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NormalTownLeader

@ NormalTownLeader @mander.xyz

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  • Leaving Reddit unironically made me touch grass

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  • Hah, fair enough. I was using that more as the generic "go do something that's not just reading Reddit posts on a computer all day". But I have also been hiking!

  • I saw someone recommending Aether aside from Lemmy and Kbin, what is it ? googling Aether give me...

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  • Trying to learn how to take care of plants, advice welcome!

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  • Usually neglect, and then when I realize (seeing wilting or things like that) an over-compensation of watering. Which is why I think succulents may be the better call because apparently they generally require less frequent watering

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    Trying to learn how to take care of plants, advice welcome!

  • Microplastic Exposure Breeds Antimicrobial Resistance | Laboratory research shows that someway, somehow, PVC plastic makes microbes more virulent and resilient.

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  • As if we didn't have enough to worry about with microplastics... I try not to be pessimistic but it's hard not to when more plastic is being made and chucked into the ocean every day

  • New data proves almost no one uses Bitcoin as currency. It's actually more like gambling

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  • Honestly I never truly understood the appeal of cryptocurrency in general.

    If you want to make an anonymous deal, cold hard cash gets the job done and doesn't have nearly as poor of an environmental impact. I guess if you really want to make sure online purchases are anonymous then it can be hard to do that with cash, but unless you are buying something blatantly illegal that shouldn't be too large of a concern (at least if you are in a first world country). The whole "decentralized" currency argument also falls pretty flat when some of the top used cryptocurrencies are not decentralized (Tether, Usd Coin).

    Cryptocurrency feels less like an innovation to fit a need, and more like somebody created something cool as a concept and tried to figure out a use case after the fact.

  • Need help learning how to read books again

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  • While I can't speak to the mental health mentioned in this post, I used to read all the time, but by the time high school years hit that dwindled and I could barely read a chapter without wanting to do something else. I think that social media really took a toll on my attention span (though I can't prove that).

    What helped me was making a book club with some friends of mine! When I had a deadline in place where if I didn't finish chapters at a set time (otherwise I wouldn't be able to properly have a conversation about it with them) that really helped motivate me. This also had the added benefit of exposing me to books I wouldn't normally read (this is how I was introduced to House of Leaves). I still don't dive deep into a book as easily as I used to, but it has been improving and like anything else just generally comes with practice.