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  • Yes, I recommend the book as well. Don't ask me why though. I tried quitting smoking many times using many different methods but always failed. On a whim I got the Alan Carr book and read it. I read it in bursts over a month or two. There was nothing interesting in there. Nothing I didn't already know. I finished it and quit smoking. The next day I relapsed and smoked again. I reread the last few chapters and quit again, this time using nicotine patches. I quit the patches within a day because they made me feel sick. I never smoked again. It's been 7-ish years and I haven't had any inclination to smoke again. It went from one of the hardest things to one of the easiest things to do. I don't care if people smoke around me, it doesn't bother me anymore. I still don't know why the book works, but it did for me.

  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than Good
  • So, the exact opposite of Baldur's Gate 3

  • What to do with extra mushrooms?
  • Make some good old English pies!

  • What is the first graphics card you got?
  • I got that exact one too! It was way better than the Voodoo 3DFX cards.

  • Anon awakens an ancient evil
  • Tiny? Do you have any idea how large the Great Old One's navel is? You can float a destroyer in it...

  • Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
  • They will be gone with time, but not because anything that Valve does. Microsoft is locking down the kernel after the CrowdStrike debacle. In a few years it will be impossible to run any custom kernel code.

  • 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Lifts Imax's Quarterly Earnings
  • What's a four quadrant flick?

  • Random Screenshots of my Games #37 - Call of Cthulhu
  • Thanks for the suggestion. Conarium is also in the sale now, so I bought it. Thanks!

  • Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop is a wild, delightful on-the-job repair sim (and other Next Fest demo finds)
  • I enjoyed "Followers of Cthulhu", "Permafrost" and "Ale Abbey" during the last steam next fest

  • Elon Musk Keeps Saying Trump Will Tank the Economy
  • It has been proven he lied and violated his visa when he first came to the U.S. Can they revoke citizenship over that?

  • Far-right governments seek to cut billions of euros from research in Europe
  • Well, you kinda have to be an idiot to believe the lies these right wing bullies spout

  • NASA Chief Calls For Investigation Into Report Of Elon Musk's Talks With Putin
  • Better: maybe this gives SpaceX leverage to boot Musk and get away from the madness before the X fiasco sinks Tesla

  • Missouri Attorney General argues abortion pill will hurt the state by lowering teen pregnancies
  • From the article:

    ...the attorneys general contend access to mifepristone has lowered “birth rates for teenaged mothers,” arguing it contributes to causing a population loss for the states along with “diminishment of political representation and loss of federal funds.”

  • What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures
  • How did you count the 8 weeks? You're not supposed to count from the moment of conception. You're supposed to count from your last menstruation, which is approximately 2 weeks before conception. It's odd but that is how doctors (and the law!) counts. That is part of what makes those 6 week bans so problematic. When you miss a period you are already at 4 weeks!

  • The littlest air biscuits
  • Imgur seems to think it's a sexual image 😆

  • I am researching the claim that Chromium is more secure than Firefox
  • Secure from what exactly? You need to have a threat model here. For most personal use cases I'd argue that protection from adtech tracking is more important than e.g. sandboxing. Most people run into adtech continuously, but few people browse shady exploit-ridden sites.

    In that case, Firefox us the clear winner. It supports manifest v2 for better adblocking, and it is the only mobile browser with extension support allowing you to use adblocking on mobile as well.

  • It's the spooky season, what are your recommended movies (and other media) for the season that aren't gory horror or kids movies?
  • I recommend:

    • The Cabin in the Woods
    • Tucker and Dale versus Evil
    • Midnight Mass
  • The Disappearance of an Internet Domain (about .io, and about the history of .su and .yu)
  • Sadly they will probably jack up the price while they are at it too. I just moved everything to my own petsonal .io a few years ago. I don't want to have to move again.

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