steeznson @ steeznson @lemmy.world

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I got the light version of this as a joke birthday present. It plugs into a USB slot and makes an anemic light source. Haven't used it much in summer but it might have some limited utility in winter.

le wrong generation. more like cRAP music, amirite?

Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6

Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I'm a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.

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downvote: user is being rude (try not to downvote people I disagree with)

Thank you, Nintendo!

I do think that we are taking in too many people from around the world at the moment but I also think this sounds like a reasonable asylum claim. China does not treat its citizens well if they show any interest in politics.

They have people on talkshows every so often who claim to remember being born but they are clearly fantasists since consciousness doesn't start in earnest until we are ~2.

Personally, it feels like I've got a limited amount of memory and the older I get the more years I cram into it. The early memories are starting to get crowded out.

The side-effects would need to be pretty extreme for the cost-benefit analysis to show using weight-loss drugs was more harmful than being obese.

I'm somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of muting some of our reward pathways in the brain though. Anecdotal reports so far have had people saying it has helped them with alcoholism and gambling in addition to losing weight, which makes me wonder if we're using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. At the same time I don't have a genetic disposition towards gaining weight so maybe I'd have a different opinion if I'd tried everything else to lose weight and had felt out of options before these drugs came along.

I get your point that reddit nominally has more privacy. I only said "arguably" because I think privacy is an illusion in both cases (which, admittedly, is a bit of an orthogonal take). If there isn't true privacy anywhere then there is the additional downside of reddit data being actively marketed/presented to 3rd parties.

Tbf, leaving aside the morality of their cause, they broke into and vandalised an RAF base. That's more disruptive behaviour than most groups who get banned engage in.

Arguably, lemmy is going to be more private than reddit because your data are being queried, refined, quantified and categorised by reddit to be sold off to the highest bidder. If a different actor is just scraping activitypub they need to do all of that themselves.

More generally, I'm not sure if we should ever think about something posted online as being private. You can post form data that is secured to your bank or whatever but they are analysing all of that data on their side. Similarly the large email providers are aware of the contents of all your emails.

"Social media" is a really vague term. I think there are broadly 3 categories:

• Web2.0 social media: facebook, twitter, discord, reddit
• Forums: Old school web fora, (mastodon & lemmy?)
• Debateable social media: IRC, email chains/threads

Only the first category is relatively new and has captured the attention of the general public outside of nerds. The other two are either decentralised or are niche centralised sites. IMO it seems like the web 2.0 stuff is most problematic but not sure if it's the hyper-centralisation or their general popularity that is the issue.

Mixture of people who use the same linux distro as me (gentoo), FOSS devs and people I find using hashtags with my interests in them (RPG & JRPG games, movies, sports, etc.)

Edit: also called steeznson on there, instance is glasgow.social if you want to find me

Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm

Gave it 3 stars.

Edit: also called steeznson on there

I don't have a reddit account and only comment on lemmy. Although I do check the reddit frontpage every so often the actual communities I interact with are here.

Other than that, I have a mastodon account which I'm quite active on and a letterboxd too. Last thing would be linkedin but I don't post there and maybe login to it once a quarter.

If Donkey Kong doesn't have a rap in this game I'm going to riot

Nothing is private on Fediverse. Everything is public so that there is maximum interoperability between applications and instances of the same application. I've seen people use this image to describe what the "security" is like for DMs -

Yeah people get played by their biological urges and evolutionary psychology throughout the entire process. Even newborn babies are programmed to scream intermittently so that the parents are never well rested, and this is theorized to be to prevent the parents from producing another baby in quick succession who takes attention from baby #1.

This is the 2nd video MVG has done on back compat. See the other one here.

James Bond games have a storied and mixed pedigree. It's been a long time since the highs of Goldeneye N64 and Nightfire on PS2!

I'm always kind of rooting for them to be good but I've not bought any for decades.