retrieval4558 @ retrieval4558 @mander.xyz

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Lol the downvotes. I said I'm voting for the guy, but y'all are so mad that I'm not going to dickride him as well.

Better not try then, that is the democrats MO after all

I'm relatively unconvinced by laying all the blame on them. The president is the leader of his party and has the massive power of the bully pulpit to help bring them into line. He was unable or unwilling to do that.

Encroaching *fascism. I agree there's probably not much to do about racism.

I'm on board with voting for him as a means of harm reduction but I'm also not gonna pretend he's been great like a lot of blue maga liberals claim.

He's done an OK job for a run of the mill president during run of the mill times, but in my opinion he has failed to rise to the big threats of today, especially RAPIDLY encroaching fascism, climate change, and nearly catastrophic wealth inequality.

Maybe if you've only got a passing familiarity with the anatomy....

Jack Black

Everything is politics everywhere

Smoking what? Tobacco? Or based on your user name, weed? And if weed, by what method? I'll assume joints.

In terms of greatest harm I'd guess

Tobacco x2 week > Sugar chewing gum> Joints x2 week > non sugar chewing gum.

I'd be more sympathetic if the lies weren't coming from the most obvious con-man in history.

This is the way

I'm a prescriber in the US and the name that people will commonly use varies by drug and by region. It's also influenced by whether that medication is even available generically due to patents (if that's the right legal word) on medications being decently long when they first come out.

I agree it's a mess

For allergies? Most people should start with a second generation antihistamine like Allegra or Claritin, they shouldn't cause the same sedation like Benadryl does.

If you're using benadryl for sleep, atarax can be a bit better, but if it is just sleep, I'd stop using any of them. It can be habit forming, fuck up your sleep hygiene, and long term use of anticholinergic medication may increase your risk of dementia in the long run.

This is incredibly generic advice and you should talk to your doctor about any concerns you have.

Ironically I know I just used a bunch of brand names but that's what I refer to them as off the top of my head ¯(ツ)_/¯

Absolutely. Especially those who believe in miracles.

Not unless those things are owned by foreign companies, which I doubt those are

I'm in a line of work where I see death very very often.

I don't know what I've learned from it. Besides that it's coming. I also know there are things worse than death. Often, in the end, people/families can't accept it, and they end up uselessly suffering.

Yeah it's relatively easy to reuse most webcam cameras, you just have to get them connected to a USB cable, then most computers will immediately recognize them as cameras.

Thank you for those resources, they are pretty compelling, especially the Twitter thread, which if true, is good evidence that China has used the data to target specific individuals. That's a problem. And the individual bit is important because I'm unpersuaded by "mass data collection" arguments because a) everyone is doing that and no one seems to care and b) basically the same data is freely purchasable.

The harms associated with the first few links are definitely real, but I would certainly be interested in an apples to apples comparison to other platforms, especially YouTube.

But I think it's also important to recognize that there is a lot of good that comes from TikTok as well. If I can get personal here, I've moved away from family and friends to work a demanding job, and I've found some sense of community on TikTok with people who are into the same hobbies as I am, which I've had difficulty finding IRL. It has also given voice and community to [certain groups of] marginalized people, and, (for better or for worse) is a major platform by which creators can generate revenue by which a lot of them survive.

Obviously a lot of that COULD and SHOULD be hosted on a different platform without all these issues, but right now they are not, so we need to make sure not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

I pointed it out in other comments, but I feel as if the current bill provides too much power to the executive to unilaterally ban foreign outlets from functioning in the US. I'm not a nutty free speech absolutist or anything, but I think anything that has the potential to shut out alternative perspectives like that takes us closer to Chinese style censorship, not farther away.

Ironically, I wonder if a better solution is mandatory integration of positive content algorithms like it seems like douyin has. But then the question is, who picks what's positive? Is religion positive? Patriotism? Depends who you ask.

All in all, I think social media of all kinds has been basically the worst thing to happen to the world in my lifetime, but I think that that the cat is out of the bag on it and we're just pretty fucked.

Thank you for the honest and level conversation here, I do appreciate it.

I usually just harvest usable parts like the hard drive and camera and call it a day.

Alternatively, if you're able to plug an external monitor in and get it to work for setup, you could install some sort of Linux distro on it and run it headless for lots of different purposes.