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  • Yeah, those are both definitely normal Ethernet jacks. Neither takes a phone cable. You should just need a normal Ethernet line.

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  • Hey man, you should be happy and live your best life. Do things that make you happy with people you love.

    Hahahaha, now if you do it, you're just doing what I told you to do like a little lapdog. Stupid sheep.

  • 52 Weeks of Cooking - weekly themed cooking challenge. Cook something new!

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  • Holy crap, the only reason I was still using reddit at all was because of this!

    I thought about making the community myself, but decided I didn't have the time to maintain it.

    Thanks for doing this!! I'll definitely be a contributed. :)

  • Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid?

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  • Man, it looks like sheer laziness that they can fit "Kentucky" into its state, but "Alabama" gets a pointer line. You're telling me that you can't do the exact same thing you did with "Georgia" there?

  • YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"

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  • Yeah, that's what I told my doctor when he said I didn't have unicorn pox. He was like, "that's not a real thing, and if it was I'd have heard of it," and I told him he was just an arrogant jerk. He doesn't know all the diseases, just cause he's a doctor.

  • Popular sugar substitute linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk

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  • That seems like an impressively blanket statement when there's literally dozens of sugar substitutes that are all wildly chemically different. Insane that all of them would kill your mouth and gut microbiome even when they often work in fundamentally different ways.

  • UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

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  • Even in your made up scenario it doesn't prove the negative. Maybe your mind reading didn't work because Apple has a mind wiping device that made them forget. Maybe the crystal ball didn't work because Apple made an even more powerful "crystal ball blocking" device. You can't prove that's not what's really happening.

    So no, you in fact can't prove a negative.

  • Are you using Lemmy / other networks to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?

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  • How many fascists have you killed? Genuine question. Cause if the answer is zero, you have stopped short of killing fascists. Saying you would is no different than the person who says they would care about politics but doesn't.

    I don't mean that as an attack. I simply am pointing out that everyone draws the line differently. A Ted Kaczynski would say a person who really cares about these issues would already be sending mail bombs.

    I disagree with that (as do you I imagine, as I don't think you've started mail bombing people, as that would've been in the news), but he was just as sure of his line as you are. Why do you not go that far?

    To be very clear. Don't mail bomb people. Don't take this as a challenge. I'm just genuinely curious how that falls against the line you are drawing.

    Also, back to the original topic, you said earlier that you can't go to events solo due to your social anxiety, which is understandably difficult, but could you not bring your partner along? Why can't you have that security blanket as you go out to meet new people? Having a partner makes making new friends a thousand times easier!

  • Are you using Lemmy / other networks to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?

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  • I do think there's an element of privilege here. Just because you have the luxury of time and space to be involved in politics and spend a lot of emotional energy in that area doesn't mean that everyone else has that luxury. For the single mother of three, working two jobs to provide for her kids, she probably doesn't have the bandwidth to be super "educated" politically.

    But what would you have that PTA soccer mom do? The bar is always arbitrary. I could choose to set it higher or lower than you. Why is your spot for the bar what it is? I could claim anyone who isn't vegan, or uses toilet paper, or doesn't drive an EV, or isn't growing their own food, or isn't chaining themselves to government buildings in protest isn't doing their part and is actively "contributing to the destruction of humanity." You have defined your threshold of acceptable somewhere short of actively murdering fascists (I assume), so why is that? And what makes your choice of threshold the correct one?

    I think we have a tendency to say, "what I'm doing is the correct standard," in order to make us feel justified in our outlook and superior to the people around us. Is it that others are actually "contributing to the destruction of humanity" more than you, or is that something that you tell yourself to help maintain an emotional wall of protection?

    And, literally all that aside, I think your assumption that there aren't plenty of people around you who feel similarly to you is unfounded. You could make friends by getting involved in a political campaign. I did that a number of years ago, and met a lot of great people. Helped a lady get elected into the House of Representatives. Had a great time and met a lot of cool people along the way. And surely those people would meet your thresholds of "good enough," no?

  • Feel bad for you if you live in the suburbs when the NAZI gestapo starts moving in.

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  • I couldn't source the 48.5 billion for personnel number. I'm seeing a total budget increase for ICE to 30 billion. But still a large number for sure. But that's total budget, not just personnel.

    But look, I agree with the sentiment. I'd rather this money be spent on teachers too. I'm just not convinced that the numbers, as presented in the meme, are meaningful.

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  • It does sound like you've let doom scrolling negatively impact your life.

    I won't argue things are bad, but the reality is that most people are generally decent.

    Sure, there's a lot of dicks out there, but they're very much the minority. They are just overrepresented in the Lemmy echo chamber (and other online platforms too of course).

    Obviously it's hard to say if you're being "too picky" as it were without knowing exactly what lines you're drawing, but it sounds like you might be projecting your negative expectations onto people as opposed to people actually not living up to those expectations.

  • Feel bad for you if you live in the suburbs when the NAZI gestapo starts moving in.

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  • I don't agree with the guy, but it is worth noting that there are around 21k ICE agents, vs 3.8 million teachers.

    That extra funding would probably spread a little thin when you're sharing it with over 100x the number of people.

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  • Fair enough on all counts.

    I would point out that if everyone only made friends with people better than them, no one would have any friends. It's important to pour into others as well as to get poured into. It's how we make the world better. And just because someone is "worse" than you doesn't mean they don't have value. And it doesn't mean there isn't something you could gain from having them as a friend. I've had friends who are "better" than me and "worse" than me make positive change in my life.

    And I know you say you're not in a place to work on this, and I can respect that, but I would say that it's never a bad time to continue leaning forward in a positive direction. And if this is something that's negatively impacting your life, the sooner you work on it, the sooner you'll be less impacted by it. No time like the present and all that.

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  • I have friends with crippling social anxiety. It's a lot of work, and they have their ups and downs for sure. But it's something that they're working on in therapy and making strides on. It is possible to improve and for things to get better.

    I mean, it's hard to say without knowing exactly what you're talking about, but universally condemned likely seems strong. But regardless, you said that you don't value the same people I do. Does that mean you can't value someone with different beliefs than you?

    You say that there aren't any groups in your area that would interest you. What kind of group would interest you? What group, if you saw it was starting up in your area, would motivate you to go out and meet people?

  • Evading suffering is itself a form of suffering

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  • I mean, I think you may be overselling the word "suffering." I wouldn't put "working so I don't starve" in the same category as "starving to death."

    If "suffering" just means "anything I don't 100% love," then it's effectively meaningless, no?

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  • I know mental health issues complicate things, but that's something to work on, not an obstacle that can't be surmounted. I have tons of friends with mental health struggles of all kinds.

    But you say that you don't value the same people I do, but what makes you think so?

    As I say, I was at a local boardgame meetup this past weekend. Not exactly a "party" crowd. And to be clear, there's local meetups for everything under the sun. What do you value in people that you don't think you could find a social group for? What makes you think finding a group you would vibe with is particularly hard?

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  • Fair. The OP you were responding to was about how people cope with loneliness IRL with pseudo-real online interactions, and you responded with how it's difficult to find relationships in person.

    I agree it's not necessarily related, but I the guy above was wildly afeild taking your statement as an excuse for why finding relational fulfillment online is an acceptable cope. It was kind of the topic at hand.

    But, aside from that, I think making new connections is really just about going out there and doing it. I'm 33 and constantly meet new people, so it's definitely achievable in your 30's. Just go to things. Open up Eventbrite or whatever and find something going on that looks like fun, and then just go. There's a whole world of opportunities out there to meet new people.

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  • He's just saying that using Lemmy as a cope for not having IRL friends is healthy.

    But, to your point, making friends is easier than you think. Join groups. They're everywhere. I literally went to a "boardgame play testing" event today and met a lot of cool people.

    Things like that are everywhere. You just got a look for them.

  • Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans

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  • Look, rawstory is a rag, no question. But they literally embedded the video of the sermon. Literally a video of the events in question.

    You can hardly argue they're misrepresenting things when you can literally see the thing yourself.

    Like, what better source than the actual video of the event could you possibly want?