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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you feeling?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the metaphor, the black hole is nihilistic, all-consuming, apathetic depression, and I just want to stop struggling, let everything fall apart and fall in and kill myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you feeling?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My brain is like a planet with a very thin crust with a black hole inside. Everything I am is built on this extremely delicate shell of stability, and sometimes it seems like I spend most of my time clinging to the edge after having fallen through. Medication makes the shell thicker and more stable, but there’s still a black hole in my head and it’s never going to go away and I’m so tired of fighting falling in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest thing stopping me from doing anything is that the steps to do something are multiplicative for me rather than additive how it seems for other people. If I’m dreading fixing and tuning my printer, then I just won’t print anything. For months. Until a magic day comes when I’m able to get on with it (Yeah, I know I’m a shitty low functioning person, you don’t have to mention it). Getting a Bambu let’s me actually print stuff and helps me not get locked into paralysis about it for months. I hate it’s a closed and easily fucked over ecosystem, but it’s a choice between letting me function or not. I dunno, I’m really rambling without a point, I just thought someone might find some value in this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No clue, I was just frustrated with how much useless extended metaphor was in the article and thought I’d save people some time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TL:DR: minimize randomness, group variables by access frequency, and unroll loops if your compiler doesn’t do that already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other voice chat programs were crap, discord was significantly better and more consistent. Simple as. It still has features way ahead of other services. The business side is shitty but it works without anyone needing to know anything with no troubleshooting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except squid aliens will develop a way to move it and annihilate several planets on its way to Super Earth. RIP Angel’s Venture.

  (This is currently happening in helldivers 2, we turned a super bug infested planet into a black hole and now the illuminate are steering it towards earth)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy.world is worse than fucking reddit was with gender relations lmfao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, the sanitization of the internet is really driving me crazy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of Lemmy right now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do appreciate some nuance and unity between sane people! I think the current happenings are introducing significantly more corruption and being quite open about it, it was certainly a problem before but the degeneration is massively accelerating. We can only hope sanity and ethics prevail and musk and trump lose power, and a more stringent anti-corruption culture arises from it. I don’t think it’s likely, but we can hope. I think it’s far more likely that trump finds a way to stay in power and regardless of whether or not he does the structure and landscape of us government will be set up in such a way as to keep musk in defacto “leadership”.

  I hope things will turn out well, but with so much power in the hands of people who are not only extremely unethical but motivated to change the status quo to keep themselves in power, I have a hard time seeing how things could improve from here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of Lemmy right now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I try not to be an asshole, but how much of a fucking dumbass can you be. It isn’t about government bloat, it never has been, if it WAS they would be tackling the military industrial complex. They instead have made the richest asshole on the planet the defacto president and are letting him ransack the government. How can you not see that they are literally taking your tax dollars and letting musk shovel them directly into his own pockets. If you were on a sinking ship I bet you’d be happy about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the femcels and the incels not.... date each other?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The term femcel isn’t as universal as incel. Please compare the female dating strategy subreddit to blahaj zones femcel memes community

  And to actually answer your question, because many of them don’t actually want a partner, they want someone to blame and hate for not having a partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’ve met any/interacted with any/they’ve run across my profile on dating/hookup apps and they’ve been interested in me, they haven’t expressed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing Lemmy’s reaction to the bear made me want to crawl under a rock to be honest, so many people demonstrating that they’re exactly the reason why women don’t feel safe. A lot more than 10% of men on the internet are weird assholes, they just mask it well until they feel insulted. I’ve had a cis woman friend have to change her screen name because she’d occasionally get clocked and harassed, and a trans friend is really split on the progress she’s making with her voice, because now she’s also getting harassed when using voice chat in games.

  Sorry mostly unrelated tangent, it just feels like gender relations have been backsliding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🫂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a few factors working together to cause it. There’s really two main ones: pressure to have sex and romantic connection, and an inability to be able to make those connections.

  There’s tons and tons of pressure out there about being in a relationship and having sex. In modern day, a good example is Andrew Tate and the like, directly linking your self worth to having sex. Back when I was a male teenager during the days of rage comics and advice animals, it was memes about the friend zone. The core idea is the same, being alone is something to be ashamed and upset about. Being rejected is something that reflects badly upon you as a person. Young men are constantly being bombarded with messaging about how being a man revolves around sex and romance, and lacking these things makes you less of a man. In addition, so much media portrays sex both as this amazing thing on a pedestal and as something that’s not just commonplace but as something that everyone’s expected to be doing.

  So young men are believing that everyone except them are all in relationships and/or fucking all the time, and believing that them not doing those things makes worth less as a human being.

  The other problem is actually making romantic or otherwise meaningful connections. So much more socializing is online these days, and there are a lot fewer women on the internet than men. It’s difficult to make organic connections with single women online, as random social media is by far mostly male and more direct closer friend groups tend to be made of single men and people in relationships (this is very arbitrary and circumstancial, it’s just what I’ve noticed). So, your odds of finding a single and compatible friend of a friend of a friend online aren’t great, and dating apps are complete trash for pretty much anything other than gay hookups. So, there’s not really a way for many young men to find romantic partners. Straight up hookups are easier, especially if your standards aren’t too high, but it’s an area a lot of young men aren’t socially comfortable with because it’s not something they’ve done a lot of, which makes everything much harder.

  In the end, if there wasn’t so much pressure to be dating and having sex, then the difficulty of doing so in the modern day wouldn’t matter so much.

  Personally, I’ve basically only had sex with men, because it’s so much more straightforward and the dating pool isn’t crazy lopsided. Though that’s at an end now too, because I’ve transitioned too much to be appealing to gay men anymore and haven’t transitioned nearly enough to be appealing to straight men or gay women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do rhymes make sense to deaf people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cochlear implants do exist, you know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New social experiment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  /dimwitdog/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it would solve world hunger, what would be the largest item you could fit in your ass?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coconut oil is what I recommend for an oil for lube. Both solid and liquid work well, the solid formwlts easily with body heat. It smells nice and is also good for your skin!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it would solve world hunger, what would be the largest item you could fit in your ass?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it really really came down to it I could probably fit something with a 9" circumference, though it would take me a couple hours of warm up and relaxation. I have a toy that’s 8.5" circumference that I can take, but not easily. That’s what, an eggplant? A rolling pin? A standard single serving soda bottle? Somewhere around there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the joke, yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, cold piss isn’t nearly as thirsty quenching

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m at every two to three days now cause I just can’t be fucked to eat much of anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, another New Years...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same clothes I’ve been wearing for the past week apparently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Need TPU For My Bung Hole!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t use TPU for your actual bunghole, it’s not body safe and will give you ass cancer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell her⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As it turns out, I think I’m hung =/ I’ve only hooked up with 3 guys but I have a much bigger dick than they did. Kind of a shame, cause I don’t like to use it and it’s wasted on me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which will you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be miserable both fitting in or trying to be myself, either way. Life is just misery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if a copy of you woke up in the morning? So you could see your dead body from yesterday, but consciousness would seem as continuous to you as normal–you went to sleep yesterday and effectively woke up today, just in a different body? Would it bother you knowing you weren’t technically the same you as yesterday, even if it seemed like it to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, should have been more specific. If you died in your sleep every night and came back to life in the morning, and you couldn’t tell it was happening, would it matter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously not, but what is the functional difference? If you can’t tell it’s happening, does it actually matter?