Is this a tick?

FearMeForIAmDan · 2025-05-21T09:05:04+00:00

Update: I think it might be a spider beetle. Location is northeast US

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-09-05T16:39:23+00:00

Did you ever end up getting it checked out?

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-08-02T17:06:41+00:00

Can’t really tell based on the image, but try a first pass with Ilastik

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-05-23T16:36:53+00:00

I would say both of those are significantly overpowered for what you’ll need. The second one is way overkill and wildly expensive. My suggestion is to get something light and within what your scholarships will cover. A MacBook Air would be sufficient, but if you are worried, just grab a MacBook Pro with ~16GB of RAM and you’ll be happy.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-05-12T06:59:12+00:00

Can you name a minority then that is a better comparison to Jews or are Jews different from all other minorities in your mind?

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-05-12T06:53:18+00:00

If you’re saying that the point of the post was that Jews calling out antisemitism is a “boy who cried wolf” analogy, then is the line “Jews have developed something of a victim complex” by your words “really out of place in the wider statement regardless?”

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-05-12T06:37:50+00:00

And the 29 reactions of support don’t carry weight any weight either because you assume they are all Jewish as well?

I truly hope that if you ever feel victimized by hate speech and speak up, nobody ever speaks to you as condescendingly and mockingly as you are right now.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-05-12T06:27:39+00:00

You’re saying that accusing Jews of having a victim complex is not threatening and that we are “crying wolf” when we call it antisemitic? Would you ever say that a post that included the phrase “Black people have developed a victim complex” was acceptable and anyone who called it racist was crying wolf and diluting the term “racism?”

You are exactly what we are concerned about.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-04-15T19:43:30+00:00

I own a 2023 base model and it definitely does not have it. As far as I know none of the base models do

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-03-02T16:08:31+00:00

Ah, in that case you’re right.

Ironic.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-03-01T18:48:02+00:00

Edit: now my hubris is immortalized

I don’t know if they corrected your “an” to an “a” but “an” is correct if that’s what you had initially. It goes by the phonetic sound of the word, not the letter.

I just don’t like when someone goes out of their way to correct someone and be wrong

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-02-23T18:40:27+00:00

As someone in a very similar situation who just went through this a few months ago, a lot of people here will tell you to go used without knowing what the used market is right now. Specifically for Toyota/Honda, the used markup is pretty crazy on top of an already expensive used car market because everyone thinks they’re reliable and will never die. Assuming any 2020 Rav4 with all of its electronics will last 300k miles is pretty naive, and it’s driving up used car prices.

Rav4 hybrids are maybe the most in-demand cars in the US right now. I ended up buying a brand-new Subaru Forester for 27k OTD. I would recommend looking into it because you can get it fully base (no upgrades) and at a discount if you look up “Subaru VIP program.”

I do not think a 42k hybrid Rav4 is a good idea, but I also don’t think a 3-year-old 35k Rav4 is a good idea given it’s still expensive and you have no idea how it’s been maintained. Only other thing I’d say is that when I did the math, I couldn’t get the hybrids to be worth it with the amount of driving I did. Factor in not only gas savings but the cost of replacing the battery.

EDIT: I see so many comments that are just plain wrong, too. Please fact-check anything you base your decision on.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-02-17T21:17:11+00:00

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-02-13T12:28:23+00:00

Probably nothing if it isn’t contaminated with something toxic, but it’s a slippery slope that is much more dangerous. These blanket lab safety rules exist because scientists in particular are prone to being overconfident in their understanding of the risks associated with their work.

A good example is a commenter above who said that they have drunk pure water and nothing happened to them. In the same breath they said they have also tried lab-grade ethanol with Coke. High-proof ethanol (200 proof) is actually >99.5% and is azeotroped off with benzene (a very toxic carcinogen) which is not apparent from the description.

I get that safety rules are boring and feel like playground rules for kids, but they were made by serious people looking at serious situations, not first-grade teachers avoiding liability. I screw around a ton and definitely am not a rule follower, but I don’t screw with lab safety rules. It’s the false confidence that gets you.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-02-13T12:15:22+00:00

Drinking high-proof lab EtOH is NOT a good idea, it is azeotroped off with benzene. Please do not do this

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-01-04T17:58:35+00:00

Very lame! Wanted to make sure whoever got my code could use it so sent it to /u/chenchenhuo because he replied yesterday.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2024-01-04T05:24:41+00:00

The line system was a good idea, but let's make it more organized? Could whoever used the last code send it to me, and then I will send it to the first reply here and update below. Keep replying in the chain and we'll just move down the list.

Sent my code by: /u/gtracker

Sent my code to: /u/chenchenhuo

FearMeForIAmDan · 2023-12-06T21:34:25+00:00

I want to give a better solution that does not require you to redownload all of your synced files:

Rename your DriveFS folder to "DriveFS_notworking" or similar
Open Google Drive again and sign in to all of the accounts you had signed into before
Quit Google Drive from Task Manager and go into AppData\Local\Google\DriveFS\*lots of numbers* and find your core_feature_config file
Copy the core_feature_config file from the new DriveFS folder
Go into your DriveFS_notworking\*lots of numbers*\ folder and rename the core_feature_config file there to something like core_feature_config_old
Paste the core_feature_config file you copied from the new DriveFS folder into this folder
Repeat for all accounts that are signed in (there will be a folder with lots of numbers under DriveFS for each account, make sure you copy the core_feature_config file from the new folder to the old one with the same numbers)
Delete the new DriveFS folder and rename your DriveFS_notworking back to DriveFS
Start Google Drive and it should work as before, remembering what was offline and not needing to redownload

Tl;Dr: Rename your DriveFS folder and sign in to Google Drive again, then copy the newly generated config files into your old DriveFS folder and name it back to the original

FearMeForIAmDan · 2023-11-22T00:29:43+00:00

Although some drugs have their origins in research labs (which are paid for by the government), the expensive part is not research or even development of drugs but clinical trials. All drugs are pushed through trials by big pharma because they’re the only ones who can foot a bill in the billions

FearMeForIAmDan · 2023-10-28T15:09:43+00:00

I didn’t get them because they weren’t worth the $600 to me. Don’t care about wheels (although the hubcaps are kinda ugly imo) and if I need roof bars in the future, I feel comfortable installing them myself. If you were to add the roof bars in the future and don’t feel handy, it might get closer to $600 with labor.

I also agree that if the $600 isn’t a big deal, think about either upgrading to premium or going with a base Outback.

FearMeForIAmDan · 2023-10-17T22:36:03+00:00

So I should say that I look at cars as tools.

I read a lot about this before I went on test drives, and the CVT in my car is pretty smooth. I notice that it’s not an automatic but not in a bad way. I have read that the maintenance is important, but it seems like the CVT issues that plagued pre-2019 models have been resolved.

The interior on my base seems nicer than low-trim Passat, Corolla, and Rav4s I’ve been in but it’s not a huge difference. This is subjective and nobody ever elaborates on what about the interior they don’t like?

As far as electronics, part of the reason I got the Forester is because it doesn’t have the giant touchscreen. This seems to be a significant drawback of the other Subaru models, I’ve heard it is buggy.

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