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@ BanMe @lemmy.world

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Yeah I'm a real person, the name is just a reference to getting banned on Reddit many times, and then getting banned immediately across several discuss.online communities for hurting a mod's feelings. I guess if it's going to happen, might as well ask for it.

  • Silver linings?

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  • Doc offices, urgent cares, etc have these little blue plastic bags with a cardboard collar around them, just big enough to go around the outside of your mouth. I call them yack sacks. Grab a few of these the next time you see a dispenser on the wall, keep them in your nightstand, glovebox, etc. They come in very handy.

  • Silver linings?

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  • It's trivially easy to activate the sensor by putting your finger on the right part of the seat, on mine you are aware when it happens because there's a beep. I am terrified of the moment my 3yo figures out where this spot is, because the panel of interesting buttons will suddenly do something, and that something will be Terrible.

  • Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people?

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  • Sorry to hear about yours (and the others in here), mine too, she used to be a clever, kind lady - or I thought she was - now I reflect and realize she fed me poison, abused me, and has no perspective outside of her own shallow little life. I couldn't get her into therapy, and when she started pushing fundraisers for the Good's murderer, I cut her out for good. In response she told me she "won't let" my adult brothers speak to me anymore - yeah that's what I'm talking about, mom. FFS

  • Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people?

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  • Some people were born without critical thinking, some people seem to have discarded it midlife like a tattered coat.

  • Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people?

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  • Steve Jobs. There was some magic to him, but also an extremely dark side. I had a corporate bio from the early 90s that made him and Woz seem like superhero partners, when in reality he shorted Wozniak and Esposito and only really looked out for himself. He seemed like a countercultural LSD dropping hippie, and he was some of that, but when it came time to get rich and get his, he went down that path too. Shitty father, terrible boss. None of the things I would say my own life aspires to now.

  • 'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise

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  • Like how they're suddenly like, maybe don't drink the raw milk we've been promoting recklessly.

  • The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.

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  • People have already "solved" that problem by simply giving up on sex. We are headed into Japan territory.

  • femboy pain rule 😔

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  • Don't give up. I run a nonprofit for queer men in the South, where you wouldn't expect one. We've picked up a couple of femboys who both thought they wouldn't fit in, and everyone accepted them immediately, and they met each other, and now they have femboy friends. Even in a small conservative state where there's no femboy culture.

    Unfortunately without orgs like ours I think Grindr and the like are the best option and those aren't fun places for anyone, but they can still work, you just have to ignore a lot of shit.

    PS if you're a queer man (including femboys) who wants to see something like this in your area, let me know, we are trying to find the right people to start satellite chapters. We have a working model, just needs a bit of time investment each week to get running.

  • An oopsie occured

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  • Click here to begin crowdfunding your dasher's ER visit.

  • I'm In Danger!

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  • Security issues aside, HAVING the idea is the hardest part, much harder than coding an app. If you have a genuinely good idea, it's pretty easy to find someone to help build it, because that person also wants in on a cash-cow. Lack of ideas is the bigger problem with launching apps today, which a million vibe coders have realized.

  • Hated homework, hating WFH

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  • More importantly, homework teaches responsibility and self-accountability as well as time management. I hated it, I got through school without ever doing it, and I had to learn these things later on to my own detriment. But I had massive problems with authority caused by emotional incest from my mother, so it took a lot of work to re-parent myself into a successful person who could follow rules and realize they were sometimes there to help me.

  • Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully

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  • Seems trivial to code in a beacon dependency and then embed that beacon in the walls or floor so the police would have to dismantle the entire building before being able to find it and take it along for the ride. Or heck a combination of beacons so the police don't know how many to look for.

  • Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

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  • It's an addiction just like any other social media site, being cut off from the supplier is one of a few ways to end addiction, so I've appreciated their ban-happiness lately (for myself included).

  • Oh Yeah

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  • If the public isn't on board with something, it'll cost the ruling party dearly. This wasn't like 1918 where the public wanted to help each other by limiting the spread of the disease. This was rugged individualism, "you can't tell me what to do." Dems were honestly smart to get on board or a red wave would have wiped them out.

    When we want to change things like this, we have to change the norm in advance, not reactively.

    BTW epidemiologists I used to work with at the CDC have long said "the big one is coming" and after Covid, many of them said "this wasn't the big one," so we still need to change that norm, but like climate change and a dozen other pressing crises, we can't deal with it because fascism.

  • Oh Yeah

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  • Please remember this happened when folks get all "AOC is the only person who can win." No she's got a built in loss, two X chromosomes. In a decade maybe, but right now boomers still have too much control and even boomer women don't want a woman president. They've done polling on it and it's very clear, they don't think a woman has the temperament to lead. We can think it's silly but we should not ignore it.

    Yep cue the downvotes ignoring it. Read this carefully and explain to me why we should even consider running a woman right now. But you won't, you're in a bubble where you think everyone believes what you do.

  • Average American has just $955 saved for retirement, study finds

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  • I had several 401ks, I cashed them out fairly quickly because an emergency would come along and it was the only thing between me and homelessness, or not receiving medical care.

    Now I have a 403(b) because I work for higher ed, and I am forbidden to cash it out, but I've taken a loan against it and paid off my credit cards, and am paying myself interest now.

    So now I have my CCs freed up for the next time I have an emergency, which will be checks watch

  • yea

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  • The average person is actually good, but introduce severe trauma as well as game theory - prisoner's dilemma and bystander effect - and people (plural) are suddenly a huge problem.

  • yea

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  • See if you make a ton of money, your kids will be better than the poor people, so you've left a better world for your children.

    Actual logic and I've seen it play out.

  • halal paintball

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  • Hope you aren't a gummy bear fan, cause I have news for you