JillyB

@JillyB@beehaw.org

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JillyB ,

Liquid IV. I'll bring a few packets if I know I'm going to be sweating. It's also great for a hangover.

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I need to leave this thread. Interstellar is my favorite movie of all time.

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Great. I went to Combo Breaker over the weekend and managed to convince some of the out-of-town talent to come to the monday-night local tournament I help run. It was a great success adding to a string of great monday-night tournaments. We're steadily making this tourney THE weekly local for my city. Feels good.

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Wait. You can DM on Lemmy?

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Japan simply is xenophobic. I lived there for 2 years. That's just a fact.

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I shared that experience. I also was actively excluded from all sorts of things (including essential services) because I was a foreigner. Whenever a group of expats got together, at some point in the night, the conversation would be about how everyone got discriminated against recently.

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This was part of an overall package including aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan.

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They claimed that the government was focusing on this one issue when really it was a small part of a much larger legislation. Whether it's good or bad is a separate judgement.

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Personally, I just find it really disappointing. This Tik Tok issue could have been an opportunity to improve privacy and reduce data collection across the board. Instead, it's a surgical strike in order to not disrupt American tech companies doing the same thing.

What will happen is that Bytedance will sell the US Tik Tok to an American VC firm and it will continue data hoarding as before. This time, the US government will be getting the data instead of the CCP. I'd rather nobody got it.

Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work ( defector.com )

Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is only any of those things in the loosest interpretive sense, tends to brick when it gets rained on; nor because its stainless steel...

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At first glance, it does not appear to even be a truck.

I think this is actually it's biggest selling point. Over the last couple of decades, trucks have really all converged on the same styling. They all look tall, brawny, hyper-masculine. The cyber truck isn't going to appeal to someone that wants an F150, but it will appeal to someone that wants some F150 functionality without all the truck bro image. I wouldn't ever want one, but I get it.

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I'm no scientist, but there is some debate about whether it's a fundamental force. Some think it might be like centrifugal force which isn't "real" but shows up in a certain reference frame. Gravity might actually be a result of thermodynamics and entropy.

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I could not disagree more about Contact. I read the book first. I found it to be an incredibly realistic depiction of what contact with alien life might look like. The clashing of world powers, science, and religion are central themes. The movie slimmed down the story as you would expect, but they completely changed the message at the end. The book ends with Ellie finding actual evidence for some divine being which eliminates her conflict with faith. The world governments had already been forced to cooperate much more. Now with the final conflict resolved, it's implied that humanity can move forward in a more unified direction. The movie has her just believe in God, more or less. The Christians were right...

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Bro what?! That is complete mental gymnastics. One of the two dominant parties attempting to block other parties is somehow a good thing for democracy? I get trying to convince people it's not worth it to vote 3rd party. But saying that one of the parties should be able to make it impossible is crazy.

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When large corporations make concerted efforts to put up legal road blocks and speed bumps for people, workers, and smaller businesses, that's widely accepted as a systemic injustice leading to a consolidation of power. But when it's "your" political party doing it to smaller parties with the express aim of winning an election, it's just keeping everything fair? The only reason anybody can excuse this behavior is because it's the side they want to win.

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Wait. I thought triple C's was something else. I think it stands for cough, congestion, cold...? I remember taking a blister pack of 8 pills to get high back in the day. Was that off-brand benadryl?

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When I worked in a factory, all the old country maintenance guys and techs were on tik Tok during their breaks.

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I thought my signature was bad

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This is where I disagree. I think a transparent, publicly run system to triangulate gunshots is actually a great idea. As long as the microphones are placed evenly throughout a city, they can instantly let police know where and when a gunshot happened.

However, with no way to publicly verify the fairness of the a private system, there's only one way this could go.

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Do it. I read the book last year and loved it.

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Unless you're vegan, I don't think you have a good argument against hunting from a moral perspective. Hunters also are some of the biggest donators to wildlife conservation.

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Tech Ingredients made a great solar water heater and showed how to do it

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It seems like you like Sci-Fi. I recommend Necromancer if you want to read one of the founding works of cyberpunk. Also Hyperion of you want some heavy religious themes.

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I fucked up. It's Neuromancer btw

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The bigger risk is that he wins and orders the justice department to drop the case.

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Federated alternatives are slowly building steam and people seem to have gotten pretty salty about corporate social media

I think you're overselling the importance of this one. When I've talked to friends about federated alternatives, they really aren't interested. Even if they hated Twitter/reddit and think they've gotten worse, they just don't really care about a federated alternative. I've heard some interest in threads, so maybe we count that?

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Agreed. During the pandemic, I adopted a policy of unsubbing to any subreddit that made me angry. Usually this came in the form of people bringing up trump/capitalism/whatever out of completely nowhere. luckily the Beehaw people seem to be pretty good about actually having conversations and not just devolving into mocking trump every second. But whenever I venture into some of the other instances, I see some of Lemmy's true colors. Chronically online people completely out of touch with reality kinda run shit around here.

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Nightcall by Kavinsky.

Every part of it, the melodies, rhythm, vocals, is very simple and straightforward. But it's much more than the sun of its parts. It's catchy enough that most people I know really like the song. But it's strange enough to introduce a lot of those people to new sounds and ideas.

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You good bro?

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Nah. Let's inhale it to sound funny.

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There's being informed, and there's being saturated to the the point it affects your mental health. In 2020, I had to unsub a bunch of subreddits that had a tendency to bring up trump even when he wasn't part of the subject at all because I was starting to really spiral. I understand wanting a reprieve from the firehouse that is the Trump/anti-trump "discourse". It's not so bad now, thankfully.

JillyB ,

I moved to Chicago at the end of October from the deep south. The past few days the weather has been hovering around 0⁰F and that has been an adjustment. I've figured out the clothing I can wear to bear it. Sunday my feet felt like they were going to fall off after only a few minutes walking around. Last night I had to wait for a bus for like 20 minutes and I was totally fine. I switched boots and it fixed my whole issue with comfort.

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Then, the sequels were so consistently mediocre that the original was more or less erased from history.

I will not have you slander Battlefield Vietnam like this. I spent countless hours on a "heliwars" server after school as a kid.

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Why does a canal with an ocean at either end need to use a lake to fill locks? Wouldn't it make more sense to pump seawater?

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IANAL, but it doesn't seem like this is a big deal. DOJ wanted to know if the defense was going to use a particular defense. The judge didn't compel the defense to disclose their defensive strategy. Maybe a lawyer can provide some insight but this seems like a non story.

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In English, it's also pretty fine outside of developmental disorders. It's common to refer to fire-retardant fabric. Adjusting timing in an engine is retarding or advancing.

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Agreed. This is a multi-layered fuckup. The manufacturer probably didn't tighten things down all the way, their QA didn't catch the critical defect, the plane inspectors didn't catch it during inspection, the airline didn't ground it after a pressurization warning, the pilot flew a plane with a known issue. There are several cultures of complacency at play. Hopefully the FAA can scare everyone into flying right.

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Just started Blindsight. I'm really enjoying some sci-fi with religious undertones. Hyperion is in the mail for my next one.

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