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My first TikTok reached a whopping 100k views, but now I only get 50 on average. Is that intentional? It sure feels like it.

My first TikTok reached a whopping 100k views, but now I only get 50 on average. Is that intentional? It sure feels like it.

Cars turned us—one of the best species in long distance running into couch potatoes.

Dear community,

Anything fun or interesting going on? Relaxing, doing chores, listening to music, playing games, reading? I wanna hear about it!

He’s a guide dog, so obviously very smart in some ways, but in other ways he’s very much still a dog. He’s still terrified of thunder and fireworks. While he’s normally aloof with occasional fits of cuddliness, when it’s loud outside he tries to climb into my skin.

Princess Diana came from an extremely wealthy family, but Camilla also comes from a very wealthy family too, so I don’t understand why the royals wanted him to marry Diana and not Camilla. I could understand if Camilla came from a middle-class family, but she didn’t.

The Elder Scrolls Arena let you play as a black woman in 1992. Name another game that did that.

Normally when this is asked, people think about reviving, curing, resurrecting. This question is about who you save if you were transported to a time a little before their death, like maybe a day before or even a week before. Anything about terminal illnesses or diseases contracted don’t really count here because, when those things happen, they happen and there’s really nothing you could do to have prevented it.

How ‘real’ do you think influencer relationships are? Even when they have a kid, how real do you think it is?

2 are for my porch and one is for a pole.

Management may eventually purge engineers that won’t adopt AI.

I wanted to go see a concert tonight for the first time ever. The venue offered tickets online through ticketmaster (henceforth referred to as ticketbastard) with a note that any remaining tickets are available at the box office once the show starts. Checking their website more, I found that they sell tickets in-person during posted hours, so I figured I could just go buy a real ticket and avoid the ticketbastard garbage.

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This wasn’t pre-planned; I did not think I was in the market for alarm music. I just heard a track when exploring more of an artist’s work that I’d heard from Geometry Dash (they’re the musician behind Stereo Madness [and Stereo Madness 2, which imo is even better]), and it immediately struck me as solid alarm music.

Or is this just a poor old man being harassed?

Currently typing with bandaids on both thumbs so please excuse typos and missedspaces.

In my opinion, AI Slop is content made with AI that is low effort. People feel and know the quality of something, and if it feels like slop, it feels like slop.

I know it already is but should it be?

My elementary school teacher told us once that Americans only poop once a week. The climate is colder in North America, so their intestines pack the poop together very densely such that they only need to poop once a week. She said you’d be sent to the doctor if you poop daily in America.

Tomato plants come in one of two types: Determinate and Indeterminate.

As an American who uses the 24-hour time, so many people use 12-hour I basically still use 12-hour.

Hola a todos. Hace unas semanas pasé por una situación familiar bastante complicada. No tenía con quién hablarlo en ese momento, pero sentía la necesidad de sacarlo de mi sistema. Decidí escribir una carta muy íntima diciendo todo lo que no me atrevía a decir en voz alta, y el proceso fue increíblemente terapéutico.

For me:

I like a whole lot of mediums, but my absolute favorite is the humble drawing. If pressed, I’d say pen on paper is my preferred category.

It seems like a lot of european countries have started becoming more concerned with digital sovereignty and some have begun enforcing using open formats like ODF / ODS

Not like the brand Crocs, but very similar concept. All plastic, weird colors, looks like nobody could be comfortable in them but somehow are, suited to their physiology.

It’s the end of May, school is basically over. The week where it’s mostly catching up on missing assignments - many students already off on summer vacation and the frequent interruptions from things like graduation prep etc…

One thing I hate about guys that complain about Mary sues is that they never complain about “Gary Stus.” For example, Light Yagami was kind of a Gary Stu. He had an IQ of 215–230, he was handsome, the most popular kid in his school, and his family was upper middle class. Jace Wayland from Shadowhunters is an arrogant, brooding bad boy who’s a master martial artist, who women fawn over, and is basically the fantasy of what men and women think a cool bad boy is. Tony Stark is a multi-billionaire with multiple armored, superpowered suits that basically make him Superman, and Superman himself is basically a god.

Economy getting worse and these asshole franchise decides to lower the hiring range.

I didn’t have hot water last night. Checking the water heater, the LED on the front wasn’t blinking which meant it either wasn’t receiving power or the pilot light was out. It’s an AO Smith with a Honeywell control unit on the front as in only about 5 years old.

I think starting to understand how a girl behaves who she has a thing for you.

You shouldn’t text and drive, but I keep noticing myself doing it anyway. As part of my efforts to return to the caveman days and spend at least some of my time disconnected from the internet, I want to stop this. However, I have terrible impulse control. So the only solution is to put my phone in the trunk before I start driving, and use something else for the tasks I would normally use my phone for. Here’s what I want:

But only people with the same names as famous criminals can join. The conversations on a group like this would be incredible.

I mean the scenario of a serious collapse of civilization with the use of nuclear weapons.

I can go to any country, with the caveat that my mom would accompany me for part of it. I don’t want to go someplace I’ve already been, so it can’t be Taiwan, Canada, France, Germany, Morocco, Japan, Mexico, Ireland, or Argentina. I’m from the US and don’t want to go to a state I’ve already been to either. I want somewhere that feels very different.

Can you imagine if all phones had LoRa radios

Two questions:

We all hate AI slop and what these companies are doing(datacenters, replacing employees, etc) but our most effective move against these companies might actually be using all of their free services as much as possible. Better yet automate their use with a script if you can. Clearly politicians are already bought and payed for here. The entire town can vote no but that data center is still going up.

Like, so many of them were so sure that we could just make anything work and expand wherever we wanted and now its all burning and we can’t even touch anything to try and follow lead of brute force because their spoiled kids are still playing with their toys like it doesnt matter if we all suffer.

Could be in any context. I do it a little on UFC fights but that’s a relatively low amount and I can afford I to lose any time I do. It seems like it’s becoming a really wide spread problem though, at least in the US. At the same time I don’t see why it should be illegal. Granted I also don’t think any drug should be illegal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o

I very recently became paralyzed in my left (and dominant) arm, fingers and foot, which believe it or not, was not planned for.

My pixel 7 is shitting the bed and I am considering upgrading and just installing graphene immediately on the new phone as part of my degoogling journey.

Hey all, like the title says, I’m looking for a robotics kit I can use with my young nephew.

Mine is tow the line rather than toe the line.

For fucks sake, mum. You have been working with computers since the seventies. How can you not know a single one of your passwords?

My grocery bill is steadily climbing and I am not sure what to do. I make too much for SNAP. Any tips or tricks? It’s just me in my household, so would buying in bulk be worth it?