My son is also taking creatine, and we did a lot of research before I agreed.

Creatine CAN cause significant kidney damage, and before that point, CAN cause kidney stones. The key is to (a) regulate your dose, and (b) drink enough water.

Within reason it’s quite safe, but stay within reason.

Religion tends to justify itself in the face of absolutely no evidence with “proof denies faith.” It’s a garbage argument, but it’s accepted.

Ghosts don’t have any similar excuse to fall back on when we fail to see any credible evidence whatsoever.

Is the soul a thing? Does consciousness exist as more than the sum of the electrical network of the brain? Who am “I”? These are all interesting and probably unanswerable philosophical questions. “Do ghosts exist” though, is a pretty straightforward no.

The USA isn’t the world. We’ll all survive after you’re gone.

In addition to the advice here already (some of which I agree with, some not), here are two other ideas:

1. Ask yourself WHY you’re keeping it? Does the explanation hold water?
2. Work through one area at a time, and do multiple cycles. It’s easier to work on a single room or area at a time, and if you can purge a modest amount easily, then you can work through the whole house like this. Then you go back for a second pass and will probably have a more critical eye for getting rid of stuff - another 15% goes from each room in turn.

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That never really caught on though.

I’ve been in IT for over 30 years and never once heard someone try to make an acronym of URL.

If an acronym is convenient, it will overrule an initialism.

You seem to be insisting on avoiding the acronym that is right there, and I’m not sure why.

Someone would have to write a song about it.

Same. Started with StarOffice 5.0, which was a complete train wreck.

Libre Office. I’ve been using it for decades.

I’d love to do a fecal swab test on your phone.

Yep, you’d definitely find some. just like everywhere else.

I wonder how many times you’ve put it in your mouth to hold it.

What? WTF? Never. Not in the nearly 30 years I’ve owned a cell phone have I EVER put it in my mouth. Why would you do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do that.

I wonder how many times you’ve ate shit.

Well, let’s not get into details. But it’s ironic that the same world with a profoundly unhealthy obsession with a germ-free environment is the same one that has normalized anal sex, ATM, and analingus.

I tend to stay away from both extremes, wash my hands well, keep up with my vaccinations, and don’t stress over the fact that literally every single thing I touch is contaminated. The number of people who get sick (particularly with fecal coliform) from their phones is inconsequentially small.

Yes, your phone is dirty; but if you clean it, you’ll be eliminating a tiny fraction of a percent of the bacteria and viruses you’re exposed to every single day of your life.

You do you, but cleaning phones is almost entirely the product of fear mongering by the media. I didn’t think anyone actually bothered.

Wow, neighbours! My dad was in Red Deer. I had a teacher in Edmonton who made fun of me for being left handed.

Who cleans their phone? Who disinfects their phone?

I wipe my screen if it’s dirty, and once every month or so I’ll take it out of the case to clean the gunk out.

My dad had his hand smacked and his fingers taped together to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1950s in public school in Canada.

When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had a teacher who threw chalk at us.

So yeah, it happens.

For those with no personal morals, limits to action are only enforced by consequences.

In the US, there are currently no consequences for immoral or criminal activity by the government in power or their minions (e.g. ICE). Thus, the only limit to their actions is their own morality; and they have been actively encouraging/recruiting support from those with absolutely no moral compass.

So no, there are no limits until consequences stsrt happening.

A low hum is almost certainly going to be 60Hz (or 50Hz in some parts of the world) line noise.

As many have said, it’s often a ground loop - but since you have a single device plugging in to unpowered (presumably!) speakers, that’s not the problem. In your case, the stereo itself is producing the hum.

So if you’re in North America, there’s one thing to check before returning. I’m guessing that a cheap Amazon amp has either a wall-wart or two-prong plug. If possible, try rotating the plug 180 degrees and see if that helps.

However, there’s a good chance that the plug is polarized (i.e. one prong is larger than the other) in which case you won’t be able to flip it.

Most provincial governments have stopped importing US liquor.

Kid should get a shovel to the face. No grace period.

One difference is that U.S. liberals are still likely to believe in American exceptionalism.

Americans almost universally believe they are fundamentally the best - moral leaders of the world, even if they have temporarily lost their way.

The great protest folk singers from the U.S., such as Woody and ArlonGuthrie, the Seegers, and so many others, feel that they’re fighting the good fight to bring the U.S. back to where it was meant to be: the ‘leader of the free world.’

It’s an infectuous ego that taints the U.S. psyche on a deep and profound level.