, not realizing she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult.

In addition to Zazie Beetz on the poster, the cast includes Patricia Arquette and Tom Felton.

I use an app that doesn’t show profile pictures by default.

I apply a user tag to anyone I want to recognize.

And I’m also atheist, but raised Catholic and had a few schoolmates who became priests or nuns, and even more who explored it but left before making a permanent commitment.

I’ve got enough anecdotal evidence to cast a very skeptical eye on your claim that homeless broke dudes are the ones that go into the priesthood. So in an effort to get something a little better than my anecdotes, I websearched the phrase “demographics of men who become priests”

And got this page, https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/over-400-men-in-u-s-to-be-ordained-in-2025-most-felt-called-to-priesthood-by-age-16/100087, which says:

On average, ordinands first started to consider becoming a priest at 16 years old, but 35% said they began to think about entering the priesthood in elementary school between the ages of 6 and 13.

Not lining up with your theory unless you think there’s a lot of homeless 16 year olds becoming priests.

And I guess caveat that I’m in US currently, most familiar with Western countries approach to Catholic religious life.

Who hasn’t experienced some personal calamity? Seems like something that can be retroactively applied to anyone.

Dude went into the seminary to become a priest after his girlfriend dumped him? Personal calamity! He’s hiding from future dumpings by becoming a priest!