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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feynman rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feynman rules⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Never discourage that phase, imagine if our population never grew out of questioning the world. Just don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know, maybe you can teach me someday.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feynman rules⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Look man, shit just be doing what it does because it is what it is. If weren’t that way everything would be soup or darkness.”

  Physics at any point when you ask “why” enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I work at a home office in a fairly active industry so while I do get to wear sweats or pajama bottoms much of the day, it’s still draining as FUCK to be “on” all day. Even at rest the human brain burns enough energy to power a 30-watt incandescent light bulb, which doesn’t sound very bright but I would challenge anyone to keep a bulb lit for 8 hours or more purely by peddling a bike or something. When you’re thinking and stressed and working out problems and focused on tasks, the power consumption of your meat-calculator goes way up, so the exhaustion is real and tied to physiology.

  So here’s how I’m trying to tackle having this same problem:

  • Higher protein, lower fat and lower carb snacks. A little sugar boost here and there can help but if you’re destroying a box of cookies to get through the day you’re making yourself more exhausted.

  • Drink a LOT more water. It’s so easy to forget to hydrate while working, and this doesn’t just fatigue you, it wrecks your teeth when your mouth dries out.

  • Walks… walks, walks walks. Take a walk at lunch, even if it’s around the street, even if it’s in circles in the house, you HAVE to keep moving. Sitting for any period of time can be bad for you but it can also make your body want to lay down and go sleepy sleep. Also, no matter how lazy you feel, a short walk after working will always make you feel better physically and emotionally. It creates a mental separation for you to now look at your home life as distinctly different from your work life. Your survival-oriented brain needs this.

  • Go to bed early. If your body is screaming to sleep, just go sleep. You’re probably not getting enough. I have a lot of sleep issues so lately I just go to bed at 8:00 PM like an old man, and even though I wake up absurdly early now, it helps me physically and mentally prepare for the day. So maybe it’s as much about shifting your schedule as it is how much time you spend sleeping versus living.

  • Sunlight. A giant nuclear furnace spewing radiation doesn’t sound very healthy to stand in front of, but your body is a product of basking in the shockwave of this hydrogen bomb for millions of years, it needs a little heat and warmth on your skin. (One of the nicer feelings is napping with curtains open and sunlight streaming in on your skin on a cold day - holy shit that’s the best feeling in the world.)

  • Less caffeine. I could autistically talk for hours about how adenosine and brain receptors work as I have a neurology fixation, but the short version is the more caffeine you drink during the day, the more wrecked you will feel at the end of the day. There are no work-arounds to this, it’s inherent in how the brain chemistry works. Try to limit caffeinated drinks to a couple a day and spaced apart.

  • Healthier dinners. More fiber, more low-fat protein, less processed carbs. Eat early and not late and you will feel less heavy when you get up.

  • Talk to yourself. Keep a narration going, and talking out loud actually helps your non-verbal layers of your consciousness to align to what you want. (I told you, I have a neurology fixation.) You are legion, you have a multitude of thoughts inside you, but they don’t have a voice, each vying for attention and reporting things to your “main” controller. It can be amazingly effective to literally talk to these brain layers. If you want proof that I’m not talking out my ass, learn about split-brain syndrome and the eerie effects of a hemispherectomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The timing is great as I learn my healthcare premiums are likely to go up by over a thousand dollars a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one goes out to Dennis Prager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if his pain is mental or physical, but when I saw him on an interview he seemed in pretty rough shape and talking a lot about the end of his life. Becoming quadriplegic is a massive risk to your lifespan and he’s already pretty old and in bad shape. We’re going to send him lots of thoughts and prayers. Tons even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one goes out to Dennis Prager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder people: Dennis Prager was injured in a fall in 2024 and is now paralyzed from the shoulders down and has been suffering greatly. It would be EXTREMELY distasteful to delight in progress and victories for marginalized groups, as well as scientific advances in biology that gives benefits to such groups while he is literally forced to sit and watch for the remainder of his likely short life.

  I mean, it would be like rubbing it in his face that his God didn’t protect him and between him and what’s happened to other major conservative figureheads like Jordan Peterson and of course Charlie Kirk, it might even shake his faith entirely if he were to see the world moving on and none of his predictions and proclamations coming to pass about judgement against LGBTQ+ people while he languishes in a wheelchair and a device to keep him breathing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha, fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest crime here is that people are actually looking forward to a game that will INEVITABLY be the same GTA slop we’ve been playing since the turn of the goddamn millenium.

  Graphics are no longer a selling point, we can make anything look like anything now. Unique gameplay and immersive narratives and interactive mechanics are now the way games stand out. Look how popular far simpler social games are like Repo and the like. look how well a goddamn knockoff of S.T.A.L.K.E.R did (Misery) and it was the most basic survival mechanics and it was made by one person and it looks like it crawled out of a Playstation 2… but it was engaging and addicting because it was trying new ways to do old things.

  All that aside, yeah our country hates unions and hates workers and hates you and wants you to die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Open communication back up in your relationship and get over that first hump of stress and emotions that you’re avoiding from this communication.

  You may want to get a therapist first to help you formulate what your needs and problems are. No time for therapy? MAKE FUCKING TIME. Jesus christ, who is going to help take care of anyone if you collapse mentally or physically. If you get diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, I fucking guarantee you will make time to go get your chemotherapy or leeches or whatever the country’s new health plans are like.

  A mental health crash can be AS BAD as cancer, it has high levels of lethality and can leave lasting harm on you that never goes away, and ruins your plans for a better future.

  So what cultural norm or image of yourself are you preserving by pretending to be stoic and invincible? Who are you protecting? What is your end game? You have to ask yourself some harder questions than you’ve been so you can prioritize getting healthier and reorganizing your life.

  Likely you have a lot more options and solutions available to you to make the grind less soul-crushing but you can’t see those options because your soul is crushed. You have to repair one little thing at a time so you can get to a high enough place to see more options, and this is hard as fuck to do alone. Get your partner onboard with you or get a therapist or both or you will risk losing everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For a game that is supposed to encourage exploration to start off saying not to?

  It’s an odd point to get hung up on, I can certainly describe a lot of areas the game is lacking by today’s standards and some other open-world type games, but this wasn’t one of them for me. Some people are going to feel challenged by being told “don’t go there” and some people will feel offended and some people won’t think much of it I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… sure, I guess it bears mentioning my first playthrough I did brave the deathclaws and survived by being sneaky and took a wildly different path than most people at the time.

  The idea isn’t that there’s an easier path of least resistance you can take, but that it actually let’s you go off the rails if you give it effort or come up with some logical ideas.

  In modern gaming, solving problems with logic is almost dead, and NV had a lot of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t connect with Outer Worlds either. I gave it a good shot but it didn’t give me any new feelings or enjoyment.

  New Vegas was one of the best games of its type… for the time. It doesn’t hold up well on a technical level, the stories are now far less immersive and interesting because our expectations have broadly changed. It was by far the best game I had played… in 2010. A lot has changed in the intervening 15 years and now the game feels small, cramped and limited in scope, to say nothing of how dated the graphics are.

  What people are really saying when they hype up New Vegas was how much the story mattered. And how you had actual choices that impacted things, something that is dreadfully absent in modern games that have to play it safe and make sure the player has exactly the experience intended. When was the last time you played a game where you could skip right to the last boss and kill him and then the game goes on and people now know what happened or can learn that you did it? It would be AMAZING with today’s technical advances to have that kind of freedom and involvement with a storyline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do agree we need to respect them a lot more and make a much stronger public message that they’re not food and certainly shouldn’t be tortured and treated as inhumanely as we routinely do.

  Yes, the mind of an octopus is unknowable, and it could be just acting on instinct.

  As someone who studied a lot of neurology, I could make a very strong argument that much of our behavior, no matter how well-reasoned we think it is, no matter how complex it is, is actually also just a very sophisticated system for facilitating our instinctual needs. The brain has a very real tendency to post-hoc justify our decisions and actions so much that we never notice it, but if you start to explore it, you will realize really quick that a lot of what we do and think we’re choosing to do, are just products of very basic wants.

  This isn’t to diminish either them nor us, only to say that whatever is going inside that incredibly ancient brain of theirs, it’s still a lot like us and needs to be respected as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And especially should not be farmed or eaten alive for clicks on youtube. We did good as a society reducing the barbaric practice of eating shark-fin soup and other exotic animal products, and made great strides in ending torturing sea mammals in amusement parks. We have to add octopus to this list of things we now know better about.

  Octopus feelings and are higher animals with unique personalities and ways of experiencing the world. They are curious, they are intelligent, they dream and seem to show emotions in a variety of ways.

  And our last common ancestor didn’t even have a backbone. This fact alone should amaze us and give us hope for the greater universe - that we can share so much with something so very distant from us gives hope that if we ever do contact aliens, we might share more than we think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re following me around.

  You go on thinking you’re that important and not that Lemmy is small and people can tag users. Don’t bother replying, won’t be seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your time and energy here is being misspent. I have nothing against challenging people and their group think and biases and do that quite a lot here, but after watching you a bit, you simply do not possess the rhetorical abilities to sound like more than a troll or bad-faith contributor. You fail at both challenging anyone, and you fail at even hurting anyone because of your lack of effort.

  You are baiting a ban or someone lashing out at you at least, and with that the same kind of emotional validation/masturbation you likely despise seeing in others.

  Either contribute something meaningful that actually makes someone else engaged and think about something, or find a nice, big patch of grass and start touching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing minecraft without mods as an adult is like eating a plain potato, or like going to a party without inebriating substances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to point this out and everyone got grumpy. It must be nice being so attractive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google maps is one of the only applications that has literally made cry. The other is excel for entirely different reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, you can go on Google Earth right now and view the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s boring, doing it with light is way better.

  I get that it seems cooler, but you would be looking at recordings with gathered light either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … But still! the idea that it’s at least hypothetically possible to actually see our own past is very exciting!

  We… we have tools for seeing our past. We have extensive records of imagery from as far back as we have orbital satellites. You can go on Google Earth right now and look at older maps.

  I mean, I get why it would be cool to see a reflection from the past, but literally every reflection you see is from the past. At a certain distance from your reflective or distorting surface, you’re going to need major image processing to make out a clear image of the planet, so again, at that point it’s far easier to just look at recorded images or videos.

  There is a much cooler idea though that you can exploit from this principle: you can use a star or other dense object in space to work like a light-lens, we could build this now but it would be a very expensive and long-term project, because we would need to send a series probes out past the distance that Voyager 1 has already traveled over 40 years. We would also need to know ahead of time what our target is so we place the probes in the right place, placing the sun between the probes and the target at just the right distance.

  If you take the distorted light from around the edges of the Sun and reconstruct it, you can theoretically see details of continents and other surface features of Earth-sized planets in entire other solar systems, which would be fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, and slightly cheaper, put a satellite into orbit and just record everything on the ground it looks at, hang onto recordings for 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. The number times we’ve seen shared credit for discoveries and shared nobel prizes simply because two teams were doing the same but unconnected work is amazing, and it points how there is a cutting edge that will be in the same place no matter how you get there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, my god, your moderation history is a disaster area, no surprise. I am blocking you and your annoying banner spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As with so many things about biological chemistry, the reality is so much more complicated than “MOAR TESTOSTERONE MEAN MORE MAN” and having any kind of hormonal imbalance is far more likely to fuck with your entire internal health system and have opposite effects than the typical Andrew Tate follower could imagine.

  Also, I got the Styro Pyro reference, I know he’s a bit of an odd fellow but I wonder if “intense obsession with death rays” is more a product of innate oddness or has anything to do with crazy high testosterone. Maybe we have an as-of-yet undiscovered “laser hormone” waiting to be studied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is the entire premise boiled-down:

  “It’s totally natural and normal to have an upper-class telling you what to do and lording over you, in fact class division is the most normal thing in the world because lobsters do stuff that looks kind of like it, if it bothers you, you’re just not testosteroning hard enough.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Curie family was an amazing story of pioneering science and true scientific effort to change the world. To say the Curie family made sacrifices would be an understatement.

  I think about that every time I see some charlatan or delusional nutter with no math or science background trying to get recognized on the Joe Rogan show for having some pothead idea that keeps getting rejected from mainstream science channels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a lawyer and neither are the mods I assume, I just know what kind of obnoxious things people don’t like to see so I’m trying to help you not end up feeling worse.