You made me think that it would be an absolute cosmic joke if we discovered that the effects of cannabis on children under 13 were, paradoxically, incredibly positive. Imagine all the privileged parents being like : “I’m making sure he’s vaping THC all day, I want him to have opportunities!”

I click a button when taking my pill so I don’t take it twice by mistake, it also alerts me if I’ve forgotten my dose. Not really ridiculous, but I wanted to feel included lol

Sometimes, I think science educators aren’t political enough.

Cleo Abram’s interviews with Nvidia’s CEO, Zuck and Sam Altman are her only interviews to date, and they all paint them in a good light without being critical of their work. I get wanting to make it to the top, but simping for the capitalist elite is just not a good look in my book, especially when science communication should try to minimize bias.

I also remember her video about John Deere last year, giving the impression the company is only doing so much good in the world…

Imagine being a Linux user and a vegan, it’s absolute moral self-masturbation

What is the “calories in calories out” shit?

Photopea is a good alternative to Photoshop when you need automatic subject selecting and other powerful features. They have a very similar UI, but it’s not FOSS and they want you to see ads or pay to use features repeatedly. Nonetheless, it is the best I have found for my use cases.

Child pornography (CP), also known as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and by more informal terms such as kiddie porn, is erotic material that involves or depicts persons under the designated age of majority.
[…]
Laws regarding child pornography generally include sexual images involving prepubescents, pubescent, or post-pubescent minors and computer-generated images that appear to involve them.
(Emphasis mine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography

Lol! This is gonna feel random, but what is your mother’s maiden name?

What was the name of your first pet?

And uh… where’s your bank? Lol I’m so random.

Well if you ask me, I only use Chrome on my iPhone connected to Starlink to order from Amazon with my credit card, I’m basically a ghost.

And enjoy the life of others! (see: username)

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but it felt really small world to me.

I saw Anthony Bourdain on TV review a Bánh Mì restaurant in Vietnam and told myself I would eat there someday. Went to Vietnam, pretty much the first time I traveled ever. Went to the Banh Mí place. It was at night, there was a very long queue to get in, I waited in line and ordered. At the counter and on the walls, multiple snippets of newspapers and pictures of Bourdain with the staff and chefs. I sat down with my food, and as I started eating, I received a notification on my cellphone from my local news network at the other side of the world : Bourdain just killed himself.

It felt very surreal. I was looking at all these pictures with the feeling I knew something all these people didn’t yet.

I mean, I would turn the laptop around. Or the webcam on the PC. Or use my phone for the call?

Acquiescing while reading this, having never contributed to a project of any size and thinking I’m hot shit for having climbed to 4 kyu in Python on Codewars.

Shelly Kagan has the best reasoning about souls I’ve seen so far, he makes a pretty compelling case that we have no soul. I recommend this playlist to everyone, it’s so good :

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0

Yes, but you omitted all the croplands we use for feeding non-human animals.

Poore and Nemecek estimate that 50% of croplands are used for human food, 38% is for livestock feed and 12% is for non-food uses.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

Also, if our goal is to find the truth in all of this, why be mean?

Doing things right the first time is certainly a tip I’ll keep in mind. They probably would do a better job than me though, they are retirees having pretty much only cleaning and gardening as hobbies. And I’m not the best at both. Compared to my friends, I clean a lot, but compared to my close family, we’re not in the same leagues. They are “dusting-the-fire-alarm” people.

You know what, didn’t really think about this. I thought if I had to have professional help, it’d have to be a regular thing and it’s not in my budget, but I’ll look for that kind of service. I won’t be able to tell my folks about it, but they won’t know!

Yeah, thanks for that. I feel like I have a pretty high standard of cleanliness, after all I grew up with my parents, who are very nitpicky about it, but I never tell anyone I’m visiting that there is any problem with their own cleaning. Everyone has a life and their own responsibilities. I just wanted to see where the bar was for people.

Wow okay, must have been a really big house lol

Yeah, pretty much the same boat. Honestly I don’t really want to invite them anymore because of it, but I can’t shut my parents off. Maybe I could groom the cats ahead of holiday season lol.