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I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.

  • feel good wage work

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  • This does work for some people, but my experience was that having my livelihood depend on my passion completely killed my passion.

  • Worker who allegedly set fire to California warehouse compares self to Luigi Mangione

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  • District attorney's quote in the LA Times article this one sources:

    Arson to me is a real head-scratcher. I do not understand ... somebody who is suspected of arson does something where they get no value out of it

    He's only got half of the equation here. People generally don't premeditate actions when they expect to lose more than they'll get out of it. This story is so sad when you realize that this guy got to the point where he concluded prison couldn't be any worse. I don't think that just manifests out of thin air overnight after a couple hard days.

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  • Like 5-10 years ago there was a "subreddit simulator" which would generate fake reddit posts generated from specific subreddits. It was almost entirely garbage, but that time the /r/askreddit simulator posted "Redditors of reddit, what's the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?" probably justified that whole endeavor. Such a perfect encapsulation of the content.

  • New!

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  • idk posting "ai;dr" as a reply is not functionally different from posting "ai" other than needing three more characters to type.

  • Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' as deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz looms | CBC

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  • If either party actually disagreed on principle, we would have heard someone criticize the war on principle and not on breaking procedural norms or not planning the war well enough. Virtually every critique I have seen from elected officials, at least before this explicitly genocidal statement here, is some form of those two. "This war was poorly planned" is only a sidenote observation from someone actually opposed to a war of aggression. It's the most milquetoast opposition you can give to claim you were always against it when things go wrong. No way in hell am I going to accept that they were powerless to stop him when no one will even clearly lay out the actual reasons why this is wrong.

    We know that actions speak louder than words, but if we want to give anyone else in our government the benefit of the doubt we're gonna have to figure out what comes next after words.

  • Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire with Iran, subject to Strait of Hormuz opening

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  • Yes someone needs to warn the Iranians that this administration doesn't always negotiate in good faith, they're clearly not aware of that possibility.

  • PacHub Finally Lets You Manage Pacman And The AUR On Arch Without Touching The Terminal

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  • Arch Without Touching The Terminal

    FINALLY.

  • Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes

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  • Officers now have to decide whether or not to commit war crimes? Wow, that is a dilemma, I wouldn't want to be forced to make that decision. This article does a really good job humanizing their struggle, you can't help but feel bad for them.

  • What was the worst game adapation of a movie you have ever played?

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  • I beat the demo before getting the actual game, the demo was just levels 1, 2, and 10. When you beat the demo it gives you a code to skip to level 11 in the full version. I ended up beating the game after using the code, but I could never beat level 3, so I never even got to play levels 4 through 9.

  • Would you please be quiet? We're trying to enjoy the labor hours & productive capacity we denied/stole from the global south

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  • multiple IVs administered

    Actually yes, people being crushed under inescapable debt should get to enjoy things sometimes.

  • Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

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  • You're right, it is.

    You can try all you want, but you will never get me to read the articles before commenting.

  • Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

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  • 99.9% of people using WINE/Proton aren’t going to have any idea what fsync is

    Speaking, although I've heard the term thrown around a lot. Can I get a layman's overview?

  • What is the best compliment you could receive?

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  • A friend once texted me that she really liked my writing and said "It sounds like you", with "sounds" italicized. It was like she was just focusing on my writing and hadn't even thought through that using "like you" as unambiguously complimentary is a bigger compliment towards me than towards my writing.

  • Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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  • Instead, billionaires are surrounded by people who they can't trust. Sycophants everywhere, who don't care about who you are as a person, but what you can do for them. You're less likely to have people calling you out for things, but you also won't get much affirmation for the genuinely good things about your personality.

    This is a really good observation and makes perfect sense when you say it out loud.

  • If you started a job that was close to your hobby, has that diminished your love for it?

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  • I was really passionate about math for years, and I spent most of my free time on it. When I got to grad school and I had to do it to survive my passion dried up. I think it became harder to have fun when I knew I wouldn't be free to put a project down if I wanted to, and when math stopped being fun I stopped being good at it.

    I passed all my coursework and exams but I burned out before finishing my dissertation and dropped out seven years into my phd program. It's six years later and I still barely touch it. I passed qualifying exams in algebraic topology and today if you asked me to compute a homology group I'd be clueless.

    I'm not going to discount that monetizing your passions works for some people, but the experience of finding out you're not one of those people is soul-crushing.

  • Trump rejects efforts to launch Iran ceasefire talks, sources say

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  • Iran, for its part, has rejected the possibility of any ceasefire until U.S. and Israeli ‌strikes end

    Does this need to be said? Should I have expected otherwise?

  • Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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  • There should be an AI helper to pet and play with my cat, that way all I need to do is buy food and pay vet bills and clean the litter.

  • Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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  • I do play some video games and I guess this is nice, but what I really enjoy is listening to music. When am I gonna get an AI helper to listen to songs for me so I can get that done in peaceful silence instead?

  • LumenTale, a monster collector that delivers what matters most: strong monster design

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  • Monster Sanctuary is your best bet for hitting those points. The game is pretty lackluster in a few ways (graphics, storytelling) but the gameplay is really well-designed and that's been enough to get me to come back to it a few times.

  • Hockey @lemmy.ca
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    The Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award is probably the one award a player on my team can win while making me feel fully indignant about the selection.

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Man I'm comfy in bed and really want to sleep but I just thought of a task that will only take me a couple minutes to accomplish.

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Campaign mail we got in our mailbox last week mailed by a Trump-linked PAC. We live around an area of Michigan (Dearborn) that has a significant muslim population.

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Realizing that my cat spent months teaching me he likes head massages.

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Error with recent deepin-icon-theme update, how should I address this?

  • [Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemm.ee
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    Searching to find a barber after recently moving. I love this.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    I'm working on a screenplay for a remake of Castaway, but I'm considering not using a volleyball this time. Give me your best casting ideas for which inanimate object should play Wilson.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Relationship advice?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Stackexchange sites tend to be pretty reliable for any questions you can't find answers to with a simple search

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Grainy photo of my cat sleeping sitting up

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
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    Screenplay for ninety-second trailer of a Christmas-themed horror movie

  • Libre Culture @lemmy.ml
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    What do you guys recommend for language learning from scratch?

  • /c/showerthoughts @lemmy.ml
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    Star-ratings for online reviews would probably be actually helpful if you just excluded all the five-star reviews from the calculations

  • Friend Ship @lemmy.ml
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    Looking for an instant messaging friend! (XMPP or other)

  • Sci-Fi @lemmy.ml
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    I came up with a sci-fi thought experiment/writing prompt - thoughts?

  • casual @lemmy.ml
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    I just woke up from a silly dream and feel the need to share

  • cats @lemmy.ml
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    Helping a cat work through past trauma?

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
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    My screenplay idea for a horror movie titled “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt”

  • A place for everything about math @lemmy.ml
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    My first paper as a recreational mathematician

    arxiv.org /abs/2103.03105