LesserAbe

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LesserAbe,

Does anyone know someone with a pen pal? It’s a nice idea and I remember doing it in elementary school, but who has the time?

LesserAbe,

I know very little about contributing to open source but appreciated reading this. Seems like often the interpersonal element is the biggest challenge and the author handled it well.

What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs? (lemmy.world)

I recently wanted to run tegaki, and my experience is pretty much summed up by the meme. I consider myself fairly tech-savvy, but I just couldn’t figure out how to compile it. So I just gave up, downloaded the .exe and put it into a fresh wine prefix. After installing CJK fonts, everything ran fine. Now I’m trying to get...

LesserAbe,

Maybe I’m missing something or don’t know how to use wine, but more than 50% of the time if I try to run an old windows program it doesn’t work.

LesserAbe,

Also guess I should say my solution is to run a virtual Windows machine on my Ubuntu laptop

LesserAbe,

I haven’t followed mods of c/politics at all, but I’m skeptical that it’s a right wing echo chamber because we’re talking about Lemmy

LesserAbe,

I like the sentiment. The challenge is that those who violate privacy benefit financially, while those who defend against it are just trying to protect themselves. To go on the offensive requires effort and know-how without any corresponding financial or personal benefit. A spite based effort sounds appealing but wouldn’t be sustainable.

LesserAbe,

I love Calvin and Hobbes

LesserAbe,

You’re right and I think it helps to remember certain traits which make religion “fit” from an evolutionary perspective can be beneficial to its followers: believing that the most powerful being in the universe is on your side instills confidence and a sense of well-being. Having community members who believe that God has mandated they should help each other means people may receive assistance when they experience difficulty.

I would argue in the long term having beliefs which are more and more consistent with observed reality is more sustainable. The further your beliefs are from reality and the longer they’re held the more likely something will go wrong. Still, if we (whoever that is) want to encourage people to move away from religion we should think about how we can replace the positive aspects of the religious experience.

LesserAbe,

Thanks for sharing! Besides thematic similarity also visually pleasing.

LesserAbe,

That’s why all the funny movies are no more than five minutes long

LesserAbe,

As OP I can share that’s just the color of the tiles

LesserAbe,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0c3d1d18-0726-4465-9e8b-44e8acdb5123.png

LesserAbe,

Would probably be more impactful if I had seen that show

LesserAbe,

Pardon what might be an obvious question, but can you watch paid services using this set up? (Netflix/HBO/prime etc)

LesserAbe,

I skimmed that website but my mind refuses to engage with the text.

LesserAbe,

Yeah I’m ban shy but just now was asking myself if this is the same person again

LesserAbe,

You’re right. Also from what little I understand about radiation seems like you might want to take some more definitive action too rather than give the polonium time to finish the job. It would probably be more unpleasant than however else you were going to die

LesserAbe,

I just watched the episode where Jake being nearly killed by a psychic vampire who also transformed her victims into timeless artists was the B plot. I don’t even remember the A plot. When confronted by Benjamin with a phaser she just turned into a ball of light and phased through the bulkhead away into space

LesserAbe,

What about his Christmas album

LesserAbe,

In the movie universe it was a creepy evil guy who made her wear the slave outfit, and doesn’t make sense to get mad at a fictional character. In real life the people making the movie decide what outfits people wear, and we’re allowed to have opinions about that.

LesserAbe,

You’re overthinking it. I don’t generally have a problem with the plot of the movie or even these scenes, but I don’t think Leia specifically in a bikini outfit is a commentary on how we can overcome sexual stereotyping. It’s because people like seeing a sexy lady, including George Lucas.

Didn’t Carrie Fisher say in an interview that Lucas said she couldn’t wear a bra because they don’t have bras in space?

Also think about that scene in the prequels where they’re captive in the bug stadium and Natalie Portman is showing a lot of skin I guess because one of the monsters ripped her clothes. Why not make Anakin shirtless?

LesserAbe,

I guess the thing missing from the chart is “can you do something about it?” -> “do something” -> “don’t worry.” Worry is only useful in that it prompts us to go “this thing could be a problem” and take action to address it. If we can’t do anything about it (or aren’t deciding to do something) then devoting energy and thought cycles to worrying doesn’t benefit us.

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