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Check the backs of the handles. Sometimes a manufacturer will stamp their name there. Or the name of the restaurant they were made for, but that’s less common, I think.

Neglectful / high threshold. A post or comment has to be extremely one way or the other for me to click one of those arrows, and as for boosts, basically forget about it, even if they are the right thing for stellar content. I would like to give out more (of all kinds), but never seem to be able to bring myself to do it.

I think seeing a ratio that already looks right might play into it a bit (since I’m on an instance that shows both up and down), but there are plenty of 0/0s that don’t get anything from me either.

Getting into the further “why” is deep existential, psychological stuff that’s probably well beyond the fluff level of an internet points discussion, and I might not even be able to begin to examine that without the help of a qualified therapist or something.

This article: https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/ crossed the Fediverse a few days ago. It’s informative and the fix at the end might still be relevant.

It confirms several things it seems pretty clear YouTube are doing, and goes into a decent amount of detail.

(Or else the article writer saw a comment of mine where I said certain things were happening and there’s a confirmation feedback loop going on. It’s hard not to reach certain conclusions when different accounts accessed by the same person on the same computer behave in different ways though.)

Pretty much this. Up to that point, it was Britain and a few other European nations that were doing all the management* in various places in the world. After WWII, they realised: “You know what, we’re tired and worn out and everyone wants us out anyway. We’re going low energy to rebuild at home. Someone else can step in if they want.”

* a.k.a. “Colonialism”. Management is an odd choice of synonym I grant you, but once you’ve got a colony, it’s in your interests to run things in good order. Until the locals rightfully kick you out, that is.

There are plenty of people whose first language is English and who have confused, or still confuse, the two things anyway. As you say, it’s at least partly cultural. They don’t really teach this stuff at school, or at least they didn’t when I was there.

I was one of the confused people once. Then I learned better (and I’m still learning).

I think what’s important is that we’re willing to learn.

Yes. Throughout history, people have almost always built their settlements close to major bodies of (fresh) water. For example, you’d be hard-pressed to find a major city anywhere in the world that doesn’t have at least a stream near where it was founded, if not a full-blown river that still runs through the middle of it.

3D doesn’t necessarily mean 3D. Web browsers and video players (including those inside web browsers) will often use the 3D pipeline to write 2D rectangles to the screen. Other software may do the same sorts of thing.

And even if you’re not actually viewing anything in particular, software might be loading things that don’t show obvious on-screen changes but which still might pre-calculate via the GPU.

As for how to reconfigure GPU behaviour, that’s heavily dependent on the software. I know Firefox has things in about:config for it. Can’t speak to Chrome or other browsers, but I assume something similar exists. Other programs may or may not have any settings for it.

Given the only moving parts on a graphics card tend to be the fan, maybe there’s another fan on there you haven’t accounted for?

At your own risk you could try gently stopping fans - on the graphics card and otherwise - with your finger. On the hub, preferably. Most will handle this and spin right back up again. If not give it a flick in the right direction. If the grinding noise continues, the noise probably isn’t coming from the fan you’re stopping. (FWIW, I have an old NVIDIA card whose fan sometimes makes noise at low speeds, which is kind of the opposite problem. I manually ‘reset’ that fan at least a hundred times with no issues, but I imagine it hasn’t been great for the motor.)

Obviously, don’t hold a fan stopped for any significant length of time. It’s there for a reason.

Another possibility is sympathetic vibration to a fan or fans at certain speeds. My last PC case loved to sing along with the CPU fan during moderate use. I cured that with shims of cardboard and a few bits of old packing sponge in the most vibrational parts. (Not enough to hamper airflow though.)

This could all depend on where you’re living. I get the impression you’re in a country that may have been or may currently be an enemy of Russia (or thought of as a threat by those running Russia right now). If that’s the case, could your folks be Russian ops in some form?

They would have stopped having those sorts of conversations around you as you got older and they’d deny that they said anything of the sort for those you did remember.

The phrase “we won’t wait (for) when the war starts” could mean that they’re going to do whatever they need to do even if there’s no actual guns, bombs and fighting going on. You know. Cold war things.

There’s that phrase that Khrushchev allegedly said about the US, for example. Putin has revived all of that. Assuming it ever went away.

Wiktionary’s page for ‘olive’ has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.

Link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/olive#Translations

In before this hotline is closed down or subverted.

On desktop there’s a vertical triple dot button under videos that allows you to tell the algorithm that you’re not interested in that video or the entire channel. I assume there’s something similar on mobile. That somewhat reduces suggestions like the unwanted video in future.

When you refresh, you’ll see a different page of videos. If you do this to enough videos, you might start getting recommended videos you’ve already watched. You can give that as a reason for not being interested, so you can make those go away as well.

Speaking of which, you can also remove videos from your Watch History to prevent the algorithm from using those as examples. That’s often another way to effectively banish a channel where you only watched the one video.

Be aware that (as far as I know) the only way to undo directly telling YouTube you’re not interested in a channel is to completely erase your Watch History. Maybe finding and watching a few videos of theirs might also work, but I haven’t yet found the need to put that to the test.

Alcohol is a known muscle relaxant. That fact is even a plot point early in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but I digress.

It’s also something of a mind relaxant. If your pain is made worse by tensing up worrying about the pain, then alcohol is going to help both ways, because you’ll be less able to worry and you won’t be able to tense quite so much anyway.

I’d be surprised if neither ibuprofen nor diclofenac have any effect at all - but don’t take those with alcohol in your system. Liver damage is not something you want to add to your list of ailments.

Consult a physician, etc.

Sage advice

Off the top of my head:

Spelt - past tense of “to spell”. Valid in Britain and British Commonwealth countries, though “spelled” is also accepted.

Cleft - One of the three past tenses of “cleave” that have fossilised into particular subjects at various stages. “Cloven” is ancient and “Cleaved” is the more recent.

Felt - past tense of “to feel”.

Smelt - past tense of “to smell”. This might also be more common in British English.

Past - used many times in this post(!). Derived from the past tense of “pass”, though its usage has split somewhat from “passed” even though they’re generally pronounced the same.

Spilt - past tense of “spill” not to be confused with split, (which is its own past tense). Might be another one more acceptable in British English

And none of this counts the irregular verbs that use ablaut (vowel change) and have past tenses that end in -t like taught, caught, lit etc.

This may be dumb in and of itself, but I’m not even sure I know what it smells like let alone been certain I’ve been in the presence of anyone who’s been actively using it.

That said, I do remember, on multiple occasions, walking to work past at least one group of schoolchildren who were smoking something that did not smell like plain tobacco. If that was weed or resin or something in their hand rolled cigarettes, then I have to say that that was a pretty dumb thing to be doing at their age.

Not my circus, not my monkeys. Just carried on to work.

I’m assuming this is some biological phenomenon and not straight-up magic, in which case we’d eventually find a way to identify and suppress it. Or harness the chemistry in some way.

Also, given that it’s biological, there will be some people - how ever small a fraction - who don’t combust upon brain death. Those people will cause all sorts of problems because we won’t be sure if they’re dead or not, at least not until they start to decompose.

The Star Wars universe is full of trillions of sapient, dextrous beings, humans* or otherwise. Just because the inventors don’t (necessarily) show up on screen doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

If you want a “too simplified as to be almost certainly wrong” answer: E.T.

His species are canonically native to the Star Wars galaxy but we don’t see them most of the time in the SW lore. Let’s assume they’re the ones who invented it all. Easy.

I mean, the one we got a movie about didn’t seem all that bright, but he managed to build a communicator array out of a Speak-n-Spell, so they must have something going for them.

He attributes it to someone else, but saw its potential where its originator didn’t.

Source: A quick web search turns up the originator’s name as Alex Jason. Savage has talked about it numerous times in YouTube videos and livestreams, which are somewhat harder to dig through.

It depends, and it’s not necessarily the same answer every time even if it’s the same player(s) playing the same scenario in the same game over and over.

Ehh. Not strictly true. They’re very similar, but the differences are somewhat important.

Snuggies are rectangular, and bathrobes are not. Bathrobes don’t have hoods, but a backwards Snuggie basically does have one because of the extra material. For related reasons, the top edge / collar of the bathrobe is much less comfortable on the neck when worn backwards than is the equivalent Snuggie.

Then there’s the matter of belt loops, belt and pocket locations which are a complete mismatch.

Finally, the material of a Snuggie is generally not designed to be absorbent like a bathrobe is. If anything, this changes your assertion to “a dressing gown worn backwards is a snuggie”, but the since the rest of the above arguments still apply, it’s still not quite accurate.