They want to track you, and if you don’t let them (VPN, 3rd party client, VM, etc) then they pull this shit.

Yep - are you apologizing for them, or for yourself?

This sounds like a sleeping disorder, imo.

And no, ADHD medications do not make you immune to brain fog. In some situations they can make it worse, especially when they wear off.

Ask your friend if they’ve been checked for sleep apnea.

I like this perspective. Wish there were more implementations of a biometric + password combo.

Plus the money actually goes directly to the creators you watch.

ahhhhhhh fuck

Yep. And besides, the only people actually taking significant risk here are the instance hosters storing the content.

Creator-owned platforms are the answer. I pay 2.50 USD/month for Nebula, and I have a less invasive experience, no ads, and the creators are paid better.

I also pay ~5/mo for Dropout, which is entirely owned by the people who run it.

In both cases, I feel as though I’m getting more value out of my time spent watching compared to the average YouTube video. Higher quality, less fluff, less algorithm bait.

I think we are going to completely abstract from traditional ethics, entertainment, and communication, aside from a few niche communities akin to a 21st century Amish.

You’d effectively be capable of being in two places at once.

Shit, that was good. Maybe making the switch will help reduce the amount of ambient doom I feel nowadays.

I used this trick a few years back during a cold snap when my furnace wasnt working. It did genuinely seem to increase the temp of my room by around ~10 Fahrenheit over an hour or so.

my understanding was capturing the hot air for a moment allowed more heat to radiate (and the pot did genuinely get to around 150 degrees according to laser thermometer) instead of the hot air rising in a narrow stream and losing its heat into the cold ceiling.

Didn’t have a fancy setup, just a spare pot balanced on three mugs over some tea candles.

I reccomend this series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxuJ9ujAYo

Radness factor is left out of efficiency calculations way too often

This is the one case where I’d make an exception. I read through the threads, it got particularly heated.

Life has gotten better since I dropped it. Moved a dozen or so people over to Signal and have been running with that ever since.

I do miss the ability to easily stream games, though.

874 partners

Man these polycules are getting crazy

I completely forgot these existed until this post. What a vivid flashback. Totally going to try them when out

I define it by whether something is independently verifiable.

I am told that there are 8* planets in our solar system, and where they are located. If I wanted to, I could buy a big telescope, point it at the sky and find all 8.

I am told that it is possible to boil water through nuclear fission. If I had the means, I could take a number of resources, spend decades researching nuclear physics, build my own test reactor, and verify that this is possible.

I am told that the earth is flat. I could get a pilots license, buy a plane, and fly to Antarctica to see the ice wall. I would find that there is no ice wall, just a number of scientists who are very passionate about ice samples. Therefore, it is not independently verifyable.

I don’t have the money to verify all of these claims, but they are all claims that have been verified by hundreds, if not thousands of independent people and organizations throughout history.