To quote a friend of mine who traveled to Australia recently, “I wouldn’t say Australia is the most racist country, but they are definitely the country that is the most comfortable with their racism.”
Student: “Hey, a shortcut! Let me first just walk around the long way so I can measure the length of the other two sides, multiply those lengths by themselves, add them together, and find out how much extra walking I’ve saved myself by taking the shortcut. Boy, this shortcut sure is saving me a lot of effort. Hooray Pythagoras!”
I don’t know who hurt this guy, but it sounds like we’re only a couple more low-effort math jokes away from hearing a rant about the Jews, and how the woke mindvirus is destroying America.
20ish years ago I installed Ubuntu on a laptop with the intention to get off Windows. I then spent 4 to 6 hours a day for the next two weeks just trying to get the WiFi to function. None of the fixes I could Google up worked, and that was frustrating. It was the people in the Linux forums that finally made me quit trying, though. The amount of gatekeeping was kind of shocking. Like, how dare I bother such mighty computer men with my plebian questions. I should feel honored that anyone condescended to respond at all, and I should gratefully accept their link to a fix I’ve already tried and fuck off.
I bought a new PC last year and I hate Windows 11 so much that it’s got me eyeing Linux again. But the thought of having to repeat that whole ordeal again makes me feel sick to my butthole.
I honestly don’t remember. It was a long time ago. I also tried Mint thinking it might be more intuitive, but I couldn’t get WiFi to work with either of them.
it usually wrecks my mood for a few hours; i pride myself on being good at stuff and when i try to play something, and the tuning is weird, or this pedal got nudged and sounds bad, or i try a new song and fuck it up, etc etc, it gives me a headache and feels bad. instead of the post-playing glow i feel wrung out....
You’re hanging your sense of self worth on whether you played amazingly in a practice session, and playing amazingly all the time is not the point of practice. Like, at all. The point of practice is to make mistakes, to analyze and fix those mistakes, and then to reinforce your victories through repetition. If your practice sessions are just you sounding good playing the things you’re already good at playing, then you’re not really practicing. So if you find you’re not playing well that day then just slow down, look at where your mistakes are happening, look at the mechanics of how your hands are moving, play as slow as you need to in order to fix what’s wrong. Repeat that until the mistakes stop happening. That’s practicing. That’s what practice is for.
I’ve been playing for over 30 years, so maybe I’ve become a little more philosophical about this stuff with age, but I don’t even see the point in thinking about practice in terms of whether a session was “good” or “bad.” You have to take a much longer view of what you’re doing. Each practice session, whether or not it feels productive, or feeds your ego or whatever, is a step toward a goal. Each goal is a mile marker on a long, looooong journey, which doesn’t have any real destination or end point. If you’re interested in progressing as a musician, you have to keep pushing yourself to attempt things that are beyond your current ability. When you do that, a lot (maybe even most) of your practice sessions are going to be messy, frustrating, and maybe even a little bit tedious. You just have to get comfortable with that. You don’t get better without that. You just have to sit down and do the work, and trust that if you follow the process it’ll eventually get you where you want to go. You just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
when i try to play something, and the tuning is weird, or this pedal got nudged and sounds bad, or i try a new song and fuck it up
Just FYI, the first two things in this list are immediately fixable in the moment. If you’re letting them affect your mental health, that’s 100% on you. Tune your guitar. Set your amp/pedal EQ to where it sounds good. Someday you might be successful enough to hire sound engineers and guitar techs to do it for you, but until then it’s all you.
The third thing is just part of the process of learning a new song. It happens to everybody all the time. Nobody is exempt. There is zero point beating yourself up about it.
Wow, I’d always sort of assumed these worked by counting the number times the action cycles, I had no idea these required you to physically replace the magazine follower. That right there has to be a deal breaker for a lot of gun owners. Glock owners in particular tend to be pretty evangelical about sticking with Glock OEM factory mags. I can’t imagine a lot of people are going to want to trade reliability for a (probably overpriced) gimmick.
The state of science reporting has been absolute dog shit for decades. The vast majority of the time when you track down the study an article is based on, the claims of the article are either massively exaggerated, or sometimes even completely different than what the article claims. It seems like a whole industry of taking fairly mundane studies and punching them up into some exciting pieces of short fiction. So many years of garbage reporting has me immediately skeptical of any article with a bold claim, or which mentions any kind of significant breakthrough.
Portable bidets are a thing. Basically a squeeze bottle with a special nozzle to direct the stream. Periods aren’t something I have to deal with, so I really don’t know what kind of cleanup is required, but it seems like it would be better than nothing.
All that trouble over maybe $10 worth of ammunition… You’d think they’d just quietly drop it in the trash or something. It’s not like it’s some kind of ultra-precious irreplaceable unobtanium or something.
One study suggested that the reactors could produce more nuclear waste than current systems and that they “will use highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive.”
Nah, I hired an electrician to handle all that for me. Now if I want electricity all I have to do is stick a plug in a socket, or flip a switch. It’s way more convenient.
The last time around, Trump’s efforts to pack the Defense Department with cranks and flunkies came too late to bring the military under his full political control. The president and his advisers were slow-footed and disorganized, and lacked familiarity with Washington politics. They were hindered as well by the courage and...
Valley View wasn’t my local mall, but I visited a handful of times and I loved the entrance with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_View_Center#/media/File:Sanger%E2%80%93Harris_mosaic_at_the_Valley_View_Center_Mall_in_Dallas,_Texas.jpg.
Despite never having been to Dallas I was getting huge deja vu when they were walking in and looking down at the food court. It took like half the video before I realized that it’s because it’s an almost identical layout to the mall in Postal 2 where you battle Gary Coleman.
A former Bay Area tech CEO was fired earlier this year after allegedly enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing his assistant. He claims the pair had a consensual relationship that people would “celebrate” if it were fictitious....
Regardless of what they sell or their stated ethos, once a corporation becomes publicly traded its only purpose becomes maximizing profits for its shareholders. The prevailing attitude in that section of the business world is that, if you can save a million and one dollars by dumping toxic waste on a children’s playground, and the fine from the EPA is going to be one million dollars even, then it is your holy and sacred duty to poison those children for the sake of delivering that one dollar to the shareholders. In fact, failing to prioritize shareholder profits is the only thing corporations ever get in real trouble for.
People who thrive in this type of environment, let alone rise to the top, tend not to be good or moral people who are bothered by things like a conscience or a sense of compassion. To run a publicly traded corporation you need a person who can cause enormous amounts of suffering and blight in the world, and then go home and sleep comfortably and unbothered, soothed by the belief that everything is permissable as long as they made a line on a graph go up slightly.
Australia: 'Golden visa' scheme for wealthy investors axed (www.bbc.com)
I love those path (lemm.ee)
Why people gave up using linux?
The only few reason I know so far is software availability, like adobe software, and Microsoft suite. Is there more of major reasons that I missed?
Julius Bashir, refreshing, but you only try it once or twice (i.imgur.com)
Seriously when was the last time you had one?
Entire Edition Of Newspapers Stolen On Day It Publishes Story About Rape At Police Chief’s Home (www.huffpost.com)
“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” said Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre.
is a hot dog a sandwich (lemmy.ml)
How do you handle having a bad practice session?
it usually wrecks my mood for a few hours; i pride myself on being good at stuff and when i try to play something, and the tuning is weird, or this pedal got nudged and sounds bad, or i try a new song and fuck it up, etc etc, it gives me a headache and feels bad. instead of the post-playing glow i feel wrung out....
Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and- (startrek.website)
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The Future is Now - Radetec Round Counting Grips (2010s) (lemmy.world)
A staple of sci-fi prop design is slapping ammo counters onto guns. Because that’s what the future is like....
Japanese researchers identify protein with potential to prevent aging (interestingengineering.com)
The punch that ‘burst the bubble’: residents of Hitler’s alpine home rise up against neo-Nazi visitors (www.theguardian.com)
The CIA Explains to US Senate What a 'Heart Attack Gun' Is (1975) (lemmy.world)
This clandestine pistol is modified to:...
Lemmings without bidet: how do you deal with your period?
Do you regularly take half showers between tampons or you’re fine with just drying for the most intense days?
What's the oldest piece of tech you still have running?
And tell me how proud of it you are.
She was right in 1992, the Catholic Church is still filled with pedophiles. (lemmy.world)
A passenger hid bullets in a baby diaper at New York's LaGuardia Airport. TSA officers caught him (apnews.com)
It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think....
First US molten salt reactor in over 50 years to be built (www.businessinsider.com)
One study suggested that the reactors could produce more nuclear waste than current systems and that they “will use highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive.”
Trig (lemmy.world)
A Military Loyal to Trump | In 2020, the armed forces were a bulwark against Donald Trump’s antidemocratic designs. Changing that would be a high priority in a second term. (www.theatlantic.com)
The last time around, Trump’s efforts to pack the Defense Department with cranks and flunkies came too late to bring the military under his full political control. The president and his advisers were slow-footed and disorganized, and lacked familiarity with Washington politics. They were hindered as well by the courage and...
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Valley View Mall in Dallas, TX (1995) - Two guys walk around the mall on Sunday morning (www.youtube.com)
Valley View wasn’t my local mall, but I visited a handful of times and I loved the entrance with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_View_Center#/media/File:Sanger%E2%80%93Harris_mosaic_at_the_Valley_View_Center_Mall_in_Dallas,_Texas.jpg.
Tech CEO Forced Assistant to Sign 'Sex Slave' Contract, and Tormented Her With Sadomasochistic Bondage, Lawsuit Alleges (themessenger.com)
A former Bay Area tech CEO was fired earlier this year after allegedly enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing his assistant. He claims the pair had a consensual relationship that people would “celebrate” if it were fictitious....