Derp

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Is This the Time of Monsters — or Miracles? | Angus Hervey | TED (www.youtube.com)
This Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment | Jonathan's Blog in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Derp@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

With symbol names it's trivial to notice and refactor. Comments, not so much.

The solution to many problems in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Derp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does smoking a cigarette here or there has to do with addiction?

Where did I or the original post mention anything about occasional smokers? This post is offensive to those struggling from lifelong addiction to cigarettes, which is almost never a choice.

Also wouldn't it be the best advice against addiction find the will in oneself to stop doing it? If addicted smokers know what their cigarettes do for themselves and others, then they might want to try search for help, to get them off their addiction?

Gee, that's such great advice! Why didn't the lifelong addict think of that one themselves? You just singlehandedly solved addiction.

Noone chooses being addicted to cigarettes. It's a mental health disorder just like being addicted to fentanyl or heroin, and a crippling one at that for some. Please educate yourself about what addiction is before defending posts like this. What you are doing is similar to shitting on people for "choosing" their sexuality or gender.

The solution to many problems in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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How to get away from doomerism in my media feeds? (lemmy.ml)
 

Looking through my media feeds, including Lemmy, YouTube, News Outlets (Reuters, Financial Times) as well as news related to my profession, I would estimate that 85% of what I see is doom and gloom, i.e. reports about something that's going wrong in the world or might go wrong in the future.

I try to limit what I follow to educational and unopininated sources (as far as that's possible anyways) and some satire or a meme here and there. I don't like suggestion algorithms and don't use social media, because I don't want to be trapped in a self-reinforcing bubble. On YouTube for example, I use third party apps which show me only videos from channels I explicitly follow.

Still, it's mostly depressing information: how bad the job market and economy is, geopolitical threats, AI risks, symptoms of late stage capitalism. I am aware, thanks. But I didn't ask to hear these things over and over and over again, and it's negatively affecting my outlook on life. I've given up on reading the news entirely because I just get triggered by the enshittification of society, politics, the environment and daily life where I live. At this point I'd rather not hear about it anymore.

What I want to ask is whether you are having the same experience? Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? I don't want to be blind to what's happening in my/the world, but I want to have a positive and optimistic outlook on the future. How can I make that happen? How can I get away from an engagement economy constantly bombarding me with bad news without giving up on learning about the things that I am interested in?

China bans use of Intel, AMD and Nvidia Processor Chips for security concerns in c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
[–] Derp@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

This reads like fake news. No publication date, no sources listed, very vague and self-contradictory on the details. How is no other news outlet corroborating this?

I'd take this one with a huge grain of salt.

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NixOS [5120x1440] (lemmy.ml)
 

Had some fun just tinkering in Blender. Didn't turn out too bad, using this as my wallpaper at the moment. Happy to rerender with different colors if anyone's interested :)