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SolarMonkey

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  • 👴☝️I did that

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  • Sounds like something chef would sing.

  • Bad photoshop not AI

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  • Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning

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  • I pulled the fuse that runs that stuff in my car. Don't need anything it disabled, so I don’t give a fuck.

    Sure if I ever need service it might be a problem, but I’ll cross that bridge when and if I get to it, and maybe we’ll have better data protections by then.

  • Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI

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  • Hot take: companies shouldn't get tax breaks, sweetheart deals, etc. ever, for any reason other than being non-profit public good companies. Succeed or fail on your own merits. Bootstraps and such, just like us poors are supposed to be able to do.

    In fact, taxes should scale with a company’s purported value, profits, something along those lines.

    The more you make the more you pay, until eventually you hit the ceiling, and everything above that is taxed at 100%. Same with money hoarding individuals.

    I’m so tired of these welfare queens living on the public dole. They come into our communities with their hands out, trying to get something for nothing, while giving basically nothing back to society and spawning more of themselves to continue the leeching. And they take so so much more than all the social programs combined would. At what point do we say enough is enough?

  • After Traffic Stop for Phone in Right Hand, She Called Out the Problem

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  • I got pulled over in a drunk driving operation while leaving a rural bar. The original reason they gave when pulling me over was lane violation, which I assume means going over the lines?

    I was sober, there to check out a local band, then left when it was over. I’m also a very good driver, no accidents, no tickets for moving violations, nor parking violations, in 20 years of driving.

    Well, I had a dash cam, but it was hidden from rear view by fuzzy dice. When he got my info and saw that, he realized his pretense for pulling me over in the first place would be challenged (he couldn’t lie about why because they record audio), and entrapment is illegal here, so he didn't even give me time to dig out my insurance card, and he had to let me off with warnings.

    Which is amazing because I didn’t realize, because I hadn’t driven much in the past couple years, that my registration was over a year expired. Oops.

    If he hadn't been a lying shitbag, or I hadn't had a dashcam that would clearly show I didn't do what he pulled me over for, that traffic stop wouldn’t have been a waste of time for him and I’d be out some money.

    ACAB.

    Also, invest in a dash cam, everyone! They are cheap and can save your ass! Everyone should have one because ACAB!

  • "Scan to Verify You're Human": Google's reCAPTCHA is trialing a new "experimental challenge type" which requires desktop users to use an Android or iOS device to be able to pass it

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  • I had a site I was gunna buy stuff from ask me for a video selfie to “prove” I was over 21.

    First if all, I wasn't buying anything controlled, so thats ridiculous over-reach, and second of all LOL FUCK NO I'm not giving you, some random-ass e-commerce site, my fucking biometric data. That’s absolutely insane.

    Needless to say, I blocked that site on my pihole, so it no longer exists to me as an option. Sent them a message letting them know they lost a rather substantial sale from that shit. I’ll do that for absolutely every one, same with ID or whatever else. I could just use the tricks kids use, but that still rewards them for this bullshit with money.

    I’ll just stop using the internet if it becomes a thing everywhere. It’s not really worth being on anymore, for the most part, anyway.

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  • I wouldn't be able to take a selfie of my back without a mirror or the timer function, either, so thats normal I think. Frontal selfies aren't too hard though.

    You might benefit from a selfie-stick, or learning to use the timer on your camera app, they really help if you aren't already accustomed to the hand contortions required to selfie with phone alone.

    Otherwise it’s a weird and uncomfortable balancing act where you frame the phone with your index finger up the side, pinky supporting the bottom, two middle fingers holding the back, and hitting the photo button with your thumb.

    Examples:

    These are both landscape, but the idea is the same for portrait mode.

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  • it does seem to be significantly easier for women to take artistic nudes.

    I think what a lot of people don't realize is just how many shots are needed to get that one good one. Especially if doing it yourself.

    I sent a really classy-looking black and white (because it evened out my skin and made the lace look extra nice) once, and it took me about 40 tries to get one I liked enough to send it. It took awkward positions, my arm got tired af, and if you’d been there in person it looked dumb as hell. Arms in weird places to hide them, legs bent funny, you get the idea. I had to try numerous poses to see what worked and didn’t, and it took about 45 minutes.

    I’m by no means a photographer, I'm by no means a model, I’m not even a sexually-inclined person, but I am stubborn and persistent, and I’m introspective enough to know that if I think it looks nice and classy, most others will too.

    I think that’s why women tend to have artistic photos and men tend to look like the swamp thing. Dude nudes tend to be the first pic they take, quality be damned. And often in dirty mirrors (do guys not know how to hold a phone to take a selfie without a mirror?).

  • Handy tip

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  • Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?

    I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.

  • Handy tip

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  • Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any or all senses.

  • Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad

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  • You can, but I found that roku forced my apps (specifically plex, the only app I really ever used, which should have needed an update exactly never because my server doesn't get updated either) to break in such a way that I needed to unblock everything and redownload exactly once every 3 months (I assume to collect your stored data), and that wasn't worth it to me, so I factory reset it and left it that way, because idgaf. I have enough old computers to have one in every room, so roku gets nothing. They are just dumb tvs now.

    Maybe that’s changed, but I’m not risking fucking it up to find out.

  • Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad

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  • Mine haven’t been connected to the internet since about a year before they pushed out that update that forced you to agree to their revised surveillance terms or you could never use it again.

    My googleOS TCL never got internet access in the first place. Who needs integrated apps when you have tons of mostly old computers kicking around?

  • What are some weird flexes people have that they think make them better than others?

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  • Only one of my trips outside the US was “lavish” and it really wasn’t. It was an all-inclusive week trip in Jamaica, in the middle of hurricane season to save money. It was very affordable. Totally great trip, though!

    Other than that I walked across the border into Mexico for lunch (this was before a passport was needed), and went on a week-long camping trip, 2 days of which was in Canada.

    My passport is lapsed now though because I can’t leave for more than 2 days without arranging to have someone take care of things for me, which I can’t really afford to do, so why bother.

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    Atjp bssmm

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  • I get mine fitted Monday. I’ve already got the speaker, but my tinnitus is an entire… octave? above the sound from the recording, incredibly high-pitched static. Tho I use a babbling brook because the other ones are just.. very annoying. I don’t really find the speaker helpful, but my audiologist said it was unlikely to do much on its own, so.

    I’m really hoping the hearing aids work better. But at least I got obnoxiously colored ones!

  • Just don't

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  • Mostly because they have nothing better to do than vote, so politicians cater to them pretty heavily.

  • I'll be two seconds, I promise! Thank you SO much!

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  • It depends heavily why i feel they look scary, ime.

    Purely aesthetic? Probably chill; i assume you don't put on an intimidating aesthetic to become an abuser, that's stupid and counterproductive. Bad vibe? Probably not chill.

    Then again people apparently find me, tiny little person I am, intimidating and I’ve never understood why. Guess I need to whip out the chanclas. Live up to it. Not Hispanic in the slightest, but if men are already intimidated…. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    But also i mean i was that weird psuedo-goth (never came close to having the money to be goth, its so fucking expensive, so i winged it with thrift store stuff and creativity, i liked the look) so i get that looks are deceptive.

  • I'll be two seconds, I promise! Thank you SO much!

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  • I try to time my bathroom breaks with an empty glass. Then all I have to do is let people around me know that I’m coming back, so they don't offer my spot to random assholes.

    I trust some people sometimes, but depends on the place and who is sitting next to me. Big biker dude who’s wildly intimidating but doesn't give me any bad vibes? Ill chance it if they are with a group and there aren’t reasonable looking ladies nearby (part of the group and i trust the group a lot more). Intimidating biker dudes genuinely tend to be good people, idk why, but they do. Moreso than your average pickup driver, for sure. Maybe because motorcycles tend to be community-based activities? Idk. Any insight would be helpful.

  • Autism @lemmy.world
    SolarMonkey @slrpnk.net

    What's the fidget that, after you got it, you realized you needed it all along?

  • Applied statistics

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  • It’s still wild to me that many parts of the developed world simply don't use screens on windows.

    But from what I can tell its also mostly places where people don't even have AC because it simply never gets that hot.

    Must be nice. (I don't have AC yet, but I'm an outlier in my area, and I hope to add it this year because a heat pump would be an absolute blessing even if I still need to use my gas furnace as backup)

  • Me_irl

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  • Test taking is a skill mostly unrelated to knowledge of information, and that absolutely sucks.

    Im highly skilled with test-taking, and I’m not saying I'm dumb, but that skill is only useful for so long. If you have dumb corpo tests to take for IT or to land the job, golden. Need to apply skills? Shit we really didn’t teach that did we?

    Standardization will be the knowledge death of us.

  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    Considering a used 2023 Nissan leaf

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    (Suggestion) If possible, please add a link to the post for recovered text on app crash