Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)P

partial_accumen

@ partial_accumen @lemmy.world

Posts
2
Comments
1771
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

    Jump

  • Vote with your wallet (wherever possible)

    The last large airline to NOT charge for checked bags in the USA, Southwest airlines, has switched to charging for bags.

    Oddly the ones that have the best outcome for the deplaning scenario from this bad situation of paid checked bags are the ones that also charge for carry ons like Spirit or Frontier in the USA. So there is an incentive to NOT bring a carry on because you'll be charged for it and instead just pay to check a bag (which has more capacity).

  • What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?

    Jump

  • If you haven't used free Over-the-air TV these days you might be surprised that most cities have a few dozen channels of live TV right now. If your in a large metro area get the simplest of cheapest TV antennas, plug it into your TV, and do a channel scan. You'll be surprised how many channels there are now.

    If you're in suburbs or rural, you'll still likely have quite a few but may need a more substantial antenna.

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

    Jump

  • it’s with one shoulder bag I usually just shove under my seat,

    That isn't an option for those afflicted with long legs.

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

    Jump

  • Blame the airlines for that. Some are still allowing free carry on, but charging $75 for a checked bag. This is entirely a problem created from airline greed.

  • Is anyone else missing the feeling of being in the moment and enjoying the thing you are doing?

    Jump

  • Ah okay, thats a different problem, with different a solution.

    On its surface you're expressing you don't have permissions to just enjoy the moment, that there is some other pressing issue that you should be putting your attention to instead.

    Instead what you have is a budgeting problem. Except our scarce resource isn't money, but time. There are only so many hours in a day, and if you let it, an infinite number of tasks to complete. Knowing that you can only do so much in a day, and only a fraction of that time can be spent on "productive" activities. You have to give time to yourself or you'll go nuts. So first, decide how much time of the day (outside of work and sleep) you are going to put to "productive" activities. That number can't simply be all the waking hours that aren't sleeping, working, or eating. Be realistic. Then along with that budget time to slack off where your only responsibility is no responsibility. If you are daydreaming during that slack off time, you know there's nothing else you should be doing. The thing you should be doing is slacking off.

    More pragmatically, instead of having a daily time budget, have a weekly one. You can work yourself hard one day if it means allowing yourself a longer continuous slack off time later in the week.

  • Is anyone else missing the feeling of being in the moment and enjoying the thing you are doing?

    Jump

  • Has anyone else felt this way about not being in the moment when doing things?

    I kind of have the opposite. Sometimes I have to fight myself from losing myself to the moment, exploring all the permutations of thought of what is happening in the moment, what its implications are, what else would compliment it or sour it, how others around me are experiencing it (or ignorant of it), the visceral experience, the light/texture/smell/temperature, the infinite possibilities of the circumstances of the moment and every branch the next second could follow. Then I realize I've been daydreaming again, and have to drag myself back to the toned-down reality of what life chore I have to do next.

    You mention several things in your live that distract you (doomscrolling, steamdeck, etc). Those offer someone else's prepackaged experiences for you to consume, which is their purpose. Distraction. There's nothing wrong with those, as long as they aren't consuming you all the time.

    Can I ask if you allow yourself to daydream?

  • Florida Mom Mad After Raw Milk Got Her Kid Sick And Ended Her Pregnancy!

    Jump

  • Rachel probably stopped paying attention to the importance of "for animal consumption only" when she started self medicating with horse paste to cure her COVID infections.

  • NSFW Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I don't drink alcohol or use tobacco/nicotine in any forms. As to why, I simply don't enjoy the experience of either. When I was a teenager I was offered and tried a cigarette. I hated the tobacco smoke flavor, it made my lungs hurt, and I didn't like headrush feeling. For alcohol, I drank a few times as a young adult and even got drunk a couple of times. I didn't particularly enjoy that mental and physical experience either. Even after that I drank beer a few times socially, but realized I wasn't doing it because I liked it, but to "fit in" or impress other people.

    While still in my early 20's, I realized that if the only way those people would like me or associate with me was because I would drink, I didn't need them in my life. I stopped drinking entirely, and I'll admit at the beginning I did get socially pressured, but when I didn't relent, no one ever got upset with me nor did I ever lose any friendships because I didn't want to drink. I made it clear then, as I do today, that I don't care if anyone else wants to drink, even if that drinking is around me. I have no judgment on them for what they choose to consume (as long as they aren't hurting others in doing so). I will even buy alcohol for people I know that drink as gifts, because I know it is something they enjoy and thats what gifts are for. I have a decent collection of unopened bourbon bottles that I've never even tasted. I can get some uncommon bottles now and then. I've never had someone complain about getting a nice bottle of bourbon.

    I will say I don't really like hanging out with smokers in confined spaces, but that has nothing to do with a judgment about their personal choices. I just don't like my clothing and hair smelling like cigarette smoke after hanging out with them.

    GenX BTW.

  • Removed

    Do you think the trans-movement is starting to fizzle out?

    Jump

  • Your very first interaction on Lemmy with this account is to ask this insulting question?

  • Is there an actor you can't stand? Do they have any exceptions?

    Jump

  • I generally hold the same negative opinion of Leto as you, but was surprised that his acting in House of Gucci was pretty decent.

  • Is there an actor you can't stand? Do they have any exceptions?

    Jump

  • I liked him a lot in "Spanglish" and "Reign Over Me."

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Isn't the real joke that that interns aren't really getting hired anymore?

  • Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

    Jump

  • To put it in simple terms, Savor says they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heat them up, oxidize them and get a final result that looks like candle wax but is in fact fat molecules like those in beef, cheese or vegetable oils.

    So their process sounds like it creates synthetic lard, not butter. This can still be a good thing as the extra ingredients to make it "butter" aren't really the hard/impactful part of butter.

  • Meanwhile, on Omicron Ceti III

    Jump

  • There were something like 3 episodes that same season that all had twisted utopian civilizations controlled by something else. That one the "of the body" one with Landru.

  • Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes'

    Jump

  • Understanding how LLMs actually work that each word is a token (possibly each letter) with a calculated highest probably of the word that comes next, this output makes me think the training data heavily included social media or pop culture specifically around "teen angst".

    I wonder if in context training would be helpful to mask the "edgelord" training data sets.

  • Vintage

    Jump

  • Its on the side. You can kind of see it in your picture. I have a C64 within arms reach.

    Bonus points if you had a mouse to use with GEOS:

  • I didn't particularly like this explanation

    Jump

  • Babylon5 was much closer to that that Star Trek was.

  • Sorry I annoyed you with my FRIENDSHIP

    Jump

  • Sorry friend, I just got online to recharge my social batteries, not drain them further when they're already near empty.

  • Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

    Jump

  • I just checked my Librewolf settings:

    This stuff is ml chat is off by default.