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[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemmy.world

The future of the tectonic plates

  • I think people like you are a hair from being as insane as the people they lock up.

    Since I fully agree with what the commenter you're replying to said, I'll assume you're lumping me into that group too.

    Sure, call me insane. Call me crazy. Call me fucking nuts and say I need a straight jacket. Whatever floats your boat.

    You're not one of the people that can lock me up though and it's pretty clear why. So just remember that "crazy" motherfuckers like me are driving next to you on the freeway, shopping behind you in the grocery store, living down the hall, etc. We could lose it at any point!

    Fear of what you don't understand and ignoring expert opinions are destroying society. Which side of that would you like to be on?

    Plus, you're talking to another human being, it's just fucking disrespectful.

  • Yeah they really buried some critical information on this one. I get the point of the article about general surveillance but when people feel tricked they get burned out on the issue and trust the media less. They could have made the point they wanted without making it clickbait.

  • Could you pin a comment on the post for that first article that gives links to alternative articles? I don't know if that's possible on lemmy. But megathreads are annoying to me because they usually just have a list of articles that is overwhelming and it's much easier to just read none of them. Plus it doesn't interact well with continuing conversation once it falls off the front page.

    If there were a way to remove posts from the feed (either everything/local/subscribed or the community+everywhere) without destroying the post itself it would be nice too because you wouldn't be deleting conversations. Then you could pin the other conversations on the first one.

  • What the fuck

    in 2020 in which female passengers were subjected to invasive gynecological examinations.

    authorities were looking for the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in a Hamad International Airport trash can

    they were taken off the flight to Sydney at Doha at gunpoint by guards and were searched without consent.

    Did I wake up 2,000 years ago or something? Am I still on earth?

    Qatar was “surprised and shocked” that Australia had rejected without explanation its application for additional services to Sydney

    Woooow. I literally don't know what to say.

  • Haha yeah, it's funny how many of the biggest decisions in life end up being made on the spur of the moment when you have to rather than after careful thought and deliberation. Or what seem like small moments that suddenly become much bigger that you never forget. I'm not sure if I'm making sense but at least I get what you're saying! 😜

  • Sorry, I forgot to check for replies til now. I'm using almost the exact set of services the other commenter is, minus mullvad (proton is fine for me), backblaze (I have a homelab with a lot of redundant storage capacity and have enough important stuff backed up to the cloud in other ways I'm fine with having to rebuild the rest if something big happens), and standard notes (but I have been considering switching to it just this week, just haven't done the research).

  • [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemmy.world

    "Proposing" to my girlfriend

  • How did you identify the problem and get ComEd to look into it? My UPS is switching inconsistently, sometimes a couple times a day, and I've seen some signs that makes me think it's not just that UPS/outlet/breaker. I wasn't at the point where I was going to do anything yet but since you're talking about the same provider I have I figured I'd ask. I have a multimeter, oscilloscope and smart plugs that watch voltage/amperage/power.

  • Sync for Lemmy @lemmy.world

    How do we report bugs?

  • This is a great description of nicotine addiction (I'm a vaper, but have smoked). I'd highly recommend anyone who's considering it to not bother even if you're impulsive and having a stressful time. Imagine adding another biological need like sleeping to your plate when after a few months all it'll do for you is allow you to stop thinking about it for a bit. No more buzz. Just cravings and knowing where the exits are.

  • I'll tack on to what the other commenter said:

    • Cost: I considered myself a heavy searcher (software engineer and gamer) and have been surprised to see I have rarely exceeded even half of my allotted searches ($5/mo, 300 searches). I'm now reprogramming my brain to stop turning to alternatives when something should be easy to find because "I might use up all my queries".
    • Better: apart from all of the cool features, and there are many, there's also that it just "feels better". I don't know how to qualify that despite being a professional in that world. It's kinda the opposite feeling that I had using Google over the last 5+ years where I wondered if I was getting dumber or if the internet (and Google) was absolutely full of garbage.

    It's on the very short list of subscriptions I pay for right now despite having a very limited budget at the moment.

  • You do that manually? Wow that's a lot of work. But I agree with the other commenter, turns out the reason I was hesitant to read the article on that other site was because the experience sucks. Thank you for making it so much easier.