Technically speaking, I invented vaping.

In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you’d normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).

My group’s product was a weight-loss product called “FlavorAir” (“Anorexia Fast” didn’t test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.

This was in the early 00’s and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.

I’m not a fan of crossposting since is clutters up my post history, but feel free to.

While I totally understand those communities, my preference is to not relegate anything that isn’t rage to a special community since it distills regular news down to just the rage. Just my personal preference.

I’m beyond tired of the Tr*mp Rage Show Spectacular, so here’s some uplifting news for y’all.

RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.

Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I’ve happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.

I honestly think that’s my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.

Relatable. And I don’t so much tan as my freckles just converge.

I haven’t had time to build out or promote the community, so there’s only one post right now, but this would be perfect for !totallylookslike@dubvee.org if you had a side-by-side image.

Chaotica still appears mostly monochrome

In all fairness, so do I. Summer can’t get here fast enough.,

The worst part is I really want one of those now and am sad those probably aren’t things that exist.

A Dax symbiote Matryoshka doll

Speaking from recent experience, the smaller thing can, and often does, turn into a larger thing all on its own and always at the worst time.

For the last 3 years, I knew my water heater was on its last legs. I kept putting it off until two Saturdays ago I had a wet basement and no hot water. The kick in the ass was that it wasn’t that hard to replace the unit: 2 hours of labor to install and 2 hours to drain, remove, and clean around the old one. Cost me just under $650 including same day delivery which was awesome because I would have had to rent a truck and drafted someone to help me load/unload it otherwise.

So my advice is when you allocate time to address the small problem, give yourself double that in case it turns into a bigger project. It’s always easier to deal with big stuff when it’s not a surprise.

I applaud you for not asking people to stop enshittifying the definition of “enshittification”. I wouldn’t have had the restraint.

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Oh, dear lord. As if we don’t have enough spam and drive-by trolls as it is.

Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.

Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.

I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.

The number of upvotes on this post (and it’s xpost in c/politics) is extremely disheartening and shows why getting news from social media is doomed to spread crackpot shit. People will like and share anything they agree with no matter what tinfoil rag it links to.

Humanity makes me sad.

I mean, if you’re not shitting your guts out after drinking a glass of tap water, then it’s clean enough.

Pure water tastes like…nothing. The minerals and such give it the good, crisp taste.

That said, my water is so hard it has comparable calcium to a glass of milk.

The good ol’ Ferengi Rule 34 (seriously).

Though I prefer RoA #76: "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies. "

That’s basically me. Wake me when it’s time to:

• Eat
• Hand out gifts
• Go home