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XeroxCool

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  • This helps me sleep. Does this sound pleasant to listen to if someone was snoring like this in the room with you?

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  • Humans adjust to lots of things as their shelter proves to be safe. People can sleep in cars, on planes, on trains, with music, with snoring, with white noise, with rain, with wind, with frogs, with crickets, with all different sounds. It's only when the noises change that we awake. I can't say my partner's snoring is pleasant, but it doesn't keep me awake. Other things can keep me awake and make me frustrated at their snoring, but that's not fair to them as it's not the true cause. So if you do find that snoring present, I hope it's a sign you're very comfortable with the person making the sound.

  • Study highlights stroke risk linked to recreational drugs(Cannabis, Cocaine and Amphetamines), including among young users

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  • What exactly is "mental impairment" in that chart? Is it permanent impairment or does it include temporary impairment, as in, being high as intended? LSD and Mushrooms sure look enticing with the UK's endorsement, but I'm not clear on their "health, mental impairment, and dependence" concerns

  • What is your favorite bit of childlore?

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  • These video game ones now have me wondering if anyone else was told they could unlock extra characters in Super Smash Bros (N64) by clicking certain names in the credits.

    We had various rules about how to do a "snow dance". Something about wearing pajamas and walking around a pillow to get school canceled.

  • What is your favorite bit of childlore?

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  • Could it be an onomatopoeia of the ringing/shimmering sounds sometimes used? Like an alternate of "ding"?

  • How do you intake caffeine and how much?

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  • I somewhat recently found out my SO thought boofing was just chugging. The revelation and explanation changed the meaning of a decade of jokes in an instant.

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    YSK that coffee is healthy. Starbucks is not real coffee. It's trash.

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  • Go sit at a Starbucks with your "just a plain, regular coffee, none of this Frappuccino half-caff double-whip soy latte crap" order. You'll see plenty of men grabbing the same coffee milkshakes as women. They're all attracted to it the same way they're all attracted to milkshakes: for being a tasty drink. The only difference is some men are embarrassed to admit it's fine to enjoy a Frappuccino. Or a sweet cocktail, for that mater. And yet, if you make a sweet, fruity, caffeine drink but put it in a scary container, suddenly it's manly to drink Monster, right?

    It's really not that complicated.

  • Oil surges above $110 a barrel; Trump says 'small price to pay' for defeating Iran

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  • Either not ready, not actually an appropriate oil, or being competitively marked up to compete with Iran

  • Mar-a-Lago Gunman Was a Trump Supporter and Angry About Epstein Files

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  • There is constant mental gymnastics to pretend these MAGAs are anything but actual MAGAs.

  • Florida prisoner had sex with woman in porta-potty at sheriff’s BBQ: Complaint

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  • It's news because Florida immediately publishes all charges and mugshots and people latch onto that. Florida doesn't have an excessive amount of crazies, they just air their dirty laundry and people latch onto it. You're seeing it because people are voting and commenting on the absurdity

  • What balance do you find between constantly bettering yourself, vs just chilling?

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  • Oh look, it's another me.

    First off, forget those self help social media posters. Many are full of shit trying to make money off your purchases of their classes. If they sound batshit, they're not a good fit for you.

    I've attempted hundreds of projects. Most don't come through. Many are ongoing. Many are in the forgotten abyss. I used to be sad about all of that. I'd find parts to a project that got superseded by a totally different design. I still find project parts to vehicles I've sold. Games I've forgotten, games where I suddenly stopped 20% through, "worthless" games where I've got hundreds, maybe thousands of hours. I used to be sad about not paying proper respect to great games and instead falling for quick match or battle Royale types.

    The root of the sadness is similar to yours: we have finite time. Gotta make the most of it, right? Play the best games, create the art I dream of, build the best version of my car the community has ever seen, ride the most miles on the bike, see the most mountains, try the most beers, have the most nights out.

    Not so much anymore. I have finite time to experience things, but I also have a finite rate of consumption. I do not have time to do it all. When I was younger, living with my parents or living in a low maintenance apartment, the world seemed so open. It seemed so devoid of me. Moving into a house of my own was like the dolly zoom moment of my life. Partly because I came face to face with all my incomplete projects and forgotten hobbies as I properly packed them at my parents'. Partly because so many of the "must do" house projects are still not done, not even prioritized, 3 years later.

    And yet, the world has not ended. I'm not a failure. I'm still enjoying things. But I have limited time for pleasure and limited money to do so. I cannot do it all, and that's fine. I say yes to what I can. Does it really matter if I don't make a drawing because I gave a new album a full listen-through? Does it really matter if my car isn't the most special build because I took the bike for a dozen rides instead? I'll do what I can when I can. I still have what I consider to be a high productivity drive, but I worked to be more satisfied with what I have done and less critical of what I haven't done. I'm not lacking in these fun things because I'm lazy, I'm lacking because work and sleep take more time of my life than anything while chores/repairs/errands eat so much of the rest of it. It's not my fault, and it's not yours either - especially with you 65hr work weeks.

    Actually, let me repeat that: it's not your fault, especially with your 65 hour work weeks. Being bored at your job puts the mental restlessness into overdrive. That does not help you feel accomplished with these other interests because I'm sure you aren't getting into them as deeply with what little time you have left in the day.

    It's OK to relax. If you're in a comfortable situation, your life is healthy, your home is secure, and you relationships are maintained, then anything else is a bonus. There's no wrong way to relax. Theres no wrong way to have fun. There's no way to be perfect so sometimes, relaxing is the best way to better yourself.

    PS: books sit somewhere between video games and movies, but not in a line. While I certainly struggle to read at times I'm not trapped in a plane, there's a good chance you haven't tried the right book. You don't have to read the great dramas or the cleverest mysteries. My gateway was Revelation Space, largely because my visualizations and feelings were rooted in 1,000 hours of the game Elite Dangerous. The quasi-personal experiences in the game had some decent overlap with the voids of space and desolate planets, devoid of life. Not that close, but close enough when a plot less game gets paired with the excellent descriptions of an author.

  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • "Unfortunately, AI models are neither smarter nor more sympathetic than the average 4chan user. They're about as susceptible to astroturfing operations, too"

  • Have you ever traveled solo? How was your experience?

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  • Yeah, because of the Albanians in Paris featured in the documentary Taken

  • LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

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  • I can't believe this product, modeled after humans, would lie and cheat like humans

  • Just don't...

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  • Love and familial attachment is forbidden by the jedi, so loving him like a brother says his opinion of Anakin is that he's garbage

  • We make a Lemmy user union that's entire purpose is to downvote all posts that feature black text on a white background instead of white text on a black background.

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  • Every time I look away from dark mode Lemmy and it's excess of text, I see stripes. Maybe it's not the way

  • Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon”

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  • Born too early to die in the crusades

    Born too late to die in the crusades

    Born just in time to die in the crusades

    I somehow didn't expect this to turn into a Christian Armageddon ploy. I thought we all agreed all that matters is oil

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • I've played D&D and can't follow half the BG3 conversations either. Names of places and characters have no intrinsic meaning. I find it to be a major pain in the ass to manage my own character's abilities, let alone ~8 in total. Yes, there's auto/suggested builds so you don't have to choose everything, but it's still difficult to remember how to utilize everyone. Plus, all that freedom of choice means freedom to pigeon hole yourself into some situation - unintended consequences, missed opportunities, that sort of thing. Yes, that's great for roleplay, depth of game, replayability, and all that, but I just don't have the time to get into that anymore.

    Still playing tho. Took me like 20 hours to get into the swing of things. That's also about how long it took me to get comfortable with Elite Dangerous, actually. But the 1200hrs in THAT game certainly paints a different picture about enjoyment

  • ‘Several’ US fighter jets crash over Kuwait, military confirms

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  • Have you seen others to compare? I've seen both the Blue Angels (F/A-18s) and Thunderbird (F-16s) and both feel the same when #6 sneaks away to shock and awe you from behind at Mach 0.8 while the noob does a near-stall smile and wave routine in the main stage

  • ‘Several’ US fighter jets crash over Kuwait, military confirms

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  • F-/15/E = Female/15/Epsteins Island

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
    XeroxCool @lemmy.world

    trying to remember how to draw // remembering I never figured out how to draw people

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    XeroxCool @lemmy.world

    Watching "They Live!" has opened my eyes to how often the movie is referenced, as if I put on the same sunglasses