dandelion

@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨respect dandelions!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🥰

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i broke⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a therapist I had helped me rethink problems in terms of pragmatically adjusting my environment or conditions to nudge my behaviors rather than relying on willpower or behavioral changes that were slow or simply not happening

  a small example was moving my computer out of my bedroom and developing a night-time routine that included reading a book before bed to help reduce compulsive computer use

  realizing I am somewhat deterministic in my behavior, and my behavior is caused by conditions I have some influence over, was a helpful insight and got me past just constantly failing to live up to my expectations for myself and never moving past that - I can treat my psychological problems like puzzles to solve

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we have ads because services paid for with attention are more accessible and get more traffic than services paid for with a monthly subscription … we could probably subsidize a lot of websites or make them community efforts, but because people want to profit from websites we have this aggressive push for ads and monetization in every corner of the web.

  Commercialization, though, is the problem more than advertising itself is. Monetization through “native ads” or affiliate link marketing is just as insidious and toxic, and pervasive. Just like people hate loot boxes and games that have mechanics where skill is less important than paying cash for in-game content for winning, the root cause of these is commercialization.

  This is just capitalism, and cyberpunk as a genre is meant to be critical of capitalism and its rotten fruits.

  I think it misses the mark to interpret the war as a war between humanity and advertisers when it’s a war between the powerful and wealthy and the 99%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hm, if it’s not too much to ask, maybe a visual would help? Like, an example where Excel or some other program shows correct layout, and LibreOffice has incorrect?

  I haven’t had much discomfort with LibreOffice and I tend to be pretty OCD and I do UI work, so … maybe I’ve just ignored it - would like to learn, though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  💀💀💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they did surgery on a grape!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this specific kind of sheet called?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oof

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this specific kind of sheet called?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it might have just been a liner for a comforter - there are essentially sheets that are sewn together that you can fit a comforter in, so you can take the comforter out and wash the sheets occasionally and keep the comforter clean.

  So maybe google “duvet cover” or “quilt cover” and see if that matches?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRUCKIN'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and they let straight people adopt children, yikes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRUCKIN'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America breeds people like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know any software development philosophy books?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Richard Stallman’s Free Software, Free Society

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still can’t tell what’s real or not, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the States we encourage our conservatives to write in Jesus Christ for President.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  omg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, yes I would imagine 🥵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, I do ☺️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe I’m just a pervert, but all that text is aggressively sexual

  what I’m saying is I’m ready to take Dr. Reddy’s hard, red pregabalin capsules

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  furthermore, it’s reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability

  ContraPoints did an excellent video in conspiracy theories recently: www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry, I should have clarified that I was talking about active communities (where users regularly visit and interact)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merging a western with eldritch horror, Blood West is awesome and now Steam Deck Verified⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of that Mythic Quest episode called “A Dark Quiet Death”, (spoilers ahead) about a fictional horror video game where users are vulnerable, have no way to fight the monsters, and only have a flashlight. After the video game is a surprise hit, the game studio increasingly crumbles to pressure to sell out, and subsequent sequels of the game increasingly cater to popular demands like that users can have a gun, then that users can actually kill monsters, and so on.

  Anyway, this video game claims to be an eldritch horror game, but it’s basically a FPS shoot-em-up with monsters in a western setting, the “eldritch” aspect is basically nothing more than superficial aesthetic at that point. Eldritch horror, like the video game in “A Dark Quiet Death”, is inspired by Lovecraft’s writing, which positions humans as defenseless insects relative to the horrors that are not only beyond human capacity to fight, but often even to comprehend. The role of a gun in a Lovecraftian context is mostly to show the hubris and futility of human attempts to overcome the horrors.

  All that said, this isn’t to suggest the game is wrong or bad, my thoughts are just about the deeper artistic ironies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaning there isn’t an instance for women, nor are there multiple communities - as far as I know there’s just this one community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a bit of how Blahaj works as I understand it, so it’s a good model - if anything I would think Blahaj might already be poised for this kind of instance-level protection of women

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  unfortunately I think this is the current answer, at least on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cerebral decomposition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, very pro body pillows, though they don’t have to be Japanese comfort pillows to be body pillows 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cerebral decomposition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it helped me understand this better once I knew a dakimakura is one of those Japanese body pillows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I do think there is a tendency to condemn people from their associations, and that can lead to unfair characterizations - though I don’t think this is one of those cases.

  Actually watching some of the video, her comments align pretty directly with conservative talking points and builds upon existing conservative “arguments” and outrage about the influence of feminism on video games.

  I think nublung is basically suggesting we shouldn’t be sharing bigoted or hateful perspectives, which I agree with.