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Gonzozilla, in What are your favorite (Youtube) video's/documentaries of all time that you can watch again and again?
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Anything from Oversimplified channel. History made funny and fun. I never learnt about the Aussie vs emu war growing up here. https://youtu.be/BXpu6tbFCsI

solrize, in How has ur lemmy experience been so far?

People and posts here are better. Tech experience is worse. The web interface is worse (too much broken JS and websocket crap), I can't login from a mobile browser, the federation scheme is confusing, the Android app story is not there yet, Jerboa doesn't support older phones that still work perfectly well with RedReader, yada yada. I have somewhat more retro tastes than probably most of the younguns here, so my thoughts are heading towards writing my own desktop front end. But I don't feel like I want to attempt mobile development.

snek_boi, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

lol this is hilarious, and I also hope you’re okay, OP!

Now, some say this is the first Lemmy meme. I’m not sure that’s the case, for what it’s worth. However, it does feel exciting to see a meta moment like this! So absurd! 😂

KeavesSharpi, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

I love that this is the flagship viral post for the new popular Lemmy. At this point, OP’s reason for not pooping is tertiary to the entertainment! Also, I’m pretty sure it’s just social anxiety.

nevernevermore, in What is your favorite way to spend money?

I bought a house 6 months ago and now I'm spending my money on little QoL changes to make it feel like its mine.

BastingChemina, in What do you feel like life will be like on earth in 100 years?

A full SolarPunk utopia ! The climate change is there by we are adapting to it. People are now living in community that still have a relatively advanced level of technology but they are focused on being substainable. However for most of the daily life the technology used is mostly low tech.

The concept of nature died with the ancient world. Because now everything is nature, the conceptual separation between nature and civilisation collapsed. Now cities, communities and fields or forest are interlaced, rather than exploiting their environnement societies are nurturing it. The food is local, there is a few electric trucks transportation is mostly done by bike and cargo bike. Everything is repairable, most of the energy is produced locally with renewables energy.

Overall we might have lost some material comfort but gained on the quality of life.

I know it’s an utopia, I can’t be sure that it’s gonna happen but the one thing I can be sure it’s that if we don’t try it’s never gonna happen. I believe that or current thermo-industrial civilization started to collapse but I believe that we can still have some very happy lives after that.

snek_boi, in What are your favorite (Youtube) video's/documentaries of all time that you can watch again and again?

Anything by Richard Feldman. I’m binging all of the talks he has given for a third time now

SubArcticTundra,
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Koyanisquatsi. No commentary, just ambience.

rm_dash_r_star, in Why do bots try to join instances?
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I wonder that too since according to present statistics (the-federation.info/platform/73) there's over 1.2M Lemmy accounts. The 6mo active users count is a little over 40k. Now I know many of those may be lurkers or people like me who have logins on other instances, but a good number of those would have to be bot accounts. So what are they laying in wait for? Could be shameless promotion and upvoting, but I'm not seeing any of that yet. Hope we're not in for a shitstorm.

chunky, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
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Keep that sphincter clenched tight! You got this.

JuxtaposedJaguar, in You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect

The ability to talk to animals

1st,

You can talk to animals, but it includes insects and birds... and you can't shut their conversion out for some peace and quiet

lazylion_ca,

You can talk to animals now. I think what you mean is you want them to be able to talk too.

Johandea,

Your already can talk to animals. We all understand you.

RexKev,

Everytime you talk to an animal, every moving living being around you looks like the animal you talked to for the next 2 hours.

skillissuer,

you can talk to animals, but they don't want to (they are very prejudiced)

MiddleWeigh, in What would be the best way to protect a room from unwated visitors in a low-tech fantasy world?
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Where is the room exactly? In a house? Palace? What now?

Hiding in plain sight is usually the best way to go about hiding (ime).

But plenty of people know about it...hmm

The room could just be closed off and unaccesible and unnoticeable at the same time..like a hobbit hole with no doors etc.

I'd love more context tbh....and do you write books often?

humdrumgentleman, in What would be the best way to protect a room from unwated visitors in a low-tech fantasy world?

The room is filled with a deadly gas. Either it is built so that it vents into the room naturally from deep under ground, or a diffuser is periodically refilled by whoever controls access to the room.

The McGuffin is the antidote to the gas, which you must obtain and administer before entering.

perviouslyiner,

One way of getting a very localised danger like this would be to put it near radioactive ore deposits? You can only go in with a lead shield, and have to angle it correctly

UnmeltedByRain, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
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Immodium AD should help stop you up. (I'm not a doctor.)

Upvotes_Kills_Birds, in What is your favorite way to spend money?
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Steam Party Games, Cat and dog treats, house repairs, and weed baby. Just upgraded my electrical so I can power my new gaming PC w/ a dedicated circuit.

Weirdbeardgame, in You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect
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The ability to study, understand and use fantasy level magic.

skillissuer,

you are still bound by laws of physics

TONKAHANAH,
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magic is just physics we dont understand yet.. think this could still work

skillissuer,

if you want to lift something by telekinesis, you'd be just as tired, if not more, than if you used your hands. if you want to set something on fire by thought alone, you need to provide that initial energy somehow (like starting fire with bow drill). you'll be drained just as much as after physical work

AdrianTheFrog,
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No, if you were just worried about energy, you would be much less tired than by doing things manually. For example, moving a heavy object downhill would gain you energy, not lose it, and keeping a heavy object in the air would neither gain nor lose energy. it would only be lifting that is hard, and it would still be easier than lifting manually.

Edit: and according to Wikipedia, human muscles only have an efficiency of around 20%, so doing basically anything through magic would be 5x easier than doing it by hand.

skillissuer,

let's keep conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, conservation of angular momentum and conservation of mass. who said telekinesis is 100% efficient? also let's make it so that the bigger distance from user, the less efficient it gets

nostalgia_for_infinity,

This would be a fair limit. You would be limited by certain conservation laws, but as long as you would provide an adequate energy source (say, like Flash, you had to eat a lot more food) it could still be useful.

AdrianTheFrog,
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Obeying all of the laws of physics, magic wouldn't work at all. Assuming you were able to break a few but kept some such as conservation of energy, it would be very powerful, ex: teleportation does not break conservation of energy as long as you teleport to the same height you left from. If you were able to extract energy from your surroundings, you could probably do basically anything you want. You could lower the sun's heat by a degree and be able to move a mountain.

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