Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)S
Posts
17
Comments
312
Joined
3 yr. ago

I'm just this guy, you know?

  • Da fuq? That was hilarious. Also, maybe.

  • Click here to learn four secrets about chopping vegetables your grocer will hate

  • Unboxed?

    Worthless.

  • I happen to have LMDE installed on a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 (Gen 3) tablet. It has a stylus that takes a AAAA (yes, quad-A) battery. Its an i5 or i7 Intel processor, and has a 3k Wacom sensor display. I've played with Inkscape on it and I think it fits the bill nicely, but it's also discontinued.

    Cinnamon was the only DE with DPI scaling that worked worth a damn, and also had good native support for screen autorotation and onscreen keyboard.

    I need to completely wipe and reinstall the system now because I configured my slices too small, and for some reason decided not to put root in an LVM like a sane person would have (it was 2017 tho. Different times....)

    Anyhoo, if you can come by one through the refurb market, I think it comes closest to your spec, saving the no-battery stylus.

  • Sometimes I use nutella & orange marmalade 🤫

  • I'm a junkie for YouTube maker videos and other forms of creative infotainment. I binge on This Old Tony and Farmcraft101 videos, but I also listen to several podcasts adjacent to my (rather technical) professional sector.

    Ugh, and politics. Stresses me out too.

  • The article discusses several classes of medication, and calls out a few brands. Here's the digested list:

    • Diuretics ("water pills" commonly used to manage high blood pressure and some kidney diseases) make you pee.more -> dehydration
    • ACE inhibitors (blood pressure management)
    • Beta Blockers (another class of blood pressure medication)
    • Calcium channel blockers (another class of BP meds)
    • "Antipsychotic medications such as haloperidol, olanzapine and risperidone"
    • "Some antidepressants" which lead have side effects of excessive sweating and repressing thirst -> dehydration
    • "Stimulants, such as amphetamines and other drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder"
    • "Some over-the-counter antihistamines such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl), promethazine and doxylamine (Unisom)"

    Short story longer, if you regularly take any of these classes of drugs and heat advisories are actove, be sure to follow precautions and stay hydrated, avoid strenuous outdoor activities, wear loose, light colored clothing, and consider adopting a neat looking wide-brim hat as part of your summer "look." I'm going to shill for Tilley hats here, because they're rugged construction, timelessly stylish, and are appropriate in most situations.

  • If you've ever played Paranoia RPG (1984), you know how this ends. At least in the game you had clones for when you got fragged by the computer.

    If you've never played Paranoia RPG, you should check it out.

  • They're chocolate curls. You can find then and similar products searching for "dark/white chocolate twists." They're not uncommon to find in bougie cafes, coffee shops and bakeries.

  • I should track down my 2nd grade teacher to buy her a drink, and maybe apologize.

  • I liked this article and wanted to share some thoughts I had while reading it.

    An important thing to remember about grief and grieving is it is as much a social process as it is a psychological one. The process is one of closure and moving on undertaken entirely for the benefit of the bereaved because the deceased is simply not able to partake except in effigy.

    People are social animals, and religion arises out of those foundations. When we lose a beloved member of our community, it starts a period of psychological and social adjustment that, for better or for worse, religions offer a convenient road map and social process to follow. The shamanic figure in a social group (pastor, imam, rabbi, or other spiritual leader) helps to guide that process with rituals that help the bereaved find their closure. The rituals offered by different religions are old and comfortable to many because they are effective for the adherents of that religion, and perhaps also to former participants of those religions. A common element in these rituals is for the survivors to commune with the memory of the deceased, to celebrate a lost loved one, and to reaffirm the preciousness of life, a catharsis that ushers deceased from person hood into the community's memory. The community disperses having partaken in a final gesture of love for the deceased, and sent them on to whatever comes next.

    In modern life, one would hope to experience such death and loss infrequently, and if so lucky might be expected to fall back on those old and comfortable rituals of our social circle rather than navigate that process alone. Unless you yourself live a shamanic way-- living between reality and a sort of ur-spiritual mindset that eschews the super natural-- you'd probably find the closure process more challenging. Most people simply aren't wired to face death, and to counsel others in their grief. In such times that framework and the community around it are attractive, and so thoughts of an afterlife without the hardships of daily life come naturally.

    Saying goodbye is hard, but religion offers frameworks that effectively guide communities through a grieving process towards a stable state of closure. Is believing in Heaven or Paradise or Reincarnation healthy? Perhaps, but maybe only because it's less healthy for everyone to face the alternative alone.

  • Putin can get fucked.

    Shouldn't that be a default position in the West?

  • Hot take. Tell me more about me?