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Norin

@ Norin @lemmy.world

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  • My friend has been having a lot of issues with Windows lately [Rule]

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  • I like Pop!_OS. It was my first distro and has been the one I go back to the most.

    The window management options were a godsend when working on my dissertation.

  • [AMERICAS] Who is your favourite author from the Americas?

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  • Ursula Le Guin.

  • Game's main character: better as your own clay figure write-in, their own person with none of your agency, or something in-between?

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  • That depends entirely on the story the game is telling.

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    Why do american white evangelicals love Donald Trump?

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  • Ezekiel 16:49

    This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.

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    Why do american white evangelicals love Donald Trump?

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  • I’m an ex evangelical.

    To put it in a sentence, they love Trump because the false image they have of him fits the heretical version of Christianity they follow.

  • What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes?

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  • Something like this would probably work.

  • What do you do when homeless folks ask for money?

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  • Give them some cash, if I have a little extra. I recommend carrying a little change if you live in an area with regular homeless folks.

    I used to bring a particular homeless guy who hung around my block a sandwich on my way to work, and a beer when walking my dog on Friday nights (if I saw him, for either occurrence). That was all when I lived in a different city though.

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  • To be a little blunt here, someone who thinks using an LLM is equivalent to being in a relationship with a real person probably shouldn’t be in a relationship with a real person.

  • What's your biggest regret?

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  • Probably, but my PhD is in philosophy.

  • What is your opinion on national pride / patriotism?

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  • My take is that patriotism is a corruption of the feeling of belonging we get from community.

  • What's your biggest regret?

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  • In 2018 I was offered a job managing a retreat center on the shores of Lake Superior. The job would have been to keep the place looking nice and, very occasionally, cultivate a restful space for people who needed it.

    I went and got a PhD instead. Not a huge mistake, but I’d probably have been happier with the retreat center.

  • Lemmy, what conservative fearmongering do you find laughably incorrect?

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  • I’ll never forget my first trip out to North Lawndale for work. So many people acted like I was headed into Fallujah or something.

    In reality though, it was just another neighborhood with regular people trying to get by.

  • Lemmy, what conservative fearmongering do you find laughably incorrect?

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  • That college professors are turning young people into communists.

    Dawg, I can’t even get them to read.

  • Why are most religious people so easy to manipulate? (serious)

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  • People in general are easily manipulated, and those who manipulate use the beliefs of the people they’re manipulating to do so.

    Religion certainly is a something used for that, but it’s hardly the only one.

  • [Politics] What is, in your opinion, a necessary set of minimal restrictions on freedom of thought, speech and expression?

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  • Personally, I like Simone Weil’s idea that total freedom of thought and expression are only truly possible in the absence of propaganda, political parties, and deception.

    That is to say, it’s not really free thought if we’re just parroting what the party, news, etc. say.

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  • The Reddit algorithm kept pushing me propaganda with messages of “be angry” and “be scared.” I could feel my mental health deteriorating in real time whenever I had the app open.

    And, well, the world we live in is just angering and frightening enough without some corporation making it worse for me so they can make a buck off the clicks.

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  • Seems like the perfect day to ask: Muricans, what's your dream country to expatriate to? Non-Muricans, what's the thought on accepting US refugees?

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  • Kenya. I have friends there, which would help.

    I’d definitely be the obvious foreigner, given that I’m pale and ginger, but that’s worked in my favor when traveling before.

    I’m also supposing here that there wouldn’t be quite so many other American expats to compete with.

  • What book(s) are you reading right now and recommend for others?

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  • Rereading Le Guin’s Earthsea saga.

    Personally, I think she might be on par with Tolkien and actually surpasses him in a few ways. The 4th book (about a tired mom just trying to get by and care for people in a fantasy world) is the best one, but you need to work your way there.