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Well, for a last meal, I’m ordering some specialty rolls haha. There’s a local spot near me that has some good specialty options. I’m a big fan of anything with eel, salmon, or octopus (I haven’t had it in years after learning the intelligence they have).

Sushi

Yes, but I’m more coming from the humorous aspect than the mathematical

Well, more than 50% of people tend to think they are average. So illusions of mediocrity?

Nice! Glad you’re getting yours fitted soon! Honestly, mine have been literally life changing. I truly didn’t realize how bad my hearing had gotten because the change was so gradual. The sound generated through the hearing aids is much better than an external speaker, and after the adjustment period, I sometimes don’t even notice it’s playing. The brain learns to filter it out, along with the tinnitus. It’s different than trying to block or mask it with a speaker. Not a cure, but much better. I hope yours work well for you!

Short answer: Get an evaluation by an audiologist, if possible, to determine if something can be done.

Long answer: Depending on the personal cause of tinnitus, solutions range from nothing to getting hearing aids with specific software that provides tinnitus relief. I have genetic, moderate to severe hearing loss in higher frequencies and have very noticeable tinnitus. The complications from hearing loss with tinnitus can vary, but personally were resulting in increased sensitivity to noise throughout the day, irritability, and diminished ability to communicate (I couldn’t hear what my spouse or kids were saying when there was any kind of background noise present). It led me to never want to go anywhere or do anything outside our home because I couldn’t hear or enjoy anything.

I went to an audiologist, had a bunch of tests, and was prescribed a set of hearing aids. Said hearing aids play soft ocean noises in addition to boosting the frequencies I have diminished hearing in. The ocean noises allow the brain to train itself to treat the tinnitus as a routine background noise instead of a panic inducing “danger” sound. Over time, it has helped in significantly reducing my attention to the tinnitus. It will never go away, and I have to sleep with ocean sounds playing so I don’t go insane.

And also their penis!

Elephants have a prehensile penis that they sometimes use for a fifth leg.

I don’t have a profound answer, and other commenters have covered my thoughts pretty well. I will share a small lesson I learned from my mom as a kid. First time wearing a new shirt, I jumped off the swing on our playset, and the hook at the end of the chain tore a big hole in my shirt. Naturally, I was upset and started crying. My mom told me, “You can either cry or you can laugh, but it doesn’t change what happened.” I’ve taken that to heart over the years and generally try to find the humor in everyday situations. Meaning of life? Nope. Just making life more entertaining.

Not a hair person (curse you, male pattern baldness!), but picaridin based bug spray is effective, safe for skin and clothes, and non-greasy. Sawyer’s version works really well!

Hardware: what you currently have on hand to play around with.

Software: start with something simple and well documented. Not quite the driver for the learning phase, in my personal opinion.

“Utilities” as you call them: What is useful to you? What do you want to play with or need to improve your personal use case?

I don’t mean to be flippant with my answers here. Do a little introspection and determine what is genuinely useful for you to self host. I personally run Technitium, Jellyfin, a portion of the "-arr"s, Immich, and Navidrome. My family uses all of these services/utilities on a daily basis, so they are useful for me to host. I have some of the services that need CPU and GPU processing power running on my gaming PC and others running on a Lenovo ThinkCenter that I got for free from the IT department at work. They have bins of PCs slated for recycling that work perfectly fine but are “outdated”.

Shit, what about the giant clouds of asbestos dust that wafted through DC when the demo happened? They absolutely did not do any of the required sampling, abatement, or control measures throughout the surprise demo.

As cool as the breeze from a camel’s behind.

I get the intent of the question. As in, should the focus be on parents with non-adult children rather than parents with adult children and/or grandchildren? Not that all parents aren’t celebrated, but the parents actively doing it every day should receive more focus than those not actively parenting

Knowledge and wisdom are not the same. Wisdom is knowledge compounded by experience. The examples you list are not wisdom, nor are they necessarily knowledge. They are parenting techniques with obvious flaws.

As for 18 being the magic number, that’s pretty societally arbitrary. Sure, one is legally an adult at 18 in many societies, but that doesn’t mean they have life experience to amount to having wisdom. Many 18 year olds know enough to function in society, but they’re realistically still children from a developmental standpoint. There’s no magic age for anything.

Strongest butt cheeks east of the Mississippi!

In reality, I’m simply a geologist

Big rocks into little rocks

Right?! The one I live with is just an absolute tease though, provocatively showing herself, just begging to be touched, but then reacts violently when actually touched. Ugh, what a dirty little slut! (big /S, hopefully not necessary, but you never know)

For relationships: You’re either going to marry the person or you’re not.

Uh that would be watching Season 2 Episode 9 of Bluey while snuggled up with my family prior to the kids’ bedtime.