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Comment · 3 years ago
My vasectomy left me with life long pain and discomfort, particularly when sitting. This is after a long period of (essentially) torture that had me seriously considering how to commit suicide. The only treatment offered involves cutting holes in my abdomen to draw out and skeletonize the stalks connecting my testicles hopefully killing all nerves. It probably won't cause the testicle to die although there is a small chance the blood supply will fail. Just like there was a small chance of lightning bolts of pain shooting through to my back, warmth spreads and pins and needles down my legs and pain in my hips and lower abdomen so there was no need to impress these possibility onto me. Just the casual mention of the possibility of pain, which I figured would be occasional aching of the testicles.

It remains the worst decision I've made in my entire life.

Comment · 3 years ago
I was aware the reduce and renew had been reduced to a whisper and largely forgotten (they reduce consumption after all, recycling is the only acceptable one in are consumption driven world) but I didn't realize some one had actually tried to twist things so they could vilify them.
Comment · 3 years ago
I remember finding the transition from keyboard only duke3d (with ALT as a strafe toggle) to mouselook pretty painful initially. The flexibility was there but I had to relearn a skill which was kind of grating.
Comment · 3 years ago
Frylock: Have you seen my towel?

Master Shake: Just use a paper towel.

Frylock: I'm taking a bath.

Master Shake: They're right in the kitchen, just go get 'em!

Comment · 3 years ago
They also have a collection of old drivers that have become hard to find with time.
Comment · 3 years ago
I remember Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals usually featured her pulling some ingredients she'd already chopped up or soaked in something the night before out from the fridge. Apparently the time spend yesterday didn't count against the clock.
Comment · 3 years ago
Only places I've ever seen do this are gas stations. And I've calculated the discount, I've never seen it be more than the cashback I get on gas purchases from my card. Usually, it is way less. And that is without getting into losing the time saving/convenience of paying at the pump.
Comment · 3 years ago
There was an update, Windows Genuine Advantage, that was not part of the original XP installers that did the nagging about you using a shady key IIRC. The trick was to not install it, which was easy enough since you had total control of updates back then.
Comment · 3 years ago
Is it even possible to passthrough ISA to a VM? Legacy PCI is (well-ish) supported with its own quirks but I've never heard of ISA passthrough even mentioned before.
Comment · 3 years ago
My experience with old cars and full insurance coverage is if the car repairs cost more than the value of the car they just total it and pay out the estimated sale value of the car. Which isn't great if you were happy with the car.

I remember my boss 15 years ago having an accident that totaled his old but reliable car because the trunk and read bumper were damaged. He bought the totaled car from the insurance company for $500 and just kept driving it. But it was a lot easier to get junker cars inspected back then.

Comment · 3 years ago
Seems like it would be pretty heavy data usage pushing all that video up over the mobile network.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'd prefer cars just add standardized mount points with power and maybe data lines. Then I could install different cheap products I selected, or none at all.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe I'm missing something but since bitcoin is a public ledger and exchanges all have KYC features it seems worse than buying visa gift cards with cash from a privacy perspective. I don't know that much about the crypto space honestly, but it didn't seem to make sense to me it was the go-to currency for criminal transactions.
Comment · 3 years ago
Next lets use it to prevent crime or approve loans. Computer says no.
Comment · 3 years ago
My physics text book had metric to imperial conversions and I was surprised to see "mouthful" as the smallest volume measurement.

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