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Kwakigra

@ Kwakigra @beehaw.org

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  • Fucking pointless

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  • I have finally rediscovered my love for cooking. Here's what I do:

    1. Don't follow the recipe. The chef can't write and the writer can't cook. A lot of it is nonsense. If you think you know better, you do.
    2. Do whatever you want. Don't oversalt it or burn it and everything else can be fixed with more cookery.
    3. Don't cook for 2 hours unless you are having fun goofing around in the kitchen for 2 hours or are making a holiday dish everyone's been wanting all year.
    4. Learn all the shortcuts and try your own.
    5. Eat while you're cooking to see if it's the way you want it and use all those spices and sauces to see what they do.
    6. Easy mode: To make anything delicious, add salt, oil/fat, and acid. That will make everything but burned or oversalted stuff into edible. Also, pepper is somehow underrated despite being everywhere and in everything.
    7. Don't eat it in 10 minutes. You won't digest it properly and it will add to your stress rather than relieving it. Take your time eating; the people making you rush are the problem not the food.

  • Character building

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  • Agreed. It evokes a whole story. Either the Paladin is so overcommitted to their work to such a degree that they are willing to go on dangerous adventures or the society is so legalistic it's the Paladin's duty to accompany their cases wherever they go without exceptions. Alternatively, maybe the Paladin wanted to be an adventurer anyway to escape their boring life as a parole officer and found just such a situation that they can fufill their desires and duties at the same time.

  • What do you think about the concept of lesser evil? (i.e. when faced with selecting from two immoral options, the less immoral one should be chosen.)

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  • Too often this option is presented by people who are deliberately manipulating you and causing you to think that you only have the two choices which each benefit them and neither you. Always consider who is offering this choice and why. The true lesser evil here is whatever you have to do to get out of the situation where this choice is being presented to you.

  • Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot at Utah university event

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  • Charlie Kirk was losing relevance rapidly, especially after advising his audience to trust the government regarding the Epstein files. Now he's far more useful to Trump than he has been in many years. I don't know how likely it is for the Trump administration to be involved in what appears to be a highly professional assassination, but martyring public figures is precedented by Hitler's administration. Regardless of who shot Kirk, you can be certain the Trump admin won't miss an opportunity like this to galvanize the base and pin it on the enemy of the week.

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • The actual bubble that needs to be popped is financialization. The US economy is now completely detached from productivity and is now running on speculation only through financial valuation. At the same time, people are starving, infrastructure is falling apart, the birth rate is plummeting, and suicide is on the rise. It's time to stop taking "job creators" seriously and use all this fallow professional experience and skill to restart the material economy and forget this pretend crap that keeps plutocrats busy doing nothing of any value to anyone.

  • It really is

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  • Nah, I can think of a worse feeling. To me it feels worse that people without executive dysfunction have never had to deal with this even one time and many of these individuals have no patience for people who do. At the same time they are fully capable of not procrastinating and do it anyway for fun and can at any time come back around to whatever it is they intended to do effortlessly. Because this is their experience and they constantly benefit by going along with societal prejudices without having to think about them because their default is non-thought at all times, there are no consequences for them to believe the brain is magic and brain disabilities can't exist.

  • Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt | 404 Media

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  • This is really interesting. Faking an endorsement by someone who is accused of preventing thousands of needless deaths to sell shirts is on one level nefarious but on another level incorporating Luigi into mainstream pop culture. The plutocracy wants people to think this kid is the worst monster who ever lived, but the average American is so pleased with what he is accused of doing his likeness can be used to sell clothing. I am not totally opposed to the mainstreaming of this kind of folk hero. Optimally he should at least get some royalties to pay for his legal fees, though.

  • Why exactly does AI-generated comic/cartoon/2D art look so off-putting?

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  • It's an inhuman facsimile of the expression of humanity.

  • Medialabs is pissing off the users at Imgur

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  • Why is EVERYTHING made in china?

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  • China has for decades deliberately designed their economy to provide affordable and quality labor to the capitalist world, and in all of the English speaking world capitalists are free to invest their money however they please wherever they please. Since it is cheaper to produce and import particular similar quality products from China than produce them domestically, that is what the right business move would be to minimize costs to maximize profit.

  • What are y'all thoughts on Communes?

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  • Lived communally for years. It really depends on who else is living with you in the community because you must cooperate with them. The system works really well and I recommend anyone try out living in one for a while, but it's very different than living individualistically. That being said it can also work too well and you may find yourself not leaving or interacting outside the commune for weeks or months at a time and falling out of contact with the outside world.

  • Why do people wake up in the morning and then sit staring into space for about 20 minutes?

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  • This is not a universal phenomenon. This is the result of stress affecting sleep by causing sleep latency problems or the quality of the sleep itself leaving the individual non-refreshed upon waking and needing a refractory period to recover from sleeping before getting out of bed. The reason it's coming up a lot more often is that greater numbers of people are experiencing the health consequences of chronic stress.

  • 'Whites-only' community banning Black, Jewish and gay people set up in Arkansas

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  • I guess Arkansas already having Bonanza, Harrison, Hickory Ridge, Horatio, Marked Tree, Mena, and Sheridan as hell-holes for white supremacists wasn't enough. They need a new pit to crawl into, I guess.

  • Infighting

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  • Anti-social socialists are an absolutely fascinating internet phenomenon. I have met a handful in real life, but they're more tolerated for their merits than any kind of influential when it comes to face to face dialogue and praxis.

  • US education

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  • This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it's mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.

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  • If it brings me pleasure it is something I need, as I need to enjoy my life. On something like this I would just think about whether the cost justifies the amount of pleasure it would bring me. If I know I would get tired of it after a few weeks, I'm not going to blow thousands on it. If it's a major enhancement of a hobby I've had for a long time which deepens my ability to enjoy it and I'm not risking anything else by spending the money, then it's a decent investment in my happiness.

  • Thoughts?

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  • Smarter and faster, but the same fuel tank and no brakes.

  • Switch 2 owner banned for playing second-hand Switch 1 games

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  • And the Nintendo of my childhood was responsible for pretty much every anti-consumer practice and cultural trend concerning videogames during my childhood:

    Inventing the idea that videogames are toys only for little boys only for marketing purposes. Betraying and exploiting established relationships with developers. Screwing over partners on disc technology and reversing course to limit technology to be under their control. Supporting Jack Thompson throughout his campaign to ban all videogames with any adult content at all. Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit to hold the entire industry back. The list goes on.

  • Tinder tests letting users set a 'height preference'

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  • Tinder is an app where you look at pictures of people and on that basis alone decide whether to go out. It's even easier to lie about height than to take a misleading picture. I'm really not sure if this would make any difference at all. Everyone frustrated on tinder will continue to be exactly as frustrated on tinder while tinder squeezes them all.

  • My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments

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  • They could be having that effect. Scams that look obvious are to attract people who fall for obvious scams, such as people with dementia. They are designed to be transparent to most people because they don't need anybody clicking that has the faculties to know better than to fall for the rest of the scam.