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  • Val doesn't want to go to bed

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  • omg so beautifur

  • Copilot can't exit vim

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  • Launch vi and be

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    :w.

    Ah, a fellow person of culture, I see. It will forever be vi to me. And pico for that matter.

  • Vance says pope should ‘be careful’ when talking about theology

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  • That's not how being Pope works. I know this, and I'm not even Catholic.

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  • "Saggy" has kind of a negative connotation. How about "pendulous."

  • Amazon thanks loyal Kindle devotees by bricking their kit

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  • As Reg readers know, nothing in tech lasts forever

    lol. I'm using a 2016 Samsung Galaxy Tab as my e-reader. I fully expect the pirated epub files I use on it to be readable until I am dead. It is never connected to the Internet, never updated, never anything except a USB connection to move over more books.

    For context if it matters: I have purchased every book on it in physical form. I download epubs of these books so I can carry my library with me anywhere I go and I feel no guilt about this whatsoever - largely because of BULLSHIT like this article.

  • From The Addams Family Album (1/90)

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  • This strip features the character that presumably will become Uncle Fester, who Addams says resembled himself, plus a little more hair.

    He was a pretty funny guy.

  • "Trippy" Reality

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  • There are no interpretations of quantum physics that require consciousness for observation, so maybe you should look a little closer at what it actually does say? You can pick and choose the science you want to subscribe to of course, but it's been making verifiable predictions for a hundred years now. If you ignore it because it disagrees with your preconceptions... well, that's called religion. ¯(ツ)/¯

  • "Trippy" Reality

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  • to say that reality is subjective or something, as if a blood clot in my leg that I'm just not aware of can't REALLY kill me.

    It's not that reality isn't subjective it's that acting as if it is subjective isn't useful for our everyday experience. So we act as if it is objective. But acting as if reality is objective so you can live your life does not mean reality is objective, and personally, I think being absolutely certain that it is objective leads to shit like "Jesus loves you and died for your sins" - not to great science.

    There is a uniform and self-consistent reality

    The great value of science is to give us greater access to that reality

    I'm really not trying to be shitty or anything about this, but science is increasingly showing us something considerably more complicated than that. Science absolutely gives us greater understanding of classical reality which is useful to us because airplanes fly. However, like it or not, science also is telling us that reality is a strange miasma of superpositions and that we actively participate in the creation of reality by simply existing/observing. At the very least, your outlook that it "is... uniform and self-consistent" does not appear to represent what is truly happening, it just represents what you think is happening, which is, ultimately, the point of the OPs meme. Everything you think you know is being filtered through your experience of it and whether this represents some objective reality or not, it represents it enough for you to live your life and feel like it is objective and consistent. But that isn't necessarily so. As wild as it sounds, there may be an infinite number of branching realities and you are walking down only one, and considering it as "objective reality." Nevermind that "reality" is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes - there is no way to determine that what you think you experience as "reality" is anything more than the qualia of a brain in a jar. This is Descartes 101.

    Anyway, for anyone interested in this stuff, there's a great video from Sean Carrol about that outlines the uncomfortable unanswered questions in quantum physics and their implications about reality here.

    Edit to add: on somewhat of a tangent, there's a fascinating book regarding your brain and reality I really love called Free Will

  • What philosophy or movie scene, had a lasting affect on you, changing or giving you a new perspective?

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  • The Matrix really made me understand where Descartes was coming from. When we say something is "real" it's always subjective and cannot be objective. That's an incredibly difficult concept for most humans to truly grasp.

  • What’s the most embarrassing thing you’re willing to admit to online?

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  • I'm always using the word "infer" when I obviously mean "imply."

  • Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’

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  • I know you're joking, but it made me think.

    On platforms like Twitter I never felt seen. I felt like I was talking to myself for the 30 seconds I actually engaged with it (I never could stand the format or the interface really).

    On Lemmy I do feel seen, because it's so much smaller. I know people read what I write and I get way more feedback here than I've ever gotten since (maybe) 2010-era Reddit.

    But important? Anyone who can use the Internet to make themselves feel important must have been a sociopath to begin with because as near as I can tell the Internet is a misery machine designed to make you feel like a dumbshit.

    Come to think of it, that's probably why I hate the entire concept of "influencers" and the human toilets who call themselves that.

  • I am in the fediverse now!

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  • It's actually quite nice, conversations seem like you can get heard and people are generous with upvotes. It's like Reddit was in 2010, but it's been that way for a couple years (for me) now. I hope it continues.

  • AI and bots have officially taken over the internet

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  • And yet not a single word in that entire article about bots being used to post on Internet forums to engineer public opinion, which is certainly what came to my mind when I read the headline.

    The closest it comes is the section where it admits that because they're all spoofing known Big Tech scrapers, they can't actually say how much of any particular activity is actually going on beyond some broad generalizations.

    I can confirm though - my web server was positively getting hammered until I locked it down with fail2ban.

  • ‘He’s lied about everything’: Iran war puts Trump on shaky ground with young MAGA men

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  • How about the thing these dumbasses really pretend to care about - spending? This moron has spent almost 6 TRILLION fuckin' dollars since he returned to office and inflation is through the roof (just like last time you fucking geniuses!) but I'm gonna need a crystal ball to know who they're going to blame it on because he hasn't been elected yet. Whoever they blame, you can bet his last name won't be TRUMP.

  • Was the world always a fucked up place?

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  • It was different, there was more of what at least looked like cause->effect. People were irrational, but not directly belligerent about their irrationality. Round table talk formats didn't seem so useless, there being people who were more learned than you giving useful explanations about what was happening in the world (that made sense). Watching them now seems like the blind leading the blind. The world was more coherent and the incoherent parts of it seemed largely marginalized and sidelined. This marginalization seemed fairly permanent, like you could count on society making progress in science and technology without regard to your stupid uncle's sexist bullshit or your crazy aunt's vitamin therapy and aversion to aluminum cookware. Now all of them are wrapped up in one Super Saiyan called "Secretary of Health and Human Services."

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  • To me, when I see this and I see they called it "pigbutt" I feel like there is a real missed opportunity here.

  • Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll

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  • taps_head.jpg can't scan my camera roll if I don't have one.

  • Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?

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  • Try getting a feather on a stick type toy and pulling it out when he does this. I'd say he wants to play, but doesn't want to engage your actual huge ape body when it comes down to it. In any case, it's a sign he considers you his human. He's really a beautiful cat.

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  • Ranch has more salt than anything and more MSG than garlic, look at the ingredients on a pouch. Ingredients are listed by order of volume. It has more corn starch than onion. It has basically traces of anything else. I know this because I spent not a small amount of time replicating Ranch dressing.

    Although there are a hundred MSG-conspiracy-nut websites that will tell you you don't need MSG to make Ranch dressing, there is no Ranch dressing recipe that tastes anything at all like Ranch without MSG. Full stop.

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    Make Your Own Beans Instead of Using Canned!