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GenX here, I have a streaming service (Paramount+) for exactly one reason: It comes for free with my Walmart+ account, which I use frequently. Every 6 months I switch between that and Peacock, since both are free and I can change my choice twice a year. So I watch what I want on Paramount+ for 6 months, then switch to Peacock for 6 months, rinse and repeat.

As far as a lifetime subscription to Nebula, I’ve watched way too many sites fail/die to consider a lifetime subscription to anything on the internet. They could shut the site down tomorrow, and now I’m out $500 ($300 if I happen to get a discount from a creator code).

If I see a new Max Miller video is out, I will drop pretty much whatever I’m doing to watch it. I love Tasting History.

I watch Good Mythical Morning/GMMore every weekday morning. Also, Last Meals from the Mythical Kitchen channel. Mythical Chef Josh is probably my favorite online personality. I used to watch A Hotdog Is A Sandwich without fail, but I have recently had my fill of Nicole, so I skip those now.

I watch a lot of Mike Chen (Strictly Dumpling).

JonnyCakes, Sambucha, and L3WG are also folks whose videos I click on without hesitation.

SortedFood might be the best cooking show on YouTube.

The Food Theorists is another great channel. I miss the original host, but the new guy is still entertaining.

JOLLY almost always hits the spot. I have how childish/dumb Ollie’s humor is, and when Josh laughs so hard it sounds like he’s dying, that makes me laugh along with him, even if the thing he’s laughing at wasn’t that funny to me.

The dudes from Fallow provide a lot of useful information, and they do it in an entertaining way.

Hank Green makes some great videos, I just skip the parts where he plays Connections, because watching someone else play a matching puzzle is just not entertaining to me.

Sir Yacht feels very relatable, and I’ve never seen a video from him that I didn’t like. His “professional dumbass” vibe speaks to me.

Sam Reid (the YouTuber, not the Australian actor) is a great content creator, and I love his positivity. I literally have an exact copy of his “IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY” neon sign hanging on the wall of my game room.

Veritasium and NileRed are great when I want a nice science video to go with my dinner.

I have a soft spot for the ladies from Sporked, their taste test videos are informative, and their interactions just seem real, and not scripted.

Honorable mention goes to FaZe Rug. He’s not my favorite, but my grandson loves him, so I always end up watching those videos with the kid.

I’m sure I’m forgetting some, but those are the ones that came to the top of my head.

requires logging in with one’s identity card

Fastest way to get me to never use your site again. I’d rather deal with a few trolls and bots than have to give my ID to every site I want to interact with. That’s some ridiculously invasive stuff right there. Turning every website into their own private Big Brother is the opposite of progress.

Plus, what about when the site’s database inevitably gets compromised, and now my personal info is public?

Not a shill, but I honestly love my Samsung TV. I took it out of the box, plugged in an HDMI cable to connect it to my PC, and use it as a monitor. I’ve never connected it to my wifi, so it has no internet access. I’ve never had to enter my Samsung account info to use it.

One of my gaming buddies is in Thailand, but plays on the American server with us. His ping is regularly 2000-3000ms. When he hits a button, he doesn’t actually “do the thing” for 2-3 seconds. But dude is a fucking genius, and he’s mastered the timing. He regularly outperforms folks with a 28ms ping (It’s me, I’m “folks”).

My wife and I bought those stupid Surface tablets. Not really sure why. Too big to be comfortably portable, too small to be useful at home. At least the magnetic keyboard thing makes a good mousepad for my desktop PC.

13 people live in my house full time. If I didn’t meal prep, I would never be able to leave the kitchen.

We always have “egg McBluffins” in the freezer, just pop em in the microwave for a minute or so (99 seconds if you’re doing 2 at once) and you’ve got breakfast sorted. I make large batches of pulled pork, or shredded beef, and I freeze individual portions in vac seal bags. Pop some in the nuker, and you’re ready to make a sandwich, burrito, taco, whatever. I currently have 40 servings of chili in the freezer, along with 40 servings of Italian Wedding soup. I also make ham and bean soup in big batches to freeze, but we’re currently out of that. I’ve got beef stew coming up in the rotation, we’ll eat about half of it the first night, and freeze the rest in portion sized containers. Pickled eggs (the pink ones, with the beet juice) are a huge hit with my family, and I raise chickens, so we’re never short on eggs. I don’t know an exact number, but I’d say I have somewhere between 80 and 100 pickled eggs in my house right now. 2-3 of those is a nice high protein snack that you can just grab and go. Last time I harvested one of my goats, I cooked the entire thing in a pit I dug in my yard, then shredded the meat for a delicious birria inspired dish. I also like to make huge batches of Bolognese sauce and freeze it in reasonable portions, so that I just have to boil up some pasta, and that’s dinner.

I don’t just “do” meal prep, I live meal prep.

We haven’t had deaths on the scale of WWI or the Spanish Flu since those events.

WWII had 3-5 times the number of deaths (depending on whose numbers you trust) as WWI though? Like, it’s not even close. Even using the highest estimate for WWI (22 million) and the lowest estimate for WWII (70 million) WWII was more than triple the deaths.

The global population at the time of WWI was ~1.8 billion, and at the time of WWII is was 2.3 billion.

So in terms of of percent of the world population, WWI loses.

I will concede that the Spanish flu was a lot worse than COVID.

Wasn’t that literally the purpose of grog? A mixture of beer and water used on ships to kill harmful bacteria that would grow in the ships’ water stores over a long voyage?

1. Grog was a mixture of rum, water, and lime juice. Beer does not have enough of an alcohol content to have any antibacterial impact. Your basic premise is flawed.

2. The main reasons grog was invented were twofold, first and foremost, it diluted the alcohol to manage the sailors’ intoxication levels (much like drinking a rum and Coke does today). Secondly, the addition of lime juice helped fight off scurvy (leading to British sailors being called “limeys”).

3. While it did improve the flavor of stale water, the disinfecting properties have been greatly exaggerated over time.

We essentially had a plague in 2020, and there are multiple wars going on as we speak. Those factors didn’t disappear.

Sambucha actually bought one of these, filled it with iced tea, and put it on. IIRC, his main complaint about it was the weight. Also, the straw was finicky and he spilled a good bit of tea all over the place.

Not exactly what you asked, but Myreli makes a bitter melon flavored gummy.

I head over to YouTube and put on videos of old NFL games. The announcers talking puts me to sleep.

When I was little, my mom used to send me to the store with a note that said to sell me cigarettes, and that they were for her. When I started smoking, I used to reuse the notes to get my own smokes. I got my first fake ID at 13 so I could buy beer.

Why did he shock his dog? Not that there is any reasonable justification, I just want context.

When I was 3 months old, my mom gave me a wool blanket with two lion cubs on it. I’m 51 now, and I’m currently warm and cozy under that same blanket. It’s honestly my most prized possession.

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AI slop (but it’s Iran)-😍

I think: actual straight people don’t exist, only self hating people who cling desperately to an imagined blood tribe.

Honestly, this is absurd. I’ve been on this Earth for over 50 years, I am a man, and I’ve never felt attracted to a man. I am straight. I exist. I don’t hate myself, I also don’t hate others for their sexuality. Let gay folks be gay, let lesbians be lesbians, let bisexuals be bisexual. I fully support trans folks. I am not against anything LGBT+. But I don’t fit any of those labels. I am a man, and I am only attracted to women. I don’t even understand how/why straight/bi women are attracted to men. I’m glad they are though.

You could offer me a billion dollars to fuck a man, and I just would not be able to do it. No man is making my dick hard. My sexual identity is just as valid as yours. Gay people exist. Bisexual people exist. Straight people exist. You can’t tell me I don’t exist. I am attracted to women exclusively. To be clear, that includes trans women, some of those women are really beautiful. Trans women are women.

“N***a, is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?”

-Stringer Bell, “The Wire”.

I’m not the person you asked, but honestly, if Discord wants to monitor me and my homies talking about our nerdy ass video game shit, I don’t mind it at all. It’s not like I’m setting up heroin deals on there (or anywhere else). Like, I give a negative amount of fucks if they know that we’re gonna be hardcore raiding from 8pm to midnight on Tuesday and Thursday, with a training session for new members on Saturday morning from 7am to 10am. I could not care less if they read my chats about dungeon strategies and properly optimized endgame gear. If they want to see who won my weekly raffle for 1000 ingame gold, that’s fine by me.

It’s not even like they can use my data for marketing purposes. I play exactly one video game, and I already plan to buy every expansion the game releases until I either die, or the servers shut down. And we have a very strict “no politics” rule in my server, so it’s not like they’re gonna catch us planning some sort of revolution. We’re just some MMORPG nerds nerding out about our MMORPG.

If they ask me to scan my face, or send them a pic of my ID, that’s where I draw the line. I have never, and will never, put a picture of my face on the internet. I’ve never posted any pics of my kids, or my grandkids either.

But nothing I say on Discord is “private”, there are over 600 people on my server, all playing the same game. We only talk about the game, or occasionally what we had for dinner (but that’s only on Foodie Fridays). If Discord knows that I made wet beef sandwiches with loaded fries for dinner, that’s no sweat off my balls. I don’t have conversations on there about anything that I would be afraid to shout in the Public Square.