Idk, I get human girls messaging me somewhat regularly. Never the ones I want to see, but still…

The difference between bots and humans is that bots dont go on dates

People commonly lose weight during basic training in the US military, even as they are fed a terrible diet of extremely calorie dense processed foods. This is because basic entails consistent exercise from sun up to sun down, with extra exercise assigned as a form of punishment.

After having this experience, many servicemembers keep the mindset that diet doesnt matter as long as you exercise enough, so the military has a culture of excessive drinking, eating, and exercise.

The problem is that, unless your whole job is exercise, it is difficult to burn that many calories in a day - so you start gaining weight as soon as you get a desk job. And also, constantly pushing yourself like this is a good way to get an overuse injury, which many people gain as part of basic itself. And since it is difficult to train hard with an injury, you gain weight.

Also, I am gonna go out on a limb and say that this sort of culture is probably pretty universal across world militaries.

I mean, assuming we are discussing the US where almost all datacenters are being built -

the real thing to realize is not that datacenters are bad (I’m kinda ambivalent), nor that meat is bad, but that poorly written water rights laws are bad. Which is why we grow some of our most water-intensive crops in some of our driest areas and some farmers end up just flooding the desert with water for no reason each year. Restructuring water rights would massively reduce water usage while maintaining food production for the simple reason that then we would stop growing alfalfa in Pheonix

As the above commenter mentioned, the “legally correct” answer is typically not the most expedient.

Even if the cop is a dick, they are almost always mostly concerned about doing their job more than pinning 10,000 trumped up charges on you. They are there to meet their quota and do a cursory poke around to catch people carrying a trunk full of heroin.

Really what you should do is keep your hands at 10 and 2 until told otherwise, be polite and pleasant, and comply with all requests promptly with a “yes, officer”. Of course, the lemmy edgelords will say that you should never tell an officer anything because “muh rights” - and sure, you have the right to make the officer’s job as hard as possible and piss them off to no end. But the officer has quite a bit of leeway as to how they might proceed in your interaction - and making their life harder probably wont endear them to you

Probably because most people who choose not to drink wine simply choose to drink water. The restaurant buys a case of the cheapest NA alternative they can find for the one person who comes in twice a month and wants some.

Dont worry, that’s the same look you would have if you could read it

My bike used to die if I idled at stop lights for too long before I worked in the carb a bit. So if I felt the engine slowing, I would blip the throttle to keep it running. But this was purely utilitarian, and my bike isn’t a loud one

BEHOLD! I have actually somewhat looked into this.

So, for buying stock in publicly traded companies, no, you basically can’t make the world a better place that way. Not because “companies must do what is best for shareholders by law” (iirc, this is more of a guideline than anything). But rather because if all the ethical people invest in Solar Panels and Gender Affirming Care For Everyone Inc, then all the ethically neutral money (which is almost all of it) will simply shift more towards Torture Palistinian Orphans Inc. Because everyone is investing based on value relative to price - so rational investors flee the “overinflated” prices of companies with ethically laudable missions. It’s like trying to lower the level of the ocean by filling up an 5 gallon bucket and dumping it down your toilet. You aren’t making a difference. Other water is just going to fill it up. If you want to invest in stocks, just invest in a broad market, low fee index fund, forget about it for 30 years, and forget about your ethical concerns.

If you want to invest in something that improves the world and makes you money, your best bets are

(1) Small local investments. You’ll have to dig here, but there are probably investors in your area who are getting together to give out small business loans. You are basically angel investors, but instead of funding Uber-But-For-Burritos, you are helping that guy in your neighborhood who is good at fixing things start his appliance repair business.

(2) Investing in yourself and your own business. Like, make a restaurant that gives out free burritos, or a clothing company that donated fancy hats to anti-Trump rallies. Its hard for a business to be really unethical when you’re the one running it

So my snickers bar wrapper won’t last 100,000 years?

I agree that this is generally the case, but it isnt the case here on Lemmy. Lemmy has a disproportionately large number of people across the left side of the political spectrum, from people who are as you describe, to actual semi-reasonable socialists, to tankies.

Your phone is a better distraction machine than a book. The idea that most people who read, or who read in the past, were reading for the noble pursuit of being more knowledgeable or cultured is a myth. Most people read because it was the best form of entertainment available. In the time before electronics, you had no tv, no radio. Your options for entertainment were books, the newspaper, or going to the pub to drink and listen to somebody plunk on a banjo. Or, yaknow, talk to people.

As soon as radio became a thing, lots of people started filling their time listening to music or serials or the news. Then tv came and drew more people away. Then the internet. Then the internet in your pocket. Then Tiktok. Every step in this process has been an improvement at tickling the parts of the human brain which desire novelty, drama, humor, and general stimulation. You are not especially “bad at reading” - while general literacy has gone up in the last 100 years, the quality of literacy among the literat has gone down.

Now, I think that reading books is good. Especially in this day and age, I think that being able to whip out a real, physical book and read it is a great way to expand your world, improve your attention span, and relax without distractions. But at the same time, I don’t think that you should jump right into reading the Great Books. If your metric is “I must be enthralled by 1984 or else I am bad at reading”, then you are not in for a good time. Often The Classics^TM are simply not that enjoyable to read. They were written in another time when people spoke in weird ways. They were written for an audience that had a different cultural context than you. And we keep lauding them not because they are the best books for the averge reader today, but because they broke new ground in their time (see: Seinfeld isnt funny).

And, to be frank, most of the people who these books were written for had much longer attention spans than modern people - hell, read Ovid in the original Latin - sentences will run on for three pages. I think 1984 is a good book that can be enjoyable to read for the modern reader. But you need to build up your capacity for book reading to enjoy it. Similar to how you need to build your running capacity up before you will really enjoy running with a friend in the park. So if you want to be a better reader, I suggest starting with things that are easier. Things that will be fun and easy to read. Things that were written not to be a “great book”, but simply to be a fun, rompy adventure, or a steamy romance, or a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Read harry potter or the hunger games or the girl with the dragon tattoo. Young adult fiction is great for this, because it tends to be written just for sake of being fun enough to get kids to read. Or you could also try reading some fun short stories - something to build the habit of just sitting down for 10 minutes and opening a book to read just for fun. Or you could read a book club, and have other people create a bit of social pressure to actually pick up the book and read it, with the reward that you get to discuss what you read with friends afterwards.

I’m betting thats what this is. It doesnt make sense. It doesnt need to make sense. Its for the lulz

Its probably easier to write/print a number on a triangle when the name of the hazardous material is 129 letters long

It said neither, but I’m pretty damn sure I got the tism

People on mountain time have mountains to entertain them, so they dont watch tv

Jesus fucking christ…

I was very near sighted, had to wear glasses for everything.

Got lasik.

Now my vision is perfect. Procedure was not too unpleasant and was fast and professional. Cost was reasonable for a surgery on my eyeballs. Recovery was fast and not difficult.

Now I can see without needing to put on glasses. No worrying about losing my glasses. No poking myself a dozen times in the eye to get contacts in.

I am extremely happy with my lasik experience.

Honestly, the person you talked to about the procedure was probably not upselling you. They told you up front and in plain english that you would probably still need glasses. There is no reason for them to damage their firm’s reputation by lying to you. lasik centers typically have plenty of business - their job is to inform you as best as they can, and make you feel like you will be taken care of and are in control.

Geese: more understanding than your PM

To an extent, yes. But also there is the issue of the structure of the voting system. Contrast this to other options, like oldschool forums or stackoverflow.

On stack, the format encourages solving problems - in particular, the problem the question-asker asked. Even if there is some group-think about the “right” way to solve a problem, the question asker ultimately gets to mark the answer that solved their problem, regardless of group approval.

On a traditional forum, even if there was a voting system, there was no heirarchical comment structure and comments weren’t hidden based on popularity. So you had to scroll past every comment, including the ones you disagreed with, and you would typically have to read that comment to understand the whole discussion that was happening.

Budapest: HELLO BROTHERS!! I LOVE YOUUUUUU!!

The rest of Europe: Fuck off, dude, we just live in the same neighborhood.