compostgoblin
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It is pretty much just scaremongering. Marijuana, like any drug, can put a person in a mental state that can serve as a trigger for a psychological condition that someone is prone to, like if someone with a family history of anxiety gets way too uncomfortably high. It’s not necessarily the drug that’s at fault - it’s having a stressful experience of a bad time.
That said, marijuana is just about the safest drug there is, and I think most people could safely try it with no ill effects.
- Submitted 1 week ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 week ago:
You are not as strong as you think you are. Lift with your legs, not your back, you dumbass.
- Comment on Listening to NPR news about mortgages 1 week ago:
NPR is a nonprofit.
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 2 weeks ago:
Then why bother?
- Comment on Can being othered and isolated from society stunt growth? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe made to feel othered via bullying as a kid, so voluntarily isolated in their teens and early twenties?
If so, then yeah, I can certainly see how that would stunt social and emotional development
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 44 comments
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 month ago:
I have an idea for a co-op enterprise that I’m really excited about, but it’s difficult for a few reasons: time outside of work to develop the business plans, lack of connection to others to build with, and lack of financial capital to get off the ground. I’m not opposed to putting in the effort to try fixing those, but they are all challenges.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
I would also like to become a tree! My grandma’s cabin that I spent a lot of time at growing up is right next to a national forest. I hope that type of service is more widely available when I die
- Comment on Can a laptop docking station be used on a KVM switch? 2 months ago:
I’ve done this before with a laptop and KVM switch. It worked fine. YMMV depending on the dock and switch in question though. The only issue I ran into was needing separate cables for the mouse/keyboard and video from the switch to the dock.
- Comment on Boo 2 months ago:
I am so happy I never need to do calculus again
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 10 comments
- Comment on If you're not serious about cheating then you're not serious about winning 2 months ago:
I, too, enjoy being investigated by the USPIS
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 2 months ago:
IIRC, California overproduces electricity during sunny summer days due to solar, but solar production drops in the evenings right when demand is peaking due to people getting home from work and cooking dinner and whatnot. There are better applications for that energy than desalination though - battery storage right now, and maybe running electrolyzers for green hydrogen production someday in the future.
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 2 months ago:
It usually makes more sense to pump water to a nearby reservoir uphill. That water can be released back through turbines when solar production is lower - pumped hydro are basically giant batteries. So not so much pumping it back upstream, but a similar idea, just without expensive desalination.
- Comment on Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living? 3 months ago:
There was (is?) a subreddit called /r/onebag that might be like this. It was sort of minimalism taken to the extreme of condensing your possessions to a single bag. Definitely some overlap with the digital nomad community too
