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@ dandelion @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Message me and let me know what you were wanting to learn about me here and I'll consider putting it in my bio.

  • no, I'm not named after the character in The Witcher, I've never played
  • pronouns: she/her

I definitely feel like I'm more of like a dumpling than a woman at this point in my life.

Hannah Horvath

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • does buying investments count as spending?

  • This one goes out to Dennis Prager

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  • Trump's transgender mice 🤭

  • Priorities of a good man

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  • cannabis finally helped me grok the Kline bottle, took a lot of visualizing and mental exploration but I got there

    edit: I wanted to pass along the insight I had that helped me, basically to not hold the whole Kline bottle in your mind at once, but to instead look at it from a subjective and temporalized perspective, for example imagine being an ant walking along the surface of the Kline bottle (or if you are an American, driving along the surface). Parsing individual moments on the surface is what helped me inch along and traverse the whole thing, and that spatial intuition helped me finally understand the whole much better ... 4-dimensional objects can be really hard to reason about.

  • Trump is preparing a coup — the evidence is clear if you know where to look

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  • ha, I'm already unemployed, they screwed themselves on that one

  • Americans, what do typically have for breakfast?

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  • for extra fiber I sometimes add a tablespoon of psyllium husk, too

    flax tastes pretty good actually, it's not as bad as it sounds (still a texture adjustment, though)

    psyllium husk doesn't taste as good as flax seed

  • Americans, what do typically have for breakfast?

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  • it varies

    been enjoying granola, some berries, and a coconut yogurt recently

    breakfast burritos are popular if I have time

    sometimes I just drink 14 grams of ground flax seeds mixed into water and a spoonful of peanutbutter

    a lot of times it's just whatever leftovers are in the fridge

    on a Sunday I might make a more traditional breakfast (toast with jam, eggs, sausage, and cooked greens)

  • Do you spend more time on lemmy than you did on reddit?

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  • I spend more time engaging on Lemmy, but I consumed more content on reddit

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution

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  • noticed omarchy is on your chart, what - are you a fascist sympathizer!? (\s)

  • What are the largest PeerTube instances?

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  • I too would like a better account of the servers out there. In the end, I was able to get an account with this instance: https://exquisite.tube/

  • Trump has declared war on the transgender community, leaving Americans to seek asylum — from America

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  • As she waits for a decision in the Ter Apel asylum seekers’ center in the Netherlands, Arc is pessimistic about her chances. She says Dutch government employees have told her they don’t want to “p*** off” the U.S. by branding it an unsafe country.

    She expects to be deported, and when that happens, she fears that the Trump administration will find some pretext to imprison her with men.

    “I don’t want to be the person that makes the Netherlands decide it’s not safe for trans people [in the U.S.], and change their policy,” she says. “But I suspect that one of us would have to get killed for that to change.

    “Which one of us will get to be that person?”

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  • because on journalistic integrity standards, some Newsweek articles are acceptable to use, but by political standards all Newsweek articles should not be shared - there is a moral reason to not drive traffic to a right-wing website and help them profit. Of course that's not to say journalistic integrity doesn't matter, just that it under-determines what is already established by other reasons.

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  • My argument isn't based on journalistic integrity as much as political aims, Newsweek is ideologically committed to right-wing politics and we should boycott them as a result.

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek#Controversies

    In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast.

    maybe don't direct traffic to a conspiracy-peddling right-wing rag?

  • Use this science wisely.

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  • clit.

  • Trump orders Hegseth to form National Guard unit in each state to combat crime, protests

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  • you jest, but the defense of capital is a major reason for militarization of civil society - police in the US were originally slave catchers and private guards for the wealthy

  • Trump orders Hegseth to form National Guard unit in each state to combat crime, protests

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  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • that book was practically written for tv, I think it will probably go well enough

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  • sorry, I conflated what you said about falsifiability being the most popular framework with thinking he did solve the problem of induction, lol - I had just woken up when I responded to you, my apologies 😅

    Popper is great, also recommend Hilary Putnam's "The 'Corroboration' of Theories" on Popper. I admittedly adore Putnam, but it's a nice overview of Popper's view of induction and its problems.

    Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) and his idea of paradigm shifts is also worth mentioning here, and Kuhn comes up in Putnam's chapter, too.