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GreenShimada

@ GreenShimada @lemmy.world

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  • It's 2026 and you can only take 1 cup to pay for rent. Which do you choose?

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  • "This looks like the work of a carpenter's son."

  • Something about work / life balance

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  • In fact, they killed him to save money, but still get the labor.

  • Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim

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  • 9 TB of work porn.

    Considering it was Meta, it's probably 90% CSAM anyway.

  • What do you think about the doc Zeitgeist (2007)

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  • Even if you go in for spiritual stuff, it also falls into "saying everything by saying nothing" model of straight to video junk that was common for the time, just better-made and with higher production quality. Its only goal is to get people to not have critical thoughts about it, say "it really makes you think!" to their stoner friends, and then sell another copy of itself.

  • What do you think about the doc Zeitgeist (2007)

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  • IIRC I watched it at some point, and it was boilerplate Infowars era "THEY are controlling you!" and fearmongering as a sales pitch. It's a good reminder that it used to be a lot harder than posting some garbage on YT to make some "90 minutes of saying nothing" content.

  • TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states

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  • *You don't get it back

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  • Well, it doesn't work like that universally, so you might just end up not sleeping again for months. Happened to a biologist and a nurse I knew (years apart, it's a rare side effect). It absolutely wrecked them both for about a year, though. I ended up with panic attacks after about 10 months, so I had to switch off of it. Other people had hallucinations, got paranoid, etc. Apparently 4 guys at Ft. Bragg were on it and got themselves spun up into thinking their wives were going to kill them that they killed them first. Rare but very bad side effects are possible.

    It's worth looking at foods that affect dreams and seeing if anything hits you in a fun way. Mugwort tea (mugwort, chamomile, lavender, hops) can do some stuff. And you might give lucid dreaming a try to see if you can get that going consistently. I've had 2 lucid dreams and they were tons of fun, but I can't trigger it consistently.

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  • I used to take a weekly anti-malarial drug known for giving intense dreams on the first two nights after you've taken it. They would get WILD while feeling cinematic and super real. It was like going through a whole day of events. And someone always died. Always. Not sure if it still is, but it was listed as one of the known side effects of the drug. I think now it's just "intense dreams."

    My most favorite one I've written about before online and so I'd be doxing myself to get into details about which cartoon characters were with me, but the short version is like a level from a video game where I defeated a mini-boss and got a lamp with 3 wishes, and used my wish to go on a trans-dimensional adventure to go kill the main boss. Patrick Swayze was killed.

    A full African safari while driving around in an open-top blue Cadillac. Random person was killed, and it was abrupt - mid-conversation with a friend I turned to see someone get whacked in space between some trees off to my right. Then on with the show. Great day, great weather. Stopped for lunch at one point and everything, I had some grilled meats and an orange Fanta.

    Worst one was running through the mall that I went to when I was a kid (my one and only "mall world dream") and I was shopping like normal. Checking out stores, showing them to my spouse since some hadn't changed since I was a kid. Very much a walk down memory lane dream. Then the ceiling tiles started falling, but not the panels - they were all the bottoms of stone columns smashing down. So it was like some Indiana Jones smashing ceiling thing. Ran from one of the mall to the other, eventually got cornered in a jewelry store where I got smashed and watched the column fall on my face like it was IRL. Woke up literally out of breath and covered in sweat.

    Not the anti-malarial, but I had a friend give me some melatonin once to help sleep, and I didn't realize at the time you took it right before you go to bed. So being an idiot, I took it right then and passed out on his couch for an hour or so. I played a whole game of hockey. I don't play hockey, or even watch it, and it wasn't on the TV. I think I was playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins and we were playing the Rangers. All 3 periods. I felt the ice below me, cool air on my face, the tension of the helmet fitting poorly on me. We won 3-2, but I really wasn't keeping score. Stadium was empty, though, which seemed odd.

  • Fuck that guy

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  • And I promise that future me will be a zen, chill, loving person. Or a dick, life is crazy, you never know how it'll go.

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    1. It's ok to disagree, and we can agree to disagree and amicably end a conversation.
    2. @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 's hostility towards ads is step 0 to using the internet.
    3. @gibmiser@lemmy.world correctly clocks the fact that accounts should be cycled out and allowed to die regularly.

  • The Mullvad ad that was banned in the UK

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  • Total Streisand effect.

  • Bill Gates a no-show at India AI summit, event marred by organisational chaos

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  • lol, and certainly not because he might give anyone there syphilis and try and dose them with antibiotics?

  • What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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  • Emojis - I think you mean stickers? Emojis as a set of characters are standardized by Unicode. A friend of mine has sent me stickers she's taken from photos. Samsung devices also do this within their own ecosystem, but there's not a frakin' class about how to do it.

    Linux customer service is "uh...there's a forum somewhere...have you looked there?" People on lemmy hate when I say it, but paid (not free) Claude is actually very adept at troubleshooting Linux issues.

  • What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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  • Hey, I'll give you $500 for every time I typed "good" in this thread prior to this comment. Take your time and look.

    Then, when you're done, I would encourage you to re-read the original post. Here, I'll help you:

    Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?

    I would never point a friend towards Windows. So that's easy.

    not particularly savvy with technology,

    Let's read it again, OK?

    not particularly savvy with technology,

    Meaning that this is someone who might be lucky to know how to spell their name or tie their shoes. Someone that failed a driving test 4 times. Why make life more complicated for this friend? Especially when, if I'm a friend as well, when they one day follow ChatGPT advice on how to do something inane and delete their boot partition or something stupid, I have to help unfuck their stuff. This is someone that doesn't deserve the responsibility that Linux distros give users. This is someone that doesn't practice 3-2-1 backups. This is someone that forgets their phone in a bar the day after they got a new phone because they left the last one at the beach, but HAS TO HAVE their photos on there or they'll die. They will never get anything repaired. They will never push performance limits (lol), as noted, they gladly spend money for someone to coddle them on using their device because they will never in their life learn how to do more than turn it on, take pictures, scroll IG or whatever, and a few other things.

    This is not someone smart enough to responsibly use a Linix distro in my mind. And there are a LOT of people like this out there. A lot. And sometimes we're friends with them and want them to at least not bother us all the time with problems if they're willing and able to do that with the people that made the device.

  • What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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  • said person is not particularly savvy with technology

    Maybe the rule to be learned is read the post.

  • What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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  • This is what keeps Apple in business - they are very easy to use. Someone with zero technical skill can point at pictograms and open and close things. You could change the language to something you can't read and use most features without an issue.

    it reminds me of memes like this.

    And hey, failing that, Linux Mint. It works at least.

  • What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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  • MacOS if they can afford it. Otherwise Linux Mint.

  • Checkered Background

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  • But I am also transparent about it.

    Am I Schrodinger.png?

  • Checkered Background

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  • OK, now this I can get behind.