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@ ApathyTree @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows, like a tree, and I aim to prune my own.

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  • Whats your take on stand up comedy?

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  • Depends heavily on the comedy for me. I have an entire folder of stand up specials, and I really enjoy a lot of it, but I lean heavily away from political and broad social commentary, and toward personal/anecdotal and more nuanced stuff.

    I want my comedy to be silly, not offensive. If you are going to be making racial/minority stereotype jokes, they better be about your own experience as that race or minority. That’s the one and only way they even could be funny (tho most still aren’t). If you are going to punch down or across, not interested. If you hit yourself, or punch up and get a fist full of shit for doing it, it might be worth watching!

    There’s a HUGE amount of really shit standup out there, though. Punching down, shock comedy (especially shit like rape jokes, sexism, etc), that sort of thing. It’s a shame really because you have to wade through it to find good stuff. There’s also an absolutely absurd amount of totally vapid brainrot comedy that could also go extinct, imo, but at least it’s not actively harming anyone, I guess.

  • Hey, autists. What's something that irritates you that absolutely nobody else/a severe minority seems to care about?

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  • Strong smells, especially campfire. Cannot stand the smell of campfire. Gives me headaches and makes me super sneezy.

    I don’t have AC, and it’s legal to have campfires in town in private yards, which means I have the joy of being uncomfortable nearly every nice night for half the year. If I open windows for the nice breeze, my house stinks of smoke, if I keep the windows closed, it stays hot. Can’t win because people are selfish af.

    People should not be allowed to burn shit in town, regardless of the fire spread risk. It negatively impacts other people who have zero say. I don’t have asthma, but if I did I’d probably just die living here.

    And nobody else thinks it’s a problem because they LIKE having fires now and then. It’s the same mentality of not putting limits on rich people because they wouldn’t want limits on themselves if they get rich.

  • Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant

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  • Biomimicry is a seriously fascinating field of study. It’s basically going “we have a problem with X. We might have solutions for X, but they are expensive and/or very impractical for Y and Z applications, where we now need them.”

    And then they go out into the world and look for ways nature has already overcome the exact same problem, and figure out ways to mimic the solution. There are typically multiple avenues to explore, and the solutions are often quite simple compared to whatever over-engineered nonsense we come up with on our own.

    Looking at stuff around us is really the best path forward for a lot of what we want to accomplish.

  • Do you cheat in video games?

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  • I would consider dev mode in rimworld to be cheating in a “technically it is” sort of way.. spawning infant thralls that are then adopted by my colony, or spawning whatever activity site I choose are definitely not how the game is supposed to work. The mods are sort of also cheating I guess, tho most of them are content heavy.. there are definitely several hacky mods in my list, like minify everything.

    But while it’s cheating in a technical sense, it doesn’t impact anyone and it’s teaching me a lot about how video games function, which I find more entertaining than completing hard-coded objectives. It’s the first game I ever put a lot of mods on, and between troubleshooting and testing stuff, it’s been nearly as illuminating as rendering lag that adds each texture layer individually starting from low poly (my ps4 is having some major lag issues I’m trying to sort out, and horizon zero dawn is fascinating for this rendering issue, so so many layers! And then to realize it usually gets processed in real time! 🤯)

    As for cheating in multiplayer, it hasn’t come up in decades. WoW was the last multiplayer game I played, and I stopped that when whatever the third expansion was came out. So like 2010 or so?

  • I'm new to lemmy, came from reddit. What's the lemmy etiquette like? How different is it from reddiqutte?

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  • You mean we could have seen these memes before?

  • MTG goes on extraordinary rant about Charlie Kirk, Republican men and her resignation

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  • Probably would have worked better if she hadn’t abandoned the metaphor and swapped to another one.

    She went with whatever she felt would be most impactful for the message portion, rather than the whole thing.

    It seems disingenuous because it is. It’s not a coherent thought. At best it’s a bunch of unrelated thoughts crammed together. Probably based on what she thinks will hit. As sound bites.

    So don’t feel bad not trusting it; it’s not even internally consistent. Even if you agree with part of it, a stopped clock is right at least once.

  • I don't remember voting for you

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  • OTOH, arguments at the speed of thought, with zero option to not participate, would probably resolve quickly.

    For example, how often have you talked yourself into/out of a huff, in the shower? Granted it’s just you, but that internal dialogue is powerful.

    Now imagine you aren’t separated from other people and your inner debate is you versus a cacophony, but one central idea rises from the noise and takes on one side of the argument in your head so you aren’t arguing against yourself. It still probably feels like arguing against yourself. And you’ll probably lose because one side of yourself knows a lot more than the other side.

    Then assume that thoughts aren’t limited by speaking speed (they might not be for you, but they feel like it if you think in words like many people do. This isn’t an inherent limit to communication because you can process thought faster than a string of words can be strung)

  • Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

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  • Thanks :) I see other countries and how they accommodate people who can’t or won’t or don’t want to drive, and I seriously die a bit inside because solarpunk could be everywhere, it could have, and should have, been here! And instead it’s only places I can never live (too disabled and/or unskilled to emigrate) with the places I can live being wildly opposed to making life even the slightest bit better.

    At the same time, I’m genuinely thrilled that that’s a thing at least somewhere. Jealousy notwithstanding, I’m intensely happy for areas that aren’t actively hostile to non-car transit. It all has to start somewhere to prove it works. Trickle-down solarpunk :p

  • Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy

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  • My local thrift shops are packed with books for stupid cheap. A wide variety, too.

    Maybe try that and have a happy medium? Not buying something new, but saving something from a landfill.

  • Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

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  • Oh yeah no I’ve been in that camp for a long while. I’m actively furious that my state had an approved plan for high speed rail like 15 years ago connecting all the major cities in the area, and connecting to the national line. And then some asshole republican came in and scrapped it even though it was already fully funded and ready to go.

    It would be active right now if that hadn’t happened. Instead I have to drive 2.5 hrs to see my friend, 2 hours to go to my specialist doctor, and the same 2 hours in the opposite direction to get to the national line. All of those trips were supposed to be under 45 min on the train.

    So so fucking salty about it. I fucking hate driving. I hate having to pay to maintain a vehicle. I hate that car infrastructure means walking is almost impossible. I’d love to ride a bike or bus locally, but the infrastructure doesn’t sufficiently exist for either to be practical in my area (I’m not riding my bike on the road. People here would actively try to kill me.)

  • what is your clothes quirks?

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  • Everything has to be stretchy, or so loose as to never restrict movement. This naturally means my clothing is a softer texture as well, so lovely bonus.

    No necklines that touch my neck. I can do v neck and tank tops, but not crew or turtle neck. Similarly, pants have to flare from knee down, no skinny or boot cut, and shirt sleeves have to be loose everywhere but the wrist.

    Socks have to be knee socks. Can’t stand any other kind. They have to have the same overall feel, but can be different colors and stuff. However I only wear socks and shoes when I absolutely have to. I strongly prefer being barefoot (even in snow for short periods like getting the mail), or wearing flip flops if I won’t lose toes to cold.

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  • Seeing both is true love.

    Smashed up with the flavor sprinkled over and eaten like popcorn, it’s a snack.

    Cooked and whatever, especially with additions if available? Meal.

  • I went to a grocery store in the morning that I normally go to at night and they had dimmed lights, soft music, as well as no sounds coming from the cash registers

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  • Same here. Or if I have no choice, I’ll have several instances of overwhelm where I freeze and process just enough to continue, get flustered, and just skip looking at anything at all I don’t need. Tunnel vision is a major cope. And even stuff I do need, and specifically came for, often gets left behind because I just can’t.

    I wish I could get groceries delivered, but there aren’t any services in my area (close by, but I’d have to get them delivered to a delivery locker site for a huge fee, and at that point I may as well just do the shopping myself). That’s the biggest instance of this for me. I genuinely hate grocery shopping.

  • Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

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  • There are probably more people moving unhindered through this short video than you see in an average traffic jam photo.

  • Anti-ICE commercials encouraging agents to 'walk away' set to hit the air Thanksgiving weekend

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  • If it works on even a few it’s worth it.

    We are at the point, I think, and have been for entirely too long, where it’s appropriate to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

    That’s not to say we should be limited to stuff like this, just that there’s no reason not to include stuff like this.

  • Tesla design flaws caused fiery crash that killed woman, severely injured husband, lawsuit alleges

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  • Thanks for the info. That’s horrifying.

    People can’t even drive properly with both pedals..

  • Hundreds of protesters bought ice scrapers from Home Depot and immediately return them to freeze sales [Monrovia, CA]

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  • The one year I spent winter months in San Diego, it froze hard enough for pipes to burst all around the area.

    I probably brought it with me; I’m from the Midwest, and after the time in San Diego, I lived in Houston TX for a year and we had a blizzard. So. My bad, folks. Tho seeing palm trees covered in ice and snow was one of the best things I’ve ever seen. So surreal.

  • Tesla design flaws caused fiery crash that killed woman, severely injured husband, lawsuit alleges

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  • Wait, evs don’t have a separate brake pedal?

  • True

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  • Try using a middleman, like Rumpelstiltskin.

    Your debt holders don’t want first born, because that just increases their obligations, but someone will give you a fair market trade for them that you can use as payment, or service in lieu of payment!