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Controversial Sheriff with Right-Wing Ties Faces Voters in Washington State [in November 7th election]
  • This clown lost. I guess that's worth something.

    Not much, but something.

  • X plans to remove news headlines and text in shared articles
  • Perhaps it's a Brewster's Millions situation, where he has to burn through a bunch of money quickly to earn even more money.

  • What app do you use to read ebooks?
  • Hoopla is a service your library system has to subscribe to. They do a variety of media other than books.

  • Finding the right gaming chair
  • That's good to hear. I ordered mine a few days ago.

  • Finding the right gaming chair
  • You definitely get what you pay for with office chairs. Moreso the ergonomic variety and not the terrible race-car-seat "gaming chairs".

    Honestly, if you're paying less than $500 for a chair, be prepared to buy another one in two years or less if you actually plan to put in many hours on it, especialy at your weight. Cheap chairs start to break down quickly, with their immediately-flattened foam, particle board components, and cheap fabrics. None of it holds up well to pressure or long-term use. Think of the investment in terms of how long you'll use it: if you spend $500 and don't have to replace it for 10+ years, $50 per year is a pretty reasonable price to pay. I know the upfront cost is high, but it makes a huge difference in the quality and lifespan of the chair.

    I just bought a chair myself a few days ago that will take most of a month to be constructed and get here, but my $700 Ergohuman chair has had another major failure for the second time in 10 years, so I figured it was time to buy something hopefully even more reliable.

    I had to do a lot of research to find something that suits my height (the lumbar on about every chair I've ever seen seems to hit me in the tail bone instead of the lower back and I'm only about 6'1" - or 185 cm to you) and it's getting harder to find good ergonomic chairs with headrests. I ultimately decided to pay a fuckton for a Steelcase chair, as I hate mesh, hate Herman Miller, and I basically spend a third of my life in it. Skimping would be like buying a bad mattress and expecting to feel good after sleeping.

    Anyway, I'd look over recommendations from sites or perhaps YouTube channels that review office chairs regularly. Use that to browse around and see what you can find at a cheap price from an online store that might be getting rid of some things that would work for you. (If I hadn't wanted a chair with a headrest, I probably could have gotten the same model on sale from one store for about half the price I paid.)

    If you're sedentary and have weight issues (as most of us start to as we age), you definitely have to look out for your back as best you can, in all your furniture. Soon enough, you'll find your back getting tweaked just from laying wrong on the couch or in your bed.

  • Microsoft’s cloud ambitions for Windows could kill off desktop PCs – and sooner than we expected
  • It'll probably only appeal to that limited, low-end Chromebook market.

  • Indiana Jones and Flash flopped hard. Could this be the beginning of the end for franchise films?
  • You're making the assumption that, since the pandemic ended, people actually want to go to the theater to see movies. They demonstrably do not. People will not go to see a movie they're interested in in the theater; they will only go to the theater to see a movie they are absolutely driven to see immediately. It has to have huge visual spectacle and be truly worthy of their time to waste the time and money to sit in a theater, which no one seems to want to do anymore. It has to be something that needs to be seen on a large screen.

    I'm sure Dune will do well later this year and there's been plenty of movies recently that did fine in theaters. But there's going to be plenty more along the way that fall by the wayside despite the fact that they would have been tent pole pictures with guaranteed box office in past years. But people aren't going to show up for things like Indiana Jones or Flash after major failures previously in both of those series.

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