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chicken

@ chicken @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Actually is a great word to start a sentence with

  • YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand.

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  • clapping with both hands works too

  • Good riddance to bad rubbish

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  • AI as a technology sure, Windows on the other hand I think there's a real chance people will stop using it as it continues to get worse and alternatives continue to get better.

  • Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.

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  • Things like subscriptions don't seem like they should take up too much space, so it seems like a flaw that there isn't more redundancy

  • YSK that your gut is connected to your brain. Bacterias in your gut can naturally create serotonin and dopamine. If you have happy gut bacterias, you will feel happier

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  • I think most of that is just because it's really tricky to get right though and there's a lot of medical complications, not because it's impossible for philosophical reasons.

  • Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it?

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  • For the money ones, I think it works because there are many people who just really want to feel some hope financially

  • Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.

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  • If Mastodon is federated, why isn't this recoverable somehow? I thought federation involved making copies of content on other servers, does that just not happen often enough for it to work as a backup?

  • YSK that your gut is connected to your brain. Bacterias in your gut can naturally create serotonin and dopamine. If you have happy gut bacterias, you will feel happier

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  • So are you saying it's literally impossible even with future technology to put a medically preserved brain in a new body and have that be a person that can do stuff and you could talk to, or just that it wouldn't be the same person or consciousness somehow?

    The former seems pretty out there as an idea. There are people whose brains are cut off from the rest of their nervous system and are still alive. The other connection the brain has to the body is the bloodstream, but blood transfusions are a thing and doesn't kill you.

  • When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires.

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  • I overall like AI, but it's not great for making this type of argument because it doesn't offer anyone anything they can really use to update their beliefs about what's true. Any of the factual claims there could be hallucinated, and most are only tangentially relevant to the question of how strong the parallels between the attitude towards computers 50 years ago are to attitudes towards AI now. If someone wants to seriously consider the question, it isn't useful.

    A better way to do it is to use it like a search engine to find relevant citeable information and then make your own case for its relevance. Or maybe in this case just some personal anecdotes would work pretty well, you're claiming personal experience as your main source here and I kind of wanted to hear more about it, having not been there.

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  • I really don't think it's that simple, because our behavior is also a result of habits and circumstance, not just what we enjoy doing. Reading books is something that takes some time to get into the right mindset to enjoy, and it's easy to end up doing activities with shorter term rewards instead if you don't build it into your routine.

    Something that works pretty well for me is reading in bed, before I get up in the morning.

  • I love choice. I hate choosing.

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  • I don't have high resolution monitors so most of that isn't relevant to me but they are different dimensions and it seems to handle two of them fine.

    VR issues are like, the headset speakers not being recognized, viewing the desktop from SteamVR shows a blank screen, and launching VR games does not actually cause the headset to switch to them, they just run in the background. Stuff like that. I guess it would be worth trying another DE just to see if it helps.

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  • Food doesn’t last forever, so you can’t save as much by buying in bulk

    You can get around this by favoring shelf stable staples, frozen foods, foods that take a long time to go bad like carrots and onions. I also have some silicone gallon bags I use to freeze banana and avocado slices, since fresh is generally cheaper than frozen for those.

  • Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?

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  • VPN and domains

  • As Billionaires Seethe, Organizers Say Proposed Wealth Tax in California Is 'Not Radical' | Common Dreams

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  • That makes sense, but I feel like it would be less of a problem for a one-time emergency measure like is being proposed here, because there wouldn't be much opportunity to rearrange things before it takes effect.

  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • Why would you flush before you stand up

  • I love choice. I hate choosing.

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  • What is bad about it? What 'display features' are important here? My main problem with Cinnamon was lag spikes every second or so, though that was some years ago and might not be an issue now. Games seem to mostly work fine, except VR stuff still needs more troubleshooting, but I'm skeptical a different DE would fix those issues.

  • I love choice. I hate choosing.

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  • I didn't want to deal with choosing so I just went with Linux Mint and the default choice (Cinnamon) but it seemed glitchy and I couldn't configure it the way I wanted, so switched to xfce. Haven't felt the need to try other stuff since.

  • Do you make a grocery list, or do you just go to the store and wing it?

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  • I add things to an online pickup order as I think of them, I don't actually go in the store anymore

  • Facing Worlds, the iconic Unreal Tournament map

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  • Low gravity instagib on this map was basically the only time I was good enough at a videogame that people were regularly accusing me of cheating