Shame you’ve already blasted music and you are pretty certain he’s feeling it. I would have slipped a note under his door asking him to at least get a mat or something to cushion the weights falling

This sounds pretty standard as far as research goes. There’s experiments of a billion things done in animals which only prove or help understand how mechanisms work. From there to saying, “this is the exact same method we’ll use on people, this is practically done” it rarely happens that straight away. You have at least a decade on average of trials and ways to figure out which drugs are appropriate for release.

Unless you quote me a snippet from any of these articles in which the scientists are expressly saying “we are hoping to use a similar virus on people” I’d say you are jumping to conclusions.

Do you really want to fix your procrastination by injecting viruses into your brain?

I haven’t read the article, does it suggest the virus is the way to fix procrastination? From the headlines it appears to me that they only found a mechanism, that doesn’t mean the methods used are applicable for human consumption

Maybe it’s simply the growth of the Internet that diluted the culture. In its early days, most people with Internet access and time/the inclination to shitpost were mostly young, had certain other things in common such as language, a certain amount of wealth, access to commodities, etc. You also had to have a certain degree of innate curiosity and tech literacy to find platforms and engage with them. That’s reflected in the content posted.

Nowadays you have everyone and their grandma online. Platforms are aggressively finding you and even opening accounts unprompted for you (I’m looking at you, Meta). So the type of content is reflected too.

Disclaimer : I’m not reading your link

Answer: I just think it’s not worth it. The motivation to make comics should arise from your need to express yourself visually, not to compensate for poor translation. Learning to draw maybe comes easy to you, but then you’ll have to actually do it and keep it consistent and meet your own standards, which is the extra hard part you are not taking into consideration.

Climbing the mountain can be a challenge, but it pales in comparison with setting up camp and living at high altitude indefinitely. If you don’t have a call for that kind of lifestyle I would suggest you reconsider.

Give it a go, though. Nothing wrong with a bit of tourism and sightseeing. You may even get to enjoy it, and you will understand for yourself if it’s meant to be for you or not.

Cheers! Yes I haven’t been on Lemmy as much lately, but I still check in every now and then.

I’m with the truffles guy saying truffles with the caveat that perhaps I haven’t had real truffles properly.

Otherwise, I find KFC too overrated. All fast food chains in general, but KFC in particular gets a hype at least in my circles. From what I hear, you are buying bliss and a heavenly experience in a bucket. Come on. It’s just chicken bits with nothing special about them, in fact the cheap deep frying oils can upset my stomach easily.

I second your impression of truffles. I’m yet to appreciate them. So far in my books is a thing that tastes like dirt and shoots up ridiculously the price of whatever it’s added into

Ok so being a chemistry ignorant as I am, I went to Wikipedia to read about this acid, thinking it was probably a very common household item sold under a different name or perhaps a very common drug with a different street name, you get it. But it’s not. It’s just some acid used in a variety of industry processes.

Why on earth would anyone, even on drugs, think an enema with acid is something they need to experience? I’ve never done cocaine and I’m also not into painful anal stuff so if you are into either and care to explain I’d really appreciate it.

Hello, I work in retail in Australia. The shopping malls I’m at all have “quiet time” for “people with sensory issues” every Tuesday morning from 9 to 11:30 am. It is as you described, and I agree with you.

Now I’m not sure where I stand on the spectrum but I’ve heard colleagues say they also prefer the quiet time, so, there you go. I just don’t understand the point of bombarding people with music all the time especially for Christmas.

I’ve always been a fan of the prehistoric plants ( though if I’m being pedantic the vast majority of plants are prehistoric). Araucaria and Dicksonia are the best of the best!

I don’t believe an artificial object can become sentient. But even if it does, no, I’m not afraid. I’m afraid of the damage AI already causes as it is.

Ah so your last hundred job applications went nowhere? Here, have this short time gig

Your last million tinder swipes got you nothing? Here, have this guy for the summer

I wish life was this considerate

I don’t have an answer for you, but I like the photo

Results?

They are feather spots to me

This is kind of like the beginning of Ratatouille but this version has a different audience rating

Ugh yes these artists, so mean, so evil, greedy and disgusting, they don’t deserve being paid not even a tenth of the minimum wage. 60 bucks isn’t enough to cover that 12 hr job you say? Where do you live???

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