Dying naturally tends to be an excruciatingly painful and slow process.

eating, drinking water, moving out of the way of danger, etc.

Not eating and drinking is a definite thing.

Maybe the latest discovery by Dragonfly.

Far fewer people will be able to read it, without doing something illicit and maybe expensive, although certain countries will still be free enough. On the other hand, it (or PieFed or a future version) could be endorsed by the remaining nations, or just have had some more exoduses of users come in.

Slight chance the AI winter we’re going into is short and some specific fusion with classical algorithms succeeds at AGI, so singularity stuff is going on and being posted about. 2038 problem, as someone else mentioned.

Edit: Q-day stuff could be done, coming soon or ongoing. If it’s done - which I kinda expect - it’s still a massive source of both breaches and fun mods on old, locked software and hardware.

Allowing calls to proliferate in the first place and be addressed would indicate some level of free speech.

If the composition of Lemmy is even remotely the same that will be everywhere.

I shouldn’t.

Rereading that article makes me wonder if it’s a rod-related thing, since it’s only noticeable at night under dark skies, and apparently they can contribute to colour perception in those cases as well.

I think I can see more colours in the stars than most people. I can also tell the northern lights are coming up earlier, so probably just low-light cone sensitivity.

A wasp died in a vent a bit ago and it smelled awful to me, but nobody else could perceive it at all.

Also notice that Lemmy is actually multiple sites connected together, so there might be more than one of each community, which can be confusing at first.

Channeling what therapists have said to me a bit: it’s not what happens that causes feelings, so much as what you think about what happens.

Maybe you’re looking at things is a winner-takes-all way here? Like, if you’re not better than them in every way, they win. It’s not actually like that, of course. There’s billions of people on Earth, and you should be the best version of yourself you can be regardless of what everyone else is doing. Changing other people is nearly impossible (another thing therapists like to bring up) while improving your skill is not, and the two are very separate here.

Yep. Same vibe as old legends about the glory of battle. The tropes exist because the most powerful people are trying to motivate cannon fodder. Edit: Or justify their own position - either as a brave, chivalrous lord or a hard-working, street smart CEO.

You see the personal impact of success in whatever environment you’re in exaggerated for similar reasons. For example, good grades are worth something, and doing either really badly or better than average has consequences, but there’s diminishing returns on very high or low levels beyond that. From what I’ve seen in my life, nepotism, luck and schmoozing skills are all worth substantially more than crazy high grades. (And having the right temperament to actually build on what you earn - that one’s underrated)

Walled gardens are most of the problem, and they’re only getting more walled over time as companies move from expanding their platform to exploiting it for returns. CloudFlare is kind of an exception, as it’s still giving away a lot of free services. Once it starts being evil it’s going to really suck.

Closed-down hardware is the biggest emerging threat. You can leave the proprietary software ecosystem if you want, but a SoC is DIY-resistant.

The surveillance is more of a surprise tool for when shit gets really ugly. Which is super bad, but not directly about the internet.

I only buy mint-type candies. Junior mints until the trade war; something local now.

I need something to crush sweets cravings, but I also want to limit how much I’m actually going to eat. With the strong flavour, I find those work pretty well.

I ignore the results until they’re all in as well. The time to worry and do things is before the ballots are cast.

My alarm is across the room from my bed. It’s been a long time now, but I definitely felt better after I started doing it.

(It amazes me that people can think ‘influencer’ is not a creepy ominous title)

Now that you point it out, it definitely is.

Hand soap. Dish soap works better and you can use it on dishes in addition to your hands.

I was always told it would fuck up your hands. Does it?

This guy frugals.

To this day, I’ve never been tempted to buy a nice display, I’m right there with you. Like, I go to electronics stores for whatever and am dazzled by the bright colours on the modern ones, but not enough to need it when I’m posting on Lemmy, let alone pay an arm and a leg for it.

Yes, the spelling is terrible, even if the spoken language is not.

Most creoles and other such contact languages tend to be analytic, though. Synthetic languages certainly suck for learners, but I’m not sure about why agglutinative doesn’t catch on more easily.

I don’t miss the articles in Russian, and genders seem like a random thing to embed, so that’s all great.

Exhausting to do for a long period, and requires a direct and deliberate sight line to work - there will be no shouting “fire”.

It’s actually been suggested the earliest languages could have been sign languages, since other apes don’t fully voluntarily control their noises. I would guess the above are why we moved on.

Hmm, interesting. Do you have reasons, or was that just a random choice? I know pretty little about it. Actually, I’m not even sure if it’s Turkic or Persian or something else.