fubo

@fubo@lemmy.world

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fubo,

Horseradish.

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Croissants, or any other layered flaky pastry. Like, there should be a robot for this by now.

fubo,

Chirashi is valid, yo.

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I know a bisexual woman who named hers Carpet Muncher.

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Earplugs. Put them in as soon as you scan your boarding pass and are waiting in the jetway to get on the plane. Nothing that is said to you after that point will be important until you’re off the plane; and if it is, you can just take out one earplug and say “say again?” You can avoid most of the annoyance of in-flight announcements and advertisements, screaming babies, and jet engines.

Drugstores. Your destination probably has them. You don’t need to pack any toiletries that you can easily obtain in one. If you are flying to New York City, you do not need to bring toothpaste with you; they have toothpaste in New York City, and you can just buy it in the Duane Reade shop that’s a block from your hotel. They have toothpaste in San Juan and Paris too. In any tropical destination, they have sunscreen there — and the sunscreen they sell there is actually safe for the coral reefs.

Water bottles. Many major airports have stations for refilling water bottles after you clear security. You can take an empty water bottle, fill it up, and carry it on the airplane.

Masks. In the old days before COVID, nobody wore masks in airports, and lots of people got colds or flu when traveling. These days, you can wear a mask and people may think you’re weird but you are less likely to pick up random respiratory diseases. I regularly wear a standard 3M N95 mask in American airports and no longer get the sniffles every time I travel.

What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

I personally am in a phenomenally stable polyamorous relationship. I’ve been married to my wife for 12 years, and she has had the same boyfriend for about half of that time. It’s a really fulfilling arrangement for all of us in various ways. We’re all genuinely happy and satisfied. I’m kind of casually looking for a...

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My housemates are poly and pretty happy about it.

It’s a bit of a logic puzzle:

  • I live in a house with A, B, and C.
  • A and B are married.
  • B is also dating J, who lives in a big complicated house with lots of people, including their partner K.
  • Separately, C is dating X.
  • X is married to Y; X is also dating Z.
  • I don’t know Y or K well enough to know if they have other partners, but I suspect so.
  • No, I am not dating anyone on this list.

As far as I’m aware, there’s no current polycule link between AB and C; nor between any of them and me.

Everyone in this list is in their 30s or 40s, and almost all are some flavor of queer; at least two are also trans. There are no kids in the picture, although we know other poly people in the neighborhood who do have kids.

It’s all quite cheerful and civilized. Compersion is totally a thing. Also, fortunately people’s food preferences aren’t complicated when everyone’s over for dinner. If anybody starts dating someone who doesn’t like mushrooms, that’s gonna be a problem.

fubo,

Good Omens.

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A process can change its name. If I wanted to make sneaky malware for Linux, I’d have it call itself more or something innocuous too.

The correct answer is “this is not enough information”. Why should a real more process eat ¼ of a core for any substantial amount of time?

fubo,

Then it’s probably just more. Again: your post did not contain enough information for anyone to provide an answer to your question.

Antivirus doesn’t do what it promises. The only general solution for a compromised system is a clean reinstall. (This is true in Windows too.)

fubo,

This is a medical condition, not just a bad habit. It is very treatable but will probably benefit from psychiatric treatment, not just counseling or friendly advice. As with OCD, this can include cognitive behavioral therapy as well as medication.

fubo,

Lack of competence, decency, and love for his country?

Why are we as humans obsessed with mass-extinction of our species?

I was having a conversation with my friend about this. We were discussing AI and she believes AI will destroy all of humanity just like so many others. I personally don’t believe that. I’m aware of all the theories and the multitude of ways that it could happen and I understand that with AI, in theory we wouldn’t...

fubo,

The “pretending to be wise” answer is that it’s easier to deal with mass extinction than with individual mortality; that the thought of your own death is weakened by the thought of gigadeaths.

More seriously, though:

Major disasters have always been a large part of human cultural experience. Cities have been destroyed by earthquakes, volcanoes, or hurricanes. Within recorded history, plagues and famines have reduced prosperous civilizations to desperate stragglers living in ruins.

Preventing or surviving disasters is, therefore, one of the most important things humans can work on. Disasters loom large in our cultural consciousness because they really are large and because we can actually do stuff to make these problems less bad.

Disaster preparedness is, in fact, no-kidding, really important for you, your family, your city, your country, and the world as a whole.

Preventing avoidable disasters, including manmade ones such as nuclear war, is a major part of what makes world politics morally significant. Avoiding the devastation of war is a really good reason to get good at politics, diplomacy, peacemaking, mutually beneficial relations among peoples; and the high stakes of “shit, we could actually kill off humanity if we fuck up politics too badly” is a pretty good motivator.

So … we think a lot about bad shit that could happen, because bad shit really can happen, and we can do something about quite a lot of it.

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Well no, prostitution is specifically the form of work that involves delivering sexual experiences to clients; just as bricklaying is the form of work that involves installing bricks in an organized fashion onto clients’ property. Bricklaying doesn’t normally involve sexual experiences, and prostitution doesn’t normally involve bricks, but both are work.

Prostitution is also performance work, which is a category that also includes acting, music, and pro wrestling. It is also body work (that is, the worker does something to the client’s body); which is a category that also includes massage, surgery, and hairstyling.

fubo,

Also, she was already married, and pregnant with someone else’s child.

In the immortal words of Dave Barry, I am not making this up.

fubo,

“I really don’t think of you, or Twilight Sparkle, in that way.”

(A flirty acquaintance had sent me unsolicited erotic My Little Pony fanart.)

fubo,

Randomness doesn’t really save traditional free will. A robot that selects its actions by rolling dice is not any more “free to choose” than a robot that selects its actions according to a deterministic program. There isn’t any free-will juice that gets introduced by adding randomness.

Your “free will” is the process by which you select actions. For humans, that’s a bunch of physics and chemistry happening in your brain; it receives influences from your senses, your body, and its own self-awareness (i.e. its model of you, your actions, tendencies, etc.). Whether that process depends closely on QM, or is boringly classical, doesn’t control how “self-determined” it is.

fubo,

“Ah, then my decision to shun you and tell everyone I know to do the same … that is also preordained, and you mustn’t hold me responsible for doing so.”

fubo,

For context, check this poster’s other recent works. They have a mistaken belief that they stand in a position of power & authority over the developers of free software they use.

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The visibility of long-COVID has led people to reevaluate whether other viruses cause “long” syndromes. It looks like rhinovirus (aka “the common cold”) can, too.

There are other viruses that were already known to cause “long” symptoms, often due to damage caused to the nervous system by the virus or the immune response. Post-polio syndrome has been known for a long time, for example.

fubo,

Well if the physicists can steal “quark” from James Joyce, the sealologists can steal “galumph” from Lewis Carroll.

(“Quark” rhymes with “Mark” in the original, though; not with “dork”.)

fubo,

In the Lemmy web interface, there’s a setting to turn off all NSFW-flagged posts.

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This isn’t a forum for discussing Lemmy itself; please see the sidebar.

fubo,

Wrong community; you want one of the Lemmy support forums listed in the sidebar.

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How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over, in states unborn and accents yet unknown?

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 1.

But … I first encountered this line in the shooter game Silpheed on the Apple IIgs, long before I’d read any Shakespeare.

fubo,

The whole goddamn case was not in good faith.

The supposed customer for a gay wedding website turned out to actually be a married straight dude.

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