His lemmy app probably has broken formatting
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What a slow and ineffective way of taking down a drone. Faster is to just say to it, "Down boy! Heel! Who's a good boy?" and the drone will automatically switch sides
Another point that people often miss is that the reason why there's symbolism in everything that children read in English class is because... the teacher chose it. If there wasn't a clear line of evidence suggesting that there's strong themes and heavy symbolism in a particular book, then the teacher obviously wouldn't have chosen it. If your job is to teach literacy, you're not going to pick The Cat in the Hat as a teaching example.
Smoking introduces a lot more chemicals than just nicotine. A lot of health hazards associated with smoking are from the smoke itself, not the nicotine. Vaping allows you to remove the smoke part of the equation. (Vaping also introduces a bunch of hazards on its own, but it's still overall better than smoking)
I think you might be confusing the many worlds hypothesis with something else. Many worlds doesn't explain why the fundamental variables of the universe are the way they are, it describes the wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics. It's one of the most logical conclusions of the double slit experiment (Many worlds is the hypothesis that says that the particle passes through both slits)
Yes, I do, but only because the other theories make even less sense. The 3 main interpretations of the observations made by quantum mechanics are the Copenhagen interpretation, the pilot wave theory, and the many worlds hypothesis. They're made to explain the weirdness of wave-particle duality
The Copenhagen interpretation is the most accepted interpretation, and it (essentially) states that particles are just waves until they are observed, which collapses the wave back into a particle. In other words, the wave is a physical, real thing.
The pilot wave theory says that the particle stays a particle, and the wave that we observe is just a wave of probability that "pushes" the particle along, like a surfer being pushed by a tidal wave.
The many worlds hypothesis agrees with the pilot wave theory in saying that the wave isn't a physical thing, but says that the wave of probability exists because the particle is being split across multiple timelines, and we can only observe 1 timeline, thus making the particle inherently probabilistic.
Out of the 3, the many worlds hypothesis makes the most sense to me. But I don't believe in it in the way that people think about it colloquially. The particle splitting is an extremely small event, so there's probably like a billion timelines that are just exactly like the current one
Scaled and subscribed. There's a lot of other languages and other topics that I don't know much about on All. I'm sure that they're useful, but I don't understand it and I can't meaningfully contribute to it. Subscribed is more curated and therefore more meaningful to me. The key is to be lax with what you subscribe to. Seek out niche communities, and subscribe to communities that may not perfectly fit your interests - you want to diversify your feed, so subscribe to basically everything that you'd be ok with seeing.
Then, sort by Scaled. Hot has a tendency of pushing all the big communities to the top and burying the smaller communities, so you'll just get a ton of news articles in your feed. Scaled will normalize for community size and make for a more diverse feed
Translation appears accurate, but misses the cultural element. In my admittedly limited experience, this is pretty par for the course for Chinese humor. Compared to Western humor, Chinese humor is more brash and abrasive, and almost boastful when viewed from an outside perspective. I can definitely envision someone receiving that sort of response as a joke ("What, you didn't receive game of the year? Why did you even go?"). And it would certainly agree with my impression that he makes a lot of crude jokes on his social media that don't translate well into English (see: the IGN article on how the developers are sexist). It can really be quite difficult for inexperienced people to determine what statements are humorous and what statements are earnest, since the difference is often really subtle, even when read in the original language.
I'm not necessarily defending him, since these sorts of jokes do have a nugget of honesty to them, but my read is that he plays them up for humor.
Isn't that why it was called the gilded age? The point was that it looked superficially great but hid a ton of inequality and problems underneath. It was taken from a Mark Twain quote iirc
I wrote a script (well, modified one of my old bots) to copy and archive all of my comments before editing them. I left a note in the comments for how to find me in case they wanted the original comment. I felt like that was a fair compromise
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Yeah that sounds about right