What are your favorite varieties of cucumbers to grow? Best for pickling, best for slicing, or a hybrid.

I heard about this first with VideoGamer. Apparently their recent review of a new game (RE9) was scraped and the "author" is not a real person. When you do a bit more digging, you find that websites are being bought out that have good traffic and everyone is being fired. They are then replaced with fake authors that are just AI generated. I remember seeing something about GQ doing this a few years ago and then trying to hide it.

I think this has likely spread outside of gaming and niche magazine sites. I am sure this is happening on mainstream news outlet sites too and I think it is a problem people need to pay attention to.

I ended up getting the game as I did love the Destiny franchise. The game is okay. I mean I am having fun with it but it was not what I expected. I feel like they made some bad decisions with certain aspects of the game and I am to the point where I wish Bungie had just focused on fixing the issues with Halo Infinite over this. Although I think Halo may have its own sub-studio that is under Bungie but Bungie doesn't directly have anything to do with it? I am not sure.

Anyways, I wanted to like Marathon and while I think the game is decent, I just don't see it retaining players long-term and of the people I played with and talked to, no one is buying cosmetics in the game. It went from 88k players on Steam down to a low of 25k. It hasn't even been a week. I am worried.

I know going to a doctor/chiropractor would probably be best to start with but I have to wait until I have insurance for that. I can't afford it out of pocket. So I am looking for tips, tricks, approaches, and really any information that has helped you or someone you know.

Starting about 2 months ago, I began waking up sore. My shoulders and middle back, sometimes my neck and lower back - I just hurt so much in the morning. I am sore for a number of hours after waking and feel better as the day goes on but I still feel stiff. Someone told me I might need a new mattress but I had just gotten one in November. Unless it took time and this is the source of my issues? I got the same brand and kind of mattress I had before, just a bigger size. I don't know if it would make sense for the new mattress to be causing issues.

Anyways, what are some things I can work on at home to improve things until I am able to see a doctor?

I am having a hard time finding information on this. I am sure there is some sort of rule here depending on the size of your house. I have three cats, all males. A friend is looking to rehome a cat and I am considering taking her in but I don't know if my space would be too cramped. It is just me and my partner with our three cats. We live in a one story house (ranch style), 3 bedrooms and I believe the sq ft is 1250. I am not sure if that would be too tight of a space or not. Does anyone have an idea? I don't want it to be too cramped for our kitties.

I am not sure where everyone here is located but I know most places have opinions on this. America and Israel have both targeted Iran and have taken out their leader. A lot of people in Iran are celebrating and are happy and hopeful. In American, I see a lot of politicians and people protesting it. I am not sure what is going on with that. I do know the US has been at odds with Iran since the late 70's so I am not shocked that they get involved with taking out their leaders every so many years. They always say it is to prevent nukes from being developed. I don't entirely buy that.

Also, Iran helped Russia not that long ago with Ukraine. Sending them things but Russia has not made so much as a peep with Iran getting attached. China is criticizing it because it will interrupt their oil supply so no shocker there.

I did see a few Americans (military) died during this attack. People are not happy about that.

It just seems like a mess and no matter what opinion you have on it, there will be groups of people screaming at you that you are wrong about it on social media platforms. I tend not to share my thoughts about stuff like this there for a reason...

Anyways, what are your thoughts on everything that has happened? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

So I thought I had mice in my house. I put down some traps 2 months ago. I also have a pair of cats so I figured either way it would sort itself out. Well last night, turns out I did catch something. It was not a mouse but a vole!! Now I am confused as they don't tend to go inside homes. It is extremely rare. I felt bad so I got him off the trap and stuck him in a cage. I will be letting him go later when it is dark. It is too cold to let him out covered in oil anyways.

He accidentally found his way into my house and I want to find where the point of entry was. How do I go about doing this?