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Why has the world gone to shit?

In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in...

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Make it so number one.

What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...

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That consciousness arises from matter as some emergent phenomenon. Integrated information theory, micro-tubules, or whatever: no.

I believe consciousness is fundamental.

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Humans as a power source was the dumbed-down plot point. The original concept was the human brains acting as parallel processors, but the writers thought the average movie-goer wouldn’t get it.

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I hate this for them. I feel like the new store location has been a lot of trouble.

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Strength Before Weakness

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“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago” - Alan Watts

This one is a bit hard-won for me. You see I used to be an asshole. It was my brand. I thought “it’s just in my nature”.

Fortunately, I was also a student of religion (mostly because I was a militant atheist. Know your enemy and all that). Studying Buddhism, I began to observe the nature of self. I found enough distance from it to see its transient nature.

I realized being an asshole was a choice and I could just as easily choose otherwise. Soon I began to discover this was true of most character traits.

I’m not saying you don’t have consistent patterns of behavior. I’ll hopefully always be curious and analytical. But for the most part, the way you conduct yourself and where you focus your attention is a choice.

So, if you’re not happy with who you are maybe don’t be so attached to the idea of 'who you are". And if that seems hard, observe what you pay your attention to and try to find the distance between observation and behavior. In that gap lies the choice you make, consciously or not, to be “you”.

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Use a vacuum cleaner with a detached hose. While applying suction from the screen side, slide the nozzle up while dragging the card with it.

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This one was actually quite entertaining. When the episode switched from the Live Action “previously on” recap to the animated Lower Decks crew, I was tickled. The second Jack Quaid came through the portal as Boimler, I was invested. He nails the live action portrayal. I also loved him as Hughie in The Boys.

Possible to Block an Instance?

Is it possible to block a specific instance (e.g. lemmynsfw.com) not just a community on an instance (e.g. celebs@lemmynsfw.com)? I’m looking in the settings, but don’t see that option. The goal isn’t to block all NSFW posts, just filter out the majority of them coming from specific instances. Yes, I know I can just blur...

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“What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?” — Paarthurnax, Skyrim

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For an example -NSFW strong language-, here’s an AI imitating/mocking the US presidential debate

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I named my truck Artax because I’m gonna cry like a little bitch when it finally dies.

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Fire in the Sky Just no. I couldn’t even look at an image of a grey alien for years. Had to look away during the opening credits of X-files because they flashed an image of a grey. I got over it. I actually rewatched it during the pandemic lock-in. It holds up pretty well.

Is there a way to have links automatically open in a new tab?

I’m so used to RES that this is mildly infuriating. I click on a link expecting is to open in the background for review later and instead it opens in the current tab obliterating my current position. Hitting back will get me to approximately the same place I was but it’s usually a whole page behind.

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I have been doing this for the most part, but the muscle memory of over a decade of RES is hard to overcome.

Netgear Nighthawk Router is Randomly Denying Connections

This is driving me nutty. I’ve got a Netgear Nighthawk router. It is set up with two WiFi SSIDs one for 2.4 and 5 GHz. Both are set to DHCP. I’ve got about 30 devices connected at any given time. Most of those are my smart bulbs, which are all connected on the 2.4 GHz channel. Occasionally, and seemingly randomly, my phones...

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I tried that once. Held the reset pin in for 7-10 seconds. Nothing happened.

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That’s what I was thinking too. I’ll try again this evening after work. rn I can’t drop my LAN.

r/dndmemes mod u/Dalimey100 is a fucking legend (slrpnk.net)

u/Dalimey (who appropriately identifies as “LAWFUL STUPID” shared a warning from reddit admins issuing their final warning against making the sub NSFW (despite the fact that the users of the sub are in full support). They promised to reply to it with “roll for persuasion or intimidation” if they got 10k upvotes, and here...

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Somebody’s passive perception is lower than 10.

[Question] What is the safest way to play a game that uses a modded Steam_api.dll to avoid getting banned?

Hypothetically, if someone were to download a Steam game from FG what’s the best operating procedure to avoid being Steam banned? For example, I understand that steam_api.dll will often be quarantined by MS Defender because the game uses a modded version of that file. Once it’s restored what steps would you take to proceed?...

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So sandbox completely? That’s doable. I imagine to have a Steam account completely separate from your primary account, you’d need to never share libraries and avoid matching IPs. Do you think Steam looks at hardware MAC addresses?

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I agree with you there. I usually just want to try out the game before I buy the real deal. I don’t do too much online stuff these days, but occasionally I want to jump into a game with a friend and thus need my Steam account.

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I’m not certain, but perhaps some games are pre-cracked. For instance, some from that girl who’s fit.

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I know. You’re right. It’s just an old habit.

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