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HelixDab2

@ HelixDab2 @lemm.ee

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  • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • Nah, they're cool. Anyone that tells the manosphere to fuck all the way off is cool by me.

  • What architectural style would you like to see come back?

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  • Prairie and Craftsman Bungalows. Unfortunately, I don't think that either is a particularly energy efficient design.

  • Someone asked how Nothing Phone UI looks. Worth sharing as a post.

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  • I have one. I hated the stock skin. I like having the apps I use regularly groups together by purpose on my home screen so I can get to them quickly. I immediately re-skinned it.

  • What's your advice for someone driving their first manual transmission car?

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  • Honestly, my advice, unpopular as it might be, is that unless you plan on riding a motorcycle you should probably get an automatic transmission car instead of learning on a manual transmission. Manual transmissions--in the US, anyways--are largely relegated to performance vehicles where people want them. But the hard truth is that automatic transmissions do a better job at driving efficiently and keeping the engine at a safe and ideal load than any driver with a manual. And it's a lot less hassle for most of the driving that people tend to actually do. For instance, it's uncommon to have a cruise control on a manual transmission car, which makes long drives more tiring, and stop-and-go traffic puts less wear on an automatic transmission.

    If you plan on riding a motorcycle though, you must learn to use a clutch, because all non-electric motorcycles use a clutch (usually a wet clutch, but Ducati uses a dry clutch); manual transmissions are lighter and more compact, and weight matters a lot on a motorcycle.

    I say this as someone that learned to drive on manual transmissions, and exclusively had cars with manual transmissions up through about 2022.

  • What's your advice for someone driving their first manual transmission car?

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  • Learn to shift based off the sound of the engine, dont stare at the tachometer.

    Do not do this.

    Every engine has a different redline. The redline is based mostly on piston mass, which doesn't necessarily correlate directly to engine displacement, given that it's common to have 4, 6, or 8 cylinders in a car. If you're shifting primarily based on engine sound, you can be shifting too low in one car, and then too high in another. The tachometer is a much more reliable way of learning where you should shift in any given vehicle.

    Also, constantly running your car in the maximum power band--which tends to be close to the redline--probably isn't great for it.

  • What's your advice for someone driving their first manual transmission car?

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  • I'm guess that you don't live in the US? Almost all cars in the US--whether training vehicles or not--are gasoline, and it's mostly larger pickup trucks that are diesel. VW is one of the few companies that sells consumer cars that are diesel, and I'm not sure that they do anymore, not after there was that huge scandal about intentionally cheating EPA emissions standards with their diesel cars a decade back.

  • Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? Context was the idea of a government banning meat

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  • Carefully cleaning the udder and teats, and very quickly refrigerating raw milk should significantly reduce the risks of bacterial contamination and growth. This is not done in most cases though, so raw milk usually carries a much higher risk of listeria.

    Having had listeria once--contaminated green beans--I very much do not recommend it.

  • Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? Context was the idea of a government banning meat

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  • What's the dumbest way you've sustained an injury, and what was the injury?

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  • Thought I could/should work through discomfort and then pain at the gym, supersetting overhead push-presses and triceps dips. LOL, nope, gave myself a labral tear and tore my supraspinatus. My shoulder now has an unpleasant popping feeling + significantly less strength when I'm doing anything like a bench press with my elbows properly tucked; I'll likely never be able to do narrow grip bench press or triceps dips again.

    Why was this dumb? Because I was a personal trainer, and I fucking know better than to try and push through pain. But I was trying to get back into lifting seriously after losing a lot of time to the pandemic.

  • They finally patched racism

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  • Well, shit. I hadn't known about Inquisition. I think the last time I saw them was something like 2016? At least I only have the one t-shirt. :(

    I haven't heard anything about Agalloch; what's going on there?

  • do you think freewill truly exists?

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  • You think you're doing that. But are you? Or are things happening below the threshold of your consciousness, and your conscious brain thinks that it's the one running the show? Consciousness would be like the toddler with the toy steering wheel that thinks it's driving the car.

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  • I wouldn't say justified, buuuuuuuuuut where else could he have gone? China is about the only other possibility.

    To be clear, I think he should be pardoned, and thing USA-Patriot act should be overturned.

  • do you think freewill truly exists?

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  • If the unconscious mind is making the decisions prior to cognition about the thing, how could our will alone affect it? It seems more likely that things outside of our direct control are changing how we are acting, and then the conscious part of ourselves creates the reason that we acted in a specific way.

  • do you think freewill truly exists?

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  • No. Last I knew, PET (?) scans appear to indicate that decisions are reached by your unconscious mind before they're made by your conscious mind; the implication is that what you believe is you making a choice is actually you rationalizing a choice that's been made through processes that you can't directly see or affect. IF that's correct, then people are quite deterministic, as long as you know all of the inputs.

    But on a practical, day-to-day basis, calling it 'free will' is a convenient fiction or shorthand. While free will may not exist, we largely believe that it does, and our perception of that in turn shapes our perception of reality. So it ends up not really mattering, strictly speaking.

  • Why did gandhi ask britain to seek peace with nazi germany?

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  • Okay, people in the US generally didn't though. How is the information going to get to them, when mail took months, phone calls were not realistically possible, and telegraphs were incredibly expensive? Unless it's getting reported by the major news outlets, the majority of people in the US simply didn't have access to that information. Given the propaganda that was coming from both sides at the time, reports might not have even been very believable to the average citizen.

  • I feel like modelling is one of þe saddest jobs

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  • I'm more of an ð-head.

  • Why did gandhi ask britain to seek peace with nazi germany?

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  • Average people simply didn't have access to information at the scale we now enjoy at that time. Leaders of countries and militaries might know, but unless it was being reported by wire services and in local newspapers, the average person would have had no rational way of finding out about it.

  • Score one for atheism!

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  • I don't know that my parents were ever the kind of person that bitched about paying taxes. They might have privately, but i don't remember it ever being a big deal. Me, I understand that my taxes are too low for what I expect the gov't to be doing.

    And you're exactly right about the social experience. One of the enormous struggles for atheists has been building a community. Churches fill that need, even though they cause real harms in other ways. If you go to a church, it's easy to meet people and make friends when you move to a new community. If you don't, well, good luck because you're going to need it.

  • Score one for atheism!

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  • Honestly, this is why I don't discuss Mormon history and the massive, gaping chasms in their claims of Truth with my parents. My parents are old--old enough that the family is talking about who is going to call the coroner, who's going to deal with tying up finances, etc.--and knowing that they've wasted an entire lifetime and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tithing on a con isn't going to do anything useful at this point. Fifty years ago? Sure, they would have had plenty of time to come to terms with it. Now? Meh.

  • Motorcycles @lemmy.world
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    Headlight wiring, 2016 Triumph Speed Triple S

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  • Buildapc @lemmy.world
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    No-start when adding an additional hard drive

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Freya

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    Meltdowns and being verbal

  • Buildapc @lemmy.world
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    BSOD kernel_security_check_failure on graphic card driver installation

  • Motorcycles @lemmy.world
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    Repair or replace?

  • Motorcycles @lemmy.world
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    Repair or replace?