A heads-up about NordVPN.
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    I got a refund through the livechat outside the trial period a couple years ago by repeatedly replying "i understand what you're saying, but i still require a refund, thank you" each time the person explained why they were unable to issue a refund. After five times or so they said "a refund has been issued" and ended the chat. I was only getting like 15% of my internet speed when torrenting. Switched to mullvad and no problems other than it doesn't bypass regionlock with netflix.

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  • Bulletins and News Discussion from September 16th to September 22nd, 2024 - This Megathread Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan - COTW: Afghanistan
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    A couple found (presumably) the body of the I-75 shooter earlier by following vultures and chopping their way through the forest.

    NSFW - body shown briefly in last 30 seconds

    https://www.youtube.com/live/o5hMDL0PVRs

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  • https://youtu.be/HY6q9hwYcoc

    ![eleven-nine](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f0cc021d-1c7e-43df-8d0d-f8f8010da829.png "emoji eleven-nine")

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    Lmao

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    haha nah i just threw it together with photopea and this pixel art image converter site i found

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    yeah, trump said "spheres of terror" like five times in a row but it sounded like an rpg title instead

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  • The X-Files - New General Megathread for the 9th-10th of September 2024
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    one time when i was working as a cashier a kid in a fedora and black duster jacket came up to pay- he sticks out his fist and i think he wants a fist bump or something but before i can react a plastic bracelet thing on his wrist ejects a debit card for me to take. it was like a spring-loaded/latching dispenser sort of deal. nothing but respect.

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  • The X-Files - New General Megathread for the 9th-10th of September 2024
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    The higher the stakes the better the posts jeb

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  • The X-Files - New General Megathread for the 9th-10th of September 2024
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    zoomer conversation i overheard at the disc golf course today:

    guy a: dude something i thought of today that would take off on youtube, like get like a million views

    guy b: yeah haha dude?

    guy a: dude like what if if micky mouse read 50 shades of gray hahahaha

    guy b: ahahahah yeah dude like with AI we could do that haha BROO

    to be clear this is a verbatim transcription and i agree with all of it and i should have thought of it

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  • "I'd like to buy a COVID test." "Sorry, we don't carry those anymore."
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    I almost resorted to that, filling out the reimbursement form every time (I've been stockpiling the max amount every month) seemed like a pain though

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  • Bees - New General Megathread for the 7th-8th of September 2024
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    Found a fruiting pawpaw tree todaypossum-party

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  • "I'd like to buy a COVID test." "Sorry, we don't carry those anymore."
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    So frustrating. I went through three pharmacies before i found one that was able to 1. understand/believe that some insurance still covers them, 2. could figure out how to do it, and 3. had tests that weren't a year past the already-extended expiration.

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  • "I'd like to buy a COVID test." "Sorry, we don't carry those anymore."
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    Baller move on your part, hope you're able to find another place

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  • (cw: doomer) I have COVID again
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    Home Test2treat has been discontinued unfortunately but their page now links to https://www.paxlovid.com/paxcess for acquiring free paxlovid when you're uninsured, might be worth checking out.

    Swabbing your tonsils/back of your throat along with your nose is the best practice for home tests now. You can test negative from a nasal swab and positive from a throat swab on back to back tests.

    No-cost testing resource: https://testinglocator.cdc.gov/

    Hope you feel better soon and double hope it turns out not to be covid in the first place.

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  • "I'd like to buy a COVID test." "Sorry, we don't carry those anymore."
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    Owner of auto shop the other day: "yeah after i got covid the third time my doctor told me i don't gotta worry about it anymore"

    I also haven't seen a masked pharmacist at either of the pharmacies I've been to around here in two years.

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  • Bees - New General Megathread for the 7th-8th of September 2024
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    just watched rebel ridge. there was a cool chinese korean war vet character which was intersting and overall it was a pretty fun thriller if you can look past

    spoiler

    how frustratingly alive the cops continue to be because of the protagonist's liberal compass. holy shit it's like justice edging, come on blue ruin guy, i really hope this was just the result of a condition that had to be obeyed to get your netflix bag but I'm still kind of pissed at what could have been, though i am of course unsurprised ayeayefoucault-madness

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  • i never played the first one. i played a crap ton of heroes of the storm for the first couple years it was out, never got into dota or league though.

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    ![maybe-later-kiddo](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f778a7ca-0453-4eae-85d0-75814bb712f1.png "emoji maybe-later-kiddo") warning, brain damage imminent: [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/work/comments/1eyoyws/comment/ljf5y65/)

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    i hope joe does more of this, this is a great team-up

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    manor lords rocks ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/65bb03b6-9d93-481a-878e-84cd180f46c5.png) no DRM so there are already torrents ![pirate-jammin](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/55c52773-bf1d-4116-9c94-8a912196752f.gif "emoji pirate-jammin")

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    ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/01d1fed3-f2cb-4ce4-b78e-af3a13f08b9a.jpeg) surprisingly chill little guy, i was maybe six feet from the tree and he hid at first but then scuttled around to my side and posed for a few minutes

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    YES... HA HA HA... YES!

    My fourth year searching for them and i finally found a place! Few hundred feet off the trail and there it was among the mayapple and waterleaf, i could hardly believe it. Tree ID is HARD and i don't have any tips on that front but i don't think there were any elms around because the (lack of) canopy in the area didn't show any sign of flowers/buds. Ended up with 9 ounces and i left some tiny ones behind that still seemed healthy enough to keep growing. Shout out to the curious deer that patiently led me right to the spot. ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c230bf9c-c11a-4b1e-a3de-90abae3f3796.jpeg)

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    and i wanted to torrent it, could i just get that 36 gig fitgirl repack from 2018? i guess uhh- do i need to be cognizant of versions or anything for adding mods? i don't wanna play as goku or the hulk or anything, just an updated textures/lighting mod if my pc can do it, and maybe QoL stuff, or feel free if there's anything important you think i should have for playing it the first time. i haven't done mod stuff since skyrim ten years ago blahblah

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    i am want to become bergamot, imbiber of lumpy green orange Somehow i never tried earl gray until a couple weeks ago. It tastes like a new color and I'm obsessed. Stash double bergamot isn't enough, it's barely different than bigelow (but it's the best I've found). I want more. I'm a perv for berg. I want a bergamot tea bag that treats the tea leaves as an afterthought and i haven't found it. I've tried stash, bigelow, walmart, harney and sons, private selection, twinings, and one other british sounding one that I'm forgetting atm. Stash double and bigelow are the best by far but i want like at least quadruple the bergamot flavor. Do i need to buy a vial of bergamot oil and drink it until i cry and realize the error of my ways? Not having sufficiently bergamot-essenced earl gray is my own afghanistan.

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    cat go in bag ![kitty-cri-potato](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/68cbf773-be43-4d5e-aa3b-c0d8d0396c51.png "emoji kitty-cri-potato")👜

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    Words, pictures, videos don't do it justice. I drove across the country for the one in 2017 and it was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. Sacrificing people on top of a pyramid isn't my preference but i kinda understand where the aztecs/mel gibson were coming from. For real though totality is like a divine searing hole opening in the sky that connects you to cosmic ancient human experience even if just for a few moments. The moon is an actual giant thing falling toward us in perpetuity and never is it more tangibly understandable as such than when it falls literally perfectly in front of the fucking sun. Streamers of plasma millions of miles long whipping out around the black disc of the moon. Undulating liquid-like shadow ripples called *shadow band*s appear on the actual ground, it's like standing on the beach looking down as a wave washes back out to sea but the beach is the planet on which all life lives and dies and the wave is the infinity of outer space, and you barely even hear about them because the eclipse itself is just that much more spectacular. ~~For most people in the united states, this is the last chance they'll have to see it in their lifetimes.~~ my bad actually there's another couple chances in 2044/2045, but still.

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    ![sadness-abysmal](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ad6f9f70-c208-4e3d-89c9-31a7b4d656e9.png "emoji sadness-abysmal")

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    I'm seeing in 360° paxlovision over here. [**Test2treat**](https://www.test2treat.org/s/?language=en_US) National Institutes of Health program. [Here's a reddit thread about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/MasksForEveryone/comments/15zr53z/my_experience_with_home_test_to_treat_free/) I finished the questionairre thing at 5am and had a reply from an actual person in my email at 10am. I'd gotten a prescription from my doctor moments before by that time though so I had test2treat cancel theirs. Also good to know— i got an offer to participate in a survey about the service for $50 compensation several days after. [**Dr.B**](https://hidrb.com/covid?utm_source=google&utm_medium=adwords&utm_campaign=pax-brand&utm_term=paxlovid&content=searchad&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAyp-sBhBSEiwAWWzTnvu83zYZtKyOQTU_8tYHrGQzyU7gQo34ffnlyx9Q1Z2PFEx2ynjusBoCNkwQAvD_BwE) This one costs $15 for the consultation and may interface with your insurance, I'm not sure. I'm on medicaid which covers pax so I wasn't concerned about it. It's robo livechat format. There's a low income option a little ways in that requires you to volunteer info like your living, housing, and gas expenses in exchange for waiving the $15 consultation fee. Dr.B took from 6:30am to 9:30am to not only respond but to totally fill a prescription without asking for a confirmation. There wasn't an opportunity to cancel so i have a second pax script on hold at the pharmacy right now. Either option you should just make sure you check at least one of the paxlovid-qualifying high-risk conditions. You can google the list but the easiest/least commital ones are probably "former or current smoker " and "depression/anxiety" though i doubt you'd need to provide proof for any of them. I'm 32 and I don't have any of the high-risk conditions except depression/anxiety which i assume every sane person also has. I assume it was the jn.1 variant. I started paxlovid the first day i tested positive and i tested negative for the first time about five hours after my last paxlovid dose, technically very early on day six. That was a few days ago and I'm still testing negative, no rebound. I've had everything except the latest booster, just hadn't gotten around to it yet. If you're on medicaid you can probably get 8 free at-home tests per month until at least next september. It may take a couple phone calls because no one knows what's going on, probably on purpose. In my case i had to call my pharmacy who told me to call my medicaid provider who told me to call the pharmacy back and actually instruct them what to do (the pharmacist has the ability to write you a prescription for at-home tests to be billed to insurance). Make sure the tests aren't expired too. Pharmacies will absolutely still try to give out expired tests, past even the "extended" dates. Hopefully some part of this is helpful to someone.

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