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  • Slay the Spire 2 passes 574K concurrent players, making it the biggest Steam launch of 2026 so far

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  • I couldn't even buy it for like an hour because Steam was getting overloaded lol. I'm playing it now and having a lot of fun.

  • Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"?

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  • The thing that bothers me about the whole discussion around the Epstein files is why do people think THIS will be any different? The rich and powerful have been getting away with heinous and illegal things in public for a long time. Wars which aren't just immoral, but illegal by both international law and the laws of our own country. Gross violations of civil liberties and human rights. Police just straight up kill people and get away with it. Illegal torture facilities. Companies have killed tons of people through either negligence or outright malicious greed. Etc.

    We KNOW about all of these thing already. Some were just straight up done in public, some done in private but eventually got leaked or declassified, but either way, we've had plenty of evidence of these people doing things that should have put them away for the rest of their lives and the worst consequences they've ever suffered were slap on the wrist fines if they even got those.

    To me, the Epstein files are a perfect crystallization of the broader reality that the rich and powerful can use their money and influence to commit crimes with impunity. The idea that they are distracting from these crimes by committing even bigger crimes is just sheer absurdity. Not in the sense that it may be wrong, but rather how it shows how fucking insanely broken our system is. If you can get out of one crime by going out and murdering a bunch of people... what the hell are we even doing? Why do we think any of these people will ever pay for their crimes? The very system that would do that has been corrupted by those same criminals. They're not going to put themselves, their buddies, or their benefactors in jail.

    Something needs to change. Something needs to be done. But the idea that all that we need is for people to see the complete evidence of this particular set of crimes and the legal system will finally work properly is beyond delusional.

  • US Democrats are not leftists

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  • Do you realize how insane our politics are for people to think of supporting a genocide as just one thing on a list of policies?

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • Idk… I’ve had a few pretty shitty pencils.

  • What do you think is the worst human invention?

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  • Other people have good real answers, so here’s my joke answer:

    Clothes and fire. Humans evolved to live in the climate of Africa, then one day some genius had to invent stuff that let them move to everywhere else in the world, and now thousands of years later, I’m freezing my ass off and my skin is dry for like a third of the year.

  • Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

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  • Yeah I shower right after. Shower temp is a bit inconsistent but I try to get it to be warm but not hot. I use body wash in the shower then I do moisturize and then I've been using clyndamycin that I was prescribed for this issue.

  • Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

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  • When you say do sets and groups, do you mean to do each of the exercises one time a day or only one part of the body rotating each day?

    Also should I still pair this with the running? How much could I reduce my running if I started doing these? I'm currently doing an hour. I start seriously sweating after like 15 mins maybe and by around 40 mins I'm usually out of towels.

    Also perhaps this is a silly question: But do you know a good set of workouts that I could do while watching anime? That's what I do while running to keep my brain occupied and part of the reason I stopped going to the gym a while ago was because I couldn't really do more than listen to podcasts, which isn't really enough of a distraction. In other words, exercises I could do while facing towards a stationary screen like a tablet or maybe I could do some in front of the TV.

  • Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

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  • huh. I actually did start one somewhat recently (a few months now) and that somewhat coincided with when I increased my run from 30->60 mins. I do end up sweating a lot on my head, although also on the chest, back, and armpits. Probably not a reason to swap off the meds, but good to know I guess.

  • Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

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  • Thanks. I think I'll at least try the running shirts. At the moment I just use whatever t-shirt I happen to be wearing that day. I guess if the sweat evaporates faster that is sort of a solution.

  • Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

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  • At least for now I mostly just want to exercise in the house. I have some mental health issues and I find that unless I have something to watch to distract me, I can't really exercise for long without getting bored/stressed/mentally tired.

    Perhaps when that issue is better I'll do a wider variety of activities like swimming, but of course weight can contribute to those problems, so it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation.

  • Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

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  • That's not really my concern. The issue is comfort and I end up getting a lot of pimples, which excessive sweat can contribute to.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

  • Do you fall asleep listening to podcast, videos etc? Favorites to listen to?

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  • I started doing this when I went away to college. I think it was some mix of not having parents to tell me to go to sleep, feeling like I needed to reclaim some time for myself when the rest of my day was so busy, and maybe being a bit lonely far away from home.

    I almost exclusively watch HS BG. It’s the right level of enough stuff happening that it occupies my mind while I’m conscious but it’s not something I care about missing any of it and they’re generally chill enough to not overexcite me or shock me awake. Plus they usually have on some generic chill music in the background.

    I set a timer to shut off my tablet after an hour and with only a few exceptions I don’t ever stay awake long enough to see it shut off.

  • Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN

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  • While I generally agree, I think there is some value in imposing some kind of deadline or limit to a project. Nothing is ever going to be perfect. There will always be more work that could be done on something. If you let yourself just keep going until you think it’s done it might never come out.

    But it’s a balance and when publishers push those kinds of deadlines they’re not really considering that.

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    Francis Fukuyama: Don’t Back Down, Europe

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  • So how is the end of history going for everyone?

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  • Instructions unclear. Fucked a vending machine.

  • AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award has its book publication and manga adaptation cancelled

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  • The fact that people couldn’t tell the difference between a human and an AI made isekai is hilarious. This genre is just a sea of slop.

  • Belief

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  • I think I get it and kind of share a similar belief. Most people are “good,” although I’d use a less morally relative term to describe it: Pro-social. People tend to behave in a way that works well with others. This makes sense if you think about it without getting caught up in all the “humans bad” philosopher stuff. One of our defining features as a species is our ability to work together. We form communities, developed languages to communicate, cultural norms and laws to create agreed upon guides on how we behave towards each other, etc. We wouldn’t have gotten this far if we were always stabbing each other in the backs.

    At the same time, there are some unfortunate behaviors and phenomenon that emerge out of these dynamics. In group/out group thinking, an unwillingness to change things if it means causing disunity with the community, etc. And while I think most people are good, there are different people with different personalities, and clearly we have at least some psychopaths who are willing to exploit peoples’ natures for their own gain. Also, circumstances can create constraints on how people behave. If you can’t afford to be altruistic, you might end up acting in a selfish way, although even then that’s not always the case.

    The fact that you can look out into the world and feel bad about all the people who are getting hurt, even if you aren’t personally affected, should already tell you that there is this “ goodness” to most of humanity. Otherwise a) you wouldn’t care and b) all those bad people would deserve it anyway. So that is the hope that keeps me from full on nihilism. Unfortunately I also think that there are a lot of other factors in place which make it increasingly unlikely that we’ll be able to organize enough to survive. Wealth disparities and technological asymmetry allows those handful of psychos to wield a lot of power and it’s getting harder and harder to fight back against that.

    So yeah, I don’t think “people are doomed even if most of them have good intentions” is that contradictory of a view to hold.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • I wouldn't describe myself as a tankie, but I do think I am more sympathetic towards the various communist projects that have been tried in one way or another. The difficulty talking about this is that there is all sorts of misinformation, so it can be hard to have a complete, coherent discussion on these issues. (and of course I know it can be coming from both sides, so it really makes things confusing) What's more important to me though are the interpretations people have of these issues and how that informs their politics in the context of the real world that we live in.

    What do I mean by this? While of course it's important to critique past and current governments, it should be so that we can learn from their mistakes and do better in the future. I don't really want to be defending some atrocity or failure of a state. I want to have an honest and productive talk about it. But in the context of living in the west, and especially the US, the propaganda line is to treat these governments as a complete and unique evil in order to justify both imperialism abroad and suppression of the left at home. They make it sound like their actions are just a continuation of our role in WWII fighting against fascism for freedom and democracy. But clearly that's not the case. The US does absolutely awful shit all around the world and is buddy buddy with various oppressive/undemocratic governments. And this isn't whataboutism. I'm not saying "well we did awful shit so it's ok when they do it too." What I'm saying is that by overly focusing your ire on these left wing governments, you reinforce the idea that the US is the good guy for fighting against them, that even if you have problems with the US, the other guys are way worse and it's worth supporting US military interventions because of that. With that mentality, the military budget keeps growing, we keep bombing people who didn't deserve it, we continue to justify our own authoritarian measures as being necessary for fighting against these existential threats. etc.

    I'm sure for most on the left, especially anarchists, who participate in this, that isn't their intention. They just want a better, fairer world and want to recognize injustice regardless of who does it. But the effect is still unfortunately to feed into the more right wing position on this. You're working in an environment where the average uninformed person you talk to will at best not care about any atrocities the US has committed and at worst will view you as a crazy conspiracy theorist for telling them about publicly available information. Meanwhile they'll gladly join in on getting angry about anything you say about a place they've been told is evil, even if it is a conspiracy theory. You have to consider that when you decide what to spend your limited time and political capital on.

    That said, I don't really know what to do with all that. I don't think it's right to go out of your way to lie about or defend actual atrocities, but how do you manage to do that without contributing to the oversimplified narrative of these places being cartoon villains? How do you get people to not fall for the manufactured consent for war time and time again while still acknowledging the things people treat like original sins that can never be atoned for?

  • Which countries strongly support my values?

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  • I haven’t done enough research to know how well it does in every category, but I was recently thinking of moving to Vietnam for similar reasons. I’ve learned a decent amount about it and while it’s definitely still a developing country, it seems like it’s oriented in the direction I want. It’s been making huge strides towards poverty reduction and while it’s not entirely there, it’s getting close. Similar to modern China, while it has markets, the government does a lot to make sure important things are adequately addressed including stuff like infrastructure and apparently they’re getting close to implementing universal healthcare. They have an unaligned foreign policy. From what I’ve seen, the government seems reasonably responsive to the people. And lastly it sounds like they’re reasonably friendly towards foreigners. I’m kind of shocked they’re not more pissed at Americans, but apparently there are US expats living there who have said they have good experiences with the people.

    The problem with me moving anywhere right now though is I’m super depressed, so doing all the things I’d need to do to move, including learning a foreign language, would be really difficult for me and I’m not sure I’m ready to live without my current support network. It’s kind of stressful though because it really does feel like it might be urgent to leave now. Even before Trump I hated it here, but now it looks like the fascism train is rapidly accelerating and I’m an autistic Jewish communist. I might not be immediately in the crosshairs thanks to me being white, but I doubt I’m that far down the list.

  • Video Game Suggestions @lemmy.zip
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    Co-op games that are good for both experienced and inexperienced players?

  • Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Would you enjoy an edited movie over a story mode?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    If you've recovered from depression, what did it feel like?

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    What are the current best ways to learn languages online?

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    Thoughts on moving to another country/learning a new language?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How to fix discord connection while streaming a game?

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    How to set up a computer mouse to be comfortable?