Ya just need to hammer these in with a rubber mallet and all yer problems will go away.

We’ll do it again in our lifetimes. The perennial contender Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is waiting under the ring with a steel chair, and COVID is a hell of a tag team partner for all kinds of pathogens.

Priviblur as a Tumblr front end isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s worth knowing about

Renaming desktop shortcuts is a great way to leave yourself game notes if you’re an old like me.

Obviously it’s the combination of disc golf and rollerdisco. Lotta stroke penalties for not throwing from behind your footing marker, and it’s a little better suited for open courses than the woods…

Time to bring back the Soviet aircraft designs with tappable ethanol reservoirs

well said. you’re supposed to have roses with your bread, fellas

Depends on the subforum, naturally, but the whole place is unquestionably a big waxy cheese wheel of old internet. The paywall, the heavy moderation, regulars who’ve been posting brainy takes in megathreads for years… it still all works like a charm.

Find someone who knows their shit on a topic you care about and hit the ¿ to see their posts and jump in to great moments of earlier discussion. Encounter them again being smart about some other awesome thing. Skip pages of fast threads except for posters you want to see. No upvotes, ya use yer words. That’s a tasty slice of a rare flavor.

Forums are detox for algorithm sickness. Still one of the finest tenbux you can spend.

I’ve seen web writers claim that the original brain trust of Weird Twitter started from a Something Awful clique

The blowtax shock-site days are long gone. With occasional exceptions in containment areas like the pink forum and the debate forum, SA’s culture is acceptable-to-laudable these days. Effortposts on the leftist board are a life-changing force for personal betterment, and goons remain some of the most charitable nerds anywhere.

And despite all of that, it is still funny.

Yes, and it still kicks ass. Come home, goon.

If you do your browsing on mobile, check out the Awful app.

More than friends, less than lovers?

On the bright side, you can make a fun piece of chalk with jawbreaker-style color flecks that can be used to draw a forensic outline around your carcass after the DuPont sponsored social murder.

To educate downvoters: Yes, “essential oil” health advice is a common bullshit indicator! But! They’re the standard pharmaceutical for this task, found in kits like this one used to train food and beverage scientists. Any diverse set of strong familiar smells can work.

I worked in a related field and got my ass kicked by long COVID shortly after the start of the pandemic. This is a good starter on the biology involved, a journal article from Nature, unpaywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20220623072436/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01628-9

Treating anosmia from brain damage is the same for post-COVID as for a car accident or getting gassed in WWI: you diligently breathe in the olfactory training kit and try to vividly remember those smells.

Pull quote: “Sometimes, the sense of smell recovers spontaneously after injury. The olfactory nerve is the only cranial nerve that can repair itself when damaged, and olfactory sensory neurons — cells in the upper part of the nose that recognize different odorant molecules — renew themselves periodically throughout life.“

edit to add, extreme sympathies to anyone who has found themselves experiencing this!

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Kurzgesagt can fill you in

accuarte

Mentally pronouncing this to rhyme with “jacquard” makes me miss Homestar Runner.

Hamas cavalry

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Trotsky schtupped Frida Kahlo, that’s a solid dub

When this pizza hits 88°C you’re gonna see some serious shit…