Sunsofold

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 15 hours ago

As an addendum to some of the other good advice here, swap out your soap brand every so often. I like to bounce between anti-bacterial, anti-fungal tea tree, and something moisturizing. I think it helps keep from getting the stuff growing on you from getting used to any one thing, though I've not done cultures to test.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Depends on your standards. Looks disgusting to me.

Health-wise, you have a cup of sugar, a pouch of probably sugar, a PB and sugar on starch slab next to a pile of salty starch and a stick of salt water, with a cheese stick on the side. With not much protein or fibre that's a lot of food to leave you hungry soon after, and not a lot of nutritional value.

Taste-wise, eeugh, but that's just personal preference.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

'Old enough' is a troublesome concept. I've met parents in their 40s who I wouldn't say met the mental competence minimum to be capable of informed consent, so age isn't really the measure.

If you want to give a kid the chance to learn tech but not be messed up by it, the best advice I've seen is to keep it isolated and user focused. The computer is a place they can go to when they demand its utility, not with them all the time and demanding their attention. The computer is a tool to let them do something else, not a way to cure 30 second windows of boredom with a stream of content. No internet or uncontrolled content, only curated software with no social aspect so they aren't open for exploitation. The internet is basically a 'no' for maintaining sanity and safety. They'll get access to all sorts of things as they get older/gain autonomy, so you won't have to worry about when it's appropriate to give them access.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Call? People still do that?

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

Holy shit, you're right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won't talk later.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 88 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Trump has a lot that seems might be wrong with him, but schizophrenia never really seemed to be on the list. Narcissism, dementia, psycho-/socio-pathy, compulsive lying, and possibly more, but I've never gotten the feeling he displayed the hyperpatternicity I associate with schizophrenia.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

Seeing as the US mint is planning to discontinue pennies and the general outlook on the future of the world, that could be not that far off.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...fake and gay

Hey now. Let's not blame gay people for the common-sense-defying demon-wizard sorcery that engineers get up to when someone threatens to take away their calculators and caffeine.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's the difference shareholders make.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm no brainologist but I wonder if things like this might be more related to autistic cognition. There seems to be something similar in the space of not attaching the same significance to events others find emotionally charged.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

US slowly working its way to a Japan style monetary system where the fractional unit ceases to be used as the buying power of the main unit dwindles.

Did you know Japan had a coin called 'sen' which was 1/100 of a yen? They aren't made anymore. They'd be near useless if they were because a cup of ramen is ~¥200, or 20000 sen. Although, it would be pretty funny in a show to see some ancient Japanese guy paying for his lunch with his sen collection while some uptight salaryman loses his mind in line behind him.

 

A coworker showed me a trailer some years back. It was first person view, maybe horror, sci-fi setting like a ship/space station with flesh the colour and texture of an eye socket growing over everything. There were other elements modeled after body parts, like bones, teeth, intestines, etc.

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