It’s about blood flow. Your nose is not only filled with mucus, it’s also inflamed. Prioritizing blood flow to other parts of your body will temporarily alleviate that swelling, allowing you to breath again. Light exercise works just as well.

Imagine you wanted children and then someone would come along and castrate you because there’s a problem with overpopulation. You take away an individaul’s choice of reproduction for the greater good. And it makes sense, but the lack of consent or even understandment does not sit well with me.

You’re anthropomorphizing animals too much. Cats don’t “want” children. Beyond a basic biological need they don’t give a shit about procreation. It’s not even a difficult question, ethically speaking. In almost every environment they exist in cats are considered invasive, reproduce like crazy, and tend to be incredibly destructive to local species. To be clear, I don’t think there is anything wrong with owning a cat, but it’s important to do so responsibly.

Not really, but just turn it off if it’s a problem.

Also if you insist on buying COD, please don’t make me pay extra for it to be included on game pass. I don’t want that shit.

You’re not wrong. The mass proliferation of listacles with the same 5 advertised products stamped behind a novella of filler to appease SEO algorithms has been increasingly problematic for at least 10 years now. The issue has only been compounded with the flood of “AI” generated content and deceptive ads. I almost prefer when every website had sidebars full of blatant advertisements. Sure they were ever present, but they weren’t trying to literally trick you into buying something.

Fucking hell I miss the 2000s/10s.

I don’t like this being a focal point, but I think it’s worth asking if you don’t mind: what is your income like? Reality being what it is, that can make a measurable difference.

Schoolie mad!

Sorry you upset the hive mind buddy. You’re absolutely right, but there are tons of people out there that can’t even handle literal seconds of inconvenience. It’s just not that big of a deal.

The only reason Toyota is pushing back against EV is because they are so heavily invested in hydrogen powered vehicles, which isn’t going to happen.

Back in the early 2000s (when Apple Minis were introduced) there was a rare system error that you could get that ended in a wall of script/code. What has stuck with me to this day was the screen ended on the line “panic: we are hanging here”.

Never did puzzle that out.

Meanwhile in America, we had to take my daughter to the hospital to have a penny unstuck from the roof of her mouth. The only reason I couldn’t get it out is because she was being hysterical and nearly hurt herself in the process. Removing it took 2 mins, a suction tube, and a q-tip. It cost us $300 out of pocket.

You convince anyone to take away my wireless earbuds and I’ll hunt you down.

Everyone on lemmy is a bot except for you.

RIP Mitch Hedberg

In this specific instance I would say the distinction matters as the critical point of this discussion is the deity.

Isn’t it more cringe to have an imaginary friend as an adult?

Is there someone more likely to execute Gaben’s vision and follow in his footsteps?

That is precisely how we have wound up in the current market.