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Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one, not today

  • Hummus rule

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  • that's like attaching buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropping it, Murphy's law means it will spin in place just above the ground, as both the cat must land on it's feet and the toast must land butter side down

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • I don't think society across the whole planet will collapse, short of a nuclear war in which case gold won't help one bit

    Much more likely that certain areas will experience famine, war, disease, and reduced access to medicine.

    Really the best bet is to be able to be mobile if an area has a significant decline you can move to where it's better

  • I still can't believe they're not related

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  • wow she does look like Linus

  • Introducing Proton Sheets

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  • Finally, the last piece to stop using Google Drive

  • What do you use chatgpt for?

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  • I use Kagi chat all the time for random shit:

    • scheming about food forest ideas
    • learning about Linux
    • helping me get inspired to write DnD campaigns
    • journaling about stressful shit and getting encouragement to relax and breathe through it
    • inspirations for cool projects to do

    it's like a great resource to just see like an average of what people would say in that situation. I think of it like a faster more focused reddit thread full of good and bad ideas, and I sort through them

  • [Discussion] Have you stopped playing a soulslike mid-playthrough? What was the reason?

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  • I cannot beat Roland in Another Crabs Treasure and I'm tired of trying to grind / learn new builds to beat him. I tried even cheesing him with a wall clip bug that's probably patched now. I am just tired of it.

    I haven't finished ER, I am savoring it, not done, just pausing for a bit

    I never finished Sekiro for the same reason as ACT, I keep getting to the drunken house fire boss and getting my ass whooped. I want to try it again sometime, give it another go. I'm pretty sure this will be my 4th attempt to start over.

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    “I Got Paid $17/hr to Discredit Veganism Online”: A Whistleblower Just Exposed Big Meat's Smear Machine

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  • One day I hope we realize the internet is just a web of a million lies. Dead internet theory gets more and more real every day

  • Bazzite noob calling for aid

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  • Absolutely agree. I know much more about operating systems and software that the average person, and I've only been able to handle a number of Bazzite issues with Kagi Assistant. Trying to find how to fix something on forums and regular search is extremely time intensive.

    Of course keep in mind that if you're messing around with your OS you might just screw something up and have to reinstall, but so far I've not had anything even close to that. Bazzite seems to be pretty hard to break.

    Really for me, Linux only became fun once I started using chat tools to help me learn how to make it do everything I wanted. And I've been using Linux off and on for work and at home for twenty years. It's just sometimes really arcane, and the differences between opensuse, Ubuntu, fedora, and mint made it feel like I never could learn how to fix things.

    Sometimes things are harder than I want or just aren't working right out of the box. But then sometimes I'm able to do things that are actually impossible on other operating systems. So it's really a trade-off. Also it's getting better every single day. There was an issue I had last month with a controller, I messed around for 30 minutes but couldn't get it to work. I tried it last week and it just worked. So don't lose hope entirely.

  • Context is king

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  • I am well aware of said history. That's why I wrote what I wrote

  • Context is king

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  • I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five for the first time this week, and clearly the man was tortured by something. Was it the endless injustices of the world, a love lost, the horrors of war? Plenty of folks grew up being told by our nanny that gays should all be thrown off roofs, were beaten for acting too femme or swish, were told eternal pain was the price. So it goes.

    Maybe Kurt was one of the vast multitude of folks so deep in the closet no one would ever know or have guessed. The unsung millions of queer folks who had that crush they couldn't act on, the midnight fantasies held close, the whispered confession of love that was rejected, the true love just out of reach.

    Who hung in the balance friendships, job opportunities, family connections, and physical safety and decided that unrequited love was an easier burden to bear.

    All that weighing, maybe seeing your love be happy but could never love you back the same way. All that held tight could forge the soul of a poet, and yes, maybe a sardonic and cynical poet. One with a sharp wit who tells his own truths outright on the page but with a mocking tone to help the medicine go down smooth. Easier to put on the motley of a clown and make a sarcastic quip about being gay or a writer than it is to speak deeper truths that have gotten millions of folks ostracized or killed. So it goes.

  • Girlfriend

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  • Ages are 18-40.

    Yeah that is pretty close to my experience, but thankfully none have been that fluid about it. Just changing week by week instead of minute by minute

  • Machu Picchu with a comparison of when they found it.

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  • I think this one happened rapidly because of conquistadors and plague. A rapid empire collapse making the elite location untenable and unaffordable.

    I recently read 1491 and it was excellent. It describes how these immense civilizations were in the New World, and how rapidly they collapsed as hogs infected with diseases accidentally escaped the explorer's camps and killed of 90% of the populations.

    It talks about De Soto seeing the banks of rivers filled with dozens of cities of thousands of people, and then two or three years later explorers coming by and finding nothing but ruins.

    That seems much more of the type of collapse that would just leave entire buildings empty and abandoned.

  • Girlfriend

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  • Not looking for sympathy or advice, just here's my trend over time to deal with this.

    I am making considerable effort (and regularly failing because damn verbal ticks plus ADHD got hands) to avoid using any gendered or gender neutral terms as the folks in my community change pronouns and names regularly. I just got pretty harshly scolded the other day for using a gender neutral pronoun to refer to a person who told me to use it two months ago, but now it makes that person feel bad and this was the first I heard of it. Almost all of these people are not fully out so I have to keep a mental map of who gets what names and pronouns get used with what people.

    I cannot learn and unlearn them fast enough, keep the right context of who is is the room, and keep up with current preferred names and pronouns which change semi-regularly. I cannot overstate how hard this is for my ADHD ass.

    Especially when person A is out to B but not C, and D is out to C but not B, and I'm talking to B but C walks in the room, but then B leaves and I'm alone with C. This seems to happen to me several times a week. The mental gymnastics is absolutely thrashing my CPU. And I am trying my damnedest but keep fucking it up and making my friends sad.

    I think I'm too ADHD to use pronouns, so I just attempt to use people's current names directly (still keeping attention to who they are out to) or just never speak about them to others and use no names or pronouns at all when talking directly. The latter is easier overall, so that's generally what I aim for. Never talking about these people feels like erasure or something but that seems like the best way to avoid causing what seems to be significant emotional pain and/or accidental outing.

    There's some where it's stable enough to at least use names directly, but those are few. And those still aren't out at large, so I'm still faced with the accidental outing issue which is very real.

    I guess I'm doing something right because it seems I'm always in the know. I legit want to be an ally to folks and support them in whatever. Just damn I'm not smart enough. I need like a universal translator.

  • Why are "love potions" always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?

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  • friendzone potion, you give it to someone crushing on you or hates you to turn them around. Some might argue showing up with beer / weed is a friendzone potion.

  • Fat people should have to buy 2 seats on an airplane

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  • If you're thinking of this, consider that those who buy clothes in XS have to pay the same amount as the XXL size for that same shirt or pants. Despite the XS garment being a third as much material and stitching.

  • It was colder than the Devil’s heart, raining ice pitchforks as if the Heavens were ready to fall.

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  • same! We stayed up all night taking turns playing

  • Is lemmy dying?

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  • Same, I've blocked every single news and politics and it's bustling

  • It was colder than the Devil’s heart, raining ice pitchforks as if the Heavens were ready to fall.

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  • I knew without clicking this would be Max Payne or Obra Dinn

  • The carroty morass

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  • put this under the bed of your ailing pregnant mother to suck the disease out of her body and into this. Just don't eat it after, make sure you burn it

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    Strength to carry on

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    Prince Charming

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    Not this one, not today

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    just... breathe... float the feather rule

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    In breath we find peace from the storm

  • artporn @lemm.ee
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    Construction of the second bridge, Karl Blechen (c. 1833)

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    Pick your rule

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    Healthy Masculinity

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Judge Jabberwocky Rule

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    Ravens Rule

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    Reject human return to catt rule

    en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uwu
  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    The moon

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    Shitpost

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    grunting rule

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    _Go_rilla not stayrilla

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    tactical uwu rule

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    Love Abounds

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    Everybody stop saying "falcon" rule

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    Name rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Adventure rule