This is how I fixed mine when it happened to me. I didn’t realize the AC was using the same air filter as my furnace, so it had gotten really dirty and blocked airflow. A cheap new air filter replacement fixed all the issues.

More like “If we further break what’s half-broken and going haywire, maybe it’ll stop.”

This is how it works for me. The radio plays songs I’m not all that interested in, so it fades into the background and I can listen to it for hours without issue. My own songs are interesting to me, so I actively pay attention to them, but that also means I get brain fatigue from that attention.

I applied for a mortgage a few weeks ago, and ever since I’ve been getting literally 40+ spam calls a day. It’s insane. They all get blocked, so it’s not anything I really have to deal with, but my missed calls list is just a sea of red “likely spam” callers.

Yeah, that’s my understanding of it, too. If you go back in time to any point in your life, you’ll be exactly the same, with all the same experiences and the exact same thoughts running through your head. Every single atom in the entire universe will be exactly the same as it was at that exact moment, so of course you’ll make the exact same decision.

The universe as a whole is just a huge, insanely complicated chemical reaction. Ultimately, we’re free to make whatever choice we want, but that choice was what we were always going to choose.

It’s like how flipping a coin or rolling a die isn’t really random - if it were possible to gain an insanely in-depth understanding of all of the forces acting on the object, and you had the power to manipulate your throw to give it the exact force needed, you could have it land exactly how you want it to every time. Instead, we call the act random because it’s too complicated for us to manipulate it effectively.

They probably use a simple posts-over-time equation to gauge popularity, so a 5-second-old community with 1 post technically has a rate of 12 posts a minute. Very popular.

They’ll consider it if they know someone else is willing to pay it. I got headhunted a couple years ago by a place willing to pay me 50% more than I made to work remotely doing generally the same thing I was already doing in-office. There were more responsibilities, though, so I wanted to stick with my current job if I could get them to match the offer. I took it to my boss, and he agreed to match the pay, and even talked the CEO into letting me work remotely when they otherwise have a pretty strong push toward in-office work.

Now I get paid more than my own supervisor while working a pretty cushy job in my pajamas.

Bold of you to assume they can walk

They’re trending heavily in their community, but nowhere else. It’s like how a bunch of audiophiles will probably watch a review of some super-expensive set of headphones, but nobody else will be interested at all.

People who watch conspiracy videos tend to watch a lot of conspiracy videos, which the algorithm likes. So if your watch history suggests you might watch a conspiracy video, it’ll suggest them to you so that you’ll hopefully get pulled in and watch a bunch of videos.

I have a canister vacuum and it’s been great for this, as well as for things like clearing up cobwebs in tall corners and cleaning small spaces like between my fridge and counter. I got a Miele, since the guys at the VacuumCleaners subreddit had it listed as a good balance between price and reliability, but I’m sure there are cheaper options out there if you’re not looking for BIFL-level quality.

Kid named Substance:

Ultimately, we need to tip people in the short term to keep them afloat until we can work with them in the long term to get America to the standard that most of the rest of the world takes, where tipping is a special case scenario only for exceptionally good work, and never to be needed or expected.

No, those are reds.

Those are clearly oranges. You can tell by the color.

The thing is that he’s blind to his own upcoming demise.

He’s not dying of boneitis right now, so he can make a profit and use his money to do something about it when it actually becomes an issue, but in the end, when that happens he’s too late. And to top it all off he curses the boneitis instead of his own mistake of destroying the company making the cure.

It’s similar to how capitalists will likely react when their homes and lives are destroyed by the byproduct of climate change - it will be the weather’s fault, not theirs for choosing profits over fixing the issue.

Did people actually change what they’d say based on whether or not they thought they’d get upvotes? I always just said what I wanted and used the karma to determine how popular of an opinion it was, so pretty much exactly how Lemmy works now. I don’t think I ever looked at my overall account karma on Reddit.

Oh, I’m well aware of the absurdity of his statement, but someone who already believes vaccines are bad will read Elon’s tweet once, understand barely enough of it to realize that it’s in line with their beliefs, then spread it to everyone they know.

It’s not scientific, but it sounds scientific, which is exactly how all anti-science conspiracy theories start and grow.

I subscribe to a lot of channels, and they usually put out significantly more videos that I don’t want to watch than videos that I do. I’ll usually subscribe to a channel for a specific video in case they make more of that specific kind of video, but I won’t care about their other stuff.

For example, I subscribe to the Game Grumps channel, but I only want to watch them play games that I’ve also played, or that I at least know enough about to follow along with the gameplay without focusing all of my attention on it. If they’re playing a game I’ve never heard of - which they often do - then I don’t care to watch it.

The algorithm does a better job of showing me the videos I actually want to see than the subscription feed does because it takes into account which specific videos I’ve seen and skipped for each of my subscriptions.