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I’ve heard some good things about fluticasone propionate. Normally it’s an over the counter allergy med (nasal spray), but I saw a study where a lot of people that used it got their sense of smell (and by extension a lot of taste) back in about 5 days.

Worth a try, at any rate. They sell it at Costco and most drug stores.

Cool, I’ma go tell my wife something we disagree on is idiotic and we’ll see how it goes. Should be fine, right? It’s not combative!

What an idiotic comparison.

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…is incredibly reductive and combative. The world needs less of that, not more.

Be the change, homie.

In any case, do recall that many of us are in enterprise environments where we’re not the only decision makers. Plus, FOSS without reliable support contracts isn’t workable for many use cases. If something in FOSS goes tits up none of my customers will be satisfied with the great discussion I had with the devs about it and how they’ll totally get to it after Furrycon.

You might not be paying for software in money but you’re going to pay for it, one way or another.

Nobody ever mentions Africa is what’s weird to me.

I have a theory that moral traits, like many other things in nature, follow a normal distribution. If I’m right, we can make some estimates of who would violate social rules given the chance. The bottom 5% of the distribution are going to do some terrible things. About 45% are going to be kind of shit, maybe not terrible. The remainder will be some level of decent to pretty well behaved, actually. Admittedly, that depends on what we think the mean level of morality really is. Having observed many a group of kids playing, I don’t think it’s that bad. Honestly that’s why so many teenage edgelords and doomers get told to go touch grass; reality will almost never be as bleak as we think it will be. There’s a well documented cognitive bias towards negative events, but it IS a bias.

The Boys isn’t realistic so much as it’s a deliberate deconstruction of the genre and a bit of speculative fiction (“What if Superman was a sociopath” seems to be the question it asks). It has elements of satire too, so it’s not really concerned with being fair so much as creating the story conditions that allow it to show us its narrative.

If you want a more “realistic” superhero show I think the 2012 movie Chronicle is more plausible. And yeah it does go badly for some but not for others.

I bet if we mapped out the relationships between various CEOs and boards of directors we could predict these selections rather well…

Not how Android works, but ok. Android is just an OS. Each specific combo of OS and phone is unique. You can modify Android to the point where it’s a completely different user experience between two implementations nominally using Android.

Maybe you just like iOS, that’s fine, but it’s good to understand why you like it. Personally I’ve been saddled with an iPhone for work and I hate the GUI, but I can appreciate the materials and some design choices.

It’s definitely not human nature and is, instead, an improbably well coordinated conspiracy by a gigantic corporation known for being full of internal conflict over a span of decades to engineer helplessness in users. Whereas we all know that users are normally such resilient, inquisitive souls, more than willing to engage with a piece of technology in order to understand it. Or they were, until Microsoft attacked. Alas, if only it were not for the great evil empire, all would be well. At least this very real conspiracy serves the additional purpose of flattering the community’s vanities and affirming its values as both morally correct and intellectually superior. So we got that going for us, which is nice.

Technically applies to Evangelion as well.

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For some reason he reminded me of this one Bill Murray flick.

Ah, the ancient traditions persist I see.