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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Have you gazed into an abyss long enough to have the abyss gaze back into you, without becoming endlessly lost in said abyss? Congrats, you're now team lead on the abyss project.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Dizziness
Increased blood pressure
Increased heart rate
Nausea
Vomiting

Shit I might die

Anxiety
Panic attacks
Paranoia
Hallucinations
Short term memory impacts

Damn I might think I'm dying (and maybe not even remember)

Time distortion
Sleepiness

I mean... what would you trade for a superpower and a good night's sleep?

 
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Are there any instances of a 3rd party making digital copies of games available and paying some licensing fee back to the copyright holders? Something akin to how book libraries handle ebooks?

Maybe Steam falls in this category a bit, but I'm thinking something more exhaustive and focused on games that are otherwise out of production.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:

  • Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
  • Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
  • Home security (ADT)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I also sorta had a moment of perhaps morbid curiosity about this one.

Do they simply have an extraordinary sense of entitlement? A strong belief that getting ahead means being clever about working the system? A philosophical commitment to fringe ideas of what it means to be a person in society?

Or are traffic citations that much of a nuisance that you'll do anything to get out of them? A lot of the posts I see here seem to focus on transportation / driving.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Wow, today I learned. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This would mean that there was more uranium around millions and billions of years in the past so why isn't there any evidence of prehistoric nukes in the fossil record

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm not sure I get it.

[–] [email protected] 191 points 1 week ago (6 children)

As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that'd mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don't care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the "free" button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, "Here's how much you paid in taxes, if you're cool with that then please disregard", I will not be satisfied.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (6 children)

And then you go to Settings / Privacy / Data and all you find is a link to the privacy policy and terms of service.

So you search online and find several relevant posts on a support forum, such as:

  • I cannot find this setting
  • The "on" option is grayed out
  • I tried to set this to "on" but I got a cryptic error message saying to contact my system administrator

All of them have been open for at least a year, hundreds of users clicked the "I also have this issue" button, and none of them have any useful replies.

 

Say I go to a restaurant and find a hair in my food. Are there any actual health risks?

Does it make a difference if I:

  • Find it in the dish, remove it, and keep eating
  • Take a bite, find it in my mouth, and remove it
  • Ingest it

This was inspired by a recent news story about a certain authoritarian butthole cosplaying as a food service worker. I did try to look it up (er, search it up?), but the top hits were lengthy meandering articles, or totally off-topic stuff like foods to prevent hair loss. So naturally I gave up and opted to consult the hive mind instead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The player character may try to quickly skip through dialog they've already heard, so if they interrupt you, just pick up on the next sentence you were going to say.

In some engines, the player character may also be able to walk away mid-dialog. If this happens, feel free to continue talking while they're still within earshot, or berate them.

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rule collection (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 
 

I've been donating to the news site Vox for a while now, and all their content has so far been free. I felt kinda bad about blocking the ads on their site and fast-forwarding through all the ad breaks in their podcasts. So in the spirit of actually supporting something I like, I started chipping in a few bucks a month.

But recently, they've started putting some of their articles behind a paywall. Since I was already donating, I automatically have access. But for some reason, I feel like I don't wanna pay anymore. It's not like it costs me more, but there's just something about dontating to a free site vs paying for exclusive content that doesn't feel the same. Maybe cuz I'm not a fan of paywalls in general, so I don't want to support companies that implement them.

Does that make sense? What would you do? And if you're not a fan of Vox, maybe think of some other free service/content, like videos from a streamer or a software project or something.

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2meirl4meirl (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 
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it's showtime (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

i mean would you rather unlock double jumps irl or have all of peach's costumes

 
 
 

I'm a trans woman, and I've been experiencing pretty annoying levels of nausea recently -- like, daily, for a few months. It's not too disruptive, but I get hungry really sporadically, and I spend the rest of the time feeling vaguely queasy. I'm wondering if it's at all related to the drug cocktail I'm on.

I've been on HRT for about 2 years now. I take estradiol (4 mg/day orally) and spironolactone (100 mg/day). I get my hormone levels checked regularly at a clinic. The spiro used to be 50 mg/day, but I had to up the dose after my testosterone levels started creeping back up several months ago.

The T uptick seemingly coincided with when I started taking bupropion for depression. My T levels are back in range, and I've since switched out the bupropion for lamotrigine (a mood stabilizer). But now I have all this nausea.

Despite what I've described, my HRT prescriber and my psychiatrist both insist that this drug combination shouldn't be causing nausea, nor the jump in T levels. So, it's a mystery, and quite a frustrating one. I feel like I'm a big bag of pills that's been shaken up until it's good and dizzy.

Not sure if anyone can relate to this -- how many depressed trans women are there out there, anyway? But if you have any advice, I'm all ears.

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2meirl4meirl (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 
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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

though i am struggling with image uploads for some reason, so i guess i do get to participate in the chaos after all

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

For the past day or so, I've been seeing a bunch of empty space in between posts. All the posts are there, but I have to scroll for a while to see them all. It also happens on comment threads.

I'm using Firefox 127.0.2 on Android 14. It also happens when I request the desktop site view. It doesn't happen on my actual desktop, nor does it happen for other instances like lemmy.world.

Is this a known issue? Any fixes?

Edit: Within hours of posting, pages are loading normally again.

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