Cevilia
@Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
38 she/her Very woke. Trans rights.
- Comment on [deleted] 12 hours ago:
Do you want to give up caffeine? If you do, you can do it. I did it. Took me about eight months. I feel better now, no “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee”, no 3pm slump. But that was my choice, and as addictions go, I don’t know if it’s really that bad?
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 days ago:
Don’t bother arguing with stupid. They’ll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 3 days ago:
They’ll be replaced with rapid charging stations.
This is already happening. Not too far from where I live, right on a main road, a BP station closed down late last year and they’re in the process of replacing it with a 20-bay BP Pulse rapid charging station with an attached store and café.
They’re going to make a fucking killing. And not just because they charge almost £1 per kWh.
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 5 days ago:
I prefer not to get piss on my legs, but you do you!
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 1 week ago:
At the risk of stating the obvious:
They’re fictional creatures. They do whatever you think they do.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 1 week ago:
In England we had a three-party system for many a year. Then the third party (Liberal Democrats) showed their true colours. Then we had two. Now a new third party, Reform, is rising up on a platform of racism. They’re splitting the racist vote. That allowed a fourth party, the Greens, a noteworthy victory in a local by-election.
I don’t know how it works over there, but what I take away from this is that it wouldn’t have been possible without people who were willing to vote for not a third party, but a fourth party.
- Comment on I've probably seen more naked ladies than my entire bloodline combined 2 weeks ago:
And then we put kids in dresses! Even the boys! Oh! The vapours! ⋆faints dramatically⋆
- Comment on Opinions are like buttholes. Everybody has one but you don't need to engage when someone shows you theirs 2 weeks ago:
You can’t un-lick someone’s opinion.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a suggestion for one, please? (yes I am fully aware I could google it but that won’t give me the nuanced opinion of someone who probably already owns one)
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
USB-C can only draw 6.5A of current, and even that has its issues if the user suddenly unplugs. It’d be great for a trickle charge, but the pins are just too dinky to carry kilowatt levels of current, physics gets in the way.
- Comment on You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car 3 weeks ago:
You definitely board a taxi though
- Comment on If you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards. 4 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right, and I agree.
When I started learning the craft of roast comedy, this was drilled into me. You never ever ever punch down. Not under any circumstances. That makes you a bully. But punching up? That makes you a fucking hero. If you’re going to roast someone, first you have to acknowledge that they are better than you in some way, and if you can’t do that, you don’t touch them.
~Of course it’s easy for me, I’m nobody~
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 4 weeks ago:
I think we already know the answer to that one.
- Comment on Can anyone help me decipher the words in Those Who Ride With Giants' track The Knocking Lord? 4 weeks ago:
Did you get a reply? :)
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 4 weeks ago:
“You could make a religion out of this!”
- Comment on YSK that men who smoke cigarettes are 30% to 50% more likely to suffer from erection problems that men who don't 4 weeks ago:
Too right. I smoke and I’ve never once had a boner.
/j obviously
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 4 weeks ago:
I run mainline Ubuntu and there has only ever been one game I wanted to play that I couldn’t play, and that’s because Epic Games deliberately made it incompatible.
- Comment on The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files 4 weeks ago:
Nobody deserves to be spied on. Get a grip.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’d recommend Tubular over NewPipe. Tubular is a fork with extra features such as SponsorBlock.
- Comment on YSK how to protect yourself at a protest 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t sure about adding my advice on this because I live in a different country, so I can’t say for sure what the best advice is where you are. I’ve never had a bad experience at a protest, but there’s always the possibility, so I like to be prepared.
Personally, I bring my secondary phone. It’s locked with a password - not face ID or a fingerprint, so that the arsenuggets can’t “accidentally” unlock my phone. And I put it in airplane mode. At least in my country, they use Bluetooth beacons to scan the crowd, so make sure that’s turned off too (airplane mode doesn’t always turn that off). A burner phone would also work if you buy it on the way to the protest and trash it on your way home. Don’t take it home.
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- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 weeks ago:
No call no show sends a stronger message if you’re privileged enough to be able to do that. If not, call in sick. Or go-slow all day. Do what you can.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 5 weeks ago:
I scrolled down to post this too
- Comment on YSK that the United Kingdom created the Biobank, the largest health study in the world. 500,000 volunteers have their blood, genetic and health data shared. 1 month ago:
It’s a good job this is restricted data, then. :)
- Comment on YSK that the United Kingdom created the Biobank, the largest health study in the world. 500,000 volunteers have their blood, genetic and health data shared. 1 month ago:
Names are not included in the data set.
- Comment on YSK that the United Kingdom created the Biobank, the largest health study in the world. 500,000 volunteers have their blood, genetic and health data shared. 1 month ago:
Fortunately, health insurance isn’t a concern because it’s not really a thing here in the UK.
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 1 month ago:
I don’t think I’d bother engaging, if they’re speaking in simplistic gotchas they probably got from the internet I have better things to do with my time, such as my wife
- Comment on YSK that the United Kingdom created the Biobank, the largest health study in the world. 500,000 volunteers have their blood, genetic and health data shared. 1 month ago:
As I understand it, you only share half of your DNA with your parents and siblings, even less with more distant relatives, and it’s not easy to tell which bits of DNA come from where. Also the records are anonymised so it’s even harder to figure out which person you can infer information about.
- Comment on YSK that the United Kingdom created the Biobank, the largest health study in the world. 500,000 volunteers have their blood, genetic and health data shared. 1 month ago:
How?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I got shadowbanned from Reddit a few months before I left. I didn’t even know that shadowbanning was a thing. As soon as I learned why my posts weren’t getting any replies at all ever, I emailed in to ask why, and got a canned reply saying that they aren’t going to go into detail. I still have absolutely no idea why it happened. So I just deleted my account and moved over here.