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SolOrion

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  • I just limit how much news I get- basically just what pops up in my lemmy feed and a news show I watch a few times a week.

    Being exposed to awful headlines 24/7 is almost definitely going to be rough on your mental health.

  • "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no?

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  • I don't think you're required to do it, personally, but I agree that it would be rude to not even hear someone out. Especially with someone you know even as an acquaintance. It could be anything from, "can you hold this for a second" to "do you mind splitting this $8000 timeshare with me?"

    If it's just a completely random person on the street, and their first word is "can you do me a favor" that's different. I think it's still rude, I just also think that when you engage with entirely random people being rude is acceptable sometimes. Especially if there's an actual reason for you to feel unsafe- if you're alone/it's a shady area type thing.

    This probably depends on the area, though. I'm from the southeastern US and from my understanding people engage with each other waaay more in public here than they do in- as a random example- New York.

  • PSA: Don't take 4 packets of paracetamol in one day

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  • yes, you should be under a doctor’s care.

    That's not always an option, unfortunately, but it's definitely accurate.

  • PSA: Don't take 4 packets of paracetamol in one day

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  • Well, generally you're only supposed to take ~2 tablets at a time, so 10? 40 pills a day is 13,000mg of acetaminophen, or 20,000mg if they're extra strength.

    That's, uh, bad. You're recommended to take under 4000mg per day, so that'd be a bit over a packet? Makes sense to me.

    For the record, mixing two painkillers without consulting a doctor is also usually a bad idea but way fucking less of a bad idea than taking 13000mg of tylenol in a day. Afaik, acetaminophen with other stuff is probably fine but napoxen, ibuprofen, and aspirin all work roughly the same way and shouldn't be mixed.

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  • TIL. Kinda cursed. Then again, lots of stuff about language is weird asf.

  • Elon hits the red button

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  • I'm shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

  • My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?

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  • No. That doesn't make you a bad person. Frankly, I think it's awful that she's asking you to, but I imagine she's going through some things herself at the moment.

    I think you have the right take here already- your relationship with your dad wasn't the one impacted.

  • Can I replace honey with maple syrup?

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  • ....can I get that granola recipe? That sounds fantastic.

  • There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them?

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  • The only one that confuses me is “they”, but it’s still refering to just one person. Luckily I don’t know anyone like that, because that one I’m sure I’d constantly accidently fuck up.

    I ran into a person a long time ago on Lemmy that asked that people use 'it/its' as pronouns. Even for second person- so not they/them/you/yours, it/its. Absolutely broke my brain.

  • Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving?

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  • It's not about being open and honest. It's about that not being relevant. Your opinion on how someone looks isn't relevant, helpful, or necessary unless it's directly asked for.

    There's nothing awkward, nervous, or repressed about not going out of your way to open your mouth and make someone feel bad about themselves. You can simply not fucking say something that crosses your mind.

    "Brutally honest" people are incredibly annoying. They think they've discovered a social cheat code so they can get away with being an absolute ass because they're just an Honest Person™.

  • It's a very rare find

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  • Crazy that they removed the screaming from subsequent editions of the Necronomicon. Nowadays it's gone through so many revisions new copies don't even bleed. Sometimes the modern special editions will whimper a bit, but that's all you get.

  • My phone showed 0% battery but didn't die

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  • I've been using exclusively Samsung phones for a long time- is any battery % below 15 being a crapshoot not a normal android thing? I remember it happening a long time ago with my LG phone too, so I kinda just assumed it was difficult to estimate battery capacity once it got low.

  • What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?

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  • Lots of sexual assault allegations. I wasn't a fan even before all of that came out so I didn't follow it too closely.

  • JK Rowling is far more like Elon Musk.

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  • (for whatever reason, my brain remembered this as, like, a centaur and an elf and, maybe, a goblin underneath but I think this still qualifies for genocidal eugenicism, nonetheless).

    You remembered correctly, kinda. The "Magic Is Might" statue was installed later on, but during Order Of The Phoenix in the ministry there's the 'Fountain of Magical Brethren'. It's a wizard and a witch that are being stared up at adoringly by a centaur, goblin, and an elf.

    Which I wouldn't call genocidal eugenicism, but it's definitely problematic in a different way. I think I remember Dumbledore pretty explicitly calling the statue a bad thing, but I don't remember exactly how or when.

  • Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?

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  • It's not unique to Japan/Korea, you can definitely get it in the US. Fryaway is at least one brand of it, but I'd be shocked if you couldn't get others.

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  • It depends? Video can get across an explicit concept easier for me. If I'm learning something that I'll struggle with, I find that video is usually a better bet for me.

    For fiction, I prefer books because it can get a lot more across. It's not even just that they cut corners or parts of a book, sometimes a book will have the protagonist basically run an internal monologue, or just notice something in a particular way that conveys a lot of information in a way that a movie or show can't really do as seamlessly, if at all.

    Video is better for showing details and small things, but I can fill in the blanks myself- I find it really frustrating when authors don't let me fill in the blanks. I don't need the entire feast described in depth to me, I don't give a shit how the pig is coated in honey and the desserts look delicious unless the reveal is that the pig is poisoned and the desserts went bad last week.

  • No need to hurt me, GOG :(

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  • I just went through what's on sale, I didn't verify the release dates or anything.

    Kerbal Space Program is a great time. It's the kind of game where it either grabs you and doesn't let go, or you'll drop it pretty fast.

    I liked Sunless Sea, but then you really just have to give a game an Eldritch aesthetic and I'll probably be there for it.

    The Escapists is a neat game to play with some friends.

    Fallout 4 has some flaws, especially if you're a fan of the previous games, but it's a decent game anyways.

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  • PF2E?

    I've only played PF1E and you can definitely make some broken stuff, but that's kinda the fun part of PF1E. If you take fucking sacred geometry you suck, though. And nobody wants to get out the flow chart for grappling.

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  • I never said anything even vaguely approaching that?

    What do you even mean by "told me from the beginning what he wants to do"? If I'm prepping a fantasy campaign and one of my players tells me, "I'd kinda prefer we do something sci-fi" then I have no obligation to change my entire campaign because a player isn't happy with it. I might still do it, if I felt interested in running that and the rest of the table does too, but imo I'm well within my rights to tell him no.

    If you mean that he wants a plotline of his own then I'd do my best to accommodate that, assuming it doesn't clash with the rest of the campaign horribly. If it does, then I'd just say that and offer alternatives if I can think of any. If I can't, then of course he can still play if he'd like.