startrek Star Trek Would You Try New Pastimes If Star Trek Level Medical Care Was Available?
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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    Stuff lik torn ligaments in your arm will still need to heal naturally if you overdo it, though. As we see with O'Brien.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What series did you rewatch most often?
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    memes Memes I hate it because it's true, why do they do that to me?
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    1 year ago 100%

    My Costco has had the protein shakes:

    • in the medical section by the powders
    • with the healthy snacks
    • with the drinks
    • in their own islands in front of the freezers
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  • programmerhumor Programmer Humor What did you see?!
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    1 year ago 100%

    The best discord support servers have a wiki they regularly update with the solutions they've helped people solve, though sometimes by just including them in their how-to guides. At least, that's the case with certain console homebrew/modding communities.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?
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    1 year ago 100%

    I still go to reddit as a resource when looking up stuff online, but I no longer browse reddit. The only subreddit I consistently go to is the small one I moderate, as it's large enough I can't simply convince each individual personally to move to the fediverse, but small enough that trying to convert would result in negligible numbers here.

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  • 196 196 actual causes of global warming rule
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    1 year ago 100%

    Original definition according to who? Best I can tell from reading the literature, the definition in the public sphere was changed to this definition in the 20th century. Papers wrote of state capitalism in the 1880s. By the 1890s in Germany, the idea had already arisen that perhaps state socialism isn't possible as it will always become state capitalism.

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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    state owned is the exact definition of communist

    The anarchist communists that have existed for at least 180 years would probably disagree with you.

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating The length of this traffic jam.
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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    Local transit of those cities is pretty good, I'd agree. But the lack of intercity transit, like high speed rail, is such a shame.

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  • technology Technology PC speed gains erased by modern software
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    1 year ago 100%

    For years Firefox on Windows had this weird random bug for me where audio just would not work at random times. I tried every fix imaginable. I spent hours crawling the internet trying to find a solution. Couldn't fix it. I've used it on Linux but not on Windows for a few years now; I'm going to be doing a fresh install of Windows on my computer soon, so we'll see if the bug finally disappears then.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?
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    1 year ago 100%

    Purple asparagus! You can grow it and it grows in incredible quantity quite quickly. Then you can toss it in the air fryer each day for ten minutes with some seasonings and it's phenomenal.

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating The length of this traffic jam.
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    There's large swathes of territory nearly as dense as parts of Europe with incredible public transit. Look at the density of Spain and overlay it on top of the northeast US, then compare the public transit.

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  • technology Technology Lawyers: Internal email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate PlayStation
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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    Note that the lawyers are claiming this about the email, and we don't know what the email says.

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    1 year ago 100%

    Eventually it could come to a Joker guy who wants to kill as many people as possible, and you've given them the opportunity.

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  • AskKbin Moving to: m/AskMbin! What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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    1 year ago 100%

    That's wonderful! I have a 1994 AIO machine I just acquired as I moved; I need to set up a workstation and get to fixing it. You should join the retro computers community on the FMHY instance.

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  • memes Memes Rich Lives matter
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    1 year ago 86%

    there isn't enough work for everyone

    Immigrants induce demand for goods and services just like anyone else, thus the jobs to render those goods and services.

    the crime just gets higher and higher

    Technically depends on the country but this is usually false.

    plus they do it illegally

    Law is not morality. Perhaps it shouldn't be illegal.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What app do you use for mobile lemmy?
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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    Jerboa, but I haven't noticed much of the jank others complain about, like the scrolling issue.

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  • gaming Gaming Are there no other major fast-paced COD-style multiplayer FPS anymore?
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    1 year ago 100%

    Came here to suggest Titanfall 2, lol.

    This is a different niche than COD-style shooters, but it seems like you might like movement shooters if you like Titanfall; games that take the "fast paced" part of your query to interesting places.

    FUNKe has made four videos covering the state of movement shooters:

    The State of Movement FPS

    The State of Movement FPS 2

    MORE Movement FPS

    EVEN MORE Movement FPS

    Someone else mentioned XDefiant, Skill Up gave a great overview of the current state of that game in April, during its closed beta. It's more heavily team and kit focused, but still fast-paced while not being a movement shooter.

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  • PCGaming PC Gaming Wireless HDMI For Gaming
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    1 year ago 100%

    In theory, a device such as this could add 2-4ms round-trip latency in optimal conditions. In practice, even with optimal conditions, these companies have not perfected this technology, and they are not usually targeted towards gamers.

    Wirecutter has a write up on these sorts of devices.

    I would honestly just recommend a long HDMI cable that you run along the perimeter of the room. You can get flat hdmi cables if you think that will look better - I'm renting and am running flat white ethernet cables taped with white duct tape to the white baseboards throughout the house, and it looks pretty clean.

    Otherwise, buy from someone reputable so you have less hassle returning it if latency is clearly an issue.

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  • retrocomputing retrocomputing /c/trek is leaking :)
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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    If you get this archived, please send it to me. I have an old AIO I'm putting 3.1 on and would adore this!

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  • technology Technology What do you consider a "power user" in the context of online communities?
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    A power user is someone who tries to leverage features of systems and/or software to more efficiently or effectively interact with the platform/service they are a user of far moreso than the average user. Because users of third party apps on Reddit are the extreme minority (just look at official app downloads VS TPAs), they're typically considered power users, as they are willing to go out of their way to make their experience better, even if it's just downloading and setting up their app.

    Power users also tend to be more active users; if you use something more, you're more likely to want to improve the experience of using it. Someone who pays for extra features to leverage more power is probably someone who uses the platform/service a lot more than the average user.

    They're called a power user because they're leveraging power by doing more to exploit (not a negative term here) potential out of what they have as a user; at least, that's how I interpret the phrase.

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  • creative Creative I'm reviewing my manuscript and noticing that my scenes tend to trail off towards the end. This has been a long, arduous project and moving from scene to scene where the enthusiasm appeared was one wa
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    1 year ago 100%

    I think there's generally three ways I end a scene.

    The first is to end it on a cliffhanger. This is a classic you see constantly in thrillers with shorter chapters.

    With baited breath, the heat of his blood seeming a fire as it streamed down his fingers, he stepped into that place no man had been for centuries.

    Though this doesn't have to be with a character doing something; it could end with something happening to a character of some importance.

    Cracks snakes through the ground beneath Akesa's feet, and she stilled herself, her breath catching in her throat, the roaring thrum of her heart an ever-quickening rhythm pulsing through her ears. For a moment, all was still, quiet save for that pulsing.

    Then, with a light popping as her only warning, the precipice gave way all at once.

    And she fell.

    The second is by going up the pyramid of abstraction again to show something about the character and how the scene has impacted them. Describe what the character is doing as the scene wraps up, even if it's only going into greater detail on what you had established they were doing throughout the scene, then delve a little into their thoughts. It doesn't have to be internal monologue; you can just say what the character is thinking or feeling.

    Sometimes you can just plop it in the prose and the reader will understand to attribute it to the character; though if you're doing third person omniscient that's less true. Showing how a scene made a character feel in ways that may not have been shown in the scene itself is good; if you think you had, you can try and show their thoughts on what they are going to do about it, even if what you put down is vague (which can act as a good hook).

    You can even end back on concrete action, combining it with the first example.

    The chill wind bit against Reiba's skin as he stood a moment, squinting his eyes once again. What was that the warlock had said about currents of time? Perhaps her stance of non-interference was valid; it would certainly wouldn't hurt Reiba to turn back now. He looked to the wound on his wrist, the eldritch venom mingling with his blood to stain it a darker hue as it trickled down his palm.

    No. Reiba was past the point of letting others make these decisions for him. Images of the hospice flew through his head, of the young man leaning over him, so certain of the elder Reiba's demise. He had a new reign on life now, a new body, and he wasn't going to waste it just sitting in a bottling plant, reading the newspaper and smoking the occasional cigar. It was time for that new life to actually mean something. It was time for action.

    You could end that there, or you could follow it up with the first example, ending the chapter with something more concrete than abstract.

    The third way is something only to be used a handful of times in a story; usually either at the very beginning or at the end of a major part, but not the end of the story. You end with a character monologue, which oftentimes sets up the next phase of the story. This is classic in a lot of fantasy; sometimes it's undercut for humor by something happening to the character delivering the monologue. While I made up the previous examples on the spot, I'll quote now from Dragonsbane, the end of chapter 1.

    When he straightened up again, he adjusted the set of his cloak with a kind of sorry hauteur, pushed his bent spectacles a little more firmly up onto the bridge of his nose, and said in a voice that was shaky but oddly determined, “My lord Dragonsbane, I have ridden here on errantry from the south, with a message for you from the King, Uriens of Belmarie.” He seemed to gather strength from these words, settling into the heraldic sonority of his ballad-snatch of golden swords and bright plumes in spite of the smell of the pigsty and the thin, cold rain that had begun to patter down.

    “My lord Aversin, I have been sent to bring you south. A dragon has come and laid waste the city of the gnomes in the Deep of Ylferdun; it lairs there now, fifteen miles from the King’s city of Bel. The King begs that you come to slay it ere the whole countryside is destroyed."

    The boy drew himself up, having delivered himself of his quest, a look of noble and martyred serenity on his face, very like, Jenny thought, someone out of a ballad himself. Then, like all good messengers in ballads, he collapsed and slid to the soupy mud and cowpies in a dead faint.

    These aren't really hard categories; they blend together and can have aspects of each other. I think that what they have in common is going quickly through the pyramid of abstraction; going from concrete description to abstract thought (which can be expressed in dialogue, too), or vice versa, or going from one to the other then back again.

    Edit: I'm realizing now with the terms you use in your original description that you're writing a screenplay or stage play, or something of the sort. This applies less there as there's no prose, but can still apply. Sorry for writing something so lengthy, I have only barely started one or two manuscripts of the sort in the past.

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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    I suspect there's also sampling bias. The types who are still using reddit are not the same who were heavily in support of the blackouts.

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    fitness Fitness How can I increase my running speed?
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    CaptainMinnette
    1 year ago 100%

    Do you want to increase your burst potential over a shirt period, say 30s-1m, or your potential for longer stretches, say 30m-1h?

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    1 year ago 100%

    I'm on the FMHY instance and the only political ideology community that's been showing up in my feed has been Anarchism, so it's probably the instance to join if you're libleft and don't want to deal with Auth shit.

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  • chat Chat Recommend me a sandwich
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    I make my own seitan, and the recipe is extensive so I won't list it here. But I do a thick layer of seitan on low-carb bread, a combination of vegan (violife provolone) and dairy (usually sharp cheddar, sometimes gouda or havarti) cheeses, and throw it open-face in an air fryer on the hottest fry setting like they do at subway. While eating it I add small dollops of a homemade sauce similar to chick-fil-a's. It's basically all I need. The seitan I make is phenomenal, and everything else compliments it so well. You don't really notice the bread is low carb when it's part of a sandwich, but it's higher fiber content is both healthy and helps it maintain structure.

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    I just finished Dragonsbane and am about to start Tigana - though I am going back through Dragonsbane a bit. It might have my favorite prose in any fantasy - some floweriness, but not overbearing the vast majority of the time. The more fanciful prose comes out for emotional emphasis without feeling too jarring a shift from most of the text.

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    1 year ago 100%

    Tag me as well! I hope to have something with half the functionality of your setup by year's end.

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  • foss Free and Open Source Software What do you think about Apple and its ecosystem? (And a little conversation I had with a colleague)
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    A concept shared by both of these examples is that of the commons. You believe in an information commons, specifically as it pertains to medicine. A lot of users in the FOSS space believe in a technological commons.

    I'm not going to delve too extensively into the political and philosophical definitions around the commons; there's a wealth of economic and political anthropology dissecting the successes of the commons, how they tend to operate, and their potential place in future economies of the world. If you want a very brief primer, David Bollier's Think Like a Commoner is a good start; it's quick, inexpensive, and there's an audiobook if that's your jam.

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    1 year ago 100%

    I didn't know DDG introduced that feature. That's sick honestly. They even have bangs for my more obscure wikis.

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    I'm a cis guy and I started growing out my hair in 2019. I've trimmed it a few times, but it's currently at my middle back, but will soon be at my middle-lower back. I'm pretty happy with it and don't imagine me ever going shorter than shoulder length again.

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    Retro Computing CaptainMinnette 1 year ago 100%
    Getting into this hobby with fixing/modding a Compaq Presario CDS 520. Any tips for a beginner?

    This seems like the best resource out there: [Compaq Presario CDS 520](http://www.dreamcast.nu/en/compaq-presario-cds-520/)

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