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Acamon

@ Acamon @lemmy.world

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  • What is your internet White-Whale?

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  • Mine was a super-specific and overpowered Dungeons and Dragons custom class for elves, that basically got cool powers from all the other classes. I'm pretty sure the class was called "Knights of Rillifane" and I came across it originally in a Compuserve message board.

    As I say, it's not a good bit of game design, and it's certainly not important. But given how big the d&d loving community has been in Internet history, and how 'collectory' they are, it really surprises me that it hasn't been compiled into a netbook or turn up on a geocities website somewhere.

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    Why did Homo Sapiens Become House Trained. Rather than controlled?

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  • It's not that I think your trolling. I don't understand the question. What does house trained mean in this context? How is it different from controlled?

    Similarly, I don't understand what you mean by "allowing the kill and conquer to rampage".

  • More for folks from walkable environments, my question is: would you walk an hour and 15 minutes to go to say, the library?

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  • Very much depends on my motivation, my schedule and the weather. Walking much more than half an hour feels like a fair distance, and if it's unpleasant weather then I'd be tempted to take a bus or train partway.

    But if it's nice weather and I've got plenty of time, walking an hour to go to a museum or whatever would seem perfectly normal.

  • Heart melting

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  • Who is it?

  • Assumptions

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  • I think the ways it's setup does make it sound baity ("we do it every year"). But it's not that uncommon to bring a friend or family member to an MOT in Britain. You've got to leave your car at the garage, usually for a few hours and sometimes much longer. So, it's pretty useful to have a friend pick you up or drive you back to collect your car, to save you the hassle of walking or public transport.

    If I turned up to collect my car with my same-age friend, and the mechanic spent the whole time describing the problems he'd found to my friend I'd find it pretty weird. But I don't find it unbelievable that lots of women experience that if they go with a male friend. And I could imagine finding that pretty patronising if I was knowledgeable about cars.

  • Assumptions

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  • Maybe he means Hannah Schmitz who has been Principal Strategy Engineer for Red Bull since 2021 (and was Senior Strategy Engineer for ten years before that).

    If my friend told me the were senior strategy engineer I could well imagine remembering that as 'chief engineer' or 'senior mechanic'. Also, she's British, which would fit with MOT.

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  • Is this a story you've read but can't rememeber? Or something you've heard about? Seems a weird combination of hella vague and very specific.

  • The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer

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  • What's this? I've never seen yellow dots on stuff I print

    Edit: looked it up, intresting and definitely a bit disturbing from a privacy perspective. Particularly that it was kept secret until 2004.

  • Life Officially Changed

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  • I would settle for it being seen as okay to vary your own dose. I'm on quite a high dose, and very much need it. But there are some situations (on holiday and just having a lazy poolside day) where I could take less. But despite being up with various doctors it doesn't seem like an option to them.

    Fortunately, I've ended up with some different doses because of the meds shortage (getting 2 packs of 20mg instead of 1 pack of 40mg) which let's me do it myself, but seems crazy how little flexibility there is for a dose level that was entirely decided by me trying them and saying which one worked best.

  • USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • I definitely feel less hydrated. A lot of carbonated waters haver a higher sodium level, so that might be part of it. Or it's just the bitter taste of carbon dioxide.

  • Definitely has his uses

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  • Ah! Thank you! Not a figure I'm familiar with, but I've heard the name on lemmy a few times.

  • Definitely has his uses

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  • Is it too early or am I just dumb? They're planning on breaking into a bank, one of the gang is a jug of liquid, with ice... It's a funny in a surreal sense, but I feel like I'm missing something. Ris?

  • The reason there aren't more women on panel shows is we're less willing to put up with being dicked about on set for two hours before a 45-minute filming starts

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  • Sure, movies pay more than panel shows, but you get lots of women working as extras, even though it really doesn't pay well and involves of lot of hassle.

    But more importantly, why do you think that women are more sensitive or opposed to waiting around? Not sure it's a trait or stereotype that aligns with my experience. Guys can be plenty impatient and think they're too important to wait around like a pleb.

  • YSK Palingenetic Ultranationalism is a concise definition of fascism coined by political theorist Roger Griffin

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  • Can I someone who's read it expand on "palingenetic ultranationalism" for those who lack the time and/or motivation to read a chapter of a book?

    Edit: doh

  • The reason there aren't more women on panel shows is we're less willing to put up with being dicked about on set for two hours before a 45-minute filming starts

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  • I doubt it's a big factor. Pretty much any big event or any TV stuff is going to involve a bunch of dicking about. Hollywood is full of actresses, and lots of them have to turn up on set at 5am to get into makeup and wait around for six hours before getting told the shooting schedule has changed and they won't be needed til tomorrow.

  • The internet doesnt really spark any joy. Sure, the stuff can be funny but I mostly feel dread knowing that for me to have this cat meme I have to watch others suffer.

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  • I've struggled with that dilemma before, but in the end I think it's not really an either/or. Sure, it's easy to 'stay informed' by reading about upsetting shit on social media but it's not the only or the best way.

    Encountering upsetting and infuriating headlines and news stories at random among more 'fun' content adds to the background stress of modern life "don't relax, a horrible thing is just sound the corner!". And memes or posts about stuff often simplify complex events and emphasises the emotional horror of the events.

    I don't always suceeed, but I've tried to keep away from communities and sites that share politics / world events, but then spend a specific time each week actually reading articles and deeper dives on these issues. When I read a real article, that adds nuance and historical context I'm not less horrified or angry, but it's in a calmer and more productive sense than just "aaaa the world is fire and everything is awful".

  • There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!

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  • There are no stories! We made them all up!

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    Why does philosophy education make people uncomfortable?

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  • I wonder if its the age of people you're interacting with now, as you've gotten older yourself? My first degree was in philosophy, and I still read and discuss the subject when I get the chance. In my 20s lots of peers were curious or genuinely interested, and even if they were dismissive, it was often "what's the point of that?" and could get the interested if I started explaining a classic problem or thought experiment.

    Older people however, were generally more disparaging and would openly scoff with "why would we need philosophy!" often followed by "[Science | religion | real life] tells us everything we need to know" depending on their particuar worldview.

    At the time I just thought that was what that generation was like, but now I'm in my 40s and I feel like many peers are getting more and more like that. I can only speculate that middle-aged people are less curious and openminded, they've come to terms with the world as they see it and they're interested in getting on with things, not questioning the nature of epistemology or whatever. But the irony is that almost all the major problems that occupy so much of our time as a culture have massive philosophical aspects to them.

  • Is there a FOSS alternative to Pinterest ?

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  • I've recently installed karakeep (previously hoarder) for collecting images and idea boards. I haven't had time to play around with it so much can't say what it's like, but it came up a lot in other discussions of Pinterest alternatives. Also, you need to o selfhost, but if you want something free and not funded by ads, that's pretty much a given.

    Tbh, I also don't know if it's FOSS, but it is free to use and if you self host you can control its access.