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People can smoke cigarettes without interfering with higher priorities. I don’t feel it applies to ‘most addictions’. It applies to a lot of them, but the opposite can be true sometimes too. I’ve known alcoholics who would have to call off work if they STOPPED drinking for a day, who would not be able to visit with family/friends unless they had a drink or three first.

It’s a good rule, I agree with that, but not necessarily for most addictions, especially the more entrenched one has become in the habit.

Is your life harder to manage because too much coffee? yes = addiction; no = acceptable

Is your life harder to manage because not enough coffee? yes = addiction; no = acceptable

I don’t disagree with you. I’m just hoping to point out the flaw in that logic. Effect on life management is one aspect of one type of addiction in my opinion. There is more than one type: mental (pathologically doing something known to be unhealthy i.e. smoking) and physical (negative physical symptoms after ceasing something routine i.e. opiate withdrawals) come to mind. I could argue there are also social and antisocial addictions (i.e. gambling and masturbation) which can still be done without immediately making ones life harder to manage, but they might and eventually will, most likely, but not necessarily.

Addiction can be nuanced. I feel it’s important to not set a bar like that, as an addict will use that to excuse or enable or deny that their unhealthy behaviour effects their life, sometimes without even realizing it.

also this: “The court decided that the plaintiffs did not have a Fourth Amendment claim against the city because there was no seizure when the defendants dropped explosives on the plaintiffs’ buildings, and that city officials and police officers had qualified immunity”

reminds me of Bedknobs and Broomsticks and yes I read your title correctly ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

My city subreddit doesn’t have a lemmy and since i don’t have any other social media, it’s the only place i can learn about local happenings that aren’t catered towards the elderly or children.

I can’t answer your question but I will add that their method of recording their life is similar to my own and it has been very liberating. I’m using a different note-taking app, zim, and record my thoughts frequently in it. At times I will ‘mentally time travel’ and try to remember things in life to write down, from birth to present.

I wish the user had figured out a way to put their thoughts online. I read their entire 6 month post history and there are several similarities to my own life [i’m disabled, live in Ohio not far from Columbus and I too like to add context to things using brackets] so some of it makes me feel like it could very well have been me posting. I don’t have a terminal condition though and their situation seems [seemed?] much worse off.

I also have some of the same questions and concerns as them. How do I share my writings with my family when I pass? I’m not expecting to die anytime soon thankfully but the world is chaotic and death may happen at any time. Do I put it on a flash drive? Do I make a website? Can I make a ‘dead man switch’ that activates within a week of my certain demise somehow, causing the files to automatically be sent to those who will care? I have backups but will my family find them? How will they know my password? What if I die because my apartment burns down, will they think to look for my cloud storage?

Either way, I do recommend more people find themselves a note-taking app they like and use it to record their thoughts and try to create an outline of their life as best as they can remember. I think it helps to remember the past to prepare for the future. Sometimes your own mind will surprise you by recalling things you had forgotten for decades.

I hope that user isn’t in pain anymore, alive or not.

Breaking news from the Florida Supreme court: EVERYONE must wear either a shirt which fully covers the nipples and belly-button or a wool turtleneck sweater in public in Florida, at all times, from now on, including at the beach, regardless of gender, sexuality or minority skintone, according to the new ‘no nipples’ nevenude law. In a surprise move, Florida Governor Ron Destainus upon hearing the news is quoted as saying “Okay, what the fuck? Maybe we should rein it in a little… Too far people, too far…”, a unique position for him to take, wanting less government abuse and overreach for once and sources say he only sold 2 natural parks to the highest oilcom bidder shortly after that quote, a record low. All university volleyball tournaments have been cancelled due to confusion with the ‘shirts versus shirts’ matches.

/s obviously but that’s my take on what would happen and my best The Onion impression attempt.

There’s a ‘joke’ that goes something like “How do you know if someone is vegan and uses Linux? Don’t worry, they will let you know…” with many variations. Thus, I avoid mentioning that I use Linux, to avoid being ‘that guy’. If that makes sense? The operating system might be more approachable if there were less people being pretentious about it, in my opinion. (BTW, I use Manjaro.)

I’ll also suggest FOSS as alternatives when I hear people complain about proprietary software, if the above does not feel like it would apply.

When I am having problems, I research error messages and warnings, read the man pages and old forum posts that might be related, attempt to diagnose the issue myself and try to do everything I can to avoid bothering the devs. This is more due to anxiety but I think it helps to not waste anyones time but my own. Moreso with user-caused problems as opposed to actual bugs.

Finally, one time someone posted a negative rant about a FOSS application. It referenced comments the sole dev of the program made on github as being toxic. I pored through thousands of comments on the programs github page, literally every comment that it had, to find these supposed toxic comments. Instead I saw a dev being plagued by the most trivial, bullshit problems, often things that had nothing to do with his app whatsoever, with him responding in ways no sane person would think was toxic. So I made sure to call that out on the negative rant, asking them to clarify what led to their criticism. They were unable to do so and instead reverted to name calling, making shit up and using multiple accounts to try to troll me, to no avail. I suspect it was some sort of ‘hit piece’ attempting to draw away users from the app for reasons beyond me. I don’t even use the program it was about.

They may not be code-based contributions but I hope they help, even if only slightly.

Not to mention powered flight was invented in Ohio.

Because people were flying the fuck out as fast as they could, Ohio stepped up its game with other inventions: speeding tickets and stop lights.

It’s no coincidence that cash registers, price sticker affixing machines and barcodes were all invented in Ohio too. You can try to leave, but you’re gonna have to pay and it wont be easy. Ohio is also where vacuum cleaners and chewing gum were invented.

Think I’m being ridiculous? Just wait and see!

There’s a variant of three-ring loose-leaf paper binders invented in Ohio. It’s called a “Trapper Keeper”. Think about it…

The inventions of Ohio tell a bleak, dystopian tale if one reads between the lines. Interesting that Ohio brought the world freon and leaded gasoline along with gas masks…

As someone in Ohio, it only requires an ID to watch porn online. I’ve been saving material since learning about the bill.

I can imagine a couple hundred GB will last me awhile. Also after that, I can imagine. They can’t regulate that yet.

I’ve never seen an explanation as to why the guy thought that the lemon juice would work. Did someone tell it to him that or did he come up with it himself.

Younger me recalls (incorrectly) that they used lemon juice on the film in the first Star Wars movie, as a special effect to blur the base of the land speeder so it appeared to be hovering. They actually used vaseline, smeared on the lens, not the film, plus had mirrors under the vehicle too. I had told this lemon juice ‘fact’ to several people before someone finally corrected me.

My memory was wrong and I wonder how I came to that conclusion. Maybe I watched a ‘behind the scenes’ show on how they did the special effects, and they said it wrong. Maybe it was a show that presented the use of lemon juice in some other tangentially related special effect and I mixed the two up. Maybe I had read an article about using lemon juice to distort picture film in the developing process.

I wonder if that bank robber did the same mistake but with far worse consequences. The time frame of the robbers mistake was around the same time as my confusion as well.

Take a close look at your USB ports and any other ports for debris. Sometimes you end up with shorts that do all sorts of weird shit. The crappy mouse might have warped the port too. It’s probably not the issue but it never hurts to check.

I did not think it was a prevailing theory. Now I’m curious about what you wanted to accomplish by asking that question. Why would it matter either way?

Oh, well that’s good to know. Thanks! I guess I need to update my own knowledge of what prevailing thought is.

The model of the solar system as planets rotating mostly within a flat plane around the sun, will become something more like the sun being akin to a bullet with a ballerina dress (to represent coronal aura and discharge) with the planets spiralling along with it but slower and trailing just a little behind. It will also include more space properties that aren’t as well known like massive gas bubbles and a non-static gravitational floor, as well as man-made spacecraft and satellites. I don’t know actually know what the current prevailing theory is. there’s a lot of assumption here, plus imagination of how I believe things actually are, with no real certainty or any supporting evidence.

Make amends with your friends,

lest they meet unfortunate ends.

everything you do matters, except all the bathroom splatters. shit.

that’s one of the reasons i’m frustrated about not being able to afford or have the space necessary for solar power, not even some kind of barebones setup to try and pay for the rest of the needed stuff later, instead i’m looking forward to bartering my neat looking rocks and art pieces made from literal garbage for rice.

maybe, depends on the pan and depends on the temperature depends on the ripeness of the tomatos.

i’m assuming you are not using green tomatos or cherry tomatos or some other brand.

note: i do not like tomatos at all. they give me unbelievable heartburn/acid reflux/non-spicy firebreathing/reverse montezuma’s or something equally awful.

now that you know that, i’ll also mention i’ve cooked a lot.

i suggest trying parchment paper (look for non stick kind but it might be okay otherwise) and an oven. if they aren’t too squishy, they shouldn’t stick and you can avoid the oil.

another alternative, which takes much, much longer, is using a food dehydrator. (warning: never put oil, or anything similar to oil, in a food dehydrator. it turns it into a house incinerator.) just put the tomatos in the dehydrator, turn it on, wait.

this also is how to turn jalepenos into chipotles. also poblanos into anchos. probably a bunch of other things change names when dried out too, those are the two i remember.

There was a rulethat was close to being enacted by the FTC that had to do with that, the “click-to-cancel” rule. It was supposed to go into effect 2 weeks ago.

It would have required companies to “make it as easy to cancel, as it was to sign up” for tons of things in the US.

It said that companies had to provide an easy way to cancel, that took equally long as signing up or less, AND via the same medium. So companies couldn’t make you call to cancel if you signed up online.

Unfortunately, it was stopped by the 8th circuit court, who deemed it “outside the FTC’s authority” which is absolute bullshit, that’s why they exist.

I really hope it manages to get pushed through somehow, because so many companies are just the absolute worst scumbags and constantly getting away with it.

edit: it’s not quite the same as deleting an account, i realize that. it still would have enabled a lot of these ‘services’ to get shut down easily.