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nickwitha_k (he/him)

@ nickwitha_k @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends?

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  • This has also been my experience. Then again, I always had problems dealing with mainstream straight guys, even as a kid. Growing up with untreated AuADHD and being a massive nerd really didn't make things easy. As an adult, it's been really hard to find friends in my own gender/orientation as nearly every one of them that I come across seems to let the mask slip a bit and say or do something very problematic.

    So, I decided to drop that cohort and start intentionally socializing with people in more LGBTQ-heavy spaces. It's done wonders for the social anxiety that I developed over years of doing little but work too much. Now I've got some budding friendships with people from all across the LGBTQ+ rainbow and people encouraging me to be emotional vulnerabile (in a healthy way). It's pretty fucking fantastic.

    I guess the lesson to learn from this is that straight guys should go to therapy to deal with their problems (and learn more about their emotions) and seek friendship with LGBTQ+ people (and look out for and stand up for them, when they need it).

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  • So... Judging by recent trends in AI, this will be used to devalue the labor of surgeons and be provided as the only option available to people who are not rich. People will die from what would get a human charged with neglegent homicide but, it will be covered up and, when it comes to light just how dangerous it is, nothing will happen because all of the regulatory agencies have been dismantled.

  • Ukraine Uncovers NVIDIA Chip in Russian Drone, Turning It Into a Digital Predator Capable of Autonomous Targeting and Engagement

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  • I don't understand how being smart and not needing human input makes these weapons more effective

    Probably a lot about humans not usually liking killing other humans. Humans are more likely to accept a surrender or, miss a target due lack of dedication to taking a life or intentionally miss.

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    Banned for Voting Incorrectly?

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  • Oh, I meant that one can start a new community on the new instance to remove the problematic mod from the picture. Not that one should try to engage in ban evasion.

  • is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else?

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  • If you really want to send a message, you'll want to switch the horse head with a keyboard from a VT100 terminal with its cable cut in the middle of the curls.

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    Banned for Voting Incorrectly?

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  • Eh. I see arguments both ways. Public votes makes it easier to catch bad faith (downvote bots) and manipulation. However, it allows abuse from touchy or unscrupulous mods. TBH, I'm personally more concerned with the bots. Everything is federated to one can pickup and move elsewhere of they're on the receiving end of such a mod.

  • US court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule designed to make unsubscribing easier

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  • For those who missed it, the "procedural error" was:

    When a proposed rule will cause an impact of more than $100M, a preliminary regulatory analysis is required. The FTC determined that the impact would be under $100M, so did not do the preliminary regulatory analysis. The court decided that the impact was more than $100M, causing the "procedural error" after the fact.

    Either it's a bad faith ruling, or, there's even more reason that the rule is necessary as that would mean that companies are leeching off more than $100M from customers through shady and anti-consumer tactics.

  • Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?

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  • Cat in the Hat. Kid's got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.

  • Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?

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  • Cat in the Hat. Kid's got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.

  • I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates

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  • Sounds like the American Baptists should get on that. Then again, they believe strongly in separation of church and state.

    (They're the sect that remains of the original Triennial Convention AKA Baptists, after the Slaver Southern Baptists left because they didn't like the idea of chattel slavery being considered wrong. Seriously. The split occurred because they refused to ordain a guy from Georgia as a missionary in 1844, on account of him being slaver trash.

    The modern Southern Baptist Church, horrifyingly the largest sect of protestant Christianity in the US, is directly descended from them, and it shows.)

  • A member of the Irish parliament says the country should make high-visibility jackets compulsory for all pedestrians and bicyclists

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  • barely any hills to speak of

    Donegal: Forgotten once again.

    ETA - Also Connemara: Cad é an fuck?

    And they always whine about one thing or another.

    Funny how centuries of oppression, being alienated from their native language, and multiple unacknowledged genocides will do that to a people.

  • Trump suggests taking over New York City and Washington

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  • Nostradamus rules. Galleons. So, they're saying that we're bring back the age of sail.

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    TIL the plastic wall plug, used in homes and construction worldwide, was invented by German engineer Artur Fischer in 1958. His simple nylon dowel forever changed how we hang, fix, and build.

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  • Oof. Mine's just under half that and I get that exactly. Went to replace an outdoor step about a month ago, just to discover that the deck wasn't built to code and will need to be replaced. Everything is like that, either because the previous owner cut corners or the place is just old (like doorframes being out of square and changing by how much with the season).

  • Damn she had AI write it

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  • As someone with AuADHD, can confirm that parenthetical statements are likely an ADHD thing (I use a lot of them).

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    TIL the plastic wall plug, used in homes and construction worldwide, was invented by German engineer Artur Fischer in 1958. His simple nylon dowel forever changed how we hang, fix, and build.

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  • Seeing the other comments here, definitely make sure that they are suitable for your walls. What works well for drywall, might be terrible for lath and plaster walls.

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    TIL the plastic wall plug, used in homes and construction worldwide, was invented by German engineer Artur Fischer in 1958. His simple nylon dowel forever changed how we hang, fix, and build.

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  • 😯 Oh no! I'm so used to dry-wall/gypsum board that I forget that lath and plaster exists.

    I'm not super familiar (just DIY) but, I think that you can make a patch that's structural enough to take a new anchor. Definitely would need to be sure that there's enough lath for our to hold onto and likely would want some fiberglass mesh tape to reinforce it.

    Looks to be a bit of a pain (cleaning hole corners, using patching plaster and bonding agent, waiting for cure, etc). However, if done right, I think it would be sturdier than a typical patch in drywall.

    Do consult someone who knows about the stuff though, like a professional plaster person or builder.

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    TIL the plastic wall plug, used in homes and construction worldwide, was invented by German engineer Artur Fischer in 1958. His simple nylon dowel forever changed how we hang, fix, and build.

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  • Makes sense.

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    TIL the plastic wall plug, used in homes and construction worldwide, was invented by German engineer Artur Fischer in 1958. His simple nylon dowel forever changed how we hang, fix, and build.

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  • Thanks for that! Very cool way to show how they work. My problem is usually that they deform prematurely (when being pressed into place). Might be a quality issue.

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    TIL the plastic wall plug, used in homes and construction worldwide, was invented by German engineer Artur Fischer in 1958. His simple nylon dowel forever changed how we hang, fix, and build.

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  • I hate these things. They deform far too easily. Toggle bolts and other metallic anchors are so much nicer to deal with.