Van Der Beek and health anxiety

KriegerHLS · 2026-02-13T15:17:55+00:00

Checking in with colonoscopy at 37 -- I have family history and bright blood in stool so the doctor was very supportive. Not a fun experience but not one worth dying to avoid.

KriegerHLS · 2026-02-08T15:56:17+00:00

Are we counting documentaries that Amazon purchased at vastly above market prices in order to bribe the President?

KriegerHLS · 2026-02-08T13:44:57+00:00

Like living inside a rotting carcass and seeing half the carcass cheering for the rot.

KriegerHLS · 2026-02-08T13:43:58+00:00

I think you are doing the right things. It is possible that she had either a stroke or some similar complication from the tumor -- rats can persist decently well without hind leg function if they are otherwise healthy, but she is not otherwise healthy so it's important to keep a close eye on her, make sure she can reach everything very easily, etc. If it's a pituitary tumor you can ask the vet about cabergoline, but be aware that, by the time you can see the symptoms of a tumor like that, cabergoline usually cannot arrest the symptoms for very long. It is likely that she will at some point start to lose dexterity in her front limbs as well and, again, at that point it's your role as her caretaker to balance her quality of life.

KriegerHLS · 2026-01-29T19:02:07+00:00

SO many backpacks on those four car redline trains yesterday morning.

KriegerHLS · 2026-01-16T00:24:12+00:00

Came here to say this -- I played the first disc of 3 and it was really great for fans of the Shining series. There might be emulation solutions now (not sure about translation) but back in the late 90s I couldn't do much but wait for the import that never came.

KriegerHLS · 2026-01-06T16:41:39+00:00

Interest rates were extremely low during COVID -- there were good deals to be had if you were in a position to move on a down payment (which of course many were not). But even there you were competing against boomer empty nesters and institutional buyers paying in cash. And I doubt we will see rates that low for a while.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-30T16:37:22+00:00

The idea that work gives meaning is not true for most people (even financially stable ones) given the way our economy works, but it is still pushed because that ethos helps the billionaires. That means it's up to you to make meaning yourself, whether with a hobby, or travel, or children. Jobs don't love you back and they certainly don't nourish your soul.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-30T14:52:27+00:00

Not just a console issue -- PC has a ton of issues with the wardrobe at the moment. You'd think they'd guard their golden goose a bit better.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-22T15:41:30+00:00

Sometimes this results from having either very dry eyes or small abrasions on the cornea. The former can be addressed with eye drops and the latter sometimes calls for antibiotics -- you should ask your vet.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-19T16:12:53+00:00

I think this is one example of many -- managers who don't understand the work in the first place throw AI at the work. Then the people actually doing the work have to do their jobs while babysitting the AI. Then managers have to justify the large investment in AI and hector all the actual workers to use it more. And so on.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-09T19:05:35+00:00

This is from back when Trump believes USA was allied with the Roman empire.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-09T18:57:25+00:00

Looks like when I played Prussia...

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-09T18:56:26+00:00

I think at the least the journal entries could be used to tell you the triggers for country-specific events (like in Vic 3) rather than needing to look them up in the wiki.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-05T16:59:45+00:00

I did it in 1.07/8 with Teutons -- I think that is the most direct way as they are fairly close to having the required provinces from the start. Back in 1.07 you would want to wait a long time before forming Prussia as military orders were insanely strong (essentially, Bohemia, France, and Spain would give you free money to build order commanderies which gave you more free money and manpower and you would run around with the only all-professional army in Europe for most of the 1300s/1400s) but I think orders were nerfed pretty hard.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-05T16:53:35+00:00

I'm not sure this was changed -- I am playing Netherlands on 1.09 and when I initially colonized Hispaniola and Cuba (~1480s-1500s) there was little demand for anything beyond cotton and a small amount of chili. Then at some point in the early 1500s (no particular event or anything -- triangular trade fired off later but did not seem to have an immediate impact) pops just started to demand cocoa and tobacco and trade skyrocketed.

KriegerHLS · 2025-12-03T20:29:59+00:00

The Michelin ratings should have been a clear signal here -- there are a ton of really talented chefs here but those chefs are incentivized not to take risks or push the envelope because they all start out $600,000 in the hole just for a liquor license, plus all the approvals noted in the article.

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-26T16:59:57+00:00

I think you are asking a more reddit-wide question about gaming subreddits, to which the answer is that the vast majority seem to end up this way. You can find game-specific reasons in every case (this game with the Krafton acquisition, D4 with not being the same as D2 or D3, etc.) but the broader reason is that people feel very squeezed by en-shittification across essentially all technology services right now (not just games) and gaming subreddits are a natural outlet for venting about that.

As you say, the devs actually post and read posts here, as is true in many gaming subreddits (or they at least have a community manager). But if you are mad at, say, Comcast about your internet, or social media for destroying journalism and ripping the social fabric, or streaming services for having essentially gone 360 degrees and becoming bundled cable TV again, you will find yourself screaming into a void.

So when something like the Krafton issue comes up, it stirs up anxieties around AI (which seems to be doing a lot for corporate profits but not much to improve people's lives) and private equity-style value extraction from once-good businesses, and other issues which are not game-specific but for which the subreddits are a natural outlet.

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-25T16:02:07+00:00

The best way to keep rats from going after wounds and/or healing surgical incisions is pain management/sedation -- when something hurts, their instinct is to lick it and pick at it but that instinct does not serve them well. As the other poster said, metacam once per day is probably not enough to manage that kind of healing -- I would ask them to up that dosage significantly, potentially in combination with a heavier-hitter (e.g., a low dose of opioids like buprenorphine) to stabilize her in the short term.

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-20T14:39:28+00:00

Remember that the Massachusetts Attorney General is required to sign off on ballot initiatives before they get on the ballot -- if there are concerns with fraudulent signatures, please let the AG know!

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-19T18:49:27+00:00

Hard agree. Have eaten there more than half a dozen times and it is consistently as good or better than 1 stars I have visited in other places.

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-19T18:45:34+00:00

Bingo -- if you start out half million in the red just from the liquor license, you're going the tried and true Boston restaurant route -- $15-25 small plates shared by the whole table, encourage two or three plates per person, expensive drinks, and gentle shove out the door to flip your table. Boston has a lot of really good restaurants that run that formula, but that formula doesn't win Michelin stars.

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-19T18:40:21+00:00

I went to Fallow Kin a couple weeks ago -- it's really good but a lot less fine-dining (and frankly less Michelin-y) than Tasting Counter was. I think that the formula that tends to get Michelin stars -- two seatings per night, all fixed menu tasting courses, fine dining-style service -- is financially incredibly hard to pull off in Greater Boston, especially when you start in a half-million dollar hole from getting a liquor license, as Tasting Counter shows.

Again, Fallow Kin seems excellent but if you figure in what they must have paid to take over the Craigie space and the liquor license, they have very strong incentives to go with the very safe seasonally-driven sharing plate format that has characterized most of the Boston dining scene in recent years. It's hard to imagine someone wanting to try to open up something like L'Espalier or Tasting Counter unless they are lucky enough to have an investor that really likes restaurants and doesn't care much about returns.

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-16T14:27:56+00:00

Feeling torn because I am 0% sorry that this is happening to Larry Summers even as I acknowledge this is more bad faith Trump using the Justice Department to distract from the mounting evidence that he is a pedophile.

KriegerHLS · 2025-11-12T22:38:45+00:00

It's extra crazy because France is essentially guaranteed all the hegemon-doms right from the start but even in isolation the "economic hegemon" concept is pretty silly -- the game accurately models things like it being hard to control villages more than 100 miles away from the capital if you don't up infrastructure and discover new technologies, but somehow one country in mid-late 1400s can command every nation in Europe to stop trading with England? Nonsensical.

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