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Cactopuses

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  • Is there anything like church without the church?

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  • Church seems to fill the hobby need and has some of the same core aspects

    • common interest
    • regular meet ups
    • online and in person groups

    Honestly replacement really could be as simple as finding a group that fits your hobbies (I’m in a writing group for example)

    Alternatively volunteer, it checks a lot of the same boxes (sense of community, trying to make things better) with none of the religious bits (assuming you find an agnostic organization)

  • Straight into my adblocker

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  • Depends on the product, a lot of things exist to be ad bate, and don’t really serve a wider purpose. Tshirts is an example that comes to mind where people just buy dozens of designs they never wear.

    The whole premise has become shopping is the fun activity, the product is just the waste from that activity that needs to be discarded.

    So I guess sans ads we would see a lot less arbitrary products (and places like Amazon would take a hit [yay])

    I would be curious to know how e-commerce would change though as without ads people would likely gravitate to the big box stores

  • What is the Best way to migrate Google-Photos to Immich?

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  • This so usually stored on the photos as exif data

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • I genuinely like the idea of higher density, as much as I like driving, having a city that’s walkable and with good transit (which density incentives) would be a dream.

    My current city is a sprawling suburb and it’s almost an hour by bus to do a trip that takes 10 minutes by car.

    Also thank you for expanding on this!

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • I don’t entirely follow? I’m totally open to alternatives to making sure the money stays where it is, I just don’t immediately understand the mechanism.

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • Oop I read through the top comments and probably missed it! ^^

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • UBI needs to be combined with rent and price controls if it is not, inflation will eat the benefits inside of a 5-year period and money will be siphoned up the chain.

    Otherwise I am all for it.

  • Fucking seriously ruining the general web in terms of looking up information.

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  • It's by no means a great article, but I don't think the sentence (or the article at a glance) was generated; it's missing the word "alone" (If you’ve noticed your automatic watch gaining or losing time, you’re not alone) which is a distinctly human typo. I will say it absolutely lacks proofreading.

  • Cry cry cry

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  • I don’t disagree but in his defence pay phones used to be everywhere and are practically gone today vs relatively few telegraph offices.

  • Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason!

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  • I think this is because they are part of the Unicode standard so they're just standard characters. That's pure speculation though.

  • My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help

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  • Red had is the go to on corporate, canonical has support too.

    But honestly, and hike I've seen the support argument I've never actually seen someone engage with MS support, on the OS level at least. Generally family ends up helping, or they go to local IT shops, I imagine it would be similar for a Linux distro.

  • Society will accept a death caused by a robotaxi, Waymo co-CEO says

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  • necessary read

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  • My vote is sock em boppers

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    TIL american public support for requiring vaccines against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

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  • I used to agree with that. But then Covid happened and I listened to people on the radio call in saying “we gotta let a few old people go to save the exonomy.” As though human life was an acceptable cost.

    I genuinely thought people at least were ignorant to the death tole to then but I was mistaken. It got so bad the host cut off calls.

    The vaccine then came out and I watched millions shun it, despite being shown to be safe and effective. Sure, some folks thought they were dangerous (disinformation and all) but that radio show told me, some people want the world to burn.

    There are people who saw devastation and don’t get vaccinated because it’s an acceptable loss.

  • Make it make sense

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  • Is It Just Me?

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  • I actually ended up switching to Kagi for this exact reason. Google is basically AI at the start usually spouting nonsense then sponsor posts and then a bunch of SEO optimized BS.

    Thankfully paying for search circumvents the ads and it hasn’t been AI by default (it has it but it’s off) and the results have been generally closer to 2010s Google.

  • Mildly annoying

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  • Ironically a common writing technique is B->C dialog.

    Basically cutting out the preamble and post dialog. Most times even in my writing I include “Hello” since that would stand out, but generally get right to the point.

    You see this a lot in movies too, if done well it blends in since your scene is focusing on the action and not rambling on.

    There are exceptions (teens talking may include a “no you hang up” trope for comedic effect) but that’s used sparingly.

  • Once I said to my therapist "I'm sure you hear this kind of thing all the time", and she said "No, this is like top 5".

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  • Honestly the only time I’ve said this it was a relief to know that the answer was yes, because while it sucks others are hurting it made me feel far less alone and obscure.