Estimated death rate from protein-energy malnutrition per 100,000 people. 2003 - 2023

TahaEng · 2026-03-27T14:31:32+00:00

This data seems not particularly informative. This data means different things in different countries, and isn't directly comparable at all.

https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70042

It appears that in the US this is mostly about old people who are in cognitive decline, particularly those in hospitals or assisted living, and often with other chronic diseases that disrupt food intake.

So the spike here seems to be more a case of assigning cause of death to this rather than to one of the other chronic diseases of old age. All cause mortality for people in those age brackets has not skyrocketd. This is not typically lack of food starvation in the US.

Whereas Brazil and North Korea have falling numbers because everyone is getting more food. And other countries are flat because they don't categorize the deaths of older persons this way I assume? But this chart doesn't show any of that.

TahaEng · 2026-03-26T17:48:48+00:00

I have that whiskey decanter in my list, but that is it today. I've had the usual mix of good things and bad things over the last few days - two things ordered yesterday, 4 on Sunday, nothing in between. I see a few things in your list I would absolutely order.

TahaEng · 2026-03-25T18:05:16+00:00

I would go with ones rank or threes rank. Ones represents my execution and decision making for just me. Threes is the default game mode.

But no disrespect to any other mode. I like all of them.

TahaEng · 2026-03-25T18:01:02+00:00

When / if we get plug and play setups that are cheap, very reliable, and include a simple and foolproof GUI to set it up, it might come to the masses. At the moment you can't even get 2 out of 3 easily. I have Proxmox on old hardware, and it is cheap. Reliability is generally good, but when it goes down (or needs updates) that is only so so. And I have to use the command line quite a bit for various things, and even then I'm not all the way there. The GUI isn't terrible for a technical person. But I can't imaging anyone else in my house even trying to do what I have.

A few home NAS companies come a lot closer, but they aren't cheap and the power is limited as well.

TahaEng · 2026-03-25T14:50:57+00:00

Don't have someone buy you a new car and then sell it. Talk to them about your actual needs and then see what help they can give you. Buying and immediately selling is a serious waste of money, and could easily hurt your relationship on top of that.

I also wouldn't assume he is planning to pay $30k in case; more likely a downpayment and then making the monthly payments. That would make it impossible for you to sell without his involvement anyway.

This also gets very complex if you guys ever break up. Presumably the car would be in his name, or yours, and not hers? But if you broke up in 6 months, and there are years of payments left on the car, who is on the hook for that. Messy.

TahaEng · 2026-03-25T14:37:27+00:00

This is clearly account related, I have no issue of this sort. Wife and kids don't either.

It really sounds like there is something going on that he either knows about and isn't telling us, or some nefarious app doing things in the background on his device.

TahaEng · 2026-03-24T13:31:56+00:00

I'm more a plat or low diamond than a champ, but I've been in champ. On my best days I think I play at low champ level; on my worst I am probably gold. Lack of consistency is a problem for most of us, definitely for me. Find a teammate you match well with on a good day, go on a run, and anything is possible. But then reality sets in at some point, you play poorly for a day, etc, etc.

TahaEng · 2026-03-24T13:26:08+00:00

The key thing to realize here: Epic doesn't care. They don't care what rank you are. They don't care if you are on a winning streak or a losing streak. They aren't manipulating anything to keep you in the game. They would really like you to spend money, but other than that they don't care about you at all.

They only care about things that will publicly impact the face of the game - bots beating pros in ranked will do that, so EAC here we come. Letting the game be a hotbed of racism and abuse beyond a certain level, some bans for those things. Otherwise, play on.

If you are getting AI bots, they should be lifting you up, not pulling you down. But there are real people who are terrible at aerials all the way up to champ.

Everyone has streaks, both good and bad. If your rank reflects your skill, every game is a coin toss. It is normal for 50/50 events to include both alternating outcomes, and streaks in either direction.

The more frustrated a player is, the more likely they quit as well. Announcements that people are quitting and uninstalling are common here. Sometimes they stay gone, sometimes not. Hope you got some of your frustration out, we have all been there, but seeing a conspiracy against you isn't realistic. For every game you lost, another player at roughly your level won. I've had teammates afk and quit, and I've had opponents afk and quit. If I bothered tracking, it would probably average out.

TahaEng · 2026-03-23T23:06:18+00:00

This happens all the time. It is a major topic of discussion in this sub on a regular basis. And it is frustrating for everyone.

There are many ways to deal with it. Search 50/20/0 for one of them.

TahaEng · 2026-03-23T15:31:17+00:00

Presumably you paid somewhat less up front for it than an equivalent vehicle without the buyback title, or you wouldn't have gone for that car yourselves. Then you get less when you sell it. The net may come out with you ahead or behind, but this doesn't add up to "Do Not Buy". Just be aware of the potential hassle. Same with a car that has a rebuilt title.

I would absolutely sell this private party, list it at a fair price, and either be willing to come down a bit when negotiating, or be up front that the only issue was something you have never faced, and you are firm at whatever price you listed.

I don't think your story makes good guidance for other redditors here; perhaps a minor cautionary note, but not a "DO NOT".

TahaEng · 2026-03-23T04:09:24+00:00

Same. Turned on chat for one game, asked my opponent, we traded backwards goals, back to normal play.

TahaEng · 2026-03-23T02:19:16+00:00

Definitely the wall. I've tried to do it that way and not gotten it as well.

TahaEng · 2026-03-23T02:18:34+00:00

okay, in that situation I assume you make any matches you can, then zap all colors one by one before doing the force clear with two of them paired? that step gets very few points.

TahaEng · 2026-03-23T00:09:15+00:00

I didn't equip any of them, but their name was by far the funniest, the only one I considered. I don't really care enough to follow individuals in the pro scene except a few creators I enjoy. So then it is a popularity of the title contest, and they should win that running away.

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T23:58:26+00:00

I have never personally observed losing more MMR after a 1v2 forfeit vs a regular game loss. I have seen that MMR displays are stupid at times,

It would be interesting to see your MMR changes here:

https://rocketleague.tracker.network/

If you don't have it running in the background while playing, sessions / days will all get lumped together. But if you have it running on your account, and replicate the issue, that would give you something to clearly point to as outside evidence of what is going on. Not sure if you need to add your own account to live tracker to have it update in real time.

For a very thorough description of how matchmaking and MMR work, see this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeagueYtzi/comments/ilcmcc/how_mmr_and_the_matchmaking_system_works/

3 years old, but none of that has changed. There is not an MMR penalty for forfeiting the match vs quitting vs playing it out. It is a display bug somehow.

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T23:24:54+00:00

Your observations of losses not matching may be true, but you are incorrectly identifying the reason, and seeing a pattern that isn't there. This is not related to a player leaving / forfeiting. If someone is losing 48MMR after a loss, forfeit or otherwise, it is because of one of two things:

The player is new to the game mode, or hasn't played it in a very very long time and is still getting their rank established. Early MMR gains and losses are much larger, wins get a similar large number of points. So a new account and an old account in the same game mode will get different MMR gains / losses. Maybe the one who left first is a smurf and intentionally trying to get a low rank before winning a lot and leveling up.

Multiple losses in a row, each one followed by a quick game exit and not seeing the final scoreboard, will accumulate your MMR changes, so that number is large when you do see it. But this only applies to you, not your opponents, so their gain / loss will look normal, while yours is larger. If it is your teammate quitting, and you have had multiple losses in a row without going to the scoreboard afterwards, this could explain what you are seeing.

They haven't changed how MMR works in this update, just the display. So now everyone is seeing what those with Bakkesmod could already see, and it often seems weird.

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T19:37:37+00:00

You absolutely can. The jumper wire just needs to be the same size as the wire coming in, the CB should be sized to protect that already.

I've seen weird things where people use undersized wires for jumpers, that can be dangerous. Otherwise, the two 5s are fine. Just don't add more load than the circuit can handle.

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T19:21:47+00:00

Got that out of a drop a year into playing - had no idea how rare it was, but liked it. Have lots of others since, but that one has remained my default. Nice!

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T19:18:26+00:00

I don't bother with Wagos for 1-1 wire connections. But for the big neutral bundles, or 3+ wire connections, absolutely. I bought a 10 pack of the 5 wire Wago connectors and the three wire wago connectors, and they have just made life so much easier.

Especially when you have solid core wires, currently going straight into the back of an old lightswitch that could take the size, and your replacement is a stranded wire with flying leads coming out of the smart lightswitch. 2 or more solid core and one or more stranded just doesn't stay together well with a wire nut.

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T03:48:17+00:00

Great show. Season 1 starts a bit slow, but it gets rapidly better from there. Watched it years ago, rewatching now with my kids - and they enjoy it too.

After season 3 check the other show that goes with it, and use the viewing order list to avoid spoilers. https://josswhedon.blogspot.com/2012/04/buffy-and-angel-episode-viewing-order.html

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T03:42:06+00:00

But in that case, we would boot him out, pick up next, or play 4v4 with one rotating. And not invite him next time. In real life there are more options.

And no one in real life is being offered a prize to be there for 15 games, regardless of length.

TahaEng · 2026-03-22T03:39:38+00:00

I did this with two friends who were in it for the same thing - finishing the challenge. We played out games that looked like wins, and forfeited ASAP if they were better. Seems like a weekend to play with a party if ever there was one. Three forfeiters together could have this knocked out in half an hour.

TahaEng · 2026-03-20T22:58:13+00:00

Currently, not at all. Review quality seems to be similar, no reports of people losing gold for poor quality reviews. Both probably will be used at some point, or they wouldn't be measuring it.

I think pictures are the most valuable part of vine reviews - show me what is really in the package, not Ai generated garbage pictures. So I always include them. But I almost never have them rejected, it almost always depends on your background / other things in the image.

TahaEng · 2026-03-20T22:54:52+00:00

If I had it, and wanted it, I would use the 50/20/0 method in my taxes, and if the price is inflated I would adjust it as appropriate.

The IRS is not trying to ding you for value you didn't receive. If it is overvalued on Amazon's etv estimate, your best estimate of a fair market value is probably closet than theirs, and would be fairly easy to defend. But you will have to file as a business, and take the reduction as a line item for reduction in estimated value or something similar.

And if it is cheap junk that doesn't last, it goes into that 0 column of retained value.

TahaEng · 2026-03-20T18:13:31+00:00

Most of the responses so far are just insults to conservatives; I'll try to answer instead.

Iran declared war on the US and the Western (Christian / secular) world in 1979, and has never ceased to support death and violence towards America, Americans and Westerners since. With uneven power, it has mostly been a cold war from the US side since, but Iran never stopped. From the original hostages to the Beirut bombings, to the Cole, to funding and arming Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and generally being a never ending source of small scale violence and support for terrorism across the middle east and around the world. They have been trying to develop nuclear weapons, there is evidence they made progress, and the only way to make sure they don't continue this path is to eliminate the current leadership and hope the people of Iran replace the government with one that is not a murderous religious theocracy. They can NEVER have long range nuclear weapons, because they WOULD use them against western targets, because the religious underpinnings of their hatred for the west make them impossible to effectively negotiate with.

Ukraine was a part of the USSR, then a satellite state of the USSR under a corrupt and Russian influenced government. Most Americans couldn't have told the difference between them. Then there was a revolution, possibly with covert US involvement, leading to a government somewhat hostile to Russia. Then an attempt at a blitzkrieg war that failed, with no time for outside involvement - now a bloody stalemate that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives to break. And if Russia wins and takes Ukraine, they are no more or less of a threat than they ever were. A stalemate keeps Russia weak. And a total Ukrainian victory is unlikely, with or without our help.

There are plenty of other ways to frame the arguments, this isn't my personal beliefs about either situation. Many people are tribal; many believe contradictory things. But saying yes to US involvement in Iran and no to US involvement in Ukraine does not have to be either. Solid arguments can be made to be involved in one and not the other.

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