I mean, magic is just weird shit that isn’t fully understood yet.
That being said, you might as well look at it as branches.
Each state is a possibility, thus both exist.
The “magic” isn’t that the probabilities of either state being in effect suddenly collapsed and became reality. The magic is that by observing the result, we collapse our own probability and are suddenly aware of the branch that we exist in. But we also exist in that other branch, suddenly aware that we exist in it. But “both” of us are incapable of viewing that other branch.
Which is all mumbo-jumbo, but I’m a fiction writer, so I don’t have to be rigorous :)
The problem for us country fuckers is that cars take a beating. Then you run into a lack of parts to keep a good car that’s just old going in good trim. My car is a 2007, and I’m already running into trouble with some parts. Well, that and the fact that I let my dad drive it, and he seems to attract idiot drivers that want to hit him, so even new parts won’t always fit, which is double frustrating.
And it isn’t like we have reliable public transport as an alternative. We do have a bus line, if you don’t mind taking two hours just to get to a grocery store, standing around in southern humidity and heat, and then walking a quarter mile from the stop to the store. Which, if you’re also disabled, good luck on that last part along a crappy road with a nasty ditch. Don’t even try that in a wheelchair lol. My buddy, spider, had to get his scooter hauled out of that ditch when he tried to save gas money by using the bus.
But, yeah, the whole idea of cars as disposable to a degree has gotta stop. They’re tools, not ego extensions.
Most of us in Lemmy know the importance of privacy and owning your devices in a big tech owned world (me included) but for once I thought to make the opposite question and ask if there are products by them that you actually use and enjoy them....
It’s mainly because it’s the single most supported “cloud” service. You can almost guarantee that any ap or program is going to be able to use it without jumping through hoops, and that’s vital when you need quick, reliable off site storage.
Out here in the country, I might have seconds to back up what I’m working on if weather gets crazy fast. It isn’t often, and even rarer that it would also cause problems with my own storage too, but I’ve lost an entire almost finished novel to a lightning strike before, so I’m a tad paranoid.
It’s my comfort movie. I saw it when it came out on VHS back in the day, and it just killed me. Still does, particularly Candy’s bits. I fucking miss that guy.
As an adult, as lame as it may seem, it’s a tie between the first Avengers movie and Fight Club.
Share any question you’ve been asked which would make any other person feel awkward from answering it and an answer to responsibly deal with it without compromising yourself.
Back on reddit, I had two main, my author account, and a novelty account. Wanted to keep things simple. One main for browsing, another for moderation. The author account for self promotion and such. The novelty account was for the joy of entering a simple little phrase whenever discworld would come up.
Sadly, for some reason, my textpand doesn’t work in lemmy apps, and I haven’t typed out the formatting for it in ages. But it was a version of foul old ron and used one of his gibberish phrases along with the clacks overhead the sir Pterry
But, I had tried lemmy out a bit last year or the year before, and had deleted those accounts. I have the two user names I used most on reddit registered at a couple pf instances, plus a handful of others for redundancy, my author account, and three accounts that are actually my cousin’s, but he isn’t using regularly that I’m subscribing to things I know he likes.
I’ve kinda lost track tbh. I have them all in my bitwarden though, but I only keep one or two logged into any given app, so I don’t have them all in one place without messing with BW
Eh. Lemmy has the biggest user base because it isn’t a single site. That makes it hard for anything else to match. Since it’s not being a single site also puts a barrier to entry, you get less idiots and low effort crap. Well, outside of the c/s where low effort crap is the point lol.
It feels the most like reddit with a lower degree of the bad parts. The differences tend to be beneficial or neutral rather than a detriment. The only real significant flaw is the early stage of development. There’s a lack of feature and tool parity that’s pretty big. Luckily, the boom in users hasn’t gone very far past where other tools will be needed, and there’s enough apps that are killing it in terms of features that make up for the lemmy development lag that it isn’t something that matters enough to make going to a more centralized site worth it.
I’m repeating a lot from other comments I’ve made, but once discovery improves, and we get a solid organization ability for our subscriptions, you won’t notice any minor differences at all. Moderation tools are weak, but they aren’t necessary yet either. There’s fewer assholes being assholey, and that’s a huge factor that requires moderation more than anything but spam and bad bots. Mostly, the bots have been squashed on the admin side, so (again) there’s no rush for mod tools like automod.
We need a flair system here pretty bad because it would make a lot of the issues with both discovery and filtration go away. Even a # system would be useful, if it wasn’t the markdown for headers.
After that, a lemmy wide search, and you’ve got everything essential from reddit that isn’t already here.
So how much "bad" debt are you in?
Hear about how much debt everyone in the US has all the time, curious about some of your stories!...
Double-slit (lemmy.ml)
Threw out my back... While walking? (lemmy.world)
Favorite Mastodon client
What is your favorite Mastodon client?
Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one (lemmy.world)
10/10 (content.queer.party)
"Lord of the Underworld" by War and Peas (i0.wp.com)
Source: warandpeas.com/2023/10/08/lord-of-darkness/...
I have several questions, actually (slrpnk.net)
No one ever takes both... (ElderCactus) (startrek.website)
Sh*t Gold . (lemmy.world)
"Bathroom Line" by Sarah C. Andersen (Sarah's Scribbles) (file.coffee)
Sources:...
Bottom's up! (ani.social)
Point taken (sh.itjust.works)
Mint-y green it is. (feddit.ch)
ULPT: If you are late returning a car rental and you purchased full insurance, you can just crash it.
No more late return fees!
Strong Men
Is there people on here who are old enough to remember when a man could take a punch and would physically defend other people's safety?...
What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?
Most of us in Lemmy know the importance of privacy and owning your devices in a big tech owned world (me included) but for once I thought to make the opposite question and ask if there are products by them that you actually use and enjoy them....
What movie did you rewatch most often?
For me, it’s either the Matrix or Pulp Fiction. I have seen both a lot of times but certainly not more often than say a dozen times.
What are the most appropriate responses to some very uncomfortable and awkward questions?
Share any question you’ve been asked which would make any other person feel awkward from answering it and an answer to responsibly deal with it without compromising yourself.
Assuming a lemmy bot building and hosting website existed soon. What features would you like to see?
Think Automoderator but available to everyone (although bots would need some instance admin / community moderator approvals to prevent abuse)
How many accounts do you have, and how do you manage them?
And how many of those accounts are for NSFW content?...
What's your opinion on all the Reddit alternatives?
Like a lot of others, I’ve been looking at Reddit alternatives recently which is what landed me here at Lemmy....
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