GaMEChld
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Or even overcompensating in the other direction in order to avoid the appearance of favoritism.
- Comment on US | Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval 3 days ago:
I looked into this yesterday, it seems we haven’t declared war since WW2, and stuff like this is usually done with AUMF (Authorizations for Use of Military Force). Those can be issued after the fact. I think the president can basically do whatever for 60 days if I understand correctly.
- Comment on Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1% 4 days ago:
Good plastic surgery is largely unnoticed. Bad plastic surgery is almost a style unto itself that is for some reason desired by certain groups.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
Because the military would fracture during a civil war.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 4 days ago:
Get the vaccine. Best response.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
If you remember to, please report back, more data is always good!
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
I did briefly mention that, yes, straws definitely help! I would recommend them.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Lol, I wish. As far as I know, this isn’t a well documented thing, my PCP was kinda like, “huh, that’s interesting, I wonder how many people are dehydrated because of that.”
The only reason I discovered this is cuz my girlfriend knows me very very well and she suspected there was something off. So she asked me probing questions until we discovered I’m literally drinking incorrectly.
So the best I can do is give you a couple of different ways to drink and see if you notice any difference in how easy or difficult it is to comfortably drink without ingesting air.
So first thing we did was have me drink from a bottle. Any bottle where you can form a full seal around the opening with your mouth. Tilt back and let the fluid fill your mouth as much as possible before starting to swallow. That should mean a very minimal amount of air in the first gulp, and no additional air in each subsequent gulp because it’s sealed.
Contrast that with drinking from a normal glass, and you may find that you’re gulping down air as you’re drinking with each gulp. In that case, a straw will probably prevent you from doing that.
But really drinking from a bottle really illustrated the mechanical difference to me and made me realize my hatred for drinking was definitely born of a physical discomfort which was ultimately from a poor technique.
And after I thought about it, I was like ya know, no one really ever taught us how to drink did they? We all just figure it out, and assume we all learned the same lessons.
This might have all been the biggest factor in me never really being into drinking alcohol, because the very concept always sounded like a chore to me.
Anyway, I hope that helps!
- Comment on Diablo 2 on Linux 1 week ago:
Did you find yourself to be helpful writing this, or clever? Or both?
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
I only recently found out I have literal bad technique when it comes to drinking fluids, end up inadvertently swallowing too much air which makes it an unpleasant experience. Combined with ADHD and I’m a poster child for dehydration. Not that I experience much issues, but my skin is definitely dry.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 1 week ago:
It was an Australian reporter.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t mean it to extol LLM’s but rather to denigrate humans. How many of us are self imprisoned in echo chambers so we can have our feelings validated to avoid the uncomfortable feeling of thinking critically and perhaps changing viewpoints?
Humans have the ability to actually think, unlike LLM’s. But it’s frightening how far we’ll go to make sure we don’t.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
Most humans don’t reason. They just parrot shit too. The design is very human.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
That would explain why it sometimes gets sluggish!
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
I used to but now I’m using a very thin case from Latercase. I’d say cases are the norm.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
64TB and 100TB, niiiice
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, why aren’t there any?
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
NY has towns and villages. A township is way larger than a village. For example the Town of Huntington vs the incorporated Village of Lloyd Harbor within the town. We also have hamlets, like Huntington Village, which are similar but unincorporated.
However, all of this I’d consider suburban, not rural.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 weeks ago:
Super Metroid
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 4 weeks ago:
You can wheels within wheels this shit for eternity. Answer this question and you’ll have the answer. What do you want to do? Do that.
You can steal it, buy it, borrow it, whatever. Ultimately there is no objective right answer. If you think you’ll be better equipped to counter argue the message by reading it, I say that’s more honorable than arguing against it without knowing what it is.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 4 weeks ago:
How is HDR support? One of the only reasons I updated to Win 11 was Auto HDR features.
- Comment on Uncultured 1 month ago:
Haha, sorry, just a reference to this scene: youtu.be/QkEBvqaXXHc?t=26s
- Comment on Uncultured 1 month ago:
They are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
- Comment on Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer it have simulate the performance on a similar PC 1 month ago:
Genshin Impact does make my phone toasty.
- Comment on You might want to hose it off when you are done 1 month ago:
Yeah, this would be great to have. Always good to have options.
- Comment on ‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct 1 month ago:
The majority of people I’ve worked with are dog shit at looking up information. I’d be happy with “good at googling.”
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions... 1 month ago:
Eh you’re right, they would monetize the shit out of it and make it pay to win like everything else.
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions... 1 month ago:
I wonder if there is a fragment of a good idea in there. Maybe a dating app that like queues up men and doesn’t let the next one out of the queue until the active person gets matched to someone.
Though that sounds pretty slow and not enough dopamine in using the app to keep people on it.
Maybe not a single man, but some small amount so it is known that you can’t just screen for the 1% of dream guys. Like it you only get 5 swipes, maybe you won’t be as ready to dismiss everyone immediately.
Whatever, I’m sure there are teams of psychologists working for all those companies that have all this crap dialed in for max profit and engagement.
- Comment on Winning 1 month ago:
That’s just self sabotage talking. Knowing about a problem is step one and it’s what gets you in the door.
Just because you know you’ve got a broken pipe doesn’t mean you don’t need a plumber, just because you know your car is broken doesn’t mean you don’t need a mechanic, etc. There’s nothing wrong with someone helping you being a job. That doesn’t mean they won’t do that job.
The main point of therapy is to get you to look at your circumstances in different ways and provide you with coping skills you may not necessarily have developed. You may even be unaware of whatever current maladaptive coping mechanisms you’ve built up over years of just trying to survive. This is where outside professional perspective comes in handy.
However! That’s not to say therapy is a bulletproof process or that all therapists are good or that every therapist is a good fit for every person. I would liken it to finding your preferred barber or massage therapist or something. Sometimes you just got to try options till something works.
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 2 months ago:
Yeah I believe tape is still king there. LTO is working on some 500+ TB tape for the future IIRC.