First, let’s clarify that when docs say a joint is arthritic, they usually mean it’s showing signs of significant inflammation (osteoarthritis), which is a very different thing than Rheumatoid Arthritis - RA is an autoimmune disorder where the immune system is degrading normal tissue. If you haven’t been diagnosed with RA, then they’re referring to OA, or inflammation.

All of us have some osteoarthritis as we age, I we probably have varying levels of OA in different joints at any given time.

There’s a phrase “motion is the lotion” - meaning keeping active is key to preventing joint issues.

Joints don’t like inactivity, I’d guess largely because cartilage isn’t vascular (it lacks a blood supply), so requires a different mechanism to keep it hydrated and fed. That occurs via motion: the action of moving a joint, applying pressure and releasing pressure, moves synovial fluid through cartilage, keeping it hydrated and flexible.

So keep moving.

Great point.

This could be added as a warning.

Eventually, if you don’t stop at a red light, something’s gonna happen and it’s probably not good.

Oh, wow, I didn’t realize masgravel license 365 too.

I recently changed from the major carriers to JMP.chat (and now USMobile) because my carrier randomly decided a Pixel5 can’t work on their network. But if I buy a Pixel 5 from them, it works.

JMP.chat pipes your SMS into XMPP, which is awesome, for $5/mo, including phone calls. I just use USMobile for a data connection now.

Use the bank website with Hermit or Native Alpha.

I’ve never paid more than $150 for a phone.

Having 2 or 3 phones for the same price means I can run a hot spare and have a test device for less than one of these new phones.

Your question isn’t clear.

Just because the results they find are gov sites people don’t do it? I don’t follow. Seems like gov would be a good source?

(Well, not really, I’m sure they leave out some crucial details).

Yes.

Drink 😁

My experience is the opposite - FOSS is often obtuse, with an assumption that you see things the same was as the dev, which is usually a single person or at most a very small group. Add to that, documentation is nominal, or non-existent, and quite often lacking even a high-level description of what an app does, let alone where to find features in an app. FOSS devs often don’t even follow menu layout that’s been pretty well established at this point. For example, I’ve found the Settings menu under File, Help, Tools, View, etc, in different apps.

Proprietary apps are usually developed by a team, one that’s studied the market segment (or another group has), and usually understands how that segment operates. They then develop the app based on design goals established by a team other than the developers, with UAT (user acceptance testing) performed at given stages (this is even more frequent today with Agile project management). It’s not uncommon for a UI to be mocked up and given to end users to validate UI design/layout choices long before anything is even developed.

These devs usually follow a company standard process, with code reviews by other people. Their changes must be approved by management, and those changes are often requested and reviewed by other teams before being submitted to the dev team.

Most FOSS simply doesn’t have the time or staffing to do what most proprietary software dev does.

And I use both proprietary and FOSS all day long.

You’re not wrong on the primary reason why life spans are longer.

That doesn’t account for all of it. Or for the major difference in quality of life in the 40+ ages.

The difference in my grandparents generation vs mine in overall health at 40 is staggering. They were born before what could arguably be called modern medicine (the beginning of antibiotics) existed.

I had a family member get a knee replacement 20+ years ago - that was magical futurism in my grandparents generation. And the difference from then (weeks of rehab, crutches, etc), vs today when it’s typically outpatient surgery and you’re walking on it the same day.

Or the number of people not having strokes or heart attacks because of medicines to treat underlying conditions.

The difference in my own lifetime is staggering.

“probably”.

So you’re assuming. The naturalistic fallacy at work.

1. Is man restless? If so, what do you mean by “restless”? Restless as compared to what?

Even worse, the McD ice cream machine issue was caused my McD themselves, by having requirements around cleaning cycles that were tighter than the machine could do.

The same machines worked fine at other companies.

And watch all the lights turn off.

Don’t listen to the people saying there’s an issue anywhere.

All this racist nonsense is just that - nonsense.

I’ve lived or worked for extended periods in numerous states, from Maine to Alabama, North Dakota, Washington, Texas, California, and all over the midwest, especially in rural areas (worked with trucking companies), and you really don’t see all the racism people claim on the internet, even in the trucker world.

Yea, you’ll find an ass here and there, but that’s very much the exception today. Far more so than even the 70’s, when being openly racist in a small town was tolerated a lot more (“the older generation don’t know no better” kind of stuff).

So come to the US. You’ll be fine anywhere except specific areas in certain inner cities (and that’s a general crime issue, not a race issue).

Not really, it’s not the 50’s or 60’s.

99% of people don’t give a shit.

Middle of the country? Haha

Nobody gives a fuck

Yea, crappy mixing. It may technically be “excellent” mixing, but only works in a theater.

Even that isn’t true, pretty much every movie I’ve seen at the theater in recent years, the dialog is hard to hear.

Thank the asshole directors for choosing to make sound so crappy any more (my opinion, I think all movies have crap mixing, with too much focus on sound effects so even when voice is brought forward it’s still hard to hear clearly).

Part of it is the movie audio is mixed for a theater that has multiple channels and speakers, so the output is the better separated and voice can be delivered better. It would need to be remixed to sound better at home, and since all homes are very different, what would you target? (Plus they simply don’t want to pay extra for mixing which doesn’t contribute to seats in a theater). Yea, they could probably use a generic mix, but again, it costs to do so, and some home users would still (justifiably) complain.

The other is some directors intentionally crapify the mix because they want a certain experience while watching the movie in the theater. One director recently even stated he wanted dialog to be difficult to understand in certain scenes (I forget what movie). I get the director’s intent, even if I disagree.

The only solution for home that I know is to have a sound system that can manage the separate channels. Many systems now have a sound bar just for voice, so this is already happening to some degree, but I rarely see discrete volume controls for the channels.