theragu40 @ theragu40 @lemmy.world

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Pretty difficult to imagine doing this honestly. Do I retain the memories of what I'm reversing? Or is it just a rewind? Because if I don't retain the memories then it's a bit pointless, but if I do I think I'd have a hard time reliving things. For instance I would never go back far enough to erase my children, but my youngest was born 2 weeks before COVID. Regardless of any get rich quick scheme I could think of, I am really not certain I'd want to knowingly live through that again.

The barrier to adoption is so often outlier scenarios though.

A vehicle is a huge purchase. For many it's the largest purchase they will make. For everyone else it's the second largest, behind their home. They want to make sure it does everything they do normally, and everything they might do once in a while.

As a small example, my family travels to a specific lake about once per year, for around a week. We switched cell phone providers to one that worked better at that lake. It costs a bit more, but even though on an average week it doesn't matter at all if our phones work at that lake because on average we aren't there, it was important to have our carrier work there. The outlier scenario actually made the decision for us with all other factors equal.

It doesn't matter if the average buyer isn't likely to take longer trips frequently. What does matter is that those outlier scenarios can be conceivably accomplished without significant hassle. And before you say that's not reasonable, consider that it doesn't matter that it isn't reasonable.

People base their purchase decisions on unreasonable factors all the time. How else do we explain how many trucks are on the road?

It does not matter that current charging methods cover 99% of scenarios for 99% of people. The glare of that 1% will shine a light brighter than the positives from the standpoint of widespread adoption. And from that perspective, news of a solution to slower charging is a very good thing.

We don't know. But they did literally say this in interviews, that the story changed because someone guessed it. Like, how transparent can you be about having no vision for your show.

As with anything I feel like it's a bit silly to pit the US as a whole against individual European countries. States are a much more logical comparison from the standpoint of physical size, population, and cultural regionalism.

It's no surprise to me that the US as a whole is nowhere near the top. We have multiple states that are nearly entirely dry.

Check those numbers against drinking states like Wisconsin and I think the comparisons are much closer.

You seem like you know about pawpaws. I've always been curious. I'm in southern Wisconsin, are they this far north or do I need to travel somewhere?

One thing I don't like about the approach of blocking things is that the frontpage of reddit still allowed some level of discovery. If something in a niche community got hot enough it would break into my feed even though I didn't subscribe to that community. It was a cool way to expand my content on an occasional basis.

If I'm going to only view my subscribed list on lemmy then I have to also manually go out and intentionally discover new communities. That's hard, because some of my favorite small reddit communities were ones I never would have thought to search for.

I am considering creating multiple accounts to upvote this even more. Ok just kidding, but seriously if this is at all technically feasible it is by far my most missed feature. I often used my upvote history as a sort of very loose bookmarking system. I realize I can save posts, but I usually reserved that for extra special posts that I really needed to save.

The way Lemmy is set up I've actually struggled to find a post I upvoted just a couple hours prior. It can be very frustrating.

I used to drink a shitload of soda.

Then after college I was living at home with my folks, two hours away from my fiancee. I had nothing better to do so I decided to focus on my health. Took 6 months, did a lot of p90x, went almost entirely cold turkey on processed foods, added sugars, and alcohol.

I ended up losing over 60lbs, almost all of which I have gained back for various reasons. But one thing that stuck is I cannot handle non-diet soda anymore. It makes me feel physically sick to drink more than a couple ounces. I will occasionally drink a diet soda, but even those are few and far between.

It's like I rewired something inside of me and I just can't deal with those sugar bombs anymore. I'm sure part of it may also just be me getting older.

Anyway the point of the story is, there is hope! It takes some willpower, but if I could do it, you can too!

I didn't visit reddit on purpose for two full months. I still don't have the app installed.

I have to admit though I am visiting for game threads now that the NFL has started up. Sports is non-existent on Lemmy. I'm participating in the communities for my teams, but there's like half a dozen of us in each one. It just isn't the same thing and I realized that dicking around in comment sections is a big part of how I enjoy sports these days.

They're still not getting content from me, I'm not going to use their app. But it's hard to keep completely away when there is simply nothing even closer on lemmy or anywhere else.

I think there's also something to the idea that it takes someone who is a little..."off" for them to be able to cut other people open for their job. You have to be able to dehumanize them to a certain extent.

I worked in a hospital for a few years, and the folks working in the ORs were definitely the most interesting and often most intimidating crowd, and you did NOT fuck with the surgeons, they were the kings and queens of the floor.

This is what I do too, but doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose of the fediverse? Naturally the communities on the largest instances will have the most users. I realize this shouldn't need to be the case but after several months using lemmy it clearly is the case.

If everything settles down onto 2-3 monolithic instances, aren't we just back to a slightly worse reddit?

This works for the individual (as long as they concede to knowing missing content). But if everyone does this it kinda destroys lemmy because you never get the critical mass of users in any one community to have meaningful discussion.

Which highlights the issue of your proposal for me, that I'm not concerned about missing "content" in the form of links. I don't like missing out on conversations. But when they are fragmented as they are now with so few people in each, discussion ends up quite limited as well. If people just silence one or more "duplicate" communities to reduce the issue of repeat content then it ensures discussions remain fragmented as well.

I guess I'd flip that question. Why do you think being career politicians gives them motivation besides bribes and money?

Because that's the thing, they know they're running another campaign in a couple years, they always need to be raising money for the next one. They always need to solicit donations. And they can't do anything that rocks the boat because it affects the next election.

Presidents very commonly get more done during their second term because they aren't worried about the political impact of their actions affecting their ability to get elected again. I don't see why this effect wouldn't be the same for Congress and the Senate.

Right, I mean those are the things we are saying are bad.

The culture of the Senate and Congress would need to change, and I think it would rather quickly. Unfortunately this is an issue both Republicans and Democrats will never support because the very people entrenched in power would need to vote themselves out of power. It will literally never happen.

Weirdly it can be third person whenever you want? I'm not trying to sell you on it. But it's not strictly first person, which I didn't know before starting it.

Definitely different standards. I mean no criticism, but I in no way require 90fps minimum.

I've played the switch more hours than I think any previous console. For all its flaws the switch is home to so many quality Nintendo experiences at this point that if someone finds that this is the generation that they've tired of Nintendo then it's possible they simply don't like Nintendo style games anymore.

Mario Party indeed was a pile of shit. But there are so many incredible games.

I don't think I could pin down a universal number. I really enjoy when a game understands the staying power of its gameplay loop and finishes up before it gets stale.

I've got 180 hours into TotK and I'm not sick of it yet because I discover something new every time I play.

Conversely I 100%-ed Dredge in 20 hours and that felt like the exact right amount of time. Any longer and I'd have been sick of it.

Or we can go even lower with something like Untitled Goose Game, which was under 10 hours and also finished up just as it got old.

So yeah. I'm all about the self awareness of a game with regards to the experience. Whatever amount of time that takes is cool with me.

Runs fine on my 3060ti also. This game is being brigaded really hard on Lemmy for some reason. It's by no means a perfect game but I've been having enough fun to keep going and I've had zero issues running it on ultra. Like actually zero. Shrug.

At least Leno was an ok interviewer and (at least based on his post tonight shown life) seems not to be a dick.

Fallon is SUCH a bad interviewer, it is incredibly grating.