Quite so. Isn't there an Internet law that you can never post something pedantic about language without making a typo or other error?
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'could care less' instead of "couldn't". I know it's just a regional / generational difference, I don't really care about being a prescriptivist or that my way is more "logical". Phrases and idioms can be stupid and counterintuitive. But that
'ssaid, it bugs the living hell out of me, and I instantly think anyone using it is an ignorant dumbass.All the time. I sometimes read my phone, sometimes play games, often I'm doing chores (cooking, cleaning etc). Pretty much the only time I watch something 100% is if I go to the cinema, but if I'm at home I can't resist the distractions.
It also influences what I watch. I definitely prefer shows and films that don't require constant attention, so subtitles or minimal dialogue are not ideal. If it's a film that I really want to try and engage with as much as possible, I watch it first thing in the morning, as I'm still waking up. When my brain is still sluggish, just drinking a pot of coffee is enough to keep me busy while I watch. (and yeah, I've got adhd...)
I guess it depends how niche vs on-topic the post is for the community you're posting in. But in general, I don't think I'm going to bothered by seeing the same issue coming up every few months. And if you can find different aspects of o focus on, more frequent could also be fine if it's right for the community. Half of c/android is just some variation on "Google sucks / hates it's users / is destroying privacy", which is fine cause it's true and there's lots of indvidual news items.
None. I don't really understand who's going around getting banned? Kids?
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It's the sort of thing I'd agree to because I hate commutes and that sort of inefficency. But it's also probably a bad idea. It's a lot of stress on a relationship, also it gives weird incentives - what if she no longer likes your son but wants to keep dating him to avoid having to get up early. That's not fair on either of them.
If you do it, would it be an option to offer that she stays a couple of nights each week, on a trial basis? That way she still gets to avoid some commutes, but it's obviously temporary and easier to back out of for everyone. If there's any issues you can not invite her back without having to evict a teenager.
Thanks for sharing that, it's pretty cool! But it's not the one, I'm pretty sure I'd have remembered the "shoots acorns out your hands" power! And more objectively, that's a 3e style class, and the one I'm looking for was definitely AD&D 2e.
Mine was a super-specific and overpowered Dungeons and Dragons custom class for elves, that basically got cool powers from all the other classes. I'm pretty sure the class was called "Knights of Rillifane" and I came across it originally in a Compuserve message board.
As I say, it's not a good bit of game design, and it's certainly not important. But given how big the d&d loving community has been in Internet history, and how 'collectory' they are, it really surprises me that it hasn't been compiled into a netbook or turn up on a geocities website somewhere.
Very much depends on my motivation, my schedule and the weather. Walking much more than half an hour feels like a fair distance, and if it's unpleasant weather then I'd be tempted to take a bus or train partway.
But if it's nice weather and I've got plenty of time, walking an hour to go to a museum or whatever would seem perfectly normal.
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Is this a story you've read but can't rememeber? Or something you've heard about? Seems a weird combination of hella vague and very specific.
What's this? I've never seen yellow dots on stuff I print
Edit: looked it up, intresting and definitely a bit disturbing from a privacy perspective. Particularly that it was kept secret until 2004.
I definitely feel less hydrated. A lot of carbonated waters haver a higher sodium level, so that might be part of it. Or it's just the bitter taste of carbon dioxide.
Ah! Thank you! Not a figure I'm familiar with, but I've heard the name on lemmy a few times.
Is it too early or am I just dumb? They're planning on breaking into a bank, one of the gang is a jug of liquid, with ice... It's a funny in a surreal sense, but I feel like I'm missing something. Ris?
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Why does philosophy education make people uncomfortable?
I wonder if its the age of people you're interacting with now, as you've gotten older yourself? My first degree was in philosophy, and I still read and discuss the subject when I get the chance. In my 20s lots of peers were curious or genuinely interested, and even if they were dismissive, it was often "what's the point of that?" and could get the interested if I started explaining a classic problem or thought experiment.
Older people however, were generally more disparaging and would openly scoff with "why would we need philosophy!" often followed by "[Science | religion | real life] tells us everything we need to know" depending on their particuar worldview.
At the time I just thought that was what that generation was like, but now I'm in my 40s and I feel like many peers are getting more and more like that. I can only speculate that middle-aged people are less curious and openminded, they've come to terms with the world as they see it and they're interested in getting on with things, not questioning the nature of epistemology or whatever. But the irony is that almost all the major problems that occupy so much of our time as a culture have massive philosophical aspects to them.
I've recently installed karakeep (previously hoarder) for collecting images and idea boards. I haven't had time to play around with it so much can't say what it's like, but it came up a lot in other discussions of Pinterest alternatives. Also, you need to o selfhost, but if you want something free and not funded by ads, that's pretty much a given.
Tbh, I also don't know if it's FOSS, but it is free to use and if you self host you can control its access.
I don't think I ever blocked anyone on reddit, but I've been pretty block happy on lemmy. Mostly because it's a smaller community. With reddit, it was easy enough to unsubscribe from the big popular communities and focus on my niche interests and rigorously modded communities like askHistorians. That way I mostly saw stuff that was genuinely interesting to me. And if someone was annoying, they were just one voice among thousands.
Here on lemmy, there's not enough activity to be overly selective, and I actually enjoy the casual vibe of asklemmy, showerthoughts and nostupidquestions. While I'd never visit their reddit counterparts, here the community is small and it feels more personal. But this also means that there's the occasional poster who I'd rather just not have to see. So, to keep my time on lemmy enjoyable, I block them.
I don't really think it's a big deal, I don't even think it's a criticism of those posters. It's really just that the content of their posts / comments are something that doesn't add value to my experience. I've blocked well-intentioned, but obviously teenage, users because I'm not interested in their personal life questions (but they're entitled to ask!); I blocked someone just for posting too many moth memes when I was getting sick of that fad.
I'm pretty sure I've never blocked anyone for disagreeing with me or my beliefs, but if someone seems like their trolling, or simply has such poor social communication skills that they are coming across that way, I'll block them. I generally look at users history and check if I'm likely to miss anything in the future. But invariably, the type of user I consider blocking generally has a bunch of dumb, negative or uninteresting comments and posts.
As others have said, if it's a niche hobby lemmy is probably too small to see a lot of activity. Depending on what you're envisaging, maybe posting on bigger general communities like c/music is more likely to get responses and interest.
But if you are interested in starting a community, go for it! If it's small, there's not really going to be any issues with moderation (or that's been my experience at least). And if anything does come up there are places here to ask for advice and guidance. But the main issue is that you'll probably need to promote the community and do a lot of posting without much response until it grows. If that sounds hard, then just post to bigger, appropriate communities and get people interested, and maybe later a specific community had arise once it's needed.
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I'd agree with the other poster that maybe setting moderation goals would be a really good first step. I guess it depends if you're aiming for less masturbation, less porn, or less specific types of porn. And it depends on what level you currently find problematic.
For some people the problems with the addictivness of porn are linked to the dopamine hits of modern Internet porn, searching for the perfect thing, changing to newer / different stuff frequently. The a first step might be to continue to use porn when you need to, but your only allowed a single fairly tame video that you've downloaded. Eventually it'll feel boring and you'll it's not really just porn your craving, it's the whole dopamine hunt.
It's why vapes work so well for many people in giving up smoking. Nicotine is physically addictive and hard to resists, but also just getting your nicotine without all the other fun parts of cigarettes quickly makes it feel less tempting. It's much easier to give up something meh than something you're obsessed with.
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