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Yeah, I'd say SO generally are like great friends (with benefits), but often, over time you end up doing so much stuff with them that they eclipse any other individual friend. And eventually (especially if you end up living together) they become such a part of your day to day life they can begin to feel like an extension of yourself (or rather, that you're both part of one being) and it's hard to live with out them. I remember laughing at my dad for wanting to phone my mum everyday when he was away on business. I'd be like "what do you even have to talk about? You see each other all the time" But now, if I had a day where I didn't at least message with my partner I'd feel so isolated.

Ereaders like kobo / kindle have gentle backlight, just make sure you get one with adjustable warm /cool white backlight, so you can make it warm and not blue. I also use a little clip on booklight with adjustable brightness and color. If it's dim and red/orange you're not disturbing anyone but it illuminates the page perfectly.

Yeah, I was confused about this... A little sugar won't ruin your French toast, and you can always salt it afterwards... I genuinely forget that people eat it sweet, I'm a cheddar and bacon boy myself.

As others have observed, a glottal stop on its own is completely silent. But the idea of responding to distinct weird sounds is awesome! I'd like to be able to whistle commands like Alexa is well trained sheepdog!

That's a really good description. I feel like people focus on the highs and the lows of addiction. But one of the main reason it is hard to give up an addiction is it's such a comfort. The ecstatic highs are fun, but the real appeal is having something so simple that makes you feel good.

Any particular thing will change, and if you look more specifically at the factors and data around it, you can make a more accurate guess about that change. But that's pretty difficult for big, unpredictable things that we don't have a lot of examples of (like "big world religions").

Current data is that Christianity has been on massive growth spurt since the 1800s. There were 2.4 billion in 2020 and that is estimated to go up to 3.3 billion by 2050. So if you're looking at growth rates, forecasts etc, Christianity is only going to get bigger.

Obviously, a lot of that growth is due to general population growth (although growth rate of Christianity was higher than the global growth rate) And if you make some pretty big assumptions about world development, 'progress' and waning religious belief you could believe that Christianity will boom and then shrink. But there's not a lot of evidence for that currently. And that's why I brought up that general guideline - we don't have any reason to believe that Christianity is going to disappear anytime soon, and we don't have any evidence that it'll be here in 10,000 years. So, if I was an immortal onlooker, and I had to make a bet, I'd guess it'd be around for another few thousand years.

Maybe it would help if you explained more about why you think it's surprising these religions are still around after thousands of years? Religions and cultural items like that don't generally get 'superceded' by new inventions (as happens with technology), instead they general adapt and change to the needs of the culture that uses them. Christianity is the 2000s is massively different from even 500 years ago, let alone 1500 years ago. And in the 3000s it's more likely that Christianity will be around, but significantly changed, than that it has faded away.

Seems to be! Rolled out to the free tier, according to the article. But you need to install the app.

I can't remember the theories name, but I came across a suggestion from a historian (or sociologist? Or something...) that if you have to estimate how long a cultural feature will last, your best guess is "roughly as long as its existed for".

So the pyramids at Giza are over 4000 years old. If we lack any specific knowledge of reasons ( predicting the stone erosion, or knowing that bombing is likely in the area soon) then all we can know is that they have lasted a long time, so probably could last a good bit longer. And if we guess random ages, they will average out to a middling number (just like if you roll a lot of d6s you'll average out 3.5). The could be destroyed next year, but that's an extreme outlier, and they could last 40,000 years but that's also an extreme. So something around the 2000 - 6000 mark would probably be a good bet.

Similarly, Facebook has been around for 20 years. If the company collapsed next year, that'd be possible but unlikely. They could last into the next century, but again, most companies don't. So guessing in the 10-30 years would be safe.

Obviously, it's just a huge "rule of thumb" but I found it interesting. So instead of being surprised that Christianity is still here, twenty years past its second millenium, it's more realistic to assume that you're seeing it somewhere near its midpoint, rather than at an extreme. So we're likely to have Christians for another few thousand years!

Tl:Dr if something has lasted a thousand years, it's likely to last a good time longer.

My parents grew up in working class 1950s Britain. My dad's parents slept in the kitchen (with a curtain round the bed for privacy), which was also the room that most "living" was done. The three kids shared a single small room, with both teenage boys sharing a double bed, their older sister got her own single bed, and she stayed there until she married and moved out in her early twenties. I remember seeing that room and even as a child it seemed cramped, no space really for anything else once the two beds were in it.

While the whole the family was living, eating and sleeping in two small room, an immaculate "front room" / parlour was kept solely for the two or three days a year where they had "company" (a family event like a wedding or funeral, or the priest visiting or something). The front room was bigger than both the others. It's hard to comprehend the priorities that led to this sort of thing, but it was apparently extremely common in that time and place.

Interesting... Going to have to try it drunk!

I'm totally the same, but star trek fan, love all the older stuff and have given the new stuff a try but only really love SNW. So many friends are raving about LD but I could get through more than a few episodes. I just didn't like the characters, or find the plots interesting, and most importantly found it completely unfunny.

I'm super jealous of all the people who love it, and I'm not criticising it. But I just didn't connect with the humor, and like most comedies, if you don't find them funny then characters and plots seem dumb.

I'm going to persevere and try to make it through the first season, just because I WANT to like it. But humor is personal, and even a good show can't connect with everyone. I wish I heard more comments saying "it gets better after..." but the people who like it seem to just like it, so I'm not hopeful.

Only way I manage it is to use my phone or something that I have with my all the time anyway. And the planner / to-do / calendar or whatever has to be right on the front of my screen so it's not an app I have to go check, it's just visible all the time.

Adding stuff is hard, until you get into the habit where it becomes pretty automatic (as long as your planner/phone is always right at hand - if I walk away thinking "I'll add that in later", I won't.)

My one tip is to put everything in it to begin with, it's more effort but it gets you in the habit quicker. So if you a morning routine, you can have "make coffee / brush teeth / read lemmy" as three separate tasks, and complete them all quickly. Or if random thoughts pop into your head during the day stick them on ("put a spare USB cable in my bag / Google terrapins"). Not only does it help me remember to do stuff, but it stops rando tasks distracting me. If I feel it's really important to check how much laundry detergent I have left, I can add a task, not stop in the middle of cooking somehting and rush off, only to come back and find dinner burnt.

For me, to-do lists work much better if I have to add and complete dozens of tasks a day. Because then it's something that feels like it's working and helpful, while if it's just "remember to do that big scary important thing" it just stresses me out and I ignore it. Obviously, ymmv, and some people find having lots of tasks distracting or hard to sort (or go down the rabbit hole of categories and color codes). But if it's something that I get regular dopamine hits from (by completing many small goals) I pay attention to it, while if it's something that just makes me anxious or feel guilty I won't.

As many other people have said humans do not have same physical reactions to emotions. There's some similarity for certain emotions (disgust seems to be the one that gets the most evidence) but there's a lot of variety of how very basic emotions are expressed across the world. This study is a good example showing how Western subjects look to how the muscles and movements of the face show emotions, but East Asian subjects looked small movements of the eyes to identify emotions and their intensity.

Tbh, a stoned discovery that I still enjoy is chocolate chip cookies dipped in hummus.

But he didn't say "this shower thought is the allegory of the cave" did he? He suggested a relationship between them by encouraging the op to familiarise themselves with the allegory of the cave. More of "if you liked this, you'll love that" than "this is that".

Earplugs are so tiny that carrying two pairs is negligibley different from one. I have used multiple pairs simply because I've misplaced one during the night (fallen out my ear and rolled off the bed) and I'd rather have a spare than have to turn a light on and search.

As to the eye mask, it depends how much you care about light. I find that many hotels have too much early morning light for me, so I use it more often than not. But even if it was only 10% of hotels, carrying a flat, compressable 200g item would still be worth it. Particularly because you often can't tell until the dawn whether the light will be an issue, so having it available makes more sense than having to pick one up at a 7-11. But if you only use it 1 in 100 trips, or you're OK with disrupted sleep, then it's a different evaluation.

Its not that being smart is bad necessarily, but neither is it automatically good. I would never wish myself dumber, and maybe being smarter would be helpful... But most of my problems on life aren't linked to a limited intelligence.

Obviously, it depends on your definition of intelligence (itself a complicated issue) but if the button would just give me better IQ score type intelligence I don't think it'd help much. I'm plenty smart for my day to day life, job, relationships etc. The internal problems that prevent me achieving things are to do with focus and discipline / time management. And the main actual barriers are social or economic.

So sure, if the button made me so smart that I could somehow just see some novel solution that I could then market for money, so I could afford the life coach who would help me actually achieve the goals I want, then yeah smart me up! But being given a bunch of money would be a more direct solution. And a button that that improved my ability to actualise the plans I'm already smart enough to create would be muchore appealing!

Tldr: lemmy is full of people who are smart enough that not being smarter isn't the main barrier I'm their life.

Does it do emoji predictions? I've got a few relationships that use a lot of emoji in chats, and the ability tomjusy type 'salute', 'sad', 'kiss' etc and get the emoji without scrolling through a library is what's keeping me on Swiftkey.

Not sure that's an experience I'm familiar with, especially from food / drink. I'll have to watch out for it. Do you happen to know where the term emerged from? Seems like lots of people here didn't understand it, is it used more often in different contexts or communities?

Yeah, my (limited) experience of mediation would suggest that they'd still have earworms, but they'd not get so frustrated by it, by being able to avoid spiraling down "guh, I hate that song, where did I hear it? How long has it been stuck in..."