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nikt

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  • HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing

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  • Because Apple’s core business is selling their stuff to you. Google’s core business is selling you to other companies.

    Google’s consumer software and products literally serve no other business purpose than surveillance to figure out how to turn you into a more lucrative advertising target.

    Apple has realized they can capitalize on this by making privacy a core selling feature for their stuff — one that Google cannot challenge them on as privacy is directly at odds with the core premise of their entire business.

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    Dirty Donny is having a good (BAD!) day

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  • I do appreciate that he went out of his way to correctly use oxford commas though.

  • Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide

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  • Pretty sure that’s the moon, not the sun. Looks like a long exposure.

  • ‘Media outlets are erasing Sinead O’Connor’s Muslim identity’

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  • She herself seemed to lack this sort of nuance. She refused to play in Israel, for example, effectively accusing and dismissing an entire nation as oppressors.

    I suspect she was, deep down, not a particularly reflective person. We all know people like these. Feel a feeling, act on it immediately, and maaaybe consider the implications and consequences later. Maybe. Or just double down, and never dare to truly look at yourself in the mirror.

    It’s unfortunate because these types of people also sometimes turn out to be incredible artists. I assume it’s the combination of talent plus the ability (/curse?) to experience raw feelings much more strongly than the rest of us.

  • After a week of blocking every porn sub I see I’m feeling defeated

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  • Or all the shitpost meme communities… at least you can block porn with the NSFW flag.

  • Young Koreans favor iPhones over Samsung Galaxy: survey

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  • Same, but I switched to an iPhone. It was an annoying adjustment for a few months but now I’d never go back. Great hardware, but Samsung’s software is an almost comical mess, and they seem to have zero awareness of how bad they are at it.

  • This thing I found and thought was funny

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  • I’m curious about personal experiences here rather than aggregates, which tend to wash out individual differences.

  • Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening - Launch Trailer

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  • I haven’t played this one, but I wish someone would do another “Inindo, way of the ninja” game. I have really fond memories of that one. I think it was a spinoff in the Nobunaga’s Ambition series. Looking at the screenshots now (from 30 years ago!!) it has.. uhh.. aged, a lot.

  • As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

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  • I remember driving through that whole area about 10 years ago. It is a very weird, almost alien place. The desert is one thing, but there is a post-industrial, post-apocalyptic eeriness to it. Like something bad happened here a long time ago. I can’t imagine that being my home.

  • This thing I found and thought was funny

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  • Does something like mindfulness help at all with this?

    I’ve found that — with my ostensibly“normal” brain, at least — regularly practicing mindfulness meditation can be really helpful in getting through physically, emotionally, or perceptually difficult moments. It’s a practiced skill that helps take the edge off what would otherwise be overwhelming experiences.

    I wonder if this is a practice that could also be helpful for people like yourself?

  • Netflix Charts for July 10-16: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Ousts ‘The Witcher’ As No. 1 On Netflix 10 TV List; ‘The Out-Laws’ Remains Most-Viewed Title

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  • The show was not great, but the epic premise is awesome. So I thought I’d just go read the books, assuming the source material was the good stuff.

    But wow, turns out Asimov can’t write a decent paragraph. The story and ideas are buried under page after page of cringeworthy dialogue and pointless descriptions of gee whiz gadgets.

  • Glow in the dark Foundationn

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  • I’m reading Hyperion right now. The writing is way better, at least.

  • Glow in the dark Foundationn

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  • I couldn’t disagree more. The writing is absolute cringe.

    For some reason I assumed Asimov would be a good writer, maybe because I read his “Last Question” short story a long time ago and thought it was brilliant.

    But Foundation reads like it was written by a teenager. He’s obsessed with describing ghee whiz gadgets and doodads that I couldn’t care less about, the prose is plain and boring, and the themes and characters have not aged well. It feels like I’m watching the Jetsons, except it’s not at all quaint.

    I was hoping to be able to look past all this and get lost in the epic scale of the story and universe he purportedly builds, but it just wasn’t there for me.

  • This thing I found and thought was funny

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  • Genuinely curious: what happens to you internally / how do you feel when you feel overstimulated, as someone with ASD?

  • Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard over militialike training

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  • I made an attempt a few years ago, but the way this book was written really hasn’t aged well. I found it dull and patronizing and gave up.

    Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” is a much better book if you ask me, dealing with similar themes but written more recently.

  • If I stop drinking does that decrease risk of cancer?

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  • Fair question, and looks like I overstated that link.

    Chronic stress affects your immune system (via cortisol, long term inflammation) and that is no bueno for all sorts of health outcomes, including likely making it harder to fight off tumours.

    But to my surprise, there doesn’t actually seem to be solid evidence of a causal link between stress and increased risk of developing cancer.

  • If I stop drinking does that decrease risk of cancer?

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  • Don’t take this the wrong way, but if you’re worried about getting cancer from 3-4 drinks per year, it sounds like you might be dealing with a fair bit of anxiety.

    Stress caused by anxiety is bad for your health and a possible cancer risk, and almost certainly worse for you than 3-4 drinks a year. I don’t want you to now be anxious about your anxiety, but this might be a good thing to focus on to improve your general quality of life (and possibly reduce your cancer risk in the process).

    You could start by talking to a doctor or other medical professional about it, or try finding a therapist in your area. The therapist search on https://www.psychologytoday.com/ is a good place to look, or try an online service like Better Help.

    [edit: corrected overstatement about stress being a major cancer risk]

  • U.S. inflation falls to 3%, lowest level in more than 2 years, as price pressures ease

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  • This is some pretty bad math.

    The truly “average” person (i.e. all other things being equal, someone who is consistently in the middle of the pack in terms of skills, experience, fit, etc. relative to other candidates) would have to apply to n/2 (i.e. half) the jobs, where n is the average number of applicants per job.

    But in practice the distribution of candidates and where you fall in it tends to bell-curved rather than uniform — there are usually a few very well qualified candidates and a lot of not-so-qualified ones. So job market conditions (scarcity of talent/labour in your particular field, willingness among employers to lower the bar, etc.) can have a much bigger impact on how quickly you find a job than anything else.

    In other words, given current job market conditions, telling someone to “just keep applying” is probably not the best advice. Chances are, they’re applying for the wrong jobs, their resume needs improvement, or they need to find some way to stand out.

  • Russian Buk M-2 air defense system makes an impromptu firework show.

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  • Drones, especially smaller ones, are not easy to pick up on radar. For one it’s difficult to tell if you’re picking up a drone or a bird. And there are a lot of birds out there in the skies.