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  • Humans have evolved for ages to be socially dependent creatures. Humans are also highly intelligent, and can tool their way through a situation for which they aren't technically "fit."

    So, is social interaction really all that? Yes. Will you be fine without it? Being charitable and assuming you're excluding basic needs which have been socialized like shelter and food—maybe.

  • The gaming industry didn't remove cheat codes because they broke game balance, they removed them so they could sell those exact same advantages back to us as microtransactions.

  • It's a shower thought. Pretty heavy judgement for something people supposedly just think about when they have nothing better to do.

  • What would a half human / half centaur look like?

  • (I was being facetious and was referring to the joke of making highly complicated evenOrOdd functions)

  • What would a half human / half centaur look like?

  • Damn, I wish I had an algorithm to tell me whether 75 and 25 are even or odd, though.

  • If you showed me a lineup of 10 guys and asked me which one ran a worm farm I feel like I would get it right 100% of the time.

  • I should do this more often.

  • Backend devs be like

  • I think is one of them fool stack engineers or something.

  • What is your fandom? What is the most controversial opinion you have relating to your fandom?

  • Homestuck. 'Nuff said.

  • People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?

  • Yes. It was a cousin on my mom's side who I definitely should've recognized. Oops.

  • ...when was the last time you had bubble gum?

  • If I could cast a spell to rid the world of chewing gum, I'd do it twice.

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

  • It's not a show, and typically one would play that game of "never read this" fairly unironically. But the webcomic Homestuck starts off REALLY slow and takes a few hundred pages to really even become interesting. It was so long ago, but I'm guessing page 246 was when I started to legitimately be interested in it. And I would say it finally gets good at page 1149.

    So why did I read 245 pages of a story I wasn't very much interested in? The music, pretty much. I had already known Toby Fox had worked on something called Homestuck because of the history behind Another Medium (YouTube), and then I encountered this track (YouTube) in the wild and decided to read it at least until I reached the page this music is from.

    Also, if you look at it purely for the ratio, getting good 1/8 of the way through is a little better than standard.

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  • Cannot stand this shit. I have two younger sisters, and my extended family loves to go on and on about how they're bad at math, or how they were not good at math in school because it's hard. Okay, but you don't have to seed it into their very impressionable minds that math is hard, because it really shouldn't be.

  • The circle of life

  • Thanks for the sanity check. This fool's looking like Jim post-Made in Heaven.

  • YouTube really showing top quality in recent update

  • YouTube's playlist shuffle feature has been broken for at least 11 years. I know this because I remember complaining about it in middle school.

    Maybe this is what sowed the first seed in my path to becoming a developer.

  • Subtle

  • And this is how a girl got me to sniff straight ammonia gas in middle school.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

  • Since I'm already thinking of Spongebob, I'll say that the Sponge Out of Water movie was the first large-scale disappointment that I experienced from a delivery perspective.

    All of the advertisement showed almost entirely the scenes where they were, per the title, out of water. Once out of water, per the title, Spongebob and the crew were 3D, superimposed into the real world, and they had superpowers. It should've been great.

    In the actual movie, they did not become "out of water," per the title, until approximately the last 20 minutes of the movie, if my memory serves me correctly.

    I was also a bit disappointed with Avatar: The Legend of Korra. It's not a bad show—it's just that The Last Airbender set the bar so high, and TLOK did not measure up.

  • Vibe management

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

  • Thanks, I'll try those out.

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

  • Functionally, I don't. Just because Mastodon is Fediverse won't make me "Tweet" more. Same thing here. In fact, I use Lemmy less than I used Reddit. Element does not measure up to what Discord does at the moment.

    So outside of my beliefs of what the internet should be and the alignment of my choice of platforms with my beliefs, I'd rather be using the thing with the widest userbase and/or the best functionality. However, I no longer believe in Reddit, Discord, nor hardly any other big tech products; and so, here I am.

    I do like the idea of federation, and I wish it were the norm for society when it comes to choice of product. But we're at a point where many people my age don't even know you can host your email outside of Google, and it's not really their fault. If I could wave a magic wand and snap every service to a federated nature, making everyone who uses the internet accustomed to using the federated web, I would do so in a heartbeat.

    That said, does anyone know of a good chat service that actually has desktop audio on screen share? Preferably federated and similar to Discord, but obviously that's really specific.

  • What are you up to today?

  • The type of breakfast people in movies would eat one bean sprout from and off they go.

    Enjoy your day

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I'm fairly sure that Jessie is the only* live-action Disney Channel show where the protagonist or titular character is canonically an adult human.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some product categories where the mainstream option IS the best option?

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Oddly overwhelmed while sick

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Compliance

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Doofenshmirtz and William Afton are more alike than they are different.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity?

  • internet funeral @lemmy.world
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    Ticks.

  • Music Production @waveform.social
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    How do you feel about Emergent Drums 2?