Animated_beans @ Animated_beans @lemmy.world

Posts

1

Comments

34

Joined

2 yr. ago

Why do you think we've reached peak LLM? There are so many areas with room for improvement

Probably start actual fake news about him supporting progressive policies? Either his fan base would start to hate him or maybe we'd finally get some progressive policies passed

If you've ever had blood work done at the doctors office or had any tissue removed, your DNA is almost certainly on file somewhere. Human specimens are very valuable in research so whatever isn't needed for testing is sent off to various research facilities. There really aren't laws about tissue ownership so medical facilities can do whatever they like without your permission, though some still ask. Source: "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"

Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon. Should our moon be a planet too?

It's becuase Texas doesn't have state income taxes so there is literally nothing extra they need to do to comply. Same goes for Florida and Tennessee, which commenters also mentioned.

The antidepressants are so key to quitting. Most of us were just self-medicating with our addictions. Take away the depression and it is a lot easier to give your addiction up

I am coming up on three years sober from alcohol. I lost my dad to alcohol and many other members of my family have gotten cirrhosis so I knew I needed to make changes. I joined the stop drinking community on reddit before I was ready to officially quit, and lurked. I loved hearing their stories and reasons why they were doing what they are doing. From there I learned about a book called "This Naked Mind" and reading it was just what I needed to finally kick alcohol. It talks about what alcohol does for you, what it doesn't do for you, and what it claims it does (but doesn't actually do) and it is all backed by science. It really resets the way your brain thinks about alcohol and by the end, I didn't really want to drink anymore. I realized that alcohol doesn't help me relax (it decreases my baseline so that I needed alcohol to feel normal). And it helped me better understand that alcohol is addictive and that anyone who drinks enough will get addicted- there isn't anything wrong with me for becoming addicted.

Since the book, I've been able to stick with sobriety and been really happy with that decision. My health is better, I'm more relaxed, my sleep is better, etc. I replaced cans of beer with cans of sparkling water, and I am surprised at how much I love that stuff. I now know I can't moderate drinking- there is no such thing as "I'll just have one." And that is ok. I'm happy with my non-alcoholic beer at happy hours and sparkling waters on normal nights. My friends and family are really supportive of my decision and that makes a difference too. I wouldn't have stuck with it if my friends pressured me to drink.

Whatever your addiction may be, find a positive community of people that have similar view points to you. Alcoholics Anonymous wasn't for me, but /r/stopdrinking was. Try a few things and you'll find your people. Good luck to you! You are stronger than you think!

Don't sell humanity short- we are getting better. When my mom was born, women weren't allowed to get credit cards without the permission of a man. Ruby Bridges is still alive and in her sixties. People forget how recent the Civil Rights era was. We've made a lot of progress in recent decades and while we still have a long way to go, we are improving.

Coffee is healthier than soda if you take your coffee black. Black coffee is basically just water. Soda will have either sugar or artificial sweeteners in additional to sodium and other additives that make it a less healthy option.

Coffee with milk would still be better for you than soda, but you've got a good point about coffee with sweeteners essentially being just as bad as soda. Maybe the reason people treat coffee differently is because there is a healthy way to drink it and they incorrectly extrapolate that fact to any type of coffee (no, your coffee with eight sugars is not healthier than a can of Coke). Add in the fact that coffee is an acquired taste and now you've got one drink that only adults tend to drink (coffee) and one drink that kids love (soda) and people incorrectly assume that coffee is a more "grown up" thing to drink.

Thank you!

I will give Liftoff a try- thanks!

Can you tell me more about the Connect app? There are a lot of apps with the name "connect" in the app store

The UK uses miles. They mostly use the metric system, but there are a few cases where they use the imperial system (like distance)

If it helps you sleep, that means we could also publish fake articles that makes it rewrite its own code to produce bugs/failures