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Mythbusters found it makes virtually no difference, and lid down can actually make particles go further due to the pressure forcing them through a smaller gap.

What hobbies help you minimize or avoid navigating commercialism?

By commercialism, I’m aiming at a mix of spending a lot and sifting through bloated business models (e.g. this or that accessory/equipment, microtransactions, etc.). Feel like many can relate to this sort of commercial fatigue, and yet it creeps even into hobbies where one tries to unwind....

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3D modelling and printing. You do need access to a printer (some libraries have them), but the plastics and resins are cheap, and you can make lots of cool stuff.

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But Windows does have an app store, and has for ages now.

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Sure, but pretty much every common application most people use is available, which is fine for the majority of people such as OPs mom.

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I don’t think getting instagram, or photoshop off the microsoft store is giving anyone a virus. And I’ve never gotten a virus from it in the few times I’ve used it.

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What crap machine are you running? I can open the store on my Surface 3 I’ve had for nearly a decade.

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Of course, and much of it is on the app store now (which I rarely use myself), but for someone like OPs mom who just wants an easy app store, well there is one.

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For someone like OPs mom it would be more than good enough is my point. She’s saying she wished something existed that does indeed exist.

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Torrone is not a pasta!

Besides, we scientists like to name things anti-something, it’s almost a compulsion.

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Well clearly the Italians didn’t name that one, it was the damn Belgiums.

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I just rent a uHaul for $20.

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Having a vehicle that emits more pollution, does more damage to roads, and is more likely to kill pedestrians is pretty fucking selfish and deserving of hate.

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Hey, they aren’t good at nothing. They excel at killing pedestrians.

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It’s also on individuals, our purchasing choices shape what corporations decide to make. if people only bought fuel efficient vehicles companies wouldn’t build these idiotic mega polluting trucks.

And trucks are vastly more dangerous for pedestrians than other vehicles. they have massive blind spots, and weight a shitton more. As trucks have kept getting bigger, pedestrian deaths have gone up, that’s why we bring it up.

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Labor for a single grilled cheese is super easy. If you’re selling a lot of them this could be decently profitable.

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What is up with Fullerton College? The university I went to it would be impossible to graduate with more than 1 degree in 3 years, and Fullerton is giving a kid 5 degrees for 3 years at college?

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Holding in a very deep breathe for as long as you can can also get rid of hiccups. Works for me at least, and no need to look silly leaned over with a glass of water.

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The disc copy of Fallout 3 will not install on new windows due to games for windows no longer working. At least last time I tried to install it that was the case.

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One Piece, so guess I’m living in a little village frequently attacked by pirates.

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Yeah, I switched instances pretty quickly.

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I mean, both have toxic stupid people, but Reddit does still have way more niche communities and activity. I still rarely go back to Reddit, and mostly chill on lemmy.ca, but it is missing many subreddits I liked.

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What else are you going to do?

wait the mandatory 5 days

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Sadly I believe they found adding more mirrors did not appreciably raise the temperature of the focal point. Diminishing returns and all. So unfortunately more mirrors is not the answer, more Lasers is!

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