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XiELEd

@ XiELEd @lemmy.world

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  • What do you get recognised for on Lemmy?

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  • Somewhat same here, other than me occasionally browsing and commenting on c/books once in a blue moon

  • What's an example of something that usually goes unnoticed when done well but very noticeable when done poorly or not done at all?

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  • Unfortunately my city has shit waste management so the trash has been piling up for some days now...

  • TIL about this Fediverse software database

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  • Piefed seems interesting! Might register an account there :) Hurrah for the wonders of open source! I'm a bit worried about Ernest though. Didn't he have a bunch of health issues?

  • TIL about this Fediverse software database

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  • Speaking of Kbin, how is it rn? My first account was made on there after all

  • It's truly indecipherable

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  • What war was that?

  • Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?

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  • Mundane things like helping someone carry their groceries from one vehicle to another when we're going down on the same stop. When we're boarded in the same vehicle they enthusiastically pay for my fare.

    I tend to experience it more when I'm wearing business casual.

  • Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy

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  • Increased customizability from HTML and CSS support? Sign me up!

  • Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?

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  • What a pretty DuBb IdOT!

  • Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?

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  • I got tangible perks for wearing certain clothes and helping people in them. It seems like when you dress a bit more formally, people are more likely to think you're going out of your way to help them, and you're more likely to get compensated. That mentality kinda sucks because if you squint a bit, there's a social class bias in play. And I remember a little factoid where someone found out you get scammed less at the dentist if you wear a suit vs if you wear something like a hoodie.

  • Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?

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  • Both, but it's less about looking good or acceptable to others, it's more about displaying a specific image really.

  • Rant @lemmy.sdf.org
    XiELEd @lemmy.world

    When a specific issue is titled with a general question on forums

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? June 10

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  • Started reading Entangled Life. Just a few pages in and I was dumbfounded by how almost ubiquitous and even supernatural fungi is, and how we barely even scratch the surface even with what we learn about them in school, and with our fascination with horror content about fungi like the cordyceps or something. Like for example, fungi served as roots before plants had them, they make microclimates, they have high metabolic ability, in which the book also described as something akin to alchemy... The ability to turn the raw environmental ingredients into a variety of substances, and structures with unique properties. And that's just in the few pages of the first chapter!

    Also, when I started getting into reading this year I got interested in the classics, and had a good time with reading Don Quixote. Interestingly enough, the part with Marcella almost seemed like it criticized incel culture. Also to those who say that brainrot culture is a recent thing and that the past was better, read Don Quixote as it portrays a phenomenon of brainrot except with chivalric romances, which was the pop culture of the day. I also recently read Teleny: The Reverse of the Medal and Manon Lescaut. Damn Des Grieux, you were born for tragedy... Also, I've read the Picture of Dorian Gray, Carmilla, and Venus in Furs. You may see where I've been going if you're familiar with these titles, and it's all about love and passion and, well, a dash of homoerotism. Just in time for Pride Month. I honestly wanted to see how love and desire, such messy feelings, was felt by people who we were less likely to relate to, even idolized in our flawed perception of their orderliness, and whose lives were struck, smitten by it. The twitter post about Rennaissance teenagers comes to mind. What was their lives like, outside of cultural survivorship bias. I might even read On Love after reading Entangled Life if I have the time (unfortunately I have to deal with summer class, so I'm reading as much as I can before my time and energy gets sucked into it).

  • Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?

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  • I'm from the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia.

  • cherry pickers

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  • It's a joke about them being good at cherry-picking

  • Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?

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  • "The most important impact you can have as a consumer is not that the lack of your personal revenue is going to keep the likes of Jeff Bezos up at night. It's that you're providing revenue and a user base to alternative businesses that are struggling to exist in a world where most people just use Amazon."

    I agree! I think we should frame boycotts this way, I can't stand companies abusing their chokehold on the market. It's also a more feasible and tangible goal.

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  • I can still use Stealth for Reddit

  • Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?

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  • Yeah, my mom and I (in the Philippines) saw an American talk about having lots of money quite loudly in a shopping mall. We were put off.

  • Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

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  • I recommend tofu sisig and sweet & sour tofu!

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • What search engine do you use?

  • Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance?

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  • Something similar happened to us in the Philippines. There was a huge propaganda and disinformation campaign on Facebook by the Marcos family (rumored to have partnered with Cambridge Analytica). Which led to people falsely thinking that Marcos I's regime was a golden age, and now we have his son as president.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    XiELEd @lemmy.world

    How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time

  • Fitness @lemmy.world
    XiELEd @lemmy.world

    Mundane Fitness Goals

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    XiELEd @lemmy.world

    Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night?