They did (in the US). Bain Capital bled them dry and then sold off the scraps. There have been a few attempts to revive the brand but to my knowledge nothing has stuck yet.
I really enjoyed this video. It went into a few things I was fuzzy about despite having to ELI5 power factor to corpo suits on a semi-regular basis for about a decade.
I went though just about every stimulant on the market about 20 years ago. Most did nothing, but a couple had me going through panic attacks for routine work issues. After two years on the pharma-go-round I'd had enough. I got this far in life rawdogging reality. How bad can it get?
getting enough adrenaline from stress to end the cycle (super harmful in the long run)
That's me! I'm pretty sure my baseline cortisol levels could kill a small animal. Also pretty sure sustaining that level has done permanent damage to my body.
Working on it. My current psych seems pretty set on "getting the depression under control" before tackling the ADHD. My dude... it's all knotted up, Gordian style.
Some Firefox users noticed playback issues on YouTube for several months. These affected high resolution videos only, from 1080p and up. To make matters worse, no clear pattern could be identified....
French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the lower house of parliament and announced fresh elections after his party's poor performance in the EU elections. His party was defeated by the far-right National Rally....
I can't count the number of times I start talking about executive dysfunction and someone immediately chirps in with "make a list, chunk it down, say you're going to do this for 20 minutes and then take a break." I eventually started asking in response, "Do you suggest to your depression patients simply not being sad? Do you tell your anxiety patients not to worry about stuff? Because that's what I'm hearing, and it tells me you don't understand the situation."
Breakfast cereal served the standard way, in a bowl with cold milk poured on and eaten with a spoon. Does this count as a soup, why or why not? Defend your answer with logic (or emotion, whatever I'm not your dad)
You spend all day doing stuff for other people. Your bosses, your family, your community. It's hard at the end of the day after doing so much to do stuff for yourself....
My purpose is to create excess value to be harvested by shareholders in exchange for numbers in a computer that define my worthiness to continue to exist.
Historically, I've perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like...
I still have the same custom ringtones/alerts set from when I got my first smartphone. Of course I rarely hear them since it's on silent 99% of the time. But the custom vibration patterns are indispensable.
The last thing I want to do is redundantly post, but as my new role proceeds apace, I'm aware that this site, the admins and mods believing in me was crucial to being able to land my new role....
I don't know you, and I don't participate on Beehaw regularly (just when something noteworthy hits my all feed, and even then it's just an upvote usually), but I wanted to give sincere congratulations on stringing all of those connections together to land something you wanted. It's not easy, but you did it. That's awesome.
Toys 'R' Us Riles Critics With 'First-Ever' AI-Generated Commercial Using Sora ( www.slashdot.org )
Oh god make it stop.
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid | Practical Engineering [22:07] ( yt.artemislena.eu )
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Dante left out these circles of Hell
Doing The Thing
tfw you have a few months left in savings and finally get around to looking up disability and it's all "we'll get around to it in 6-9 months."...
Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News ( www.ghacks.net )
Some Firefox users noticed playback issues on YouTube for several months. These affected high resolution videos only, from 1080p and up. To make matters worse, no clear pattern could be identified....
Destined for Mediocreness ( sh.itjust.works )
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns ( arstechnica.com )
"So the cop was tracking random people off social media using this incredibly invasive technology, on a pretty regular basis."...
France's Macron dissolves parliament, calls new elections ( www.dw.com )
French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the lower house of parliament and announced fresh elections after his party's poor performance in the EU elections. His party was defeated by the far-right National Rally....
Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated ( arstechnica.com )
No chill. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack ( bsky.app )
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Republicans plan new criminal investigation into Hunter Biden ( www.rawstory.com )
Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch ( www.theverge.com )
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I just turned into a puddle of goo. Thanks for asking. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
What is freedom?
Is Cereal a Soup?
Breakfast cereal served the standard way, in a bowl with cold milk poured on and eaten with a spoon. Does this count as a soup, why or why not? Defend your answer with logic (or emotion, whatever I'm not your dad)
If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?
Let me explain the question:...
Maybe next week ( lemmy.world )
You spend all day doing stuff for other people. Your bosses, your family, your community. It's hard at the end of the day after doing so much to do stuff for yourself....
What is your purpose?
What is you purpose right now?
I feel called out ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14945997...
When did reddit turn Facist?
Historically, I've perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like...
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Thank you, Beehaw
The last thing I want to do is redundantly post, but as my new role proceeds apace, I'm aware that this site, the admins and mods believing in me was crucial to being able to land my new role....