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Comment · 3 years ago
I can't seem to find any info on whether or not the risk disappears if/when you give up drinking. Or is the DNA roulette wheel already spinning, like it is for people who have been heavy smokers in the past?

I think it's going to be harder for people to take on board the idea that any amount of alcohol is bad for you as, intuitively, I still believe that, in moderation, it can have some positive affects such as de-stressing and aiding sleep. Mind you, I suppose you could say some of the same about smoking and I can intuitively accept that any amount of that is bad for you.

Well, I've never smoked [tobacco] and [apart from a bit of a 'sociable relapse' over Christmas] haven't drunk for over a year now. So I should live forever!

Comment · 3 years ago

  >You described Germany! Britain and France are quite independent...
Germany I'll give you. They've definitely been putting in a herculean effort on the American Poodle front of late. But they'll have to go some to beat the UK's decades' long subservience. When it comes to foreign policy, the UK is basically a US satellite state.

France, on the other hand, were historically probably the Western European nation most likely to tell the US 'Non!' --although, that seems to be increasingly a thing of the past now too.

Comment · 3 years ago
I am an artist and these kind of articles and numerous similar videos on YouTube: 'How to draw faces... How to draw a cat... How to draw a horse...' annoy the hell out of me. As if 'learning to draw' consisted of following some formulaic recipe, without even having the object in question in front of you, or even having seen it.

The number one skill in learning to draw is learning to see properly. The vast majority of non-artistic people look at things without ever really seeing them. A classic example can be found on Gianluca Gimini's Velocipedia project:

https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

Here's a another example:

https://www.boredpanda.com/famous-brand-logos-drawn-from-mem...

Mechanically filling a page with shapes or following some idiotic 'how to draw a...' tutorial on YouTube will only teach you how to fill a page with shapes or make a bad copy of someone else's bad drawing. Learning to really look at things and attempting to put down what you see [as opposed to what you thought the item looked like before you actually studied it] is a far far more useful exercise.

I take your point that this article might provide some useful exercises for loosening up your doodling technique, to people who find it awkward to manipulate a pen or pencil freely. But calling it 'learning to draw' is as hyperbolic as calling some warm-up stretches 'learning to run a marathon'.

Comment · 3 years ago
The British can't take a dump without the US ordering them to. So it amounts to the same thing.
Comment · 3 years ago
You got me there! -- I did read, but only down as far as the download links. As they came after a substantial amount of blurb, I assumed they were the last item on the page and didn't scroll any further.

I humbly withdraw my snidey comment [although not the bit in regards to the Fediverse!]

Comment · 3 years ago
I note there's no mention of importing your existing passwords from other password managers, which pretty much all the other password managers I've tried do allow. So yet another 'alternative' that expects us to abandon all our existing content/data and start over again from scratch [cf. The Fediverse]
Comment · 3 years ago
I use Bitwarden myself and it gets some kudos for being free for personal use and open source. But the browser extension usability is badly flawed and the app suffers from an arrogant "You're holding it wrong!" dev team, who refuse to address these problems.

Also, its autofill functionality is completely broken on Android, and has been since forever. So, while it's preferable to LastPass, it's still pretty mediocre.

Comment · 3 years ago
Spoiler alert: The US did it.
Comment · 3 years ago
FFS! This is not any kind of 'guide to drawing'. It's some crappy doodling exercises.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
A pedant writes...

  DEFINITION: Hatchling -- a young animal that has recently emerged from its egg.


So, if it's still inside the egg, it ain't a hatchling.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ironic that the US is crying foul on China [allegedly] keeping tabs on its own citizens overseas --when the US has been treating the entire planet like it falls under their own legal jurisdiction.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't know whether this is clever or not. But it ID'd me from my Github account public keys.
Comment · 3 years ago
Jeebus! --that is lame
Comment · 3 years ago

  >Name an era when "stuff from 20 years ago" was not a nostalgia trend.
I don't think this modern nostalgia is anywhere near as good as the nostalgia we had when I was a kid.

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