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- Comment on Men overran a job fair for women in tech — Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs 1 year ago:
Why did you bother writing 500 words in response to a website that exists to sell sex toys on Black Friday?
- Comment on What would it take to change an Internal Combustion Engine Car to an EV? 1 year ago:
DIY EV kits are a thing, but a quick google shows some wildly varying prices. Probably depends on exactly what kind of car you are trying to refit and the performance you’re looking for.
- Comment on New study uncovers a "vicious cycle" between feeling less socially connected and increased smartphone use 1 year ago:
Meme of guy looking at two buttons:
“Psychology is junk science!”
“This confirms my biases!”
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
Lol I knew that didn’t sound right but couldn’t figure out why. Thanks!
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
Do what you have to. At the end of the day nothing is coming with you to the other side.
- Comment on How does one resist getting into protracted arguments while still staying informed? 1 year ago:
Listen to experts. Stay off of social media. Get used to visualizing the average commenter on anything as a middle schooler. Talk to your friends about important topics. Learn how to vet sources. Challenge your beliefs. Recognize what cognitive dissonance feels like to you and seek it out. Focus on things that matter to your life. Read all the way through articles.
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 1 year ago:
At least for me, its a threshold problem. The internet means that staying at home is always going to be at least somewhat interesting, which makes it a lot harder to take a gamble on a random late night outing. It’s not just staying out late, either—Gen Z shows declines in a whole host of risky behaviors. Smoking, alcohol, drug use, teen pregnancy, are all way down in our generation.
- Comment on Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that 1 year ago:
Wait what? Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but this is what I got out of the article:
“We had anecdotes of a phenomenon. A scientific study showed no evidence of said phenomenon. Therefore, the phenomenon was previously real but has now stopped.”
That seems like really, really bad science. Or at least, really really bad science reporting.
- Comment on Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law 1 year ago:
Exactly. Malicious compliance, while reminding people exactly why they shouldn’t be so quick to give up their anonymity on the internet.
- Comment on Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law 1 year ago:
The sicko in me hopes they spend the next two weeks linking every policymaker in the state to their pornography habits and just dump the whole dataset online. Yeah, it would probably counterproductive and not great for democracy but I wouldn’t it be the sickest burn of all time?
- Comment on 1 year ago:
Good question! Because neurons differ widely in location and function throughout your body, there are a number of possible outcomes depending on what exactly you mean by “all”. I’ve listed a few of those outcomes below!
Every neuron in your entire body: you die.
Every neuron in your body under conscious control: you die.
Every neuron in your Central Nervous System(brain and spinal cord): you die.
Every neuron in your brain: you die.
Every neuron in your brain that’s not in your hindbrain: you still die, but slightly slower and more agonizing.
Every neuron in your cerebrum: you die, but going from seconds to minutes here is progress!
Every neuron in your forebrain: you might conceivably survive this, albeit with severe personality changes and massive cognitive declines. Then again, it’s almost certainly going to trigger a massive seizure. In which case you just die.
- Comment on This lemmy inspired me to buy my first fountain pen! 1 year ago:
Thanks for the tips! It took a bit of fussing, but once I got how it worked, the converter was pretty intuitive. Overall, it was a lot simpler than I expected. I plan on making pretty heavy use of this, but I’ll keep your advice for storage in mind.
- Comment on This lemmy inspired me to buy my first fountain pen! 1 year ago:
I have to take a lot of notes on paper for my work, hope this will give me the motivation to push through!
- Comment on This lemmy inspired me to buy my first fountain pen! 1 year ago:
A Jinhao 82 Fine Tip. I saw a discussion about them here, saw that they were only nine bucks on Amazon, and impulse purchased.
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- Comment on Is there a live thread for Ukraine updates like the world news one on that dumpster fire of a service that shall not be named? 1 year ago:
!ukraine@sopuli.xyz is the most active. I’ve been trying to get !credibledefense@sh.itjust.works off the ground, but there’s a pretty critical shortage of contributors. Would love if you stopped by!
- Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down 1 year ago:
Communists try not to let idealism get in the way of practicality challenge(impossible)
/s, it stands for Marxist/Leninist apparently. But yeah, this is why novelty domain suffixes are novelties.
- Comment on Advertising Lemmy on r/place 1 year ago:
If you are thinking of doing this, I am begging you to stop and spend that time contributing to lemmy instead. 10,000 users will be a drop in the bucket for r/place, but 10,000 extra comments or posts could be the difference between the whole site surviving or not.