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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else can you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “May I”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, you have to provide your own shit! 💩

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*happy Kenobi dance*⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say more “how” than “why” though:-D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's that time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically accurate comment…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I asked around the answer I kept repeatedly being given was “no, just… no. HELL no!” /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best friend for sure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people still act this way. They don’t tend to amass billions though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨excuse me????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment wins the Threadiverse for today :-)

  Here is your medal:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero surprise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Purity testing beatings will continue until morale improves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To the set of all atoms in the universe, add one extra electron, easy peasy:-).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elephant in the room⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You say “worse”, they say “better”. Which I suppose means that this was always inevitable. Those who should have known better… we only pretended otherwise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elephant in the room⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Breaking things? At this point is there anything left that has not been broken, at least once if not already yet multiple times? 💔😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reference being made in Revelation is Nero.

  I have heard before how Nero may have been the one who caused the tribulations that early Christians went through - e.g. not being able to buy food without having his (Nero’s) approval, but not necessarily in reference to Nero being the actual Antichrist himself.

  So I looked it up, and according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist, that term is widely thought (e.g. Martin Luther, father of the Protestant reformation, and John Calvin) to not necessarily refer to Nero, or rather not just him alone. Similar to how a “man of the law” can refer to anyone who upholds it - a sheriff for example - a “man of lawlessness” can refer to anyone who opposes it.

  Cool, TIL 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not true! YOU just talked about it.

  And now I am taking about it… holy shit, it’s spreading!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am glad that you checked then:-). I meant discipline as in a set of practices that you intentionally set up for yourself, not necessarily something like physically flogging yourself for choosing to take a nap rather than study something interesting but you were just too tired to do it in that moment. I agree you are totally correct that it should ideally be our of love rather than sense of duty. ❤️

  Going beyond one’s limits is a way to cause damage - possibly even to the very desire to remain curious - so should be limited to only high-value scenarios e.g. to make an external deadline that offers an accomplishment that you decided that you wanted. So even there, “discipline” (force) can be useful, so long as “discipline” (intentional practices) keeps the former within acceptable levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We may never know. Functionally, capitalism describes what is “normal”, even if outside of that it could have been different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will complete TikTok deal ‘in coming days’ and control its algorithm, White House says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You will be baked, and then there will be cake 🎂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that I get smarter as I get older, as stupid stuff that held me back gets discarded. You do have less energy I hear, but even there I think a fit 50 year old would be more energetic than a lazy 25 year old? Obviously having kids is a huge energy drain, but that’s not technically aging, just correlation rather than causation.

  So anyway even if this graphic were true, it would be irrelevant as the major factor seems to me to be a willingness to learn, only after which raw ability would come into play.

  In your case the adage that now is the time to learn is true, but not for any of the reasons mentioned above. Once you shift your perspective that the time for hard work is over and the time for personal play is at hand - to watch more TV, play games, hang out with friends, etc. - then it’s incredibly hard (most people phrase that as “impossible") to ever go back to that college mindset of “it’s study time, let’s go!!!”. That’s not even just human nature, but rather the raw physics of inertia coupled with adaptation that lowers energy requirements that were evolutionarily built into our brains and bodies.

  Discipline is a mindset that is mostly independent of age, except it trends towards older as those who have seen how it works first-hand now realize its value (coupled with individual survival of those who have more rather than less of it, i.e. the most reckless die the earliest in life), plus also younger as people listen and thus benefit from the accumulated wisdom of others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well then⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you could do equally the same being yelled at by a female boss. It happens 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piss off!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me either, and I have negative desire to learn that “skill”!:-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piss off!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case wouldn’t they be giving it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always do this.

  Except of course when I don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is too late now, you must make it your profile pic, it's the law 🙃🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are a treasure, or as AI might put it, a potato pariah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨observes your slit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, consider the slit observed then...

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨observes your slit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you truly want to know?

  Alrighty then, but don't say that I did not warn you:

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  Yes. Except after I peeked, it no longer exists. But the people - THOSE PEOPLE - they, haha, they hehe they claim that I am the ones who are (sic) crazy, the absolute fools! They refuse to know what I have seen!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accessibility is important⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will just use AI to summarize (after which they will pretend to understand, just like they would do to a picture).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨observes your slit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What goes here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A sick turtle? (and then what is now turtle could change to tortoise, just to mess with people's heads)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are so beautiful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it but all I got was moith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eeeeeek!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eeeeek!

  (Fwiw, it must be your method of access, bc the webpage version on your computer instance loads the images just fine: https://lemmy.ca/post/50981326/18755424 - but yes how ironic!

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