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pleasestopasking

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  • YSK that Apple makes millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should turn it off.

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  • CEO kissing the ass of the Nazi leader who doesn't even know his name

  • AI is like Temu for thinking

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  • Need to start calling it Simulated Intelligence, because that's what it is.

  • It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down

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  • Very true. But, to extrapolate on Plath's metaphor, you must select the ones that look best and harvest them, dry them to properly preserve them, and store them in a way to prolong their shelf life until you are ready to eat them. Without that planning, they'll simply rot.

  • It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down

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  • I'm so sorry about your friends,. How painful to lose either, let alone both in such a short time.

  • What all would you pack into a mini portable first aid kit?

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  • I've never had a problem with it. Doesn't necessarily mean it's compliant, I guess, since it's all security theatre.

    Domestic and international air travel, as well as things like bringing it into court, sport stadiums, etc.

  • It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down

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  • "I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."

    –Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • What Did Y'all Buy on Black Friday?

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  • Not strictly necessary items, but not brainless consumerism (at least I don't think so). A few Christmas gifts for my husband–baseball caps from store that does made-in-USA reproductions of vintage minor league and negro league team caps. And some makeup and hair care products from a local business that I already use on a regular basis. I kept them hanging out in a cart from a few weeks ago to see if they'd do a sale.

  • ‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says

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  • It had already previously happened to her son and uncle without national attention.

  • Parents, do y'all love your children more/less depending on if they reciprocate it? Or do you love your children the same regardless, even if they hate you?

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  • Do you know why he cut contact? Either what he told you or what you suspect based on your experience?

  • What would be a valuable thing to have memorized by heart?

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  • Not my choice for sure, but since I have to live in it, committing it to memory seemed worth it.

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • If UBI just covered the most basic needs, most people would still want to work in order to buy things and have experiences that are not strictly necessary. If people weren't worried about having food, shelter, and healthcare it would open up the possibilities to do work that is more aligned with their values. For some people that's still going to be making as much money so they can have a higher quality of life than substenance. For some it's going to be something they love or are good at that they don't do now because it doesn't pay enough to cover basic needs. For some it's going to be something with a flexible schedule so they can spend time with their families. And yes, some people wouldn't work at all.

    This is not to say that it wouldn't change a lot about our current systems. Things would change, in some industries more than others. But I don't think it would cause a mass of the population to choose a life of sloth.

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • I think having a somewhat traumatized childhood also makes you want to live as a child freely again

    I call this the "very mature for your age" to "youthful energy" pipeline.

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • I blame them. A huge part of why everything is shit now is because of their unwillingness (as a group, I know there are some individuals who are not like this) to leave things better than they found them. They have pulled up the ladder behind them. They blame us for having college debt even though they're the reason college is so expensive. They blame us not not buying houses even though they've hoarded them and created the systems that make housing so unaffordable. They blame us for not having children while gutting schools, affordable childcare, etc.

  • What valuable resources are out there for men to learn about themselves?

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  • Therapy

  • Humans suddenly gain the ability to selectively delete their memories. How do you use this ability? (if at all) How do you think society would change?

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  • There are some great pieces of media out there that pioneered or popularized a genre, game mechanic, whatever. Playing/watching/listening to it for the first time years after release (whether or not you've experienced it before and had your memory deleted, honestly), these groundbreaking pieces of media can seem very derivative even though in reality they blazed the path.

    I think the television show Arrested Development is a good example of this. Watching it for the first time today is a totally different experience than when it aired because of how much it popularized mockumentary-style single camera comedies.

  • Why do people hate on cosmetic surgeries so much?

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  • The buccal fat removal trend is going to age like milk.

  • What would be a valuable thing to have memorized by heart?

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  • Good to know a few phone numbers even if you aren't at a protest, though. Everyone should memorize the phone number of at least one partner/family member/friend who lives local to them in case of an emergency. Lawyer is a bonus.

  • What would be a valuable thing to have memorized by heart?

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  • If you cook, bake, brew, anything with food and drink.

    Common volume conversions: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 4 tablespoons/2 fluid ounces in a quarter cup, 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

    Common weight conversions: 28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2 pounds and 3(ish) ounces in a kilo.

    And common volume to weight conversions based on ingredients you use. For me: 200 grams in a cup of sugar, 125 grams in a cup of AP flour, 6 grams in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.

    Makes it a lot easier to halve/double recipes, or use a scale for a volume written recipe.

  • What are mundane actions we get to do everyday with technology that would be a superpower to people from before say.. the 1600s?

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  • It's not about the specific year though, it's just that the average life expectancy includes infant and child mortality, which used to be a lot higher in most countries. This pulls down the average but there were still plenty of people who lived to 50-60. Our upper life expectancy is higher now, but not 50 years higher.

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    Drawing water in Procreate tutorial

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    What Procreate artists do you follow on social media?

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  • Stop Drinking @lemmy.world
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    I've spent all day with a headache, nausea, and dizziness