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UnPassive

@ UnPassive @lemmy.world

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  • Side of bed debate - Which side is left?

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  • To avoid confusion, just say driver and passenger side.

    I meant this to be a joke, but if you assume your bed drives forward toward the side with your pillows then it actually works. But if you read in bed with a reading pillow then I guess you probably want to drive your bed toward your feet side of the bed...

  • To Fight ‘Shrinkflation’ France Will Force Retailers to Warn Shoppers: Merchants will be required to put signs in front of all products that have been reduced in size without a corresponding price cut

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  • At this point I just stopped buying chips. Feels like such a waste to fill the bag less than half way...

  • What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?

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  • Guess it depends on the denomination but mine had mandatory missions :P

  • What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?

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  • I don't really see how the thought experiment differs from Christianity...

  • E-bike head trauma soars as helmet use falls, study finds

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  • Just wanna point out that mountain biking, motorcycles, and ebikes are more dangerous than normal pedal cycling. Cars are also a huge factor in the safety of all 4 activities (though helmets don't help very much when you get ran over). But commuting on a pedal bike is actually only slightly more dangerous than walking. People don't often crash a bike without external factors when commuting.

    So my point is, yeah, wear it, but don't worship it. Safety in each situation is nuanced and complicated. Helmet blaming or victim blaming can be an excuse to ignore larger variables like separated biking infrastructure, reasonable speed limits, and protected crosswalks that don't let cars share that time with the person crossing (in my city, right on red, and unprotected left - of parallel traffic to the crosswalk...).

    I often get thanked for wearing a helmet and I always think "wish I didn't need to, but the cars in my city terrify me"

  • What have you changed your mind about?

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  • I was raised Mormon, am now atheist. Regret every conversation I had in high school about gay marriage. And evolution.

  • Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less

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  • Upgraded to a newer camry a few years ago when I got my first "real" job - bought a commuter bike with panier bags soon after and use it exclusively in town. I LOVE my bike. Would sell the car if it were possible to out of town with public transportation where I live.

    Anyway, you can carry a lot without a cargo bike - especially if you have no kids and thereby have small grocery hauls

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  • My wife and I have wondered about this idea. If we were to have kids, we'd want them to be tech savy and inventive, but hopefully not get too addicted to the internet at a young age. There's something to be said about not buying them a computer, but letting them build one, I think. But it's an odd line to walk.

    Definitely will say I was interested in what I couldn't have, but I do think there are healthier ways to fuel an interest. Hope that someday my kids will just want to tinker with my stuff

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  • Yeah definitely some lasting consequence. I'm a pretty good liar, and extremely skilled at manipulating people to calm down. Sometimes I wish I stood my ground better and let there be friction between me and others. Instead I sort of morph into whatever they need, sometimes abandoning my core principals. It came in handy to save my siblings' asses a few times though. But literally just yesterday my wife was video calling her mom and showed her my brand new ear piercings (which I've wanted my whole life, but is a huge no no for men in Mormon circles, so it'll be a big deal when my side of the family finds out) - anyway, I wanna stretch/gauge them because I like the look of small tunnels, so my mother in law says, "they look so nice, but you won't gauge them, right?" And I'm like "no of course not" because I know it's probably a bit shocking to her that I pierced them at all. But I wish I instead said something non-commital like "not now, but I love the look of small gauges"

    Overall, the biggest effect is probably the distance I feel towards my parents lol

    If your curious, I'd describe myself as quite chill, but very reserved. I wouldn't even say I was constantly on guard... I was just a good liar. Got caught for very few things. I have a lot of siblings though (10), so I doubt I'd have had as much opportunity if I were an only child or something

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  • It was more about moral concerns of the internet. Pretty common thing for Mormon parents to do. But yeah entertainment may have played a role, they weren't exactly what I'd call "active" parents.

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  • They were scared of unmonitored access to the internet. And only up to T rated games were allowed, so for Halo I used to trade game cases with friends to hide what I owned. And since my parents were extremely Snoopy, I'd even switch my T rated games around so they thought I was just too lazy to match a game disk with it's case, and never get too suspicious.

    Edit: Programming was allowed, just had to be on the shared computer in our living room where everyone could see what you were doing.

    When I was leaving for college I bought a laptop and they made me keep it in the box until I left. It was honesty torture. I wanted to set it up and stuff but they insisted that our home computer would work fine...

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  • My first Pi got me into computing which led to my software career now. Won it from a YouTube giveaway and kept it a secret because I wasn't allowed to have a computer. Put retroPi on it and told my parents it was for gaming. Coded my first game in Python (from a tutorial). I once put it in a crayon box and used that as a portable handheld. Later. Made a janky arcade cabinet. Sad that my kids may need to use a different brand device. I have no love for public companies

  • Reblog if youre american

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  • New nerves do grow. Muscly/fat/pregnant people have the same skin senstitivity. But there are special function bits that are lost. The Rigid Band has special nerve endings, gone forever. Frenellum too

  • Reblog if youre american

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  • Not sure how badly you want it back, but it is possible to restore. Non-sugically. Basically skin under tension causes Mitosis (skin cells dividing to make more skin) - think putting on weight, gaining muscle, getting pregnant, or ear gauges. You tug the skin long enough and eventually have your hoodie back. The results are surprisingly impressive. r/restoring_foreskin has a bunch of info

  • It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives

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  • Came to say this. Been loving my Trilium instance.

  • Looking for low power devices for selfhosting

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  • Try a used laptop. Cheap, power efficient, built in UPS, small. Can be quite powerful and some are even upgradable