We had an Xbox hooked up to a wall mounted TV in our company break room. I used to show up first in the morning and play movies and streams on it for people to breeze by and see throughout the day. I could easily see someone doing this in a game store or gaming cafe.
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I started a few months ago, taking advantage of not working so I’m going every day (thankfully backed up by supportive insurance). Here’s the process I’ve developed that works absolute wonders for me:
Note: My electrolysis place is only 15mins away, so this may not work if you’re further away.
1- 60 mins before appointment, take maximum painkillers (for me: 2 extra strength Tylenol).
2- tie up hair and wash the area you’re treating with plain soap, nothing with fancy moisturizers, you’re aiming for dryness.
3- dab a cotton ball or cloth with rubbing alcohol and give the area a wipe down.
4- use a boar bristle brush to gently exfoliate the area. You want to agitate your skin juuuust a bit so the numbing cream can get in as deep as it can, but not so much agitation that you give yourself a rash or it starts hurting.
5- use a finger cot to apply numbing cream (I use Numb520 but any 5% lidocaine cream will work) to where the work will be done. Really use your finger to work the numbing cream into your skin (little circular motions) for an initial pass. Then do a second pass where you goop it on a bit thicker.
6- put plastic wrap on the area and press it against the numbing cream. It should stick in place. Use a sharp knife or scissors to carefully cut a hole for your mouth if you’re covering it.
7- put on a surgical mask to look approximately 2% less like a total crazy person.
8- go to your electrolysis appointment. Ask the clinician to only peel off the plastic wrap for the area they’re immediately working on. Peel some back, wipe off numbing cream, do some pokes. Peel, wipe, poke. I find that if they can uncover an area and work on it for 30 mins, that’s when the peak effectiveness wears off and it’s time to move on to the next area.
Doing all this made a huuuuuuge difference for me.
There are a ton of reasons why audio mixes for movies are fraught with quality issues during home viewing, and “people have crappy equipment” is the weakest and lest-compelling of them.
The contemporary trend of editing one’s videos to eliminate pauses while retaining off-topic chatter and repeating the same information is very obnoxious. Write a script FFS.
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But the slaves’ emancipation was right around the corner in 1865, approximately 124 years prior to the release of Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam.
LibreWolf and the Tor browser would not exist as they do today if Mozilla was not taking money from Google and DuckDuckGo and all those ad companies to develop Firefox as free open source software that could be forked by privacy-forward groups.
So sure, it would be nice if Mozilla made a privacy-focused Firefox version natively, but if a handful of concessions (that I can continue to turn off) are what it takes to have a performant, full-featured, modern FOSS web browser, I’ll take that deal.
I had a lingering balance of 45000 reward points in my account that I tried to make use of today. It was a complete scam.
You can buy discounts with points, maxing out at a $15 discount for 15000 points. But discounts don’t stack - they only apply to one item, the item of the highest value in the cart, and don’t apply to anything on sale or clearance. Or gift cards. Or subscriptions. And shipping anything is an $8 minimum. Plus tax.
So you’re stuck with $15 discounts that you can only use on overpriced games and tchotchke garbage, most of which gets consumed by shipping charges.
I spent an hour coming through the online store looking for something, anything, useful or interesting to use the discounts on with no luck. Items aren’t even worth reselling on Ebay.
The original photo is here is a pale imitation. The OG you’re looking for is The Rollercoaster by Anatex Enterprises (of Los Angeles, CA).
Five unique, color differentiated wires of balls out, rail-riding, gravity-driven wooden bead mayhem. Though the blue wire barely counts. Its banal path is curt and uninspired; clearly an afterthought in both design and execution. F-tier. Green and orange make the entire experience worth it though.
I’m not certain whether or not it was effectively debunked, but there’s a lot of personal belief and interest around the idea that one’s gender is what one says it is and no amount of anatomical measurement (genital length, count of brain neurons or genetic flag) is permitted to say whether or not you are what you deem yourself to be.
If such a test did exist, then what’s to be said of trans people whose gender expression doesn’t line up with the test? What’s to be said of cis people in the same boat? Are they trans whether they like it or not? Are they living a lie?
NPR does maintain a number of good RSS feeds ( feeds.npr.org ), which are being simulcasted onto Mastodon by press.coop. They are doing this for a ton of news organizations: press.coop/directory
There are plenty of third party apps for Lemmy on Android/iPhone or Web, but are there any decent apps built for desktop use? Is it just simply a matter of relying on a web interface currently, or are there any well rounded apps out there that are worth mentioning.
But as a user of Firefox on mobile, I’m running into a weird persistent issue around the back button and post listings on pages beyond the first page. Sometimes, when I click into either the comments of a post or the post itself, when I click the ‘back’ button to return to the post list, sometimes I will end up on the previous page of search results (as though I pressed the back button twice).
Reloading the page seems to fix the problem (showing me the post list page that I expect), but it’s still weird.
Thirty years ago today, Demolition Man first hit theaters, pitting Sylvester Stallone against Wesley Snipes in a crime-free but killjoy future where even minor vices have been declared illegal. The passage of time hasn’t quite elevated this sci-fi action comedy to the legendary status of Die Hard or Lethal Weapon, but it’s...
Study math for long enough and you will likely have cursed Pythagoras’s name, or said “praise be to Pythagoras” if you’re a bit of a fan of triangles....
Sick of companies grabbing and selling your address, birth date, location, online activity, dog food brand and even adult-film preferences? Oh boy, do I have some good news. A new iPhone and Android app called Permission Slip makes it super simple to order companies to delete your personal information and secrets. Trying it...
Consumer Reports created an iOS and Android app that collects your account information for a bunch of businesses and provides the option of sending “do not sell” requests to them en-mass. It also helps you delete unwanted accounts and stay up to date on which businesses are doing what with your data.
Not bad, but it all depends on how much you trust Consumer Reports. It appears they have a fairly good reputation as a consumer advocacy non-profit, but I didn’t do much deep dive research.
Ideally, this is something FTC would have a hand in for consumers in the United States – improving EULA comprehension. I can imagine a world where businesses and applications have EULAs with ESRB-like ratings or tags: “location data”, “purchase history”, “3rd party data exports”, “X year retention” to show what you’re agreeing to. I’d love to brainstorm on how else that could change.
What would be Gorn's callsign? wrong answers only (i.chzbgr.com)
DateTime (xkcd.com)
Sneaking more Babylon 5 references into risa, please ignore (programming.dev)
Making my first Lemmy post because this moment in my DS9 rewatch made me think of you all....
It's all in the trim (startrek.website)
I wonder if anyone has managed to break this record since (startrek.website)
— Mrs. McMurray
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Why yes, I do absolutely love ice-breaker activities and after-hour social events. (startrek.website)
It's drip or drown and brother I'm floating (files.catbox.moe)
Lemmy Users (i.imgur.com)
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
See also twitter:...
Littering and... (lemmy.world)
Little gay people in my PC, tell me about your own weird goals (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
First electrolysis session!
One of my biggest causes of dysphoria right now is facial hair. I hate shaving, and unfortunately HRT doesn’t help reduce existing hair....
It is what it rules (media.kbin.social)
"The Sound and the Fury" by J. L. Westover (files.mastodon.social)
@MrLovenstein (toot)...
how to find a street in 2 minutes - georainbolt (www.youtube.com)
Welcome To Aftermath - Worker-owned video game journalism (aftermath.site)
Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them. Just launched today.
Land of the Rule (files.mastodon.social)
Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. (connect.mozilla.org)
Its the only thing making is a good choice, while people choose Brave, TorBrowser or Librewolf instead....
Stardew Valley Creator Says he Would Like a Movie Based on the Game With Ghibli or David Lynch (www.ign.com)
I feel this (i.postimg.cc)
GameStop Keeps Finding New Ways To Rip People Off (kotaku.com)
a terrible day to be literate Rule (slrpnk.net)
Happy Halley's Comet aphelion! This seems worthy of solar punk appreciation. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Nov 3 2023 marks the furthest Halley’s comet will be from Earth before making the turn-around trip back.
Who didn't play with one? (i.postimg.cc)
Neuro-biology of trans-sexuality : Prof. Robert Sapolsky (youtube.com)
Fascinating stuff about how the brain works, specific to sexuality.
I hate Turkey (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
Are you fucking *kidding me?!?* (startrek.website)
Ninja Parade Slips By Town Unnoticed Once Again (youtube.com)
Brilliant troll. Better than Santa Claus
It's never too many (youtu.be)
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Trailers for movies, television and games...
Critics have described it as "blaring" and "please stop" (startrek.website)
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible (niemanreports.org)
A lot of people threaten to leave Twitter. Not many of them have actually done it....
What are people using to access Lemmy using a desktop, what are the preferred apps or clients that you use on either Mac or Windows.
There are plenty of third party apps for Lemmy on Android/iPhone or Web, but are there any decent apps built for desktop use? Is it just simply a matter of relying on a web interface currently, or are there any well rounded apps out there that are worth mentioning.
just got some sodium polyacrylate in my eye... (imgur.com)
Enhance your calm: Demolition Man turns 30 | The film remains an under-appreciated gem of ‘90s comedy/action flicks (arstechnica.com)
Thirty years ago today, Demolition Man first hit theaters, pitting Sylvester Stallone against Wesley Snipes in a crime-free but killjoy future where even minor vices have been declared illegal. The passage of time hasn’t quite elevated this sci-fi action comedy to the legendary status of Die Hard or Lethal Weapon, but it’s...
I'm sure there's a compelling story to it, but it sure looks like Wisconsin is getting buillied. (startrek.website)
In case you don't have a costume picked out already. (startrek.website)
Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
Study math for long enough and you will likely have cursed Pythagoras’s name, or said “praise be to Pythagoras” if you’re a bit of a fan of triangles....
Delete your digital history from dozens of companies with this app (www.washingtonpost.com)
Sick of companies grabbing and selling your address, birth date, location, online activity, dog food brand and even adult-film preferences? Oh boy, do I have some good news. A new iPhone and Android app called Permission Slip makes it super simple to order companies to delete your personal information and secrets. Trying it...
Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now... (lemmy.ml)
Women in the Fall rule (lemmy.today)
Patch #3 - patch notes (baldursgate3.game)
A (US) federal agency wants to give safety tips to young adults. So it's dropping an album. (www.npr.org)
News story archive: archive.ph/wxi2F...
Perception check (piped.syncpundit.io)
Tom Cardy plays D&D. Of course he’s a bard....
Is there a labour-friendly car company?
I’m shopping for a new car, and would like to choose one made with the least bad labour practices, if possible....
Cells at Overwork - Last Place Comics (lastplacecomics.com)
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Car Companies: Stop Your Huge Data Collection Programs (foundation.mozilla.org)
Nowadays, our cars are anything but a private space — they are full blown data collection nightmares on wheels....