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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • For you, what’s the value in reading the exact minute? (genuine question, not snark!) In your example it looks like it’s 9:23 but it’s actually 9:22:45… Is that a problem? Probably by the time you do anything with that information fifteen seconds will have passed and it will be 9:23.

    For most people, I think analogue is more of vibes way of telling time. You don’t need to know that it’s 7:47 you just glance and see it’s almost ten to eight, and you have to leave soon. I find that I’m basically translating digital time into those approximation anyway. If you like that kinda vagueness and have an android watch then I’d recommend Twelveish as a watch face.


  • AcamontoAsk LemmyWhat is lemmy about?
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    You can subscribe, or view All and then you’ll see everything as its posted. But there will be a complete mix of stuff from different languages and interests, so you need to start subscribing to communities you like, or blocking communities that don’t interest you (for me that’s all of the anime / furry stuff).

    It’s nowhere near as big as reddit, so it doesn’t have the same number of posts or range of interests. But I think the community is better, discussion more personal and popular posts have dozens of replies not hundreds, so it’s less faceless.


  • Some kids make fake ‘fairy’ photos in 1917 and lots of people believed them. As others have mentioned, the USSR removed people from photographs. A forged will in the middle ages let the papacy claim authority over Europe, and shaped the western world as we know it today.

    There have always been lies and fakes, and there’s always people who’ve ignored real evidence claiming it’s been fake. AI certainly makes things worse, and will be used to discredit legitimate evidence as much as it is used to fake shit. But humanity has lived most of its existence without a “pics or it didn’t happen” attitude, and will continue to figure stuff out (and make mistakes) through investigation, interpersonal trust and community.


  • The wording is “lacks the ability score used by it”, not “lacks proficiency in the ability score”. So, your barbarian and almost all creatures have all six ability scores (although they may be low values, even 0). A table or hatstand does not have a Dexterity score so would automatically fail a save against Fireball.


  • Here’s a paper that summarises the issue. Perhaps “animal products contain cholesterol” feels new to you but obvious to other people is a generational thing. From the 1960s onwards there was a big push to stop people eating butter, eggs and meat because they contained cholesterol, and high cholesterol in your blood was a bad thing in people.

    But by the 1990s the evidence was piling up that there wasn’t a direct link between cholesterol in food and harmful cholesterol in your blood. In fact there are important ‘good’ cholesterol that reduce heart disease risks. And the recommendations to avoid cholesterol and fats in general have been responsible for lots of poor advice and health outcomes, as people replaced natural animal based fats like butter, not with healthy olive oil, but problematic processed fats like margarine and vegetable oil. Or ate low fat food that was high in sugar, which can raise harmful blood cholesterol.




  • I don’t understand where everyone’s getting this 4° rise = everyone dead / no more economy / etc? Obviously it would be a fucking disaster, with rising sea levels, devastated biodiversity and general misery, but no source I’ve seen suggests that “people couldn’t survive” or even “society would collapse”. It would just be incredibly awful, and lots of people (especially folks in poorer / warmer countries) would die. Has the consensus shifted?

    Maybe I’m just taking some hyperbole too seriously? But I don’t think it helps matters when people exaggerate the very real dangers of climate change because it just fuels anti-science ‘debunkers’.


































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