a_wild_mimic_appears

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  funnily, my mother-in-law drove us to the vet one time, and my cats puke when getting driven around. using no transport box is no option, since 2 of our cats were feral when we got them, so they know how to survive in the wild and have no issues running off into the next group of bushes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I often let the carriers stand outside, and they even sleep in them. i must be giving off other vibes when i take them out for the doc visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  we have no car and use public transport. its a short ride, about 10 minutes bus and 10 minutes walk time, or about 40 minutes walking only (while carrying a cat in a box).

  I didn’t have a car in my entire life, because public transport in my city (Vienna) has great interval times, are nearly always clean and cheap to ride; long distance i prefer trains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine know that it’s vet time the second i get the transport boxes out of storage. I have to be pretty silent while they sleep so they don’t notice that, or else i have to use persistance predation too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that the general mood here that generative AI for creative use or technical tasks is fine, enabling people is a good thing. We are primarily an anarchist community, and generally not happy with the massive corporate control over something that should belong to everyone (bc the models are the cultural output of everyone) and the amount of VC money that is used to push AI where it doesn’t belong in search of the next big thing.

  Quite a few people run models on their own hardware (like me, to support me when learning stuff, or when my wife wants new seasonal pics representing our cats in cute styles) or are using AI Horde

  There are users on our instance that are not cool with GenAI in general, but they are the minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in the scene at the same time and me and my friends were always making fun of neofolk bands and their fans, because its such boring music and simply copying clothing styles of the 1940s, fitting to the boring mind of a nazi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  would start with 6.28

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  midnight CET: 753k! thats +30k in the last 6 hours. it’s speeding up, i didn’t expect that tbh. 50k people in 12 hours, wow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i have it too, and i used it a lot, but most people i knew at that time went for Sony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you need an digital ID to sign, so bots wouldn’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no more transformations or trans molecules, transmission is extra banned with Brainworm believing into miasma instead of germ theory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t have many bluesky followers, but i made an awareness post - everyone i know and who cares has already signed :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dots!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to say the same - that blue color reminds me of blueberry with some mint for freshness!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, 0 / 3 = 0 -> 0 + 4 = 4°C Division/Multiplication always goes before Addition/Subtraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GenX here, my father was a racist and ran with a similar racist crowd, and i was disgusted pretty soon after i started to comprehend the shit they spew.

  That crap they said sometimes still comes into my mind when seeing non-whites (i heard that stuff a lot, as my father descended into his alcoholism over 2 decades), and then i firmly disagree with those thoughts and feel icky. Racism (and i believe it’s the same for sexism) is an active choice, even when growing up in a racist environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a boyfriend, but I feel like I don't deserve to have one, and I keep alternating between those two thoughts which is making me feel confused. Is this normal?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please get an appointment with an psychiatrist and start looking out for an therapist before the ruminations (that’s what that is called) turn darker. A partner will not help with this more than in the short term, I speak from long years of experience.

  There are multiple probable causes for ruminations: depression, trauma and personality disorders are the most common ones. only a psychiatrist can get you an correct diagnosis, which will help pinpoint where the ruminations come from, but the way out is always therapy.

  But you can be sure that you are not bad or gross or something like that - your mind is just fixated on bad thoughts and experiences. Others will have a completely different picture of you. Knowing how my mind works when caught in my “loop”, you don’t believe one word of that, but it still needed to be said :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only $50?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in the “supporting information” is a video of all 5 study participants btw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t fully agree with you, we don’t have enough details. From what i’ve read mom could have been abusive towards dad (at least emotionally), and that makes doing everything in the open pretty scary. I’d forgive someone who cheated to get out of an abusive situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or does and doesn't care?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if you game a lot, you can also take a look into nobara, which comes with a lot of gaming stuff out of the box, like nvidia drivers, steam, discord and so on. it’s based on fedora, the differences in operating it are minimal :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  anonymity is not the issue when you have people posting fascist shit using their real name without consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to break this to you, but the people writing bots can also get over this barrier very easily - see that link to the faceswap in this thread? That makes it possible for every person with a bit of tech understanding or at least a bit of persistence to ignore this. it’s not even a speed bump for people whose job (yes, job) it is to write bots.

  This does nothing to make the bots go away, but it gives Meta a full facescan, which is the fucking last thing to hand over to anyone - a data breach at Meta would mean that everyone around you will get scammed by videocallers with your face; not even your bank manager would be able to detect that something is off if he knows you personally (a short phone call with you to get a voice snippet makes the illusion perfect!)

  The political shenanigans in the US are also a reason to NOT give facescans out to anyone.

  The solution to bots does not lie in giving up your anonymity. There are no shortcuts here that don’t do more harm than good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reflects on a conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  also, it helps quite a bit to look at a point slightly above the camera lens when getting photographed - at least the photos of me became a lot better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes a modern game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s from chromic aberration, the second most stupid idea since motion blurring everything to the maxx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead Island 2 is free on Epic currently, and probably more fun than Borderlands 4; BL 3 wasn’t written well, and i assume the same for BL 4. A shame, BL2 i one of my most played FPS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why US Workplace Surveillance is Banned in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At my last workspace listening in on the call recordings (which were binding agreements with clients) was only allowed with the employee giving the ok and no way to force it, with a strong union support preventing retaliation against employees.

  Since they were very open about this, it wasn’t needed often - mostly when clients made complaints differing from what was logged by the employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean... I don't see the problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  calm down man, there is an invisible and pretty large mole hill in the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's My Nature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks, that was nice to experience, made me install slay the princess again to finally do the deed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I.... what?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i can at least tell you that the mood swings do get less the older you get. My 20s were by far the worst phase, the 30 started to get better and in my 40s i “mellowed out”, but it still hits me a few weeks per year.

  If you have those thoughts without much of a break, i would really recommend getting a solid diagnosis (personality disorders? add/adhd?) and have a hard look at the stress factors in your life and how to cut back on them, ideally with a seasoned therapist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I.... what?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My personal experience (recurring major depression since childhood & cluster C personality disorder): Near complete drug & alcohol abstinence (i was a real pothead starting the day with a bong hit, and drunk at least once, but more often 2-3 times a week - selfmedicating gets pretty selfdestructive after a while), a lot of time and more therapy. Medication is a stopgap measure or to smoothen mood swings; what really helped me regarding my depression (and a lot with my other issues) was a therapy session per week for the last 4 years, 1 visit to the psychiatrist per month, and 2 group therapy sessions per week.

  And time helps! The older you get, the less wild your mood swings get. Starting from my 30s i noted a distinct reduction in the extend of my depressive phases, and with my 40s i was able to cut back on a lot of my medication (i still take Duloxetin and Lyrica).

  But for me it was mostly finding the right therapist and keeping at it with him (i have serious issues with developing relationships; it’s far easier to “reset” things by not meeting people more than a few times) for years.

  I am lucky that i am recognized by my social insurance system as not able to work, because i will never be stable enough to cope with the pressure of even a part time job for more than a few months before i am a mental wreck again. In the US i would probably be dead by now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree on the premise that a rock cannot be used for much. I mean, the available actions for a rock ARE pretty limited, but it can be used in a variety of ways!