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_danny

@ _danny @lemmy.world

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  • Came prepared with the receipts

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  • I had a friend that would play stuff like that over his mic. Load up a juicy YouTube video with lots of drama and let everyone in the lobby think it was real. Especially if he went AFK.

  • What can a thorough sleep study reveal about a person's sleep and well-being?

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  • Why did you get the sleep study? It kinda sounds like you did it for fun if you don't know what you're potentially expecting from the results.

  • Starfield hits ‘mostly negative’ on Steam, players complain of boredom

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  • The worst thing a video game can do is be boring. Buggy games can be fun as you laugh at the absurdity of the physics. That was honestly one of the reasons I stuck with fallout 3, because I loved that you could turn someone supersonic with enough landmines. Even if the game crashes and you lose progress, you can't lose the fun you had playing the game.

    I recently replayed fallout 3 after starfield failed to scratch my Bethesda itch, and I realized how much more alive the world felt (and how much less often I saw a loading screen when doing quests).

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  • I'm not opposed to the idea of exchanging gifts... But can they be at least useful stuff that's not going to sit on a shelf until it's thrown in the trash?

    Also, Christmas day is the worst possible day to give someone a Christmas themed item that's not immediately consumable.

  • USA is cursed!

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  • Almost like the entire country was built over Indian burial grounds.

    Let's be real though, there's no such thing as curses. This is a human situation problem.

    First, you only read the headline of the article. If you're going to read headlines and speculate the rest of the story, you're going to create the most extreme version. Headlines are intentionally misleading and catchy to get you to click and share them. Read the actual story from multiple sources, and you'll probably find that the full story is a lot less crazy.

    But yes, there are some stories that are just as gruesome as their headline. There's not much more to a story like "6 elementary school students dead after another school shooting" and these things happen here significantly more than elsewhere in the world. There's lots of debate about why and no one can agree on an exact reason, but it's definitely a situational issue. Meaning that if you took the exact same person who murdered children and gave them an entirely different life from birth, they likely will be an entirely different person. It's not something that some people are just "born" to do, it's something their situation points them to.

    My personal opinion on the solution to the issue is to have ten to a hundred times more guidance counselors at school, with mandatory, regular confidential counseling/therapy for each student. (Of course with strong firearm regulations in the meantime.) But honestly I don't think the problem is going anywhere any time soon. The absolute craziness shown by millions of people during 2020-2021 shows that the people who need help the most will fight that help every step of the way.

  • Pick your poison. Dystopian style

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  • Welcome to Twitter, every idea has to be distilled into the smallest version then skewed into ragebait.

  • Calling out of work

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  • Pro tip, your hot water tap probably gets to like 120, you can mix it with cold to get 100-103 pretty easily.

  • People who can don't get mad and just go with the flow, how do you do it?

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  • xkcd #2872: Hydrothermal Vents

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  • Thank you. This made no sense to me at first.

  • Chill. They didn't actually tell their family to buy crypto.

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  • I'm aware that 90% of memes are fake or extreme versions of a half truth.... but it's fun to play along and call OP a moron for encouraging their mom to buy crypto.

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  • It hurts kinda bad if it's properly done. Otherwise it just tickles.

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    German property prices plummet as housing bubble bursts

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  • Which is why the German bubble is popping.

  • Lifehack for naive schoolchildren

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  • I think this is the best answer. Just because magnetism is not visible doesn't make it magic. The source of the forces doesn't change where those forces go. A lot of these perpetual motion machines can be simplified to a situation that makes intuitive sense.

  • Imagine

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  • Technically it's just the caffeine. So you could have decaf in heaven.

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    German property prices plummet as housing bubble bursts

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  • I don't think housing will ever be cheap again. It's been too over-consolidated and the game of corporate monopoly has already started. Unless we get strong regulations about how much housing property a person or company can own, we are stuck high housing prices.

  • Why does the permanent timestamp in CCTV footage sometimes change color?

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  • No one gonna mention anything about how that dude is lucky to be alive? Holy shit I thought this was going to be a different kind of video.

  • Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?

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  • I think it's important to consider why you think this. Try and explain what makes someone stupid.

    I do tend to agree with the general statement that most people are pretty fucking stupid. If IQ were a meaningful number of intelligence, I'd wager that it's heavily skewed left. Meaning that the common saying of "think of how stupid the average person and realize half of all people are below that" is even worse when you use the median.

    For me, what makes someone stupid is lack of curiosity, lack of drive to learn, and lack of critical thinking. I think stupidity is a learned trait, and our modern society is doing its damnedest to make sure children learn it as soon as possible. Never question authority, you only need to memorize so you can pass the test, and you will be spoon fed the information.

    Then soon as you get out of school, you have to get a job and occupy most of your time with work or sleep, you'll likely get only two-three hours of time to yourself each day, meaning you'll lack the time to break out of the cycle. And the system compounds at most jobs. Your manager is likely stupid, meaning they want you to never question authority, just do what they tell you, and ask them very little questions.

    I also think the trillions of dollars that are spent on advertising strongly influences this. And being constantly bombarded with psychological manipulation encourages stupidity.

    I also think stupidity is compounding in and of itself. The less you know, the more you can just make hasty assumptions, then use those assumptions as fact for your next set of assumptions.

    It's also contagious. Being around people who are less stupid than yourself makes you feel bad, so you aren't around them much or encourage them to join you in being stupid.

    There is a massive difference between not knowing something, and choosing to not know something. Just about every person in the world has access to the greatest source of information that has ever been created. There are free courses on just about every topic you could ever desire to learn, fingertips away.

    There is also a massive difference between knowing something and rote memorization. Being able to follow the logical chain of facts is very important, so is being able to critically think about a topic. I think being "bored" is great at combatting stupidity in this way. Spending time with no stimulation is great for engaging your brain in actual thoughts. Consider dedicating time to just thinking: no audiobooks, music, podcasts, video games, movies, TV shows, social media, books etc. Just sit and be bored for a while. Meditation is a great entry into this.

  • Where can I find audiobooks?

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  • It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

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