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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I… think this question is a bit more complicated for this community. Following are only my personal opinion

  Prescribed medication? I think so, I’d rather be physically and mentally healthy rather than have the other alternative. And usually medication (even ones with noted negative effects) are meant do do more good than harm so…

  Recreational drugs… the line between this and the above is surprisingly not as clear-cut as it seems. I believe there are active lines of study of using various psychedelic compounds to treat mental disorders or other conditions… Personally I would take medically prescribed psychedelics if I am 1) under medical supervision and 2) based on evidence it would help my mental health (maybe that’s the answer to the question?)

  Hard drugs: I don’t see how they can make anyone a better person, and no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, it's me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of this post of the same community: lemmy.world/post/4492190

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked at their individual page (darkpattern.games/…/psychological-dark-patterns.h…)…

  If deleting the game and starting over from scratch sounds like a horrible idea and a waste of your investment, then the game has Endowed Value for you. The more time and money that you invest in the game, the more value it has over a fresh copy of the game.

  So I guess they are referring to is something more transactional… for example, if I spent $100 on a gacha game or loot boxes to get a bunch of ultra-rare SSRs. I’d be pretty compelled to keep playing since I’ve already spent so much money on it.

  They are not counting, for example, that I get hooked on some weird roguelike game because I genuinely want to get better at it but can stop any time. And if I lose my save file I would still happily start from scratch again (which, hilariously, a pattern named Infinite Treadmill is marked for both Slay the Spire and Balatro… www.darkpattern.games/…/infinite-treadmill.html)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This again??

  This time once archive.org is back online again… is it possible to get torrents of some of their popular data storage? For example I wouldn’t imagine their catalog of books with expired copyright to be very big. Would love a community way to keep the data alive if something even worse happens in the future (and their track record isn’t looking good now)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I think this is it… because I guess the more important part to this trope is that “hehe this is actually the world that you - dear viewer - lives in”… the high-fantasy part is secondary and depends on the genre I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I… agree. Did get a lot of great recommendations tho!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  East Asia; again, never heard anyone refer to “24/7” specifically (ok maybe at more hipster places that try to imitate American businesses?)… There might be a similar idiom for it but I genuinely couldn’t think of any off the top of my head

• Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have actually never heard anyone say it this way specifically where I grew up… so technically the answer is “no”?

  I tried to dug around and found a Reddit post saying this:

  “The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the term as “twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week; constantly”. It lists its first reference to 24/7 to be from a 1983 story in the US magazine Sports Illustrated in which Louisiana State University player Jerry Reynolds describes his jump shot in just such a way: 24-7-365.”

  So this might be a fairly new idiom? Which would explain why it’s not really a thing in a lot of cultures… but I assume they have their ways of referring to this.

  number of hours and days are the same

  Ok akktually Japan has a rather interesting 30-hour day thing in the context of businesses… but jokes aside, the 24-hour, 7-day week system is indeed quite universal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do allergies feel like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I realized that I had allergies during the height of the pandemic… so the short answer is it gave me way too much unnecessary stress because I was constantly worried whether I got COVID-19.

  • Depends… I felt most times it was just “am I really sure I have a viral infection or is this just allergy?”, there was once or twice when it got really bad though.
  • There was once when I had such a bad allergy that my eyes both flared up and I could barely see… It was bad enough that I reached out to the allergy department of my provider as soon as I was functional & got me into immunotherapy.
  • Not meds, but I did 3+ years of immunotherapy: 1+ year of getting allergen injections every week (thankfully still had a car back then), and then once per month of maintenance after I reached the highest dose. Had to stop because of relocation/insurance nonsense… but I think the treatment worked.
  • No you’re not being a big baby, please take your health seriously and stay safe & healthy.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope their recent heavy prosecution of the Invidious project isn’t related

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I forgot to take that into consideration… I’m not worried about Google banning my IP since I essentially don’t use any Google services at all and my home IP is hidden behind a wireguard tunnel, but yes that is a valid concern

  But I mean someone can just spin it up on their home network so… No way 192.168.0.1:3000 can get someone into trouble right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The elites don’t want you to know but “[y]ou may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home)”

  Following their guide gives a local Invidious client, don’t forget to 1) copy their production compose file instead of using the one on git and 2) change “hmac_key”… from my experience setting up cron (crontab -e) to restart the docker container once per day keeps the Invidious docker healthy