That’s basically blending it…
That said, we do know that water bottles sitting in the sun (i.e. heat + UV) causes leeching so I wonder about things like soda cans (not just the bottles). I would imagine that with tea bags with plastic present, boiling it and steeping for a few minutes would likely result in some contamination.
Which really makes one wonder… just why would you include plastic in something that will be ingested.
It’s legitimately a non issue, set the torrent software to only connect to the VPN end point
Poor people are adversely affected by green washing because the prices of meat and dairy free alternatives force their families out of the price range. The of introducing plant based alternatives to grocery stores with gentrification in poor areas has been a significant issue that is downplayed because tech-WASPs want to buy out the neighborhoods anyway.
Silicon valley is radiating out of the city and families that have been living in Oakland and Richmond have been getting priced out of the area. It’s not that veganism is the problem, it’s that veganism is expensive and isn’t subsidized while also making traditional food harder to acquire. Since the price has risen for luxury products and the stores are higher scale, prices for basic products also rise. It’s happening in Portland and Eugene too, and I’m sure wherever tech is booming.
Again, it’s not specifically veganism. It’s a bit of a byproduct of the type of people. The traditional families that are being priced out are also vegans and non-dietary restricted families. It’s the green washing to force poor families out of areas rich people choose to live, literally weaponizing veganism. Also yt veganism, as if minority families haven’t been living vegan for decades already.
Finally, I also don’t entirely agree with the other user but a point I think they may have been trying to make is the difference between factory farmed and locally sourced. For some it is about harm to the animals full stop, to which point not all local farms that sell dairy harm their livestock. The goal should be harm reduction so anyone moving away from factory farms to local farms should be encouraged, but it’s common to get responses that reject even that, which in turn only bolsters factory farmings position as local farms get further eroded from lack of local support.
All in all, don’t let yt veganism replace actual vegan philosophy and please respect indigenous traditional practices. We should be aiming to move back to these practices in the industry to scale it down, not replacing them with soy/almond/oat milk that’s 4x more expensive and pricing families out of neighborhoods
The thing about Mastodon is that you have to really heavily curate.
On Forum Blogs, like here, if you go to All, you will see articles, questions, images, and communities.
On Micro Blogs, like Mastodon, if you go to all you will see articles, but the rest will mostly be international thoughts of the day, some of which may be questions, non-sequitors, and images.
Not so much the communities, by default.
That doesn’t mean that Mastodon/the like can’t, you just have to curate it a bit more. I followed #Bloomscrolling and it brings tons of nature in my feed, it’s lovely. But if you follow like, @GamingFeed it’s just reposted content that looks for keywords – my Helldivers 2 posts were being promoted but also random articles and posts from others. Somewhat useful for finding articles, but hollow because it’s just a bot I’m certain.
I also find that while there are communities on mastodon, they’re pretty niche so you end up limited to roughly the same things here, tech either hardware or software, gaming or relatives like figures, nature, or politics (though I’ve found Mastodon is fairly less political on a default account. Wasn’t using it much though so I may have missed it entirely).
Meanwhile on Lemmy and the like, you pretty much just get shown communities. We all know ich_el or whatever that German meme one is, we all have passed by 196, that sort of thing doesn’t appear on Mastodon so much.
That said, I do see mastodon accounts commenting on posts on Lemmy, so it’s also possible to mix them. I will say, generally the mastodon comments do not go into as much thoughtful detail in response on these articles, but that could very well be an instance limitation (some have 40k characters, some have 500-2000).
So there are some fairly large differences and while they can technically accomplish the same thing, there can a bit of a cultural difference between the two formats. And as you probably know, default instances also can change this experience on both – Solarpunk.moe is awesome and well moderated and is focused on solarpunk, mastodon.social is pretty large and chaotic. Lemmy is the same way, of course, slrpnk.net is fairly small compared to the major instances and the home feed reflects that
Skibidi is like the least worst YouTube brainrot. It actually has themes and an overarching story.
Just because it’s shortform, chaotic, and ugly doesn’t automatically make it bad. It’s better than the stuff on YouTube that I grew up watching, it’s honestly got deeper themes than Red Vs. Blue.
Rizz is just this decades swag.
Of all of the gen A things you picked the least offensive ones. We should be picking things like glizzy, the replacement for hotdog.
This is what happened the first time around in 2016.
Green Day actually has quite a few, it would really be worth listening to their entire discography. They started out with a lot of teenage love songs (angst and longing) and over the years it faded but love is still a very common topic for Green Day!
Most recently, Father to a Son, from the album Saviors.
Games have game nights! Books have book clubs! Rock (music?) has concerts and shows! Traveling has so, so many people!
From there, opportunity is really what you make it. Insert yourself into conversations you overhear that you’re interested in; it’s as simple as making a joke while smiling and laughing and you’ve got a new group of friends. Sometimes this is only for the day, but sometimes it’s for life!
Being alone comes in two forms. You can be alone and recede into yourself, closing yourself off from others. Or you can be alone while navigating interactions with people. The intention you should try to hold is one where you are existing in the world to observe and be observed!
When you observe, you are also observed. As I said, all it takes is making an initial passing conversation – you are at a rock show and someone says something you agree with. Look at them and smile and agree. Before you know it, you are talking with a group of people.
This happens every day, it happened to me just the other night. My flight was cancelled and the person behind me was in the same situation. We joke and commiserate for an hour as we wait. Sometimes this becomes a friendship, sometimes you go your separate ways, all it takes is expressing how fun it was and that the friendship should continue.
In terms of romance, friends of friends. It’s possible to meet online, but others have explained very well how fickle that can be. It is not reliable. Friends. Of. Friends. It is possible to meet in public, but it is not reliable because, like you, everyone has intentions for the day, and sometimes that does not include interaction with strangers. And remember, your family are friends too. Do you have siblings or parents or grandparents? Surely they know people your age, have a dinner party. Do you work? Coworkers are always interesting, of course we don’t often want to think about or continue to interact with coworkers outside of work but you can always express how you’re looking to do something after work or over the weekend and invite them, and invite them to also invite their friends.
Rarely is opportunity created unless we go out of our way to create one. This is why so many people suggest hobbies, as it’s the bare minimum way to go out of your way to create an opportunity. This is also why people don’t like hobbies as a suggestion, because in the grand scheme of things, the only “solution” is to break out of a comfort zone that you have and to do something that you may not always want to do. Discomfort is growth and how you grow is up to you, based on how you react to the opportunities that do arise.
Unfortunately in life, we must sometimes face discomfort before finding comfort. If all you ever want to do is stay in your room and play games, you aren’t really giving yourself any opportunity to face discomfort and grow. At that point you have to reconcile with yourself.
I hope you find this helpful!
If you can’t quit smoking switch to dry herb vapes!
Man, I would never get a subscription for the Apple Vision / HP Reverb G2
Tbh, even if Valve offered one I don’t think I would… I’m sure it would be the most fair subscription service out there, but I just don’t think I could get on board.
I feel like only half will be helpful, the other half have just memorized the images of the location
It’s the same for Samsung’s AI stuff, the only really useful one is it’s smart selecting features - cropping photos, taking out specific images for stickers/collaging.
Everything else though is just the creativity I want to do being done for me.
Or even worse yet, Chrysler.
I generally agree, but I will say, it’s damn hard to get back into games like this after time passes.
The most extreme example would be Super Mario Maker, where some custom levels need game knowledge from a wide array of the various games, so if you don’t know that in SM2 you can pickup snowballs, you might get stuck for a while.
A normal example would be like Vanquish, where if you take a break near the end of the game the sheer level of technical necessity the game requires can make it very difficult to get back into it.
But those are extreme examples. Another example would be something like Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros., where everyone has their sort of muscle memory with these games. I played Melee competitively and I came back to the game and it was like riding a bike, or a Souls game, while hard, is just one boss at a time and the game itself doesn’t have too much technical growth.
Software jobs, don’t usually have kids, money only spent on games and hobbies, which are limited.
It’s funny that Futurama had an episode about this recently.
Fox Entertainment “News” should never be allowed to air political content.
I have mine set up in groups, per hard drive.
Documents is set up for projects. Downloads gets grouped every few months and turned into a backup downloads folder on the backup hard drive.
So it goes from C:/Downloads into H:/Backups/Downloads/Downloads-11-19-2024
Every other hard drive is mostly just games, so it’s set up by project and the Games with whichever launcher.
I don’t have many projects that go more than 6 folders deep, most would be 4 at most
A really, really common story honestly. I’m glad that you stuck with it, sometimes getting out is the first step to getting up.