NirodhaAvidya @ nirodhaavidya @lemmy.world

Posts

4

Comments

20

Joined

2 yr. ago

What did you used to find stimulating?

Damn it! My phone is fucking useless now. I can't even go a half a day. I was used to using adaptive charging overnight and that was enough. Now I can't listen to audio during work hours without the damn thing draining to battery saver within a few hours. Guess I'll root and Graphene it.

Zenni. I've got dozens of glasses from them. Every year if I've got money leftover in my health flex spending account I buy glasses. Fashion tint, sunglasses, just for fun, etc. It's never a waste.

Sam Neill

Try as I may to avoid this absurd political reality I find myself in, I am continuously dumbfounded by these headlines. I have to check everytime if the post is an Onion article.

It's funny because it's true. chuckles softly

Kagi if you are willing to pay for the service. I think that's reasonable but your needs may vary.

Yep, first gen Tacoma is perfect in my mind. The new tacos are bigger than the F150 was! Why!? It's ridiculous.

Make it so number one.

That consciousness arises from matter as some emergent phenomenon. Integrated information theory, micro-tubules, or whatever: no.

I believe consciousness is fundamental.

• No offense taken
• These are salient points
• I edited my post
• I hope it's easier to digest now
• Thank you for the constructive criticism

"You are under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago" - Alan Watts

This one is a bit hard-won for me. You see I used to be an asshole. It was my brand. I thought "it's just in my nature".

Fortunately, I was also a student of religion (mostly because I was a militant atheist. Know your enemy and all that). Studying Buddhism, I began to observe the nature of self. I found enough distance from it to see its transient nature.

I realized being an asshole was a choice and I could just as easily choose otherwise. Soon I began to discover this was true of most character traits.

I'm not saying you don't have consistent patterns of behavior. I'll hopefully always be curious and analytical. But for the most part, the way you conduct yourself and where you focus your attention is a choice.

So, if you're not happy with who you are maybe don't be so attached to the idea of 'who you are". And if that seems hard, observe what you pay your attention to and try to find the distance between observation and behavior. In that gap lies the choice you make, consciously or not, to be "you".

Strength Before Weakness

Use a vacuum cleaner with a detached hose. While applying suction from the screen side, slide the nozzle up while dragging the card with it.

This one was actually quite entertaining. When the episode switched from the Live Action "previously on" recap to the animated Lower Decks crew, I was tickled. The second Jack Quaid came through the portal as Boimler, I was invested. He nails the live action portrayal. I also loved him as Hughie in The Boys.

“What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?” — Paarthurnax, Skyrim

For an example -NSFW strong language-, here's an AI imitating/mocking the US presidential debate

I have been doing this for the most part, but the muscle memory of over a decade of RES is hard to overcome.

Somebody's passive perception is lower than 10.

I'm not certain, but perhaps some games are pre-cracked. For instance, some from that girl who's fit.