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Depends on which version of the pandemic trauma people have, really. For those of us who have, or have loved ones with, disabilities such that the push for “back to normal” feels reckless and is actively endangering us or those we love, the pandemic is still very much actively creating new trauma right now. “When will it go away” is a nonsensical question.

For others where the worst part was the initial fear and uncertainty, but their lives and risk factors are such... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Stacey at 12:52 PM on April 3, 2023

I'd like to wish WWE the best with their future Endeavors.
posted to MetaFilter by andreaazure at 4:23 PM on April 3, 2023

Unless you are conducting a personal scientific investigation into the effects of a concussion on a human adult, then, yes, you need a helmet.

Bicycle helmets do not protect you against concussions.

Bicycle helmets are designed to reduce the risk of skull fracture during a fall from roughly 5-6 feet on to hard ground. If that is a concern to you, then you should wear a helmet. You should also make sure it's worn properly,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by backseatpilot at 9:27 AM on March 27, 2023

I ride virtually daily year round. If I'm taking a short, low speed ride in good weather on wide sequestered paths, I don't wear a helmet. My feeling is that, like, Amsterdam is not the head injury capital of the world and that's because people don't in fact constantly get head injuries when they are riding short distances at moderate speeds in good weather on sequestered paths.

Further, our city director of bike share stuff doesn't wear a helmet - she feels that the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:12 AM on March 27, 2023

Not sure this is an app but it is kind of a system... Since I also prefer doing smaller tasks, I break my larger (dread-inducing) projects into smaller tasks. In fact, my first small task for a recent larger project was: "Break project into smaller tasks". YMMV. Good luck!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gofordays at 8:23 AM on March 10, 2023

Yep, agreed. If you feel better running some sort of a regular scan Malwarebytes' free version should be fine for what you need.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 9:55 AM on February 10, 2023 marked best answer

You said that plenty of people "start over" in their 30s and 40s. Maybe it would be helpful to think of it as plenty of people "start" their careers in their 30s and 40s. I'm very glad for the time I spent in my 20s putzing around and exploring different ideas and ways of living and being -- and I'm glad I didn't settle into a career that soon. After being in my current field just shy of two decades, I wonder you'd want to rush into something -- it's not like you need four... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bluedaisy at 10:51 PM on January 9, 2023

What kinds of games do he and his friends like and can he get those on Xbox? Xbox is a perfectly cromulent gaming ecosystem from what I hear, but if he isn't interested in the available titles, it's not going to go any better than the Switch. Xbox Game Pass has a lot of things available for a relatively low cost and is a great way to try things out (many of my friends have it for PC!) so that's probably a point in favor of Xbox over PS5, but at the end of the day, if his... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Alterscape at 10:03 AM on December 10, 2022

I think an Xbox (either a used Xbox One or a new Xbox Series S) is the right move, especially since Xbox Game Pass for $10/month is a great deal for someone just getting into gaming. There's a huge variety of games appropriate for younger players that are on it, loads of full games in different genres, and for one fairly low monthly fee he'd be able to explore a new world of gaming without being pressured by pay for play tactics. Even if he just ends up playing Forza, MechWarrior and Minecraft... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by eschatfische at 8:07 AM on December 10, 2022 marked best answer

Experiences are so different that you almost can't give the same advice to white people and PoC. There are plenty of exceptions, diffident white people exist, hyperconfident black people exist. But a lot of the time, if you're a PoC entering a new space, you are very aware that you are surrounded by a complicated web of invisible and unspoken rules, and may be reluctant to say anything in case you break them. And a lot of the time if you're a white person entering a new space, you assume you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TheophileEscargot at 1:14 AM on November 11, 2022

I'm not white, I'm on Mastodon, and I think Content Warnings are sometimes presented in an odd way.

A lot of the posts/toots on Mastodon are behind CWs. It's a normal thing. From the point of view of the poster, you see two textboxes, a one-line box at the top labelled "Write your warning here", and a multi-line box labeled "What's on your mind?" If you're posting about a TV show, you put the name of the TV show as a content warning. If you're posting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TheophileEscargot at 2:09 AM on November 10, 2022

Mefi's Own divabat has now returned as Maybe Mefi's Own creatrixtiara, hello

Thank you for posting my Twitter thread on here, I was going to chime in with pretty much that exact story but now I don't have to rehash it.

Mastodon isn't "nice". It's fine, but thinking of it as somehow better than Twitter or any other site is folly. And it's not like the hate only comes from Nazis - I went back to Mastadon a few days... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by creatrixtiara at 12:17 AM on November 10, 2022

One of the people I follow, a black astrophysicist, has indicated that she misses quote tweets because of its importance to #blacktwitter, and because it was a fun thing for #blacktwitter. So even as there are reasons for things not to be available on Mastodon, there are also other reasons why it might have been a valuable thing to implement, too.

And i do wonder if such examples are indicative of how (in general) people are talking past each other.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cendawanita at 9:10 AM on November 9, 2022

The Blueshirts were led by General Eoin O'Duffy whose rhetoric muddied the political waters in 1930s Ireland. He never got to send mercenaries to help Mussolini's adventures in Abyssinia but did lead an Irish Brigade to fight for Franco in Spain. Fine Gael, the righter of the two largest centerist parties in the country today, are heckled as "Blueshirts" because FG coalesced from O'Duffy's bund and a mixum of other anti-treaty groups.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by BobTheScientist at 1:19 AM on February 19, 2022

The British Union of Fascists could have. One of the things that made it hard for them was getting their asses kicked, along with the police force who supported them.

In very broad terms, it was also "wrong place at the wrong time" once the Second World War happened and certain things lined up that made their position untenable, to put it mildly.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mandolin conspiracy at 10:43 PM on February 18, 2022

Veteran copy editor here. The quotes are the best choice, hyphens are acceptable but clunky. You definitely need something there, though.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by scratch at 5:43 AM on August 30, 2021 marked best answer

+1 for Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, which is amazing and contains none of the tropes you identified.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by aparrish at 9:34 AM on August 26, 2021

The Night is Short, Walk On Girl is a recent one I liked a lot. It does have some slapstick elements, but more than that it's quirky and mysterious and weird and it captures some of the particular charm of being a college sophomore in Kyoto. And Masaaki Yuasa's style is visually inventive in a way I really like.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Jeanne at 7:31 AM on August 26, 2021

Typically, you would ask this kind of question on MetaTalk.

And thus we have a paradox- if you don't know something about Metafilter, how do you know where to ask it? It's logical to assume that "Ask Metafilter" would be where you could ask questions about Metafilter.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by daybeforetheday at 9:52 PM on January 4, 2021

They are safe to eat but the whites will be tough & pretty much texturally weird & rubbery. To still be great 3 months is about the limit, after that time they are still safe to eat but start getting the usual issues of anything kept in the freezer a long time & 6 months is about the limit mostly for taste & texture not safety. If freezing hard boiled eggs you pretty much want to just freeze the yolk. If you want to freeze eggs, next time, freeze them raw, crack them open,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by wwax at 5:58 AM on November 9, 2020

Please don't got telling people that they must do this. There are large hosting providers which don't allow Let's Encrypt, and still charge quite a bit (» than domain costs) per year for a certificate. Unless you're willing to pay for people's SSL certs, or do the logistics of moving old sites to better hosting, best to keep shtumm.

I'm amazed that Let's Encrypt doesn't have anything like this on their site. I just looked, and they don't.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by scruss at 6:14 PM on October 26, 2020

This thread seems really weird. At the very best it’s pure chatfilter. Here’s the actual names of the actual baseball teams in the actual country of Ireland. Please note that the Belfast team are the Belfast Buccaneers. That red glove crack can... get rekt.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by J.R. Hartley at 6:11 AM on October 15, 2020

Anyway my hot take is that none of you fuckers are sharpening your knives. I have never cooked at another person's house where they weren't using a blunted-to-uselessness knife that they have literally never sharpened ever. (A honing steel is not a sharpener.)
posted to MetaFilter by showbiz_liz at 9:16 AM on October 11, 2020

If you're finding pedalling hard (you're pedalling slowly and having to really strain to push the pedals around), you're in too high a gear. Change down gears one at a time until you're pedalling at a comfortable rate.
If you're finding pedalling too easy (your legs are spinning around with hardly any resistance), you're in too low a gear. Change up gears one at a time until you're at a comfortable rate.
If you see a hill approaching, no need to change gear until... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bfranklin at 9:03 AM on October 4, 2020

If you're finding pedalling hard (you're pedalling slowly and having to really strain to push the pedals around), you're in too high a gear. Change down gears one at a time until you're pedalling at a comfortable rate.
If you're finding pedalling too easy (your legs are spinning around with hardly any resistance), you're in too low a gear. Change up gears one at a time until you're at a comfortable rate.
If you see a hill approaching, no need to change gear until you... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by EndsOfInvention at 8:46 AM on October 4, 2020

So, your bike has a bunch of gears.

Some bikes have multiple gears both near the pedals (these are called chainrings) and near the back wheel (these are called cogs).

If you have two chainrings, you'll mostly want to use the smaller one when you're going slow and the larger one when you're going fast. If you have three, you'll want to use the smallest one for steep uphill and/or off-road riding, the middle one for most normal riding, and the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by box at 8:36 AM on October 4, 2020

like_neon's husband here. Your situation sounds exactly like ours.
The main issue with using the turntable via Sonos is that you need a component with a line-in.

If you don't already have one you'll need to spend an extra £200-300 to get one. This means that the turntable needs to be close enough to be wired into that component, and then once its set up it could be in streamed to your other sonos components in other rooms.

The line-in... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by toamouse at 3:30 AM on August 7, 2020

I also have a cheap Auto-Technica turntable, it's perfectly fine. But I really want to second the following point, since I think it got a bit lost and also would not have been completely clear to me when I last year (also at a *cough* not dissimilar age) got my first turntable:

It's going to be a pain to have to go to another room at least every 20 mins to change sides.

It's not just a pain, it's going to be completely... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by advil at 6:17 AM on August 7, 2020

Your neighbors are trash. It’s ok to be disliked by people like your neighbors. You’ve done nothing wrong, and it was good that you paid attention to that little voice in your gut early on and distanced yourself from their cliquey, toxic behavior. The way these people are treating you now shows you what they’re capable of (as if the comments about your sexuality and COVID behavior weren’t enough), and that’s not a group you want to be part of. I would not even think of trying to broach this with... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by stellaluna at 8:58 PM on August 2, 2020

Has anyone transcribed the GRRM speech?

It will be finished in 2032.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 5:45 AM on August 2, 2020

Are you using overnight gel drops? They are expensive, and smeary, but definitely worth it for me in terms of how my eyes feel in the morning.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by charmedimsure at 1:56 AM on July 30, 2020

Macdara, I use the "brew" package manager and install youtube-dl as well as other software as a local user, not administrator. Copy and paste this line into Terminal:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

then

brew install youtube-dl
posted to Ask MetaFilter by blob at 5:18 AM on July 28, 2020

He possessed a rare combination of charisma, intelligence, and kindness, which made Mythbusters a delight to watch. This hurts.

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posted to MetaFilter by schmod at 5:23 AM on July 14, 2020

I either stay with family, or at a hotel near them when I’m back in Dublin, so I can’t really help with hotels. However, I would recommend staying fairly central, but avoiding Temple Bar itself. I wouldn’t suggest further west then about Christchurch, for example, and the Docklands can get pretty dead in the evenings and on weekends.

Further to some of the sights already mentioned, I think it might be midterm in Dublin that week too, so there will probably be children’s... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by scorbet at 12:49 PM on November 14, 2019

I just passed 20 years on my little corner of nonsense - www.gordonmclean.co.uk...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by snowgoon at 5:34 AM on September 2, 2019

pb made a roundup of the blogs here. Now all we need is the OPML file!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Nelson at 10:00 AM on August 30, 2019

Indeed my convoluted point about "bread" was that the usual truism about UK mass nouns and US mass nouns discussed above doesn't apply here. Glad you agree with my intuition macdara!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by spitbull at 9:35 AM on August 27, 2019

After posting that last comment I just remembered Chihayafuru, which is about a girl getting really good at a traditional Japanese card game, and Skip Beat! which is about a girl getting really good at acting.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by storytam at 6:01 PM on April 28, 2019 marked best answer

The experiment is about translation without intention, as a way of thinking about what it means to know that someone or something else is conscious. How I recall it is as a criticism of the Turing Test as a means of identifying consciousness. The Turing Test, you will recall, postulates that if you can have a conversation over a terminal with an intelligence, and you cannot tell whether that intelligence is human or artificial, than it is conscious.

Searle comes in and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by gauche at 9:35 AM on February 15, 2019

Professional copy editor here. Your professor is wrong. You don't put a comma between a subject and a verb, no matter how many words are contained in the subject, and that is what she is telling you to do.

ETA: That's assuming there isn't a phrase that needs a comma for some other reason, which isn't the case here.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by FencingGal at 10:58 AM on February 7, 2019 marked best answer

In case there are any other OCD film nerds out there, here's a list of the films on that channel with IMDB links:

Life Returns [1935]
Trapped By Television [1936]
Rocky Jones: The Gypsy Moon [1954]
Rocky Jones: Beyond The Moon [1954]
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger [1954]
The Monster Maker [1954]
Night Of The Blood Beast [1958]
The Giant Gila Monster [1959]
The Head (AKA Die Nackte... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ashwagandha at 9:20 AM on January 15, 2019

The 8-Bit Guy’s videos are great. I sometimes listen to the audio while I work.

My first computer was a C64, and I used it until 1993 or so, writing papers in geoWrite and... there was another word processor I used, non-WYSIWYG. I can’t remember what it was called. Hm.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 4:30 PM on January 1, 2019

Yep. We consume most of our cocoa powder by mixing it into yogurt and pb.

As well as making some amazing chocolate sauce that is thick and rich and doesn't crystallize in the fridge. Would you like my recipe?

You do have to cook it (because it's a super-saturated sugar/cocoa solution) but it's a lot cheaper than Hershey's / Quik and tastes so much better, especially on ice cream.

Place dry ingredients in stovetop pot,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by seanmpuckett at 7:09 PM on December 14, 2018

Still a white supremacist, though.
posted to MetaFilter by sagc at 1:04 PM on August 29, 2018

I think one of my problems historically with these types of metal is the misplaced aggression.

I've just made myself angry and this music seems like it'd be helpful right about now.

QED.
posted to MetaFilter by rhizome at 11:43 AM on August 29, 2018

He was one of the absolute best ever, and my mind boggles that he was never that successful (in the U.S.). He should have been the Brock Lesnar of his time -- show up, annihilate everyone, disdain his competition, fight only on the biggest cards, be the Big Boss that you could spend years building a babyface to finally topple.

RIP, big man. You scared the shit out of an entire generation around the world.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 10:22 AM on June 20, 2018

I am hungover but up to watch the results coming in. I hope I can see John McGuirk writhe in agony at some point, along with the whole bunch from the Iona Institute. They are bad people who should feel bad.
posted to MetaFilter by lesbiassparrow at 1:02 AM on May 26, 2018

Imagine being one of the Americans who flew there specifically to canvass for No. I hope they are all very unhappy because they are bad people and should feel bad.

I hope that when they grow up a bit they realise the world can be complicated and they put their energy into making it a better place .
posted to MetaFilter by roolya_boolya at 5:10 PM on May 25, 2018

My SO, who became an Irish citizen earlier this spring, has gone off on her bike to vote. (I'll be heading down to my rural polling station later this morning.) I'm not as optimistic as I was three years ago, but I think we can do this.

My personal favourite No poster is the one that says, "If you saw an abortion, you'd vote no." If I saw my own conception I'd be very much against that; this is not a good criterion, lads.
posted to MetaFilter by Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels at 11:21 PM on May 24, 2018

That's a combination of psychological projection (how can they possibly be doing it without outside help like we are?) and bargain basement antisemitism (the usual 'Soros' conspiracy bull).

Given that we now have alt-right flags flying at pro-life stands on O'Connell St, yeah, that sounds about par for the course.
posted to MetaFilter by ocular shenanigans at 7:03 AM on May 24, 2018