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  • Sometimes it is okay. This to me is a message that to me is to be taken in moderation.

    Our brains are a weird confusing mess, and sometimes we don’t know why it makes us feel certain ways. It’s okay to not always know why. You’re not a terrible person because you don’t fully understand why your noggin makes you feel some way. You should always strive to understand and better yourself, but you don’t have to be perfect all the time.


  • The only extra subscriptions I have are a VPN while I’m at school, a domain name for my portfolio, and one game that is the main place I interact with my friends. Also have a slightly larger Google drive until I can afford to make my own NAS.

    Honestly, I don’t see the need for much more. Costco is great if you live near one (they are one of the few decent companies left). Server hosting for games is another one I’ve done in the past.

    Adobe used to be manageable a decade ago, especially if you were sharing the cost. Same with Game Pass when it came out. Now the prices for both are absurd. Streaming has been replaced by the high seas.





  • Bubs@lemmy.ziptoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3194: 16 Part Epoxy
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    26 days ago

    From explain xkcd:

    Polyethylvinylesteracetate

    This appears to be a reference to Poly (ethylene-vinyl acetate), some formulations of which can be used as the adhesive in hot-glue guns. Vinyl acetate is an ester, so the inclusion of that term is redundant. The cadence of the constructed word may also be a reference to the television episode Lucy Does a TV Commercial and its memorable product “Vitameatavegamin”. It also resembles the kind of thing often seen in ingredients lists for common household products such as soaps and cleaners, which are fairly meaningless to the average person buying them.

    2-Polyethylvinylesteracetate

    This sounds almost exactly the same as the above item, but a name with a “2-” prefix generally indicates that the initial bit of the name is a functional group attached to the second position along a chemical chain (often being the carbon-carbon ‘spine’ of a molecule, in large-molecule organic chemistry), rather than attached to its end. Because the molecule name is (possibly deliberately) malformed, it’s hard to tell what is supposed to be attached to the second carbon of what subunit.