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  • Following the other question, which sounds like the best nickname?

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  • seconding Jelly

  • What is something that ONLY americans believe?

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  • Uh, excuse me, Mayo is a clinic.

  • What do you think of the Singapore approach to drugs ?

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  • I prefer the approach of the Netherlands and Portugal, where drug abuse is treated as a medical issue rather than a criminal one.

  • Are there any quick ways I can study, read and process socialist/communist theory?

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  • Read, yes. Study, eh. Process, no; that takes time.

  • What historical event(s) would you have liked to live through that happened before you were born?

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  • Literally none, they all sound terrible.

    Okay, maybe the 60's folk revival, but that's only a maybe.

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • Not as much as I'd like, honestly.

  • A community for the most traumatic superhero story

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  • It's eight times as long as Moby Dick, but is it right times as good?

    (It's at least twice s good, since while I did read Moby Dick for pleasure, I only read it once.)

  • What was the most pregnant "Yessss..." you've ever heard?

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  • "...mothafuckin' bread crumbs!"

  • What do computer scientists actually do?

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  • Depends on if you think of formal proofs as a kind of code, I guess.

  • What do computer scientists actually do?

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  • We're very specialized kinds of mathematicians, sometimes. In other languages the term is often "Information Science" and in German, IIRC, it's "Infomathics", both arguably better names.

    Theoretical Computer Scientists write mathematical proofs showing the limits of how information can be stored, transmitted, permuted, hidden, and extracted. Practicing Computer Scientist learn the current best ways to do the above and write implementations thereof. Examples:

    Storage: Compression algorithms like zip files, jpeg, mp3

    Transmitted: protocols like FTP, HTTP, and yes, ActivityPub

    Permuted: A lot of sound editing is done by turning an array of of pitches over time into an array of frequencies over time, changing those frequencies, then turning them back.

    Hidden: Encryption, obviously, but also steganography

    Extracted: Decryption, obviously, but also natural speech processing and image recognition

  • At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation?

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  • I don't think she meant "micro", no.

  • At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation?

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  • Is someone just discovering anarchism?

  • What song is the song for you and your best friend forever? "Our song"?

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  • Why do goths only come in monochrome?

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  • bro doesn't even know about bubblegum goths, lmao

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  • So not dumb, just ignorant (at least, of history). Sounds like someone with a lot of emotional intelligence.

    But can she cook?

  • Why do schools look like prisons and are there any countries where they don't?

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  • They don't everywhere even in the US. Anywhere with a decent public works budget or older building stock won't have that aesthetic.

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  • How could someone that dumb have a 10/10 personality?

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    eye contact

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  • Years of speech therapy and public speaking lessons made it something I do intentionally and easily in public situations. I still almost never do it in private at home.

  • What is it like to marry someone's mother?

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  • My wife was a mother already when I married her. Of course, I was the father of her children and we'd lived together for years at that point. But it still counts!

  • ADHD memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Modeled on Myself

  • All things bugs @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Music

    Fries on the Side — "I'm a Bug"

    open.spotify.com /track/1r6MBzQquDpw7ZDXh8imHF
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    found my Civilization ][ poster while going cleaning

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.ca
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    1986 saw the release of both the Henson / Bowie film Labyrinth and the Ravensberger board game Labyrinth. What was going on in the zeitgeist that created these two seemingly unrelated classics?