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Sebbie, in Who is the cruelest fictional villain?
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I will always say Fuck Makima

Chainsaw Man

rob299, in Why does lemmy seem better for engagement and conversation then (I meant than) Mastodon

I am proud that one of my posts managed to get to 100 upvotes.

lingh0e, in What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?

World War Z. It needs to be adapted as an HBO limited series.

Grayox,
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The movie made me so fucking mad when I saw it. Nothing like the book whatsoever grrrrr.

theywilleatthestars,

Will never forget seeing a promo for it starting “only one man can save the world”. Literally the exact opposite of the book

alekwithak,

Still blows my mind that it was written by Mel Brooks’ son.

spittingimage, in How do you deal with incompetence?
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I sigh, shake my head, then redo the work the way I should have done it the first time.

Damaskox, (edited )
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I feel it's quite common to feel conflicted...

person1 comes over
"Do it like this"
person1 goes away
person2 comes over
"No no, do it like that"
person2 goes away
person1 comes over
"Why don't you do it in the way I told you?"

Meh

spittingimage,
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It’s more like…

Me: “I should do it like this.”

Narrator: “But somehow he didn’t.”

Me: “It would be so much better if I had done it like I planned.”

Tedesche, in I read that weed makes you not dream, then when you go off weed you have crazy dreams. So heavy, heavy weed users that quit, how long did you have crazy dreams for?

Not a weed smoker, but I am in mental health. Two things:

1.) That little factoid is a falsehood. Plenty of marijuana users remember their dreams.

2.) As indicated at the end of #1, you always dream when you sleep. You just don’t necessarily remember your dreams when you wake up. We don’t know exactly why we dream—there are several theories—but we know it’s an integral part of our sleep. It’s theorized that what we experience as dreams may be our brains encoding our memories of our experiences since the last time we slept into long-term memory and possibly doing a particular type of problem-solving about things weighing heavily on our minds of late.

intensely_human,

Oh my god the arrogance of professionals.

Just because you know a lot does not mean you know everything. Making statements of the form “X doesn’t happen” is foolish.

Tedesche,

A lot of people think that wolf packs have an “alpha” wolf, but wolf experts will tell you that’s a myth.

OP said they read that weed makes you not dream. I happen to know from my education that is not the case.

Sometimes X really doesn’t happen. I never claimed to know everything, but I do know this.

intensely_human,

And I happen to know from my experience that it does.

One example of a phenomenon happening is sufficient evidence to overturn claims of the form “X doesn’t happen”.

If your education convinced you that you can eliminate the possibility of things happening entirely, then you were mis-educated.

ThisIsNotHim,
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It’s not clear which point OP made that you’re claiming is inaccurate.

intensely_human,

The claim I’m saying is inaccurate is this:

That little factoid is a falsehood

… which referred to OP’s implication that weed makes you not dream, followed by intense dreams when weed is discontinued.

The “factoid” is true because it’s happened to me repeatedly.

Tedesche,

No, I’m afraid you don’t know how scientific claims work. The OP read a claim that “weed makes you not dream.” They didn’t read a claim that “some people report not dreaming after they’ve gone to sleep after smoking weed,” it was a blanket statement about an effect of marijuana.

The fact that you have gone to sleep after smoking and not remembered your dreams afterward does not mean it was the weed that did it, and it certainly doesn’t mean it has that affect on most people, let alone everybody. The issue isn’t that the OP’s claim is true because it happened to you; this is why anecdotal evidence is not accepted as a basis for factual claims in science. There are too many potential confounding factors in any individual case. Plenty of people claim to have seen ghosts; that doesn’t mean ghosts exist.

PetDinosaurs, (edited ) in Are there any communities here where I can share NSFW medical images?

So, I can’t imagine a workplace where you would share a x-ray/ultrasound/CT/mr/PET, where you’d invite people to see it, and the people who showed up could get you in trouble with HR.

Just ask.

There’s nothing prurient about it unless you have weird motives.

It’s like showing Netter. One of the classic human anatomy books.

If you do anyone remotely scientific, there should be no problem.

Just be aware, the camera may add ten pounds. The CT scanner seems to add a lot more.

PetDinosaurs,

Anyway. Show it here.

I’ll take a look.

gdog05, in Who is the cruelest fictional villain?

Delores Umbridge.

Somewhereunknown7351, in Excluding the obvious ones such as politics, what topics can't you stand listening to people talk about?
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I don’t like to talk about video games and stuff because people keep telling me to shut the fuck up

Eheran,

How is such a talk going that it escalated to that point?

Somewhereunknown7351,
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People just hate me for no reason

Feathercrown,

X to doubt

GrayBackgroundMusic,

I haven’t had people tell me to stfu, but I get eyes staring off into the distance and no engagement. So, yeah, I don’t talk certain subjects anymore.

Pulptastic, in Those of you with lesser-known types of jobs...what do you do?

I’m a metals engineer. I design and monitor processes to make metals with the right properties for a given application. That means lots of testing to prove it was done right, and testing usually means breaking shit to make sure it has enough strength and ductility.

It has pros and cons. The money is good and demand is higher than supply so it is pretty easy to find a good job, but it is a niche field so I have to go where the work is and aw(mm usually they put these places in the middle of nowhere in shitty republican states that have great corporate tax policies. It is also pretty much exclusively on-site work which means I have very limited choices of where I live.

I am a polymath and am good at lots of mathy sciencey things, I’m hindsight I probably would have picked something that allows for remote work. TBF remote work wasn’t much of a thing in 1995 when I chose this field but I wish now that I could work remotely.

All that said it is a good time and has treated me well so far.

Infynis, in Who is the cruelest fictional villain?
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The Fleshmancer in Sea of Stars is pretty terrible. He creates giant, potentially world destroying, monsters that feed on different types of despair, and so seek to create those emotions in as many people as possible. He committed one genocide against an entire race, and then trapped them in living death, unable to be seen, or leave his lab. He seems to have committed another genocide, just to make a birthday present for his friend. And this is all on just two planets, when he is acting in the same way across the entire multiverse

bighatchester, in Who is the cruelest fictional villain?

The reverse flash . Goes back in time to kill the flashs mom just because he hates the flash and to inflict as much emotional damage as possible.

iso, in Is it possible to transfer an account from one Lemmy instance to another?
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This feature will come with 0.19 version officially as I know.

RoseRose56,
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how this will work? is there anywhere I can read about this? Will I be able to move from one instance to another? or just settings or posts etc?

iso,
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You can check this: lemy.lol/post/9510066

RoseRose56,
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Mmmm, Machu Picchu, thanks!

psion1369, in Excluding the obvious ones such as politics, what topics can't you stand listening to people talk about?

Repeated discussions about problems that have no solution other than drop someone out of your life. If you aren’t going to ditch the person you are complaining about, then I really don’t want to hear any more about them.

LegionEris,

Oohh I get this one. Me to a friend the other day: “As long as you’re still getting a divorce, I LOVE YOU!” If she doesn’t go through with this divorce, we’re not friends anymore…

Buelldozer, in What news source or sources are you go tos
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Ground News

LeftHandedWave,

This is the one I like. It not only gives you Left, Center or Right leaning articles, it also tells you how factual the new source that you’re looking at is

Nollij,

Only in the paid version.

That said, simply comparing the headline across sources will tell you an awful lot about how factual they are.

PP_BOY_, in Gifts for young kids who are really into airplanes?
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He’s 3, don’t overthink it. When I was 3, one of those Balsa wood gliders was the most fun thing in the world.

Pirate_lemmy_arrrrR,

I can’t seem to find them on Amazon, but there used to be those air pump powered planes that were a lot of fun if you had the room to fly them.

otter,

This is the first thing that came to mind. I used to get them at the dentist as a kid

www.amazon.ca/…/B07WHM33X1

Didn’t realize how cheap they were, maybe I’ll get more…

Chobbes,

These things are so awesome. I had one once and it’s burned into my memory far more than it should be.

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