Yea I feel like some of the bots across multiple instances need to be toned back. Right now several of them, including lemmit.bot are just scraping anything that matches their search criteria and puking it out which leads to actual member posts being buried under the inundation of articles and headlines.

Yea I just personally blocked the lemmit bot which made ml and lemmit much more... "Bearable". Hexbear tho? I canned that instance after a few trips into it, some may find it bearable but it's not for me. It toes a very fine line that I just don't feel comfortable with, but hey, you do you.

If anything, if an instance is just 75% bot posting, I just silence it, especially a majority of the politic instances... I don't need a bot spewing doom and gloom into my feeds at mach fuck.

For X links... I guess ban the links if you feel the need but maybe allow for screenshots of X posts since a lot of companies and emergency services use X for posting realtime information that doesn't get posted elsewhere.

Kinda crazy when they subvert expectations like that sometimes and actually prove themselves as a journalist.

You'd think a journalist for Teen Vogue or Cosmopolitan would be a hack and then all of a sudden they drop some in-depth, well written op-ed that makes you go "what? How?.."

Like I said elsewhere, I've actually got a couple copies of Rolling Stone from the opening weeks/months of the Iraq Invasion (their somewhere in my personal library) and the comparison to issues from before the war is staggering. Their journalists were actually really good and when they weren't being told to write a bunch of gobbledygook about a has-been one hit wonder, they were really capable journalists.

Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.

Oh the memories.

Lions mane and chicken of the woods. Grill em, hit em with some garlic butter and lemon pepper. Pretty dang good imo.

I still remember when I met a pilot who majored in geology. I asked him "you know the irony in that right?" He says "yep. But hey at least I can tell you about the mountain we're about to crash into."

Industrial diamonds have always been on the cheap and that industry is far removed from the jewelry/gem industry, in fact a large majority of diamonds that are mined aren't gem grade, they're industrial grade. It's been growing and advancing despite the jewelry/gem market starting to fall.

Also because newer generations just aren't sold on diamonds being a luxury item anymore. Your average Joe just isn't paying their rent or more on a diamond engagement/wedding ring like they used to because, well, that's their rent payment or mortgage for something that's gonna lose value the second they walk out of the store.

Honestly out of all 12 steps it's the first step that actually hits the hardest.

"We admitted we were powerless over alchohol (although you could substitute alcohol for anything really)—that our lives had become unmanageable."

As my shrink used to say "the hardest part of overcoming a problem or mistake is admitting you have a problem/made a mistake."

God... Imagine being in the middle of an important call for say discussing family affairs for a dying family member and you just hear "there will be a 30 second advertisement break in 1 minute."... I'd probably pop a blood vessel.

That said, before multiplayer was centralised, you checked the server pingtime before joining the server.

Scrolling through servers on CS:Source trying to find one that wasn't pinging harder than my anxiety... Those were the days.

There's still a way to do it but it's convoluted compared to if they'd just add a damn resource monitor into the game itself.

If you still care about figuring out your ping: this comment on reddit from a year ago tells you how to find your games server IP, from there you can just fire up command prompt and hit with ping -n 100 <IP/Adress> This should return your ping and packet loss with the server.