u/Few_Move_4594

The use of diesel for pickup trucks is basically negligible as a percentage of total use. I'm stating this to head off the conversation about how "Billy Bob with the F250 diesel voted for this".

Pretty much all consumer goods, especially food, are transported to a store via a diesel semi-truck. I don't feel like finding the study, but I've read one that listed the amount of diesel required per square yard of farmland to produce various crops.

Food is about to get even more expensive peeps.

I'm going to preface this with the fact that I have a drinking problem. Ended up on the floor on one of the legs of my desk, nice 6x6in bruise on my abdomen, a similar bruise on my left buttocks, and my left shin all sorts of messed up. Called 911 because there was no way I was driving there. They met me outside, I couldn't a single pair of shoes even though my shoe rack is by my front door. No shirt either.

Well, there were three paramedics and it took them a surprising amount of time to start an IV. I'm going to spoiler this because it's nasty but >!I had already pooped my pants.!<They took me to the ER, which really sucked. Pumped full of antibiotics, I have a gallstone, and they thought I was septic. Spent most of the day there getting pumped with more antibiotics and Librium (a benzo used for alcohol withdrawals). I'm also on a blood thinner. Anyway, eventually they tell me that I'm going to floor 4. Wait what seems like forever to get to floor four. Hospital didn't have a bed in my room, so I sat in the side chair for what seemed like 30 minutes but was probably 15 mins.

They eventually gave me more fluid and Librium after I get a bed. Various other things like folate and a multivitamin. Was there for two more days for something like three days total. More fluids and the dreaded magnesium (it burns inside in the vein). Ativan'd up to the moon to the point I didn't notice them putting a "fall risk" bracelet on me.>!Managed to wash my shit-stained shorts in the sink despite the bed alarm. !<Go home and need to get 'scripts filled, but my bank had sent a warning about ACH on my debit card. Of course, they aren't open today and I don't know their password requirements. Ended up taking an UBER to Walmart to get the drugs, but it wouldn't process my debit card. Happy day. Bought it all on credit and some cookies for myself. They kind of suck. Still in the process of having bad runs so I'm getting some Imodium delivered to me, amongst other odds and ends like lysol wipes.

Drinking sucks.

Like WTF man? I thought he was giving him a hug when I saw it before (yes I wasn't sober).

I also noticed Greg's betrayal of Shiv in America Decides and he's walking on the outside of the glass panels. That shrug in the first one then gigantic smile in the second was perfect.

https://reddit.com/link/1u5xgc4/video/dl921qqdhb7h1/player

It's incredibly good and creepy enough that I stopped it a ton of times. Horror movies don't usually scare me, but this one did somehow. Both of the leads deserve a heap of praise.

Imagine a world where Michael Sackler, of the Purdue Pharma fortune, objects to a piece calling him out for his "Ethical Investing" of the Oxycontin Profits (HE WAS A MINOR), and he called upon Peter Thiel, noted thief of young blood and Hobbit, who with his crony D’Souza has created a site that uses AI to judge adjudicate a journalistic piece as true or not. It features a rogue's gallery of jurors including Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude. TL;DR it was yoinked before the judging but I highly recommend to read this piece.

https://preview.redd.it/bdgd1vlh127h1.png?width=862&format=png&auto=webp&s=f712e4c79a4e270dece8fe4022954372c34f4e5b

I haven't seen a post in days that hasn't been AI slop, well besides the all-caps rant. I'm out.

This is something I've noticed lately and I'd like advice

Why do shoes not last as long now? I'm a Birkenstock fan and they'd last a good 36 months before, now I'm a year in and the outsole is worn out hard. I'm not into paying ~$120 for a pair of sandals that isn't going to last. Is this a capitalist enshitification?

I'm beyond tired of seeing posts about McDonald's being expensive. There is a beef shortage in the United States. There are less head of cattle now than in 1950, while the population of the country has more than doubled. McDonald's primarily serves beef products. Ground beef was in the 8 to 9 dollar range for ground round flat pack at Aldi last I went, so for me to make a quarter pound burger it would be $2.50 for beef alone. Minimum wage has increased greatly, pre-covid it was $8.56 (I'm in Florida), then it went to $11 in 2021 and has increased by $1 every year since and will be $15 this September.

The truth is $10 to $15 for a combo burger meal is reasonable. McDonald's is still slammed with customers every time I go by and people are still buying it's products. The company also went upmarket, which is a great strategy because they make more money per ticket and the lower-income customers cause the vast majority of problems. Complain about everything and try to get everything for free.

Hi, I've been a Java developer for something like 12 years now. I want to move over to C# for better job opportunities in my area. My senior project was ASP.NET, but this was back in the early 2010s. I'm looking at this https://roadmap.sh/aspnet-core roadmap and going through the microsoft tutorials, even though I had to install a VM copy of windows to get full Visual Studio. Any tips here?

EDIT: I'm downloading Rider now, which should be good because I main Intellij for Java and have for more than a decade.

I'm playing the Steam version on Linux via Proton. Are the mods worth it? I'm slightly annoyed by the game, but I've beaten P5 once and P5R (PS4 version) once. I haven't checked but I recall the music could be changed in the pause menu instead of being tied to costumes and it's really annoying me. Are the quality of life improvements worth it? Do the mods work well on Linux?