I mean, someone has to have, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it anymore.
I have out of curiosity (take precautions, use tor, etc etc), and they're usually either a fake "1337 Hax0rs have your data" or some weird masturbate on cam with someone (that's totally not a prerecorded video!) Type of thing.
Part of the issue with reading levels is that we switched from phonics-based to uhh... Fuck what was the name, hold on...
Three cueing! That's it. With phonics you sound out the word (k-ah-t cat type thing), three queueing you... Guess based on context clues. Phonics was the standard for years, then for some weird reason three cueing took off despite producing lower literacy rates.
So. I've had multiple experiences. I'm poly, so some strange scenarios ahead, but as an adult here they are, in the order they started:
Met through work, and was a platonic partner of about 5 years. Ended because of housing issues, but the relationship was... Fine. She definitely had issues, but nothing worse than I had. Also the only one of these I date while being coworkers.
Next one I met through work. Only lasted 2 months, and her fiance's girlfriend had to coach her through breaking up with me because she had a stack of cotton candy where most people have a spine.
Next one I'm still with 6 years later, almost 7. Met on a dating app, and it's been fairly smooth since.
Next one I met through work. Been together for about 7 years as well (3 weeks after previously mentioned relationship started)
Next one I also met through work, and was a platonic partner of about 5 years. Ended because of housing issues.
Next one lasted 3 months. It ended amicably, we just weren't great as partners.
Next major partner was the only abusive one I've had. Met her through a friend who I met on a dating app. Real piece of work, but I got a room mate for 3 years out of the deal so hey. Silver linings. (I kept the boyfriend in the breakup)
Next one was someone I met on a dating app. Ended it because their spouse was unsafe to be around.
Next one is the girl who coached second partner through breaking up with me. Yeah. Wild experience. I met her through the that partner, we screeched like pterodactyls at each other, and stayed friends after the breakup. We're officially just FWBs, but... It'll be 4 years this year, so worth mentioning regardless?
Overall it's a fuckin' grab bag. Dating apps are great, meeting through work goes well, and apparently helping your ex's fiance break up with their partner because said fiance's spinal cord was replaced with spun sugar doesn't sour things all that much.
I just... Don't cook food I don't like, generally. It has to be pretty bad for me to not want to eat it. My first attempt at brown rice (severely undercooked), I tried rice and beans (turns out I hate beans to the point of wanting to puke :D). Those went in the trash. But generally I just eat it, maybe I don't chew if it's bad enough, but it's pretty rare regardless.
My room mate either hands it to me, or tosses it if I won't eat it. That's the source of most of my tossed food. Food they didn't want that I was curious enough about to take the offer, then ended up not liking myself.
I do quite a lot of writing, knitting, gaming, crochet, website making, and game development on my old T430. Also emacs is a hobby, and I use it with all of the above, so count that in xD
Writing: Good creative outlet, lotta fun, you can do it on a toaster if you're really strapped for PC specs. Fanfic is especially fun, and a very common way to cut your chops writing.
Knitting: Useful! You get clothes and wash rags and bags at the end of it! Can be rough on the hands though.
Crochet: See knitting. Harder on the hands IMO, but I also tension like I'm strangling someone, so that could be my fault.
Gaming: Depends on the game you're playing. Retro stuff does well, and is a fun hobby in itself.
Website making: It's fun having a blog, and if you want to feed the writing into it you could even do some basic ARG-type stuff.
Game development: RPG Maker, Godot, and Ren'py all work well. If you can't draw there are some premade assets on itch.io to play around with, free and paid. Requires less coding than you'd expect, especially with RPGMaker/Ren'Py
Idk about the FEC, but I'd start by checking if this would fall under the CAN-SPAM act first, because the FCC will probably have something or other to say about it.
Room mate searched it, it looks like internal bruising? Pretty severe, but yeah. Lack of oxygen, or freezing. Idk that I'd eat it myself, but it's allegedly safe. Allegedly.
Probably because of how it's marketed. It's not marketed as "This product will be completely wrong about everything half the time, and give bad advice, and all of the other ills you've heard of on the news" it's marketed as "The future we've always dreamed of, and if you don't get in now you'll crumble under the weight of it. It will be the next sliced bread."
Fair, yeah. I didn't realize Rocket had gotten heavy. I hadn't used it in years, just remembered it being okay when I had. I've switched to XMPP for the same things I was using RC for, admittedly, it's just... More like a traditional texting app than emulating Discord's IRC-like experience
Yeah, depending on what it's used for it can do well. If it's for scheduled calls, like with a weekly tabletop game, it can definitely work well. If it's for the more casual pop in/out that happens on a lot of Discords it's worse. I just don't know of a replacement for that aside Matrix
Despite socializing a lot when I was working at the office, I pretty much immediately loved working from home after the initial 3 months. I'd gone back in temporarily a couple of times for a few reasons, and the whole environment was... Bad.
I run really hot in general, so being able to control my AC was great, since I swear the office was on 74 with about a thousand bodies worth of heat in a comparatively small space. To emphasize: I tend to open a window when it's anywhere between 0-50F (-17 to 10C) outside.
Everyone had on different kinds of perfume, which just blended into this awful smell on top of whatever cleaning chemicals they used. Having 30+ people talking within earshot made it hard to focus on anything. I could go on. I didn't realize how much I hated it until I started working from home, and it was so much better.
The biggest concern with these come from the fact that it's hard to decontaminate 3d printed stuff due to the texture, as far as I can tell? PLA, and PETG are food safe, but 3d printing does leave a texture that's hard to fully clean, which can cause problems over time.
For microplastics: You're getting a lot from a lot of sources, and as with anything it's an "Is the risk worth the benefit" situation
IRC, RocketChat, Slack. Technically Matrix, but for your usecase I wouldn't recommend it, as it's a bit heavy, and if you're just planning on using it with other people on the same server there's not a point.
EDIT: Just noticed the voice chat thing. I've used Jitsi for that, and it works well. Also self-hostable
I mean, someone has to have, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it anymore.
I have out of curiosity (take precautions, use tor, etc etc), and they're usually either a fake "1337 Hax0rs have your data" or some weird masturbate on cam with someone (that's totally not a prerecorded video!) Type of thing.