bath towels: weekly

bedding: every 2 or 3 weeks, depending on the season

The Forever War

Olives

I like to look at who owns a news source and which country it is operating in to get an idea how reliable it might be.

It is also worth looking at the rethoric: do the headlines seem clickbaity? Do the articles cover more than one side to a story?

I also look at the kinds of stories a news source covers, and whether it seems like they push some sort of agenda from the things they choose to report on.

But yeah, I have come to find a bunch of sources I trust, and that I go to for news.

Training good models requires lots of training data and computational resources, so the only ones who can afford to train them are big corporations with access to both. And the only objective they have is to increase their profit.

Donating blood plasma is good as it helps people in need. Sure, it sucks that there is a company in the middle making a profit, but not donating is not the solution to that problem, as it hurts the people in need more than the corporation in the middle.

I think its kinda similar to the tipping situation. Yes it sucks that restaurants don’t pay their employees properly and that you have to tip to support the employees. But not tipping hurts the employees rather than the restaurant owner.

In both cases, if we want change, we need to change the legislation.

Departing Scene in my ass

:( I don’t drive because I want to, I drive because there is no infrastructure allowing me to get to work any other way.

It sure is easy to portray your country as successful, clean and beautiful if you don’t allow any free press to contradict you.

42 is from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 69 is a sex position, 420 refers to weed

It’s not like I hate other operating systems, I just really like the idea of FOSS and try to use it whenever possible.

https://youtu.be/nqE5Nz5unco?si=33Dd9jmwQSGKEJ2N

Only one hour, but I found it interesting.

I think most humans have a certain desire to gossip, probably a side effect of us being social animals. I can imagine that gossiping can be somewhat beneficial if you live in a tribe or small town.

With our way of life shifting to large cities in which you hardly know your neighbour, and digitalization making sure we regularly see these celebrities, I can see how that might trick our brains into caring about their everyday lives.

Nope, not outdated. And I do believe that US statistics are somewhat representative for North America and Europe, which is where most of Lemmy’s traffic comes from. But please, give me the statistics for your country, I’d be interested in seeing how they differ.

Edit: Have a look at this “Global Gamer Study”, the results don’t look all that different: https://newzoo.com/resources/blog/spotlighting-women-gamers-and-how-they-play-and-spend-on-video-games#:~:text=Out of the total cohort,people call them a gamer.

Nah, women do play videogames: https://www.statista.com/statistics/232383/gender-split-of-us-computer-and-video-gamers/

I know in Germany murder is still murder if the murdered person consented to it.

Also, an autopsy isn’t just “randomly cutting someone apart”. The point of an autopsy is to determine a person’s couse of death and doesn’t just involve cutting the dead person open. You being alive means that an autopppsy, by definition, cannot be performed on you.

What you want is someone to mutilate and kill you. I’m pretty sure you can find someone willing to do that.

Side note: I think you overestimate how long you will stay conscious when the blood starts flowing, painkillers don’t fix your brain running out of oxygen.

I reject that kind of black and white thinking. We don’t have to classify people as either “cool” or “uncool”, or “good” and “bad”. We can criticize one thing someone does, while also praising something else that they do.

So how is straight incest different? If lesbian incest is harmless, how is straight incest not?

Humans have other senses besides sight you know? Taste, touch, smell and sound are all heavily involved in sex. And if you can sense them, you can imagine them. Do you need to see your partner to get aroused?

(Also, a majority of blind people have not always been blind, so I imagine many of them still also imagine what someone looks like)

The people complaining about that are mostly the same as the ones who complained that the masks were “suffocating” them during covid.