otherbarry

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[–] otherbarry 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Over 800. In my case there's plenty of credit history since I've been using credit cards for just about all purchases that can be paid that way. All the credit cards get paid off in full every month.

Here in the U.S. credit scores are an unfortunate reality so it's good to maintain some sort of credit history whether it's credit cards, loans/mortgages, etc.

[–] otherbarry 30 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Yup, Swiss Army Man was pretty unhinged in the best way possible LOL. The fact that Radcliffe was in it, playing a flatulent dead guy no less, made me realize he's game to play just about any role that gets him out of the Harry Potter typecast.

[–] otherbarry 28 points 8 months ago

Talk to families of unjustified imprisoned people or to the people itself.

Do you actually know & speak to people in El Salvador? Pretty much everyone I know there (family/friends) are ecstatic that there are no more gang members running around unchecked. The country is safer now then it has been in years.

Nothing is perfect of course, poverty is still a major issue, but not having to deal with gang members every time you ride the bus, go out shopping, even just drive around, it's a huge deal over there.

Sure I get what you're saying but for most people there it's been a positive development.

But since he just imprisoned everyone and their relatives, its only a temporary fix – unless he wants to imprison them for life.

True.. to be honest I suspect those people are imprisoned for life. No one expects gang members to be let out of prison while Bukele is still running the country, that's going to be something that gets revisited when/if he's out of office. It's a massive human rights issue but at least for now the majority of Salvadorans consider it a net positive.

The funny thing is that this article is about bitcoin & most Salvadorans don't particularly care about that at all, it's just kind of a headline that isn't going to win/lose Bukele any support in the short term at least.

[–] otherbarry 2 points 8 months ago

TIL :)

Did a quick google search before commenting & saw people talking about not being able to find Aveeno in Europe so wasn't too sure. Maybe that just applies to other countries beyond the Ireland / UK area.

[–] otherbarry 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Looking specifically for men but I’m open to all opinions

Pay attention to what women are using, aside from dealing with make up the skin care routine isn't that different.

In the shower I use a daily foaming face cleanser. Using soap is worse on facial skin (ends up causing more breakouts, etc.).

I use bar soap for the rest of my shower routine.

In the mornings and evenings I moisturize dry skin areas (mainly hands and lips).

Before shaving I always exfoliate.

In the U.S. I tend to use Aveeno products for that stuff but you should be able to find equivalents of those things in Europe.

[–] otherbarry 8 points 8 months ago

But I listened to all the “sensible” people and went for a graduate level program instead like an idiot

Oof, yeah similar situation though for me it was more around 20-21. Went to college for about 2-3 years, wasn't doing too great with the required calculus classes & sort of dropped out. The upside was during that same time I landed a full time job in IT & was getting paid plenty, had a 401k, all that stuff.

But the "sensible" people around me (aka the boomer parents/uncles/etc. with their lifetime pensions) kept telling me to stop working & go back to school. That got into my head & eventually I quit my well paid job, burned another 2-3 years on school before realizing that just wasn't going to work out for me. Then cashed out my 401k to pay off those school loans.. those same "sensible" people didn't tell me anything about retirement savings & I was too young & dumb to understand that stuff back then.

Nowadays I'm okay & don't have any debt. But all that essentially meant I started over with my career later in life & am still trying to catch up with retirement savings.

[–] otherbarry 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't think so? Unless something changed recently that site wasn't even federated with anything, it was (is?) just it's own standalone website. In the beginning the dev/owner couldn't even decide how to display posts/conversations & changed the display format a few times.

I remember for a while the dev/owner would use throwaway Reddit accounts to spam his website every time people were discussing Reddit alternatives, like "hey you should check out this one, it's great!" sort of spam. The spam was enough to turn me off from creating an account there.. and realistically it didn't look like it was going to gain any real traction.

This stuff about the owner going alt-right is news to me, it's been off my radar so long I never bothered checking if it still existed.

[–] otherbarry 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The 1940-1950 era is the rough timeframe when the factory farming of poultry took off, especially once antibiotics started being widely used to group even more chickens together in those factory conditions. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_the_United_States_poultry_farming_industry#History_of_federal_policy_on_antibiotic_use_in_livestock

[–] otherbarry 1 points 8 months ago

I had a SCSI Zip drive, then later a USB version. Didn't really need it for myself too much but it helped out for the rare times someone needed to give me something on that format or when I was helping someone with data recovery/data transfer.

Also used to see them around in computer labs & such so they weren't that rare.

[–] otherbarry 14 points 9 months ago

That sounds about right, the people actually dealing with training AI models don't get paid a whole lot. OP's $15.50 is actually pretty good compared to the low wage tasks people are doing on Amazon MTurk e.g https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/artificial-intelligence-quietly-relies-on-workers-earning-2-per-hour

But otherwise yeah I agree, it's kind of a crap job. I don't have any good advice for OP beyond just keep looking for jobs, once they find something new dump this one for sure.

[–] otherbarry 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah I was going to mention All Is Lost, it's just one actor the entire movie. And hardly any dialogue, maybe he says a few words during the movie? I really don't remember him saying much of anything at all, mostly just grunts/grumbles when things go wrong. Great movie.

[–] otherbarry 14 points 9 months ago

Pixel 7, but for me I always look for a phone with stock Android and a good camera. Usually any of the Google Pixel phones covers that well.

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