SavvyWolf @ savvywolf @pawb.social

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I managed to get an Oral B one for cheap, and it's been doing me fine. Maybe there are better brands, maybe there aren't, but it does the job.

Honestly, what might be better than the toothbrush itself is the timer in it. Forces me to do the full 2 minutes rather than me stopping after 30secs or so.

Ignoring the consent issue, you are going to waste a lot of vaccine. And you can't measure dosage very well, so may end up over or underdosing people. Not to mention people might have allergies or side effects which you'd need to account for.

It's why we switched to chemtrails for distributing the gay pathogen.

If you're worried about stability, I think the NTFS driver will probably be more widely used and tested than WinBTRFS. Of course, nothing is 100% bug free, and disks can fail at any time for no reason. Instead of looking for a stable filesystem, I'd suggest setting up backups such that a random failure every few years doesn't cause everything to be lost.

Raise a child on their own without any exposure to language. Could be interesting to see how their perspective on the world develops.

Check /etc/skel/.bashrc, if it's in there as well, it was set up by your distro.

What it does is check for the existence of ~/.bashrc.d and, if it finds one, sources all the files inside it. This effectively means that you can create script files like ~/.bashrc.d/myfile.sh and they will have the same effect as if they had been put directly into .bashrc. Some people prefer having one file for each "bashrc thing" whilst some prefer just having one big file. Ultimately it's personal preference.

Lemmy is not your doctor and you shouldn't take medical advice from us. If it's possible where you live, try to get in touch with a family planning clinic (or whatever the local name would be). They can get you some sti tests and give better advice than we can. You aren't the first person to have unprotected sex, and you won't be the last.

Academia Is Not Law, especially when it comes to subjective things involving marginalised groups. There can be and are massive systematic and institutional failures that mean many papers are misleading.

Most people broadly agree that the treatment of people with mental conditions, black people, lgbt people, etc was shocking and unacceptable even 50 years ago... And yet some people assume we've "fixed" that nowadays and everything is above board and perfectly fair and ethical.

Indeed, it's something I think about quite a bit. The conclusion I've come to involves consent: If all people involved in something fully understand and consent to what is happening, then they should not be "judged" for it.

And yes, I know there are holes and loopholes in that conclusion, but I think it's nearly impossible to have a logically sound and consistent moral framework.

If you beleive them, as far as I recall, Valve has said that they were working on the Steam Deck before the switch was revealed.

A universal move towards a less judgemental and more empathetic society.

In theory those characters are under copyright, yes. But it's similar to posting memes or lets plays; they don't lawyer against it unless they're assholes. So, avoid Mario, I guess.

However, the training data used by many of these huge models of full of copyrighted material from smaller, poorer creators, which is a serious problem IMO. But they can't afford to lawyer up against the big megacorps so nobody in the US listens to them.

GenAI is really the rich get richer.

"Did you run the formatter on this?"

Bonus points if it's python code and nowhere in the docs does it say which of the many formatters to use.

I think it's a bit unrealistic to expect randos online to 100% accurate and correct about what they are saying, regardless of their political leanings.

People seem oddly optimistic about all of this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the solution they came up with still wouldn't work in Linux. I don't know how exactly they'd do it, but I can imagine some encryption key or hardware nonsense that Linux can't replicate.

Been playing Kitsune Tails recently, which is basically a modern version of Mario Bros 3. I'm at a super advanced post-game level where they are trying to teach me how to shell jump. I'm going to give it a break until I can get into a "grind until I learn the mechanic" headspace.

I don't have any examples, sadly - I'm basing this on what some people on Bluesky have been saying.

The way I usually see it playing out is that people usually call things are negative "reatarded" (e.g. "This app is retarded!", "Wow, I thought that tomato was a fruit, lmao I'm still retarded!"). It just pushes the negative stereotypes associated with it. I don't know if that's what you are doing, but that's how I see a lot of "stop being sensitive bros" do it.

I know its easy to say that every one who hears you talk fully understands precisely what you mean, but do they? I've seen stories of people who "ironically" use racial slurs and didn't realise that it resulted in most of their friends turning out to be actual racists. Likewise, are you pushing away would-be friends who don't want to associate with people who casually throw out slurs? That's ignoring the impact of saying it in a public place, where victims of abuse can hear it.

What's wrong with someone having cognitive difficulties? Why do you feel the need to use the word as a descriptor for negative things?

Yes, it's a slur. Especially outside of the US (where mental conditions are less overtly stigmatised).

Supposedly it's being "reclaimed" by the alt-right on Twitter. But obvously don't listen to the alt-right's views on social progressiveness.

Also, don't call yourself "retarded", you're better than that. <3

Edit: I'm in the UK, and I find this list useful to figure out what's offensive and what isn't: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-standards/offensive-language

Out of interest, has anyone here been using Kagi? It's a premium search engine, which means it has reasons and resources to not suck, in theory. Kind of interested in trying it, but not sure how good it actually is.