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AbnormalHumanBeing

@ AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

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  • “essence fluid”

    I guess the Daoist alchemy history is visible there

  • Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything

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  • Now, as much as I genuinely respect what their scientists have achieved with DeepSeek, especially with limited resources and import restrictions on hardware, and how it is Open Source and all - this will most likely end up enshittifying 90% of what it touches, still, just as "AI" like that does anywhere. "Good" to see those dynamics are the same on both sides of the Pacific (and Atlantic, actually), including overvalued stocks from hype.

    Also, is archive.ph down? I tried .ph and .is and both timed out for me, when I tried to generate an easy-to-share link to the article.

  • Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build ‘Freedom Cities’ Run by Corporations

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  • Doctors warn of rise in nail glue mistaken for eye drops

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  • Oof, I know many people will have an intuitive reaction of "how can you be so stupid" - but even without seeing issues, I can imagine myself on a bad day with ADHD active to mistake packaging like that, not noticing until it's too late. Add to that, that eye drops are of course often used because of sight issues, and mistaking it gets even easier. The packaging really should change with some regulations that make it harder to mix up.

    Another reason why it is so great, that the US currently has the ability to create sane and helpful regulations, with institutions funded to design them and make sure they are followed, right? /s

  • Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build ‘Freedom Cities’ Run by Corporations

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  • except that perhaps the corporation has more freedom to trounce upon the rights of the citizenry.

    That is exactly the kind of freedom they are looking for, and don't underestimate the psychology there - it feels like freedom to them, the kind of freedom that allows for injustices to prevail. I'm reminded of an anecdote of Ẑiẑek, talking to a bunch of fascists in former Yugoslavia, where they in no uncertain terms revealed, that it had been tyranny to them to not be able to be violent, rape, plunder, etc. and that the chaos of the breakup had been a liberatory event for them, psychologically.

    Never assume "freedom" is something, that opposing classes and groups in general agree upon when it comes to its definition.

  • Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks

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  • I fucking wish he'd freeze it, probably going to rot away in some warehouse as well.

  • Side Effects of Ketamine Could Explain a Lot About Elon Musk's Behavior

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  • Well…it’s found to effective at halting the immediate effects of severe depression. In other words, it’s just enough to stop someone from going suicidal or worse. It has NOT been shown to be a good candidate for long-term use in treating general depression in anyone, in fact, there’s a larger nunber of studies correlating Ketamine abuse with mental defect than showing it useful in a medical capacity.

    That, and with the resources available to someone like Elon, I am sure he has some personal doctor giving him regular recreational access if he wants to.

    That being said, the article is a bit sensationalist. It shouldn't be ruled out as a contributing factor, but Elon has basically always had that confused arsehole streak to his character.

  • Possible to create custom collections of Lemmy communities?

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    There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

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  • Ha, I knew setting up my own server would attract more people!!! /s

    But it is a great development, happy to see it 😀

  • US stock market loses $5 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs

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  • Basically, it was just that surface level observation. But in our intuitive minds, we sometimes forget, that money there doesn't behave a medium of exchange like how we use it as common proles. In politics and finance, it's a means of power and decisions, instead.

  • US stock market loses $5 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs

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  • More or less, although it's important, that it still very much is a medium of power, as its role as financial capital and/or in national budgets ultimately decides which projects and actions are allowed to exist and go through and which aren't

  • US stock market loses $5 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs

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  • The fact that spooking the market could wipe out such an absurd amount of money, larger than many GDPs - and the economy hasn't even crashed completely at all yet - should provide a good reference for how much of billionaire wealth is actually just abstract numbers representing nothing tangible but raw power over people and processes.

  • Just don't be a dick

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  • Usually, I would squat down, press it against the concrete to put it out, then wait for a few seconds to make sure it's not glimmering any more, then put it in my back pants pocket.

    EDIT: And to give an actual answer - thankfully, it never happened, but I guess there is a very small but technically non-zero risk :D

  • Just don't be a dick

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  • When I was still smoking, I always forgot my little portable ashtray, so I did this a lot. My pants were abysmally smelly - but I can't stand cigarette littering.

  • Authorities: Armed man shot by Secret Service near White House while Trump out of town

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  • Yupp, that's why I added (succesfully) to my plea. Unfortunately, I think you are very right.

  • Authorities: Armed man shot by Secret Service near White House while Trump out of town

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  • From the little that seems to be available at the time of this comment, it feels like someone confused and disturbed, not like a properly planned-out-attempt at anything.

    The Secret Service received information from local police about an alleged “suicidal individual” who was traveling from Indiana and found the man’s car and a person matching his description nearby.

    “As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm and an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel,” the Secret Service said in a statement.

    The man was hospitalized. The Secret Service said his condition was “unknown.”

    Oh, please, oh please, I hope it won't be (succesfully) used for even more repression.

  • I’ve created #Piefed’s first dedicated community to movies!

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  • I understand concerns about fragmentation, but recently, I have been more and more in favour of "why not both" as an approach. Basically: One de-facto "central" community, and many local communities. Main reason being, that this will help the Fediverse grow without losing it's "soul" so to speak. Where - hopefully eventually - there will be those central communities with a reddit-like experience for the topic, and then also local ones, where smaller communities around the topic, without the traps of large, "mainstream" communites, can form.

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  • Besides that material interest, there is also cognitive dissonance because of ideological distortions. If you believe things were fine before Trump, you were already adept at closing your eyes to problems. Including very fundamental problems, which helped to put the clique of billionaire grifters and outright fascists into power.

  • Many Lemmings in Iceland?

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  • Sadly, as I'm not from the US, it would not really help me (in fact, make it harder). Funnily enough, Iceland was actually occupied by the US during World War II - which they did pre-emptively, worrying the Nazis may pull off another stunt like with Norway and endanger shipping from there if they don't.