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I got an entire Prebuilt PC when POW ended from a miner. AMD 5950x, 64gb ram, 3090, 2tb SSD, all for $1700. This was 4 years ago when the 3090 was $1500 by itself, and with minor upgrades it's still going strong today.

It's wild to think that the system now is worth at least as much as I paid for it then if not much more than that. I saw a similar one going for $2500.

I feel like you would need to find some correlation between dosing creatine and increased DHT production to find a link between the two.

Creatine is not an anabolic steroid and does not increase testosterone levels, according to Harvard Health, so while there was 1 suspicious study that claimed that creatine increased DHT, that study has afterwards not been able to be replicated, and since creatine does not manipulate hormones but rather energy instead, it seems to as closes a possible to being a settled fact sans the final nail in the coffin.

I know a few people who refuse to get jobs even though they are suffering financially because they can't find something they think is "worth" doing with their skill set.

I tried to tell them that having a job would mean they get to meet new people, they get to escape their financial despair, and that it would add structure and organization to their disheveled and disorganized lives. I explained that work itself has value for the worker outside of the simple return of the paycheck, the activity of being engaged completing a task having direct psychological impact on the task completer.

Both of their responses, taken months apart, boiled down to that if a day of work didn't make them so wealthy that they never had to work again it wasn't worth it for them.

So I gave up.

Truckers absolutely get dipped. Commuters less so

How about a front wheel mounted drivetrain with the motors built into the wheel hubs?

That would effectively add 4wd to old cars and allow the onboard engine to work normally with an option for eboost/edrive with the only extreme modification being adding the battery and control modules.

You can also buy an at home oxygen concentrator for around $125 usd and try it. Iirc it uses atomic sieves that filter out anything larger than oxygen and then releases the oxygen, so it can run for a very long time without replacement.

It's also fun to see how it affects things on fire. The weak little jet of air from the one I bought can turn an lit incense stick into a pillar of fire.

There are likely health downsides to them for otherwise healthy people so I wouldn't suggest using them frequently for breathing purposes, but they can help with short term aerobic output and exercise if you are training at the edge of your physical capability.

I have high testosterone and I am not a violent roid rager or powerhouse of masculinity. Just having high T does not mean you will be a good soldier that blindly follows orders.

Hegshit is short-sighted and cretinous at best.

It looks like someone went to 2060 and brought back a Beetle

It's a good decision if you are that person.

I used to live in the south. You cannot survive without a car in the south unless you live directly in the city you work in. Bike lanes don't exist. Public transit is at best an unfunny joke told by your racist uncle.

I live in a much more bike friendly area now. I have a nice ebike and there are many days I could easily bike to work, if it weren't for the fact that at the drop of a hat I would need to drive 60 miles with no warning for some work thing.

That being said, the next best financial advice that could be given is to get rid of your expensive car, buy a 20 year old clunker with a good engine, brakes, and tires, pay it off asap, drop your insurance to the state minimums (but raise the liability coverage to $100k or so since there are so many cars that cost that much nowadays), and drive it till the wheels fall off.

You may need a car, but you don't need a fancy car. If it runs, doesn't excessively pollute, doesn't need any serious maintenance, you keep it clean, and you can pay it off in a reasonable amount of time, your annual vehicle expenses will drop to a little over $2,000/yr after fuel, maintenance, and insurance, and you will have so much more money free for important things like going out with friends and doing things, or, if nothing else, for paying off debt and building emergency funds.

You can have a nice car if you want it, but if your car is preventing you from making progress towards your financial goals, consider a compromise.

5 years of a crap car can save you easily $30+ thousand dollars or more in expenses and make a real positive change in your future.

Do people normally have sources on their opinions?

I mean, they did specifically say it was their opinion.

This is not a helpful comment. Sometimes griping about injustice is a method of dealing with it, at least venting the stress to a sympathetic audience can reduce the stress a bit.

Same. I was given one as a gift for graduation college in 2012 and it's still going strong

Exactly. Dell doesn't want to lose money but if their contract had an agreed upon price and time of delivery and Dell dropped the ball on that, that's on Dell.

If they need cash to cover the shortfall they could always go public on the stock market again and generate billions of quick cash.

I mean, it's body horror, yes, but there are a lot of steps between "suck fat out of a corpse" and "inject it into a living person" that somewhat mitigate it.

If it would save my life, I would do that, but I also agree that doing that as elective surgery sounds like literal insanity to me.

If the choice is between injecting corpse fat and eating 3 cheeseburgers a day for 6 weeks, I'll have the cheeseburgers, please.

Are there limits on how long it can run in one meeting? I occasionally have 4+ hour long brainstorming sessions and being able to catch those would be great.

Also, it's highly person dependent.

I'm an obese american (lost 10% of my body weight in the last 7 months, so almost not obese anymore) who is 30+, but my testosterone has measured between 850 and 1400 in the last 7 months.

That probably helped with my weight loss, but I have a full head of hair still and am somewhat likely to keep it.

We'll likely spend longer measuring what the hormonal effects of PFAs and microplastics are than we'll have pfas and microplastics to deal with.

I feel like if you know that the previous company was executed for its crimes, its property auctioned off to the highest bidder, and its managers and executives thrown in prison, that THAT would have a chilling effect on other companies that might follow in their footsteps.

in 2012 I had a chance to buy a duplex in a relatively desirable neighborhood for $25k. It needed about $25k in rehab, but $50k in that area was unheard of.

My (now ex) wife was against buying it because we had not bought a home for ourselves yet, and even trying to explain that we could buy it, live in one side, rent the other for the full cost of the mortgage and then some was not enough to convince her, so I let it slide as no amount of money was worth the never-ending argument that it would have caused.

That duplex is worth about $450k now, and if I had gone through with it it would have generated a conservative $200k in rent income in the meantime.

If I had known the relationship would have been over in less than 5 years from that point, I probably would have bought it anyway, but at the time my mentality was "happy wife, happy life", naively thinking that there was a way to make someone happy who refused to be happy.

I love it when people go so far into the weeds to solve a problem on their own and then document the process for everyone.

I learned a lot from this writeup, and really enjoyed the read even though I know I would have made it about 10% of the way myself and chickened out and just bought a different product in hopes it would solve the problem.

No person should be tracked by default.

There should not be any system that allows a person to be continuously tracked at all times short of as a consequence of criminal activity with a judge signing off on it.

It's so basic that a 3rd grader gets it.

To be fair, it looks more like an undergrad science project.

Yeah, I would consider getting one for my 94 year old grandmother, but there are 2 steps between her bedroom and the laundry room, and this can't cut it.

I would be happy if it could put my clothes on hangers without teleoperation.

But unless you have a level of chemistry experience that would put NileRed to shame, you cannot make drugs out of banana peels, and you really shouldn't even try.

Trade off, gas prices in California are also much higher. I was there a few weeks ago and the cheap gas was $6.19/gal

I drive about 300 miles a week, have a convenient already-wired in 240v socket in my garage, and 200 miles with a 30 minute boost charge should cover 99% of my driving.

I have a pickup and a car, I'll be trading both of them in to help cut the cost of this down, and if I'm going on a road trip I'll just rent a car. It's no big deal.

There's still an undisclosed larger battery option, I hope it would be less than $5k additional to unlock a 300 mile range.

I made $225k last year, still have never bought a new car. Closest I got was a 9 month old car with 29k miles on it for $15k off list price.

Seriously tempted with the Slate though. I have the $50 pre-registration down from a few years ago, so I could have it in July-August of next year.

Prior to the bill’s enactment, the statutory upper limit for fees to change residency statuses or extend a period of stay was ¥10,000 ($63), while the cap for permanent residency applications was also set at ¥10,000. Under the revision, those ceilings will be raised to ¥100,000 and ¥300,000, respectively.

Using their own conversion, that changes the price max from $63 to $630 - $1890.

That's not really that true anymore. Microslop is still cramming copilot into everything, and unless you feel like editing 800 group policy settings written with intentionally obtuse language to get rid of it, you can't.

And some things, like the copilot floaty button in word, doesn't seem to be able to be removed at all no matter what.