Photuris

joined 4 years ago
[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For real. Imagine successful infrastructure and social welfare programs being carried out at the city level, with little or no involvement or oversight from the state or federal governments.

Decentralization is what Republicans claim to be all about. Of course it’s a bullshit claim.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Then I’d do it.

All year humid, hell no. But a 6-mo break is ok.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Arid, or humid?

It makes all the difference at higher temperatures. 100°F in Nevada or New Mexico is NOT the same thing as 100°F in Florida or Tennessee.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Which sucks, because those were words I used before ChatGPT came along.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (8 children)

This shit goes all the way back to Constantine.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Regional accents I guess.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)
  • Ðð = voiced “th” (“this,” “thus,” “weather”)
  • Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)

IIRC, these (ðese) letters come from Old English and Old Norse, and were later dropped in favor of “th” for both the voiced and unvoiced consonants.

But I’m not an expert. That’s the gist anyway.

Some folks want to bring these letters back. I get it, and I actually like them. But it ain’t gonna happen.

And also they tend to disagree. Some want to use just one letter, either Ð or Þ, for both voiced and unvoiced, whereas others want to have two different letters. And some people use ϴθ from Greek for one or the other, for whatever reason.

Anyway, “ðey” missed one.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’m a bit boggled when I hear that there are more ADHDers amongst risk-taking entrepreneurs than the general population. It sounds like an overwhelming and stressful endeavor.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Libertarianism for me, dystopian serfdom for thee.

Thanks, Peter Thiel.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The party that wanted to “destroy the deep state” became the deep state overnight. Imagine that.

Privacy advocacy is necessary to protect people from tyranny, regardless which end of the political spectrum it happens to come from; and regardless whether the oppressor is a state actor, a private corporate actor, or some blend.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How I wish I could have known about personality disorders, and how to deal with / avoid people like that, without having to have learned it all through experience.

We need to be teaching this shit in high school.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

It’s possible I misread or misinterpreted the article; but by the description of the testing itself, it sounds to me like what “the flow state” or “the zone” feels like.

Which is fine. The problem for me, is, although I am super effective when “in the zone,” I can’t simply get there on demand. Sometimes it either happens, or it does not (caffeine helps, but doesn’t guarantee success entering the zone).

So, sometimes I’m pretty smart, and other times I’m dumb as a pile of bricks, and I can’t always control which and when.

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