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- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 2 days ago:
Is there any comfortable way to bring up this topic without making me sound like a narcissist who assumed a guy wants to sleep with her just because he asked her out🥲.
I wouldn’t say you sound like a narcissist but this does sound immature. “He wants to sleep with you” and “he just wants to sleep with you” are two different things. It sounds to me that he likes you and wants to spend time with you, and maybe-probably also wants to sleep with you. Is that enough for you? It’s enough for some people, though obviously not for everyone. Either way, talk to him about it.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 6 days ago:
Oh I was going to suggest Mouser and DIgikey for most kinds of electrical stuff, but it sounds like you are after something different.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 1 week ago:
The classic
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 1 week ago:
Calling women “females” instead of women, as if you were a frakking Ferengi, won’t endear you the interest of any sensible person.
But when it does work, the oo-mox makes it all worth it ;)
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom looks like an interesting article that might convey some helpful info.
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 2 weeks ago:
There are foldable and flexible solar panels that go on a backpack. An umbrella would be kind of silly. What are you trying to do? How much power do you need?
Here is a 6.5 watt solar backpack though I robably wouldn’t buy it. It shoud be able to charge a 40WH USB power bank in a day or so. You never get the full rated power from solar cells.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 weeks ago:
No, none unless you could newpipe.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 weeks ago:
Wait, it’s a band. I thought it was some kind of streaming app. Meh.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You don’t want one. There was one about me once, but I managed to get it deleted. Good riddance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I just logged in, worked fine.
- Comment on How do I deal with a very negative inner voice/second conscience that's constantly loud? It's like I have two different people in my head but they're both me, telling me opposite things endlessly. 3 weeks ago:
I think the stuff you’re describing is outside the range where we internet randos can give any concrete help. You’re doing the right thing in seeing professionals who have training in dealing with this stuff. I can only offer sympathy and best wishes. I find if I get agitated about something, I can often calm myself down with deep breathing. But I’m sure my experience is less intense than yours to start with, so I have no idea whether the same methods would help.
- Comment on If you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space? 3 weeks ago:
You couldn’t do it with one slingshot, as several people have explained. But if the slingshot was big enough to launch a ship carrying someone with another slingshot, you’d do a little better. With the second ship carrying a third ship and so on, the slingshot round on the last ship might move fast enough. This is how multi-stage rockets work, by the way.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t familiar with the term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel#"Blackpill"
It doesn’t sound good at all.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 4 weeks ago:
I hate to say this but there are still interesting people on Reddit.
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, they generally work fine.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 1 month ago:
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No it likely wouldn’t make them explode if they hypothetically were there.
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It’s reasonably certain that Iran didn’t and doesn’t have any usable nukes. The claim is that they were working on building them and that the bombing was to stop them from completing any such projects.
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There are conflicting opinions about whether they were really working on building nukes. One might reasonably also say that if they weren’t working on it before, they are NOW.
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IIRC there was some kind of religious fatwa against Iran building nukes, which made the claim somewhat credible that they weren’t building them. It looked to me like they were instead getting the precursor materials together without doing the final refining and assembly, so that if the fatwa was lifted and the clerics said build the nukes, they could do so relatively quickly. That’s just me though, and I don’t have any special sources of info.
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 month ago:
“How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works Hesitancy about vaccinations is on the rise, but studies show there are specific ways to address people’s questions.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01771-z
Optimistic, but a start maybe.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 1 month ago:
No idea about internet integration or “arr”, but the Inkplate series are completely open. I got an Inkplate 10 because of an app that I wanted to write for it at the time. The hardware is nice, software is lacking, but I’d buy it again if I wanted a basic e-reader. It has an epub reading app and I’d just download epubs to it from my PC by wifi or USB.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 1 month ago:
Works best with an air hockey table.
- Comment on What can I do with this laptop keyboard? 1 month ago:
Raspberry pi pico
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
x86 hardware interfaces are traditionally pretty well documented and standardized, going back to the original IBM PC in the 1970s(?), enabling among other things an aftermarket of plug-in expansion cards and other peripherals. That standardization also makes it possible to write device drivers and keep them working.
ARM stuff on the other hand is closed and changes all the time. So this year’s peripheral won’t work with last year’s phone. Mac stuff is also like that, maybe not quite as much most of the time.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 1 month ago:
Those bags are made for microwave popping and you pay a big premium for that, besides getting crappy popcorn. For stovetop popping, just buy loose kernels. Zillions of recipes online.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 month ago:
A buddy of mine has a foldable Samsung and likes it. IDK what model but it’s big, looks like a full sized phone when folded, and opens out into something with 2x the screen space of a normal phone, basically a mini tablet.
I had a number of flip phones in the old days and they all broke at the hinge. So there’s that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Android was initially developed by some other company, that Google acquired when it decided it wanted to do smartphones. The alternate universe that I see is they pick a different company instead, and things play out about like before. Maemo (Nokia product) unfortunately died before its time, but maybe it could have been where Android is now. Windows Mobile always stunk.
- Comment on How good are amphetamines for brain fog? 1 month ago:
Talk to Dr rather than internet randos. This was interesting though (Naltrexone):
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 2 months ago:
Just be nice, say your romantic feelings are getting to you too much and that you want to back off if you can’t purshe them. Staying open to occasional contact (like by email) is a lot better than cutting the person off completely.
Getting involved with someone with serious mental health issues doesn’t sound like a great idea either, if they’re not under some reasonable level of control.
- Comment on Is there a more convenient way to do this? 2 months ago:
Just pick up a little bit of French and then when you meet them, you can get by with a mixture of Frenglish, gesturing, cross-language dictionaries, and help from Domenic.
- Comment on Where on the internet would you discuss a specific case of a potential exploitation of a minor within the adult industry"? 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t feel any need to discuss something like that in public. If I felt reasonably convinced that someone was being abused, I’d probably flag the FBI. Otherwise if you insist, I’m sure there there are pr0n forums. In fact Lemmy has an NSFW instance lemmynsfw.com. Stuff from there keeps showing up on lemmy.world’s front page.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 2 months ago:
No idea about clogging differences, but the toilet drain sometimes goes to a different sewer system than the sink drain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_sewer
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 2 months ago:
For text generation the result would be almost useless since most public domain works are very old. For images, you could train with video feeds maybe.