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DougPiranha42

@ DougPiranha42 @lemmy.world

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  • In the US, why doesn't a personal savings account make more sense than health insurance?

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  • I don’t see this in other replies, even though it’s incredibly obvious, so: insurance for most people comes as a benefit from work or from the government. So you get something, you take it. Your question only applies to those who are not eligible for any kind of subsidized health insurance, which is rare for those who could otherwise afford one.

  • Can someone explain me what mental therapy should be like?

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  • Therapy (if we talk about talk therapy with a psychologist) is difficult, and takes a very highly trained and skillful person many many sessions to get a breakthrough. As sad as that sounds, these qualities make it expensive, and thus only available to those who have money or have access to a system that provides it (for which in most places you need to be a very severe case).My impression is that it’s quite normal for a patient going in completely oblivious about the nature of their issues. If I were you, I wouldn’t expect the therapist to directly address the issue that I name as my top concern. I would expect them to start learning about me, finding out who am I and what my life was like, then identify the issue we need to work on, then gently lead me to discover it for myself. To put it bluntly, if you knew your issue, you wouldn’t need this type of therapy.Having said that, it is very important to be able to trust your therapist and feel that you are in good hands, and it can take a few tries to find someone who works.Meditation, exercise and sleep are very very helpful for mental health, but may not be all you need. Still, it’s good to make progress on these fronts as well, won’t hurt. I wish you good luck and I hope you will find the help you need. It took me years of trying different approaches and things before I found a therapist who helped. The issue that I was seeking help for during all those years, was a surface level symptom and had nothing to do with my real issues.

  • When you make an irish stew, you must only use 239 beans or fewer

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  • Okay, but if it’s fewer than 239, then even with one more it will be fewer than 240.

  • Canals in the UK are 3 to 4 ft deep. Why didn't she just stand up?

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  • This thought is so deep I will drown in it. When do people stop posting it?

  • There's always something new in the Arrr stack !

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  • Well, even if you don’t partake, there are trackers with subscriptions and they have subscribers.

  • There's always something new in the Arrr stack !

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  • There exists multiple types of people who upload pirated stuff. One of these types is the person who, instead of getting a day job, makes a living on selling content that they don’t own. I don’t know what to call that person other than a criminal. And it’s not too far fetched to assume that some people in that scene resort to pretty nasty techniques to obtain content, and that can be way more problematic than sharing torrents.

  • There's always something new in the Arrr stack !

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  • I love piracy as much as anyone, but I got to be honest, I am a bit irked by how much of a hardon you have for the amazing people who develop these beautiful tools in their free time driven by nothing else just an outbursting of love from their hearths. In reality, while I am sure there are innocent enthusiasts, many of the people who run private trackers, usenet servers, and I’m assuming are developing client architecture, are basically criminals who make a living off stealing protected IP and selling it to people who prefer a subscription for a tracker or server over a streaming service or over purchasing audiobooks, games, or porn directly from publishers. The arr stack is the infrastructure for hosting industrial scale streaming services using pirated content. So that’s part of the reason why the free piracy software is good. There is a very real paying market for it.

    Edit: I’m putting a link here so I don’t sound like bullshitting. This is the type of illegal streaming I am talking about, which basically operates as an international organized crime group, with ties to other illicit activities independently of pirating. While I don’t know anything about their tech stack, they need a massive automated system to obtain the media they pass on to their subscribers. It’s not the need to organize the movie library of a middle age dad which justifies configuring a massive stack of services.

    https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/successful-operation-against-illegal-streaming-services-millions-users-worldwide

  • Is India, Asia and the third world facing a mass die off event?

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  • The reason why I don’t think there can be a definitive answer to your question is that wealth, infrastructure and healthcare can do a lot to mitigate the issues with deadly heatwaves.In a region with no AC, no potable water, and no healthcare, society probably wouldn’t survive a week with wet bulb temperatures above 35C for more than 8 hours every day.So if that happens in an undeveloped region, a lot of people die, but a lot do find some kind of relief that lets them survive. In a developed, industrialized region, like Arizona or Texas, you can have that kind of weather for months, and most people will just hate the heat but otherwise live and work normally. You could picture a hypothetical technically advanced civilization which exists in a climate that is persistently lethal to humans.Places that face extreme heatwaves need to build countermeasures, but societies tend to be able to do that, even in the global south.

  • my shoes are cleaner than my snelky, sweaty feet which is why I wear shoes in the house

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  • Considered trying socks or slippers?

  • me_irl

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  • No, don’t hate yourself, you are doing god’s work. I explicitly came here to say that this us jab-cross-upper-hook, which is an acceptable thing to say in stead of oss oss oss oss.

  • What is the difference between piefed and lemmy and what are the advantages of this platform?

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  • It’s not like you can detect “if someone tries karma farming”. If the platform displays a measure of engagement with content that a user posts, users will be driven to post things that get them points. Then if the platform uses said metric to rank content, that unavoidably leads to a setup where users look at content posted for the purpose of getting points. Btw lemmy.world is also not free from this, people repost engagement bait stupid shit from Reddit to asklemmy all the time, and those get many upvotes and comments. But at least the users that post these don’t get any meta-post outcomes.

  • What is the difference between piefed and lemmy and what are the advantages of this platform?

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  • I don’t know about you but I didn’t have to present any form of identification for registering here.

  • What is the difference between piefed and lemmy and what are the advantages of this platform?

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  • Good point. If there is a karma system, the main activity for a sizeable (and by definition overrepresented) chunk of the user base will just use the platform to maximize karma, whether for nefarious purposes or just because people treat gamified systems like games. Having real user registrations (so you can block individual users) as opposed to a 4chan like thing, but having no karma system or engagement optimization algorithm in the feed, are the requirements for a healthy forum.

  • People who use apps like "Notion", are you not worried about lock-in due to complex files/data structures?

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  • As someone who used Notion and thinks about long term accessibility and vendor lock in: the ability to migrate is an important factor but not the only and most important factor. Notion is really, very good, very easy to get started with basic functionality and implement more sophisticated systems as the need evolves. And that is one reason why it’s popular. I moved away from using it it to another proprietary subscription platform years ago when I changed jobs and started working on new projects. I still occasionally log back in and look up things, but not often because those projects are complete and closed. If Notion becomes unavailable one day, I have everything exported, saved on my computer, and backed up. It would be inconvenient to use those exports, but I didn’t have to so far, and probably never will.Obsidian or logseq may be very powerful, and would certainly work for my personal notetaking. But for work, I want to avoid spending more time than necessary on configuring things and training people in using it, I need something that is easy to use correctly and securely for anyone. We regularly export and save everything. Migration would be a huge pain, but it wouldn’t be an unsolvable problem, it would just take time. I wouldn’t want to preemptively spend time when the platform may actually outlast the project.

  • Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games

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  • Dragon age: Origins, 2 and Inquisition? I think it fits all, although it is squad based and can be played in turns, at lower difficulty it is entirely viable to play as a 1st person action game where AI squad members assist. The story is somewhat scripted but it does feel kind of open world if I remember correctly. Haven’t played for a long time, but I remember I liked it and it wasn’t too different from Elder Scrolls as the overall experience.

  • Green herons

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  • Excellent heron indeed.

  • me irl

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  • Yeah. Except in Office products on Mac, where some genius realized that when user selects “Save as…”, they don’t want to save the file to the same folder where it currently is, but rather to a random folder that was used for a completely unrelated thing recently.

  • What is wrong with Pop OS?

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  • I find it very easy to install and use. Drivers work fine out of the box. The window and desktop management is my favorite ever, so it stays on the home desktop. There are a few things like flatpaks from the cosmic store not always working properly, and you need to remove them and install stuff from deb packages instead. And I couldn’t get any clipboard manager app to work, I think that’s related to a more general wayland issue, but nevertheless frustrating.

  • What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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  • Just curious: how frequently do you talk to people who have isolated themselves from human connection? Apparently it’s common enough for you to notice a pattern; but I personally always talk to people who are talking to other humans, for the obvious reason of communication being a bidirectional process.Are you sure this observation of yours is not a delusion stemming from your unchecked social media use?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    DougPiranha42 @lemmy.world

    What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?