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  • Fair.

    Although, I do question whether people need be concerned about electrolytes, not throwing shade; genuinely curious.

    I’ve worked in hot climates, ran marathons, etc and never felt the need for anything other than water, but I am happy to be humbled.

  • The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election
  • No problem.

    Apologies if my comments came across as confrontational, my intention was to give my perspective on how yours were received.

    I know it isn’t often easy to come back and say sorry and take an introspective look and anybody that does that gets my respect 100% of the time.

  • The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election
  • I don’t think that’s the response they were after.

    You could have tried something like:

    I can appreciate you’re tired and I think we’re all a little exhausted after this election cycle. I am definitely interested in learning your perspective on this and opening myself up to other viewpoints.

    See I acknowledged OPs comment and tried to explain my motivations for the question. You, on the other hand, you called them out for rightfully wanting to value their time.

  • always time for some banter
  • Occasionally, I spend more time around my friends who sniff too much whilst I’m not doing it.

    I am in a good place where everything in moderation and no longer feel the need to gorge on things. You appreciate things more if it’s every now and then. Took me a long time to get here mind.

  • I will vote for whomever bans happy birthday.
  • You should know that things you might find normal or acceptable are not the same things that neurodivergent people find normal and that’s ok we all have different experiences and we should be tolerant of those.

    I’m not saying OP is neurodivergent but I am and I might do things you think are odd as I might with you.

  • Subway sued for exaggerating meat by 200%
  • I’ve watched videos on how they photograph food and let’s just say that this cheese is probably some coloured PVA glue or something.

    Due to the time it can take to shoot food and the heat from the lights it’s not ideal (I think they should be forced to photograph the actual product and this is all absurd, but I’m just talking about this photo) to use the actual food.

    I’ve seen glue in lieu of milk for cereal adverts, as one such example.

    It’s pretty interesting from a technical viewpoint and you can search it up on YouTube.

  • New Debit Card
  • I just replied this to the parent comment.

    Furthermore even if a card is skimmed these days, at least in the UK, it’s still unlikely transactions would be processed online.

    That’s because it’s become so commonplace now for transactions to pop-up in the banks app on the owners phone and they must confirm the transaction and / or receive a code via SMS. Some just use SMS as a means to confirm a transaction.

    I guess one vector for attack still remains and that is SIM swapping, but even that is more difficult these days due to widespread awareness from carriers.

  • New Debit Card
  • Furthermore even if a card is skimmed these days, at least in the UK, it’s still unlikely transactions would be processed online.

    That’s because it’s become so commonplace now for transactions to pop-up in the banks app on the owners phone and they must confirm the transaction and / or receive a code via SMS. Some just use SMS as a means to confirm a transaction.

    I guess one vector for attack still remains and that is SIM swapping, but even that is more difficult these days due to widespread awareness from carriers.

  • Europe’s Greens ask Jill Stein to pull out of US election to prevent Trump victory
  • I don’t think it’s wise to pass judgement on an entire nation unless you’ve lived their lives and understand the nuances to American life.

    Also, an eye for an eye leave the whole world blind.

    Disclaimer: I’m not American.

    Edit: I am glad the mods removed the other persons comments as they were not looking to make reasonable arguments and I suspect they were arguing in bad faith.

  • Why are so many Pro-Palestine (I am pro-Palestine and anti-genocide) Americans refusing to vote for Harris due to her stance on Israel?

    As the title states I am confused on this matter. The way I see it, the USA has a two party system and in the next few weeks they’re either going to have Trump or Harris as president, come inauguration day. With this in mind doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

    Giving your vote to an independent or worse not voting at all, just gives more of a chance for Trump to win the election and then who knows what crazy stuff he will allow, or encourage, Israel to get away with.

    I really don’t get the logic. As sure nobody wants to vote for a party allowing these heinous crimes to be committed, but given you’re getting one of them shouldn’t you be voting for the one that will be the least horrible of the two.

    Please don’t come at me with pro-Israeli rhetoric as this isn’t the post for that, I’m asking about why people would make such choices and I’m not up for debate on the Middle East, on this post, you can DM me for that.

    Edit: Bedtime here now so will respond to incoming comments in the morning, love starting the day with an inbox full 😊.

    Edit 2: This blew up, it’s a little overwhelming right now but I do intent on replying to everybody that took the time to comment. Just need to get in the right headspace.

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    How do solo devs make an entire game themselves? M

    So, the question seems vague but I will elaborate.

    I’m a software developer, but I don’t do games; yet I have an urge to try and make something.

    It just seems so overwhelming, I know I want to make a game where the main character is a cat and you have to complete missions, but where do you even begin. Where does the art come from? How do you refine your idea, if all you know is you want a cat game? How do you choose an engine? Do you just start with the basics and get a cat walking around and see what comes next? If you can’t hash out the idea then so you have a right to even try and make a game? Is it best to follow tutorials to get used to making games? I feel the answer to that is no as before I become a software developer, tutorial hell was a thing and I realised I needed to make things for me to actually learn.

    Sorry for all the questions, this was just a stream of thought.

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    Looking for advice on hobbies and whether I should continue rock climbing?

    As the title says, I’m looking for some advice about hobbies.

    I struggle with depression off and on and recently it’s been quite tough to be motivated, but I tried indoor rock climbing and I’ve been going twice a week for around a month and I love it. I like the problem solving aspect and it being mixed in with physical activity, as I have a sedentary job as a software developer so it’s good to be more active.

    This is where the issue is though, I have terrible hands. I have something called Dupytren’s Contracture, which essentially is extra collagen forms around the tendons and severely limits range of movement in the hands (I’ll post pictures of my hands in the comments).

    So my question is would you continue this hobby even though it’s wrecking my hands and look at having another fasciotomy to get them less painful.

    Or can you suggest any other physical hobbies that would also be engaging mentally to complete.

    Perhaps I should have been wiser before getting hooked on this, but I’m devastated that I might not be able to do it long term.

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    Are your grandparents and parents nice or tolerant people?

    I’ve just been out for food with parents (60’s) and nana (80’s) and I don’t know why I go as they leave me disheartened every time damn time.

    In the short span of a couple of hours they (mainly my nana but parents will have silly views too) managed to comment on the number of black athletes at the Olympics (somehow being a bad thing), shit on the upcoming Para-olympics (quote: disabled people should just accept their lot and not try sport), protesters (of any kind) and questioning if any protests have ever been successful, to which I answered the suffragette‘s we’re pretty successful.

    Complaining about people being spoilt these days at the same time as my nana confessing she was given food in a bowl at my aunties and refused to eat it unless it was on a plate (seems pretty spoilt to me). Asking for things to be like when she was younger, to which I asked if she was a fan of Nazi Germany as she grew up post WWII.

    I guess I am wondering how can I come from a family that seemingly has no compassion for anybody and even less empathy for anybody different than them. They make me angry at times and I know I can be annoying my always challenging their bullshit views, but I can’t sit there and let people take utter nonsense like this.

    I haven’t even covered half the awful stuff they say and their warped ideals.

    Edit: The other one that irritates me is them (two women ) shitting on female athletes. Like WTF if a female wants to be a footballer what skin is it off their noses. Unless they just bitter they people have more choice to be themselves now.

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    As a new, one year, software developer who retrained late. How do you know when you're ready to apply for a new role with more money?

    As the title states. I’ve been a software developer for a year now and work for a tiny company, where the salary isn’t amazing. I got paid more at Apple Genius Bar, but it wasn’t as challenging.

    I still feel like I’m stupid, I’ll rely on the owner lead engineer for help on the more complex problems and because we have a great set of conventions I’ll frequently be going back to old projects to extract the logic from their. Whether that be reading from Excel spreadsheets or the controller flow, as we use GraphQL api for most calls.

    Does it just click at some point?

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    Anybody know of any Darknet/darkweb related communities?

    I ran a search but nothing was returned but searching on lemmyverse returned some like

    !darknets@lemmy.toot.pt

    But not sure how to join in from Voyager.

    4
    Has anybody noticed that some videos on YouTube will let you out of the app and continue playing in PiP mode on iOS?

    The latest Nick Crawley video for instance if anybody wants to try.

    Edit: Wait it’s happening on the latest Penguin0 video too. So confused.

    Edit: It’s happening on all videos. Dopamine overload for me. Watching YouTube and browsing Lemmy.

    Edit: Wondering if it cause I have a VPN connected to Miami. Not used a VPN for a while, but started last week.

    17
    Got my first ever watch, aside from super cheap ones. I am very happy.

    I used to wear watches on my right wrist but had to change to the left as using a mouse all day is awful with a decent watch on. Guess it’ll take a while to get used to it.

    Edit: I just noticed that by complete chance I took the image when the seconds were at 0. I did not plan that.

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    Anybody using a framework laptop?

    I have been looking at them a lot recently and they have a premium price is it worth it?

    What does it look like when you want to upgrade? Like can you just swap out all parts over time and essentially it’s like having a custom desktop, but in small form factor.

    Can you buy a base model and upgrade components over time?

    Would it suit my use cases for it? Which are to run Linux, I have to use Windows as a Software Dev and so can’t do it on my main. Can I run Minecraft on Linux? I know, but I like that game it makes me happy to unwind.

    I want to get more into cyber security related tasks and most likely increase my Darknet activities using Tails.

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    Is it safe to use free movies sites on a phone, specifically iOS devices?

    As the title says, what are the risks, I assume people don’t host these servers for no reason. Is it just the ad revenue they get from the popups when trying to start the movie.

    Could they be running exploits on here that would make it not safe at all to do so?

    9
    How do rainbows work?

    Now I know that rainbows are formed due to refraction of light from the sun hitting raindrops and light waves leave at varying angles between 40-42 degrees or somewhere around there. Also, that they’re round.

    What I don’t understand is how it’s consistent, like I assume it’s hitting many raindrops, but all these drops are in different places so why does it still form a nice circle. Furthermore, why isn’t the whole sky a rainbow if it’s raining and thus hitting all the drops. I suspect the angle of the sun is playing a part but I’m not a science man.

    Please help me get this thought out of my head.

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    What's been the craziest moment of your life?

    I saw this asked on another instance, thought I’d ask it here and I’ll post my response from there in the comments as I think it felt cathartic.

    Doesn't need to be a life or death situation, just any moment in your life where you found yourself saying "Holy shit, I can't believe this is happening!"

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    How do you get into wild camping, it seems so overwhelming and a lot of information to try and gather?

    So, I’ve really started to make some large changes to my life after many years of being a degenerate and all my money going on smoking weed and doing other drugs with friends etc.

    It all started when I got diagnosed with ADHD, got medicated, since stopped as the cons were worse than the pros now I’m on a good track, re-trained as a software developer and have been in my first role a year and I’m late 30’s now.

    Weed was the last thing to quit and it’s been almost a month and I’m finally able to do all the things I could never afford. Bought a nice watch and booked a session for a sleeve tattoo I’ve always wanted.

    I still need something to focus on to keep me happy and I love being out in nature and just milling about, but I’m a city kid, north UK, so really don’t know anything about surviving outside; but I want to go out for weekends and see the stars and just explore and be self sufficient.

    It all just seems so overwhelming and I have no clue where to start. I’ve been watching YouTube videos and still it seems so overwhelming. My plan is to start purchasing everything you would need with a view to start from April next year but I honestly don’t know where to begin. What do I buy, which tents should I be looking at, how do I learn about water supplies I can drink from, what about cooking; can I make bacon and eggs for instance, what sleeping bags, cookers, backpacks, shoes, etc.

    The list goes on and on and I guess I’m just looking for good resources to consume over the next 10 months to make sure I can go out and be safe, considerate, and not a burden on anybody else.

    Thanks for any tips you can provide.

    Edit: I have a lot of comments here to reply to, but I’m pretty sleepy right now so will reply to you all tomorrow. Thanks.

    51
    Veritasium's new video on Jumping Spiders is having its sponsor Better Help on blast in the top comments. Should we hold content creators to account?

    Should we stop supporting them with our eyes for taking sponsorships from shady companies?

    Edit: I took my first step and unsubscribed from the channel and I will continue to withhold my viewership to those that don’t take better care of the viewers.

    Likely doesn’t matter, but I’m on a roll of not giving my money to companies that are immoral so why not do the same with my eyes.

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    As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

    As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion.

    The same for the Kendrick and Drake (the nonce) beef which has given some rabbit holes to go down.

    So I’m wondering what I can do to keep in the loop with my younger brothers and sisters?

    Is it something as simple as watching trending videos on YouTube (somtheing I’ve never done) or are there people to follow etc. I don’t like Twitter though so hopefully it’s not that.

    Edit: Man I got so many replies. You guys are awesome. I am going to work my way through them all today, but I’m hella tired and off to work so may take a while. I will reply to you all.

    Edit part deux: God damn I think I got all the replies.

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    Is any body able to provide some advice to help my friend through a bad patch?

    So I’m a bit of a degenerate but making better choices lately and sort of getting things on track.

    My friend had some health issues and had to stop working, my other friend now does all the labour, and he just runs the business.

    He then split with his partner who he has children, as frankly he would never be at home and it was always going to happen.

    I just found out the health condition has gotten worse and he will have to lose a leg. He never improved his diet, kept hitting the coke hard and gambling. So recently he has gambled away £35,000 and had a breakdown with another friend.

    How do I even be there for him and keep him on a good path, providing he is open to change.

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    I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt?

    My question is once this procedure has been completed and say the person really got into some heavy cardio and thus were burning a lot of fat would the body be able to burn the fat that was moved to the buttocks or does it not have the associated blood vessels to enable this?

    I’m not even sure if that’s how lipids are metabolised, but I assume it’s through the blood.

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