The title says “beta.”

Anyone who calls themselves an alpha male is revealing that they’re an insecure twat.

Many. There wasn’t fluoride in the water where I grew up for the first decade of my life. Tips:

Bring earbuds and clear it with the dentist that they’ll tap your arm if they need to talk to you. Have a playlist ready. If you can afford it / have the right insurance, ask for gas to help you zone out. If you feel pain, they didn’t give you enough novocaine. My dentist informed me that people with red hair are less sensitive to the drug and need more of it (she noticed my beard comes in kinda reddish when she told me about that). Don’t be afraid to let them know of discomfort; they want you to be ok during the procedure so not to make you avoid getting treatment right away in the future, thus making whatever problem worse.

You can maybe ask for a single pill script for a downer like zanex if you don’t drive to the appt.

Time to plug one of my favorite podcasts: Stuff the British Stole

Eats crunchy foods (celery, carrots, etc) in shared office every day for lunch. Loudly.

Why don’t we just tell them how to run their country? /s

We’re such assholes. I can’t wait until half of our geriatric government leaders die off and maybe some saner (younger) people can have a say.

It’s not the healthiest idea, but I find that I can fall back asleep after a snack and changing my location. If I wake up at 3am, I might eat a bit of cheesecake (or hopefully something not so fattening, but heavy foods work best, for me) and relocate to the sofa. I put on a podcast that I don’t care too much about (comedy or something that isn’t super cerebral) and I’m usually out again.

Get treatment. Depression is solvable. Therapy and (sometimes) medication can work. They both may require multiple attempts before you get a solution. Creds: bi-polar and frequent depression victim. Currently living a happy (mostly) life.

Let’s equate someone holding a powerful person accountable with that same person literally trying to steal an election.

Ok, sure thing.

Of course he’s profiting off them. There’s nothing he does that isn’t in his interest and seeking money.

Corporations are purchasing unprecedented amounts of real estate, but it’s definitely the market that’s keeping this from selling.

Knowledge can be proven, like how a beautiful sunrise proves the existence of god. /s

There’s no god. As soon as we get that point across, we can start meaningfully improving things.

All right, I enjoyed this more than I expected. First solid laugh of the day.

Schneier is one of the two security experts I have in my RSS feeds, the other being Brian Krebs. Bruce Schneier is a smart guy.

Parks. Not every state / city has good ones. We have awesome parks where I live. Not so much when we went to visit my family last month.

I don’t know what boards you’re on, but wow. Not the experience I’m having on Lemmy. You might wanna check your subscribes.

Three died before I was born or old enough to remember. The fourth was basically no relationship once I became an adult because I am not close with extended family that has always lived half a country away from me. She died during the pan, saving me from having to disappoint my mother by skipping her funeral.

Bullshit happy endings.

OWC Express 4M2 with four 8TB m.2 chips raided for 24TB of lightning fast storage for media. And a Synology DS1522+ with expansion bay for 96TB of storage for backups plus more media (plex library to stream to home theater). Additional backups to 8TB SSDs for the builtin storage of my main machine. This is somewhat excessive, not what I recommend for most users, but definitely right for my use.

Everyone should have minimum two backups. Ideally three with one of them being offsite in case of disaster such as fire.

Israel lies constantly.

Bible.