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amio,

Holy Jesus, what a color scheme.

amio,

Venlafaxine is an SNRI, it not only messes with serotonin but also norepinephrine. Made me anxious (likely because of the noradrenergic fuckery) and the withdrawal was a fucking BITCH.

amio,

The Endut hoch hech of polandball

amio,

It's Poe's Law in action. I'm mostly fairly accepting, but that is a straight up caricature and joke. Not one in particularly good taste, either.

amio,

Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch waggle bagga?

amio,

If you're getting tachycardia to the point where you get symptoms (difficulty breathing, chest pain, dizziness, vision disturbances, pallor or anything like it), check it out some more. Plenty of benign reasons for tachycardia but then again, some aren't.

I'm not saying this to freak you out, but wearing a Holter monitor for a bit might be a good idea. It's sort of like a long-term EKG that helps diagnose intermittent issues.

amio,

Some breathing treatments push the same buttons adrenaline does. Kids can have pretty fast heartbeats without it being bad, your "max" heart rate exercising etc. famously goes down as you age. Must've been scary, though.

amio,

Mine were a bit less acute than most cases here. It doesn't rank up to the kind of emotional trauma other people ITT have been through (though I'm not a complete stranger to that, either) but mine was when I realized my health is going to prevent me from ever doing what I want to and getting my shot at a reasonably happy life.

The slow dread of realizing decades of miserable, exhausting, bitter, mostly hopeless, unappreciated effort is void, and has been a complete waste - realizing that things "working out" is not really on the table anymore, and neither's anything else, much: all you can do is keep existing. That is easily #1.

Or realizing friends and family didn't have my back the way I thought and might actually join my list of a zillion problems. That was pretty scary.

Distant third, near misses in traffic - but frankly, I've had a stronger reaction from losing my fucking house keys. Almost got hit by a tram. Meh. Would've lost my appointment, I'm sure. Some shitheel trash in a BMW (because of course it was) tried scaring me by pretending to hit me while out for a walk, I'm like "😐 ... yeah? Make my day - in fact, throw it in reverse and get a proper run-up, you little bitch".

amio,

Today I learned there's a library tab. I clicked in on it and am sure I've never seen that before.

amio,

Yes, I use both pretty heavily. But they're right there in the same menu, what's under Library just seems like a less useful version of what I want.

amio,

I've only ever used NewPipe on the phone, can't be bothered with the ads.

amio,

What a horrible day to have eyes.

Do you think lemmy would be as popular as reddit?

Hi, do you think lemmy would be as popular as Reddit ? I mean, many subreddits have much more posts compared to communities on lemmy… sometimes I scroll through Reddit sub top of month and see no end. At lemmy mostly I see 10 posts monthly… I do like concept of moving to lemmy, but it might make no sense if people’s are no...

amio,

No, it likely won't be as popular. Might be pretty quiet in general, unless (until..) Reddit shits the bed again or something else happens to boost adoption.

I think maybe the design isn't working ideally, it's relatively complicated stuff and "federation politics" makes it infinitely worse. I think it's going to be a hard sell for casual users.

Of course, I don't think the place is dying off completely any time soon, either. (And the "bunch of nerds" era which we're at, relatively speaking, was arguably the least sucky Reddit period anyway - you can't have Reddit's user count without a large helping of extra toxicity coming with it)

amio,

"Sux" is already shorthand for a drug, hardly even need to ligmafy anything with medical lingo

amio,

These fucking clowns just can't maintain their documentation properly.

(There ya go, my line of work is only one of probably a zillion this'll fit)

amio,

Unfortunately, most tech is ultimately circus rigging tech

amio,

I appreciate the dunk on capitalism as much as the next guy but this feels kinda [...]

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gamingonlinux, to random
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

Erm...so I was blocked from using Discord apparently wtf?

amio,

@gamingonlinux Looks like it's just a cloudflare hiccup. I've had some weird discord behavior today too.

Are attention spans actually shortening?

So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...

amio,

jew sonic game

I don't know about you, but I loved that game. The Green Hava Nagila Zone was the best.

amio,

It's arguably used wrongly on Discord, but not in a way that's radically different from how I already thought about "servers" in the sense of "something you connect to".

It seems more like a term they picked because it has that familiar sense. Otherwise I think there's a semi-official term, "guild", too.

amio,

I don't think it's about the term, "server" and "instance" both make sense to me. The issue is that the fediverse itself is pretty confusing.

The basics? Great: it's vaguely "IRC but persistent", all good.

But for starters it's hard to keep track of which instances actually exist - new ones pop up and old ones die at the drop of a hat.

Then there's differences in feature sets (lemmy vs kbin and whatever else) that happen to be ActivityPub compliant or whatever. kbin notably doesn't federate downvotes, for example. And all this software is still relatively immature.

Then there's the actual "who federates/defederates whom and why" debacle. This results in a lot of obvious and some less obvious visibility issues.

Then there's (other) individual instance politics.

Then there's the "meta" about all of this, which is getting confusing.

A couple of these will have parallels on e.g. Reddit - I assume this is the natural comparison to make and will keep being so for a while - like sub drama and the relationship between subs. But because the FV has this at the instance level, (and each instance has many "subs",) it's a whole level up in complexity.

Then there's how all of this makes for a pretty un-reddit-like experience - and Reddit is not the king of polish, either. While Reddit has duplicate subs, it doesn't have a design that almost automatically causes them to be created and distributed, across instances without actually correlating them afterwards. The end result is that subbing or blocking any one community will likely involve doing that manually on several instances, which is stupidly inconvenient. Also discoverability is much trickier which is worsened by the low activity.

My point is: call it what you want, but a) I don't think that's where the confusion is coming from - that's just the fediverse being confusing (and outright clunky in many regards), and b) obligatory XKCD "Standards".

shanselman, to random
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#diabetes, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!?

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amio,

@awax

No, there are two entire kinds of internal defibrillators, in addition to the external ones. One is just for surgery etc. when they have direct access. The other is an ICD - implantable cardioverter-defibrillator - that's meant to detect and correct conditions sudden arrhythmias etc. in people with heart disease.

amio,

"Have a day." - Starbucks

Now that's something to give you a big ol' case of the fuck yous.

amio,

People downvote the weirdest shit for the weirdest reasons sometimes.

amio,

Jumping down someone's throat about it is stupid - unless they're being malicious, then jump away and tear whomever a new one. They aren't technically wrong, though. "They" is an ideal word that's been correct in both the singular and plural sense for centuries. Given more recent social developments, it's an easy way to be inclusive and not "risk" being wrong.

(I'm assuming you used literally "he/she" to refer to someone of unknown gender)

amio,

Sure. But also, I was a 90s kid too(?) - computers were boy stuff, dont'y'know, and girls should go play with dolls instead. Pedantically, I don't think it was correct to use when unknown, it was just that the "chance of being wrong" was a lot smaller because we really did assume "anyone in position X has to be a man" a lot more the further back you go. Even if it's just the 90-00s.

My daughter's public school in Indiana is having "Hawaiian Day" today. That's offensive, isn't it?

I dropped her off this morning and saw girls (and boys) wearing grass skirts, some of them with coconut bras too. I’m not sure what else is going on, but it doesn’t seem very respectful of a native culture that we have seriously fucked over. Would they have a “Native American Day” and let kids come in wearing feathered...

amio,

Or am I reading too much into it?

Yes? I'm not American, so to me it seems like you guys tend to do that a lot.

"Oh no, this word was once used in a derogatory fashion, can't use that! Better start using some new euphemistic wor- oh shit, the new word is already also being used derogatorily, better start using some new euphemis- oh crap, that was fast, better just call it - oh, gawrsh..."

I mean, I'm not claiming it's a US specific thing. But you're damn good at it.

amio,

That's very subtle. Well done.

amio,

Certainly by a greedy one. Greed and stupidity are often better explanations than outright malice, but... yeah, they're a bunch of assholes, too.

amio,

In the EU, they certainly aren't allowed to "assume consent".

amio,

"Are they still [irrelevant complaint]"
"What?"
"GoOgLe iT"

Sigh...

amio,

I generally hate the "just get dongles lol" argument but... maybe it's not a huge loss in this one specific case. I've had four models over 3 generations (B, 2-something and 3) and the audio jack always kinda... sucked.

amio,

Connectors seemed low quality and so did the audio. Crackling and sounding... sort of like a broken toy for kids.

amio,

I think it would ultimately depend on a use case for that metric, otherwise you're putting the cart before the horse. There are many measurements and calculations you could come up with, but no obvious (to me, anyway) interpretation of "most discontinuous": something is either in one piece or not. If you needed a metric like this for a practical purpose, your specific needs would be a starting point for designing one. If it's more of a shower thought, you sort of have "too much freedom" to be able to define anything that's necessarily meaningful.

Simple examples would be just "number of 'discrete parts'", "minimal area needed to span all territories" and things like that. Maybe you're more interested in "total distance from all satellites to wherever the capital is" or something, in a different context. The point is they'd all tell you radically different things, so it's important to know which one to ask for.

You could argue that something like Hawaii and Alaska's distance from the rest of the US makes the US score highly.
You could argue that any number of island nations score highly because after all, most of e.g. the US is in one part.
You could argue e.g. Norway's territories near both poles make it pretty high-scoring too.
You could argue that for whatever reason, distribution of area and population matter, and so on.

amio,

Early game stamina limit sucked, if I remember correctly. Maybe it's quicker to work in shifts? I've only played solo.

amio,

Pedantically, the "the" in "the buy of the century" did. Unless you bought them together.

amio,

For real. Insane respect to anyone who puts out all that effort. Let alone for free. Let alone under the kind of licenses this guy rolls with.

amio,

Already did. Mostly only used Netflix. Then their offering went from shit to "absolutely nothing is ever on there". Then they started pitching a fit over a VPN that I specifically excluded Netflix from. The major streaming services can blow me.

amio,

So someone will take his mods and make actual pirate versions of them. If he's trying to Streisand it, couldn't have done a better job. I don't see it being very profitable, though...

amio,

I exclusively wipe while performing jumping jacks.

amio,

I think it's easier to not really care about what is or isn't cool to teens.

amio,

Having watched 5 seasons a while ago and then this... yeah, these are pretty goddamn close. Certainly close enough to "pass" in my opinion.

amio,

Nah, you're just SQUISHing it wrong

amio,

Even for boomer humor this has not been relevant for a full decade.

What's a situation you were involved in where "the good guys" won?

To expand on this - I’m interested in thinking about times that a cause we support won, not only because maybe it feels good to see positive stories instead of all negative, but also because specific examples might help illustrate why it won, and reveal strategies we can use in the future.

amio,

It's like any other radical change: it can work, or it can end up fucking everyone over. I think the point was that it may have seemed like a true potential for change for a minute. The fall of the Wall and all that.

amio,

Well yes, but also that's hexbear. Don't get me wrong: they are loonies, some of them possibly even unironically, and federating them is fucking stupid for any instance. At least you know they're definitely safe to ignore, though.

amio,

"Or GNU plus Linux, as I've taken to calling it" [self-satisfied smirk]

amio,

I grew up with ALttP, OoT, LA and MM mostly. I feel that BotW and TotK are OK games but not what I personally want from a Zelda game.

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