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CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]

@ CosmicTurtle0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Texas can't require the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, judge says

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  • They want authoritarianism. They don't care how they get there. It just so helps that much of their base is religious. It also helps that they can twist that religion to point at outgroups.

    If the Flying Spaghetti Monster offered a way for people with money and power to accumulate more money and power, they absolutely would abandon Christianity and become pastafarians.

  • FTC Sues Gym Chains for Making It Hard to Cancel Memberships

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  • Yes, this is a good exception. The gym is great for showers and other bathing options if you do not have the facilities.

  • FTC Sues Gym Chains for Making It Hard to Cancel Memberships

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  • Some people believe (falsely) that buying a membership will incentivize them to go more often.

    As someone who has struggled with weight loss but is in better shape than I was a few years ago:

    • if you want to lose weight, dieting is REQUIRED. You simply won't burn enough calories in a day even with exercise to lose weight.
    • the gym is for people who want to swim, or if it's too cold, or if you require special equipment (rowing machine, etc.). Just about any exercise you can do at the gym you can do at home with dumbbells you can buy at Good Will
    • consistency is better than intensity. If you work out everyday, even if it's 5 minutes, that's better than you skipping a day here or there. Be consistent and build your strength slowly
    • DON'T tell people you're trying to lose weight. There is psychology out there that says that doing so will short circuit your reward dopamine with people encouraging you
    • there is no short cut to losing weight and keeping it off. If you lose weight fast, you'll gain it back fast. If you lose it slow, you'll likely keep it off.
    • don't wait until the new year to lose weight or exercise. Start now. Even if it's 5 minutes, just do it.
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  • It's weird how kids get accustomed to how a food should look and how that affects its taste to them.

    There was a study where scientists wrapped home made hamburgers in McDonald's wrappers and the same hamburgers in similar but unbranded wrappers and asked which tasted better. McDonald's wrappers won.

  • Break Things !== Move Fast

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  • Isn't that what Elon did when he bought Twitter? Just randomly started unplugging shit?

  • 2FA

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  • Both are "Who you are". Needs either a "what you have" or "what you know".

  • Elon Musk sued a group for reporting on X’s neo-Nazi content. His lawsuits are failing.

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  • (I know it's a puppet but didn't know the show. I was more saying that the picture looks so much like Elon that I couldn't tell if it was really him or an AI picture.)

  • Elon Musk sued a group for reporting on X’s neo-Nazi content. His lawsuits are failing.

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  • I can't tell if this is AI...

  • Trump blames Ukraine for ‘taking on nation 10 times your size’ despite Russia’s blitz

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  • That is, no joke, what Trump is suggesting. "Russia is 10 times your size. You should have just given up."

    This is the logic of a bully.

    Trump sees arms as power and expects fealty from anyone he perceives as "less than" him.

  • CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse

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  • "Payment system" makes it sound like a replacement for PayPal or Stripe.

    But it's really a replacement for ko-fi or buy me a coffee.

    I want to see how they handle PCI data but this seems promising.

  • Redditor advises people in DC hide Air Tags in their clothes to help family identify them if they go missing.

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  • Depends on how far in the body. Bluetooth works off of 2.4Ghz spectrum so water will limit its transmission ability.

    Surface is probably fine but inside a prison pocket will probably be troublesome.

  • Republicans want to rig the midterm elections. Will they succeed?

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  • They only succeed because Democrats allow them. We allow them.

    There are elections going on right now. If you are a democracy loving citizen, volunteer as a poll officer. We need them now more than ever.

  • Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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  • I think the logic here is that the code to deliver an ad is protected by copyright and your modification of that code is considered a derivative work that is protected under copyright law.

    But that's not what happens at the browser level.

    The HTML code is sent, whole cloth, to the browser. The browser inspects the code, you know, to do browser stuff.

    During this inspection, the code is put against the ad block rules. Nothing is modified. If the code violates some sort of logic, it doesn't get rendered properly.

    Hell, the opposite argument is probably more damning. Say you have this literal HTML:

     
        
<html>
<title>I use arch</title>
<p>
Btw
hello
World</html>

    You could argue the browser is NOT showing your code the way you intended (e.g. "Btw hello World" being rendered though I'm not sure if spaces would be there or not).

    At the end of the day, unless you send your webpage as an image, you can't guarantee how the browser will render it.

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  • I fully suspect some billionaire will invent "vibe repairing".

  • I guess theme hospital isn't so niche, but it probably among my age group

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  • Last time I tried to find a way to play it I went down this deep rabbit hole of pirating where it wasn't clear what I was downloading. If you have a source where I can try my hand at it again let me know.

  • Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet

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  • Edited. Thank you

  • I guess theme hospital isn't so niche, but it probably among my age group

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  • I liked it too but was never good at it as a kid though I imagine I'd kill it as an adult.

  • Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet

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  • "I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called Bring back the porn!"

    Dr. Percival Ulysses Cox

  • Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots

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  • What will likely happen is that STATES will remove mail in voting in places where they lean democrat but keep it in places where Republicans will win. Bare in mind that Trump and the alt right need a scapegoat. Mail in voting is going to be pointed to the reason there is fraud and why Trump and the Republicans should win by default.

    Take any "we need to change X about elections" with a grain of salt. Because they will only actually do it if they can either solidify their results or put enough doubt in the system to completely take it over.