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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It was a joke. Dark humor is a coping mechanism that helps some of us avoid letting the existential dread creep in. Slaughterhouse 5 "so it goes" and all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

He was just tempting fate by leaving a town called Lucknow in an ambulance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Not only is it random, it's nearly impossible to find something you have seen before. Awful all around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Getting a flu shot.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (10 children)

A wearer of an engagement ring receives it when they become engaged, and a wearer of a wedding ring receives it when they wed. Seems pretty consistent to me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a Firefox plugin that replaces YT thumbnails with stills from the video. It makes browsing YT so much better.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

Also just fuck Broadcom in general for all the other dumb shit they do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Art, a park, a hidden beach. A copy of Found Magazine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

it's hard to be brave enough to approach new people

I was talking to my wife yesterday about how I gained social skills as an adult, and part of it was making a deliberate effort to start conversations with at least a few strangers everyday. Not hold a conversation, merely start one. Doing this for a while helps you get comfortable making chit chat and feeling out if it's worth continuing a conversation, and breaks down the idea that every conversation has to be meaningful.

Not sure if this helps you, but it really helped me.

As for where to go, look for gatherings like flea markets, car shows, street fairs, anything. Even if you don't care about the topic, be there for the people, and keep an open, curious mind. Maybe even make a game out of it, like the meow game, or some other goofy phrase, or try to ask a variety of people the same question. Or bring something that is a conversation starter like a dog, or juggling balls, or something small related to your furry hobby. The idea is to be around people in a mode that makes interaction easy.

Meeting people is just the first part though. Moving on to friendship obviously takes more work and time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

See also: competitive cognitive artifacts. https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2016/09/competitive-cognitive-artifacts-and.html

These are artifacts that amplify and improve our abilities to perform cognitive tasks when we have use of the artifact but when we take away the artifact we are no better (and possibly worse) at performing the cognitive task than we were before.

 
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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

One types of content I'd really like to see here is guidance from experienced pilots on how to get started. There is a lot of conflicting information and deferral to non-cited authorities online, and even those authorities sometimes have ambiguous and conflicting information. I'd love to see posts like "I am a part 107 certified pilot in X jurisdiction and here are my top 10 do's and don'ts, and my preflight checklist."

One particularly confusing aspect I've encountered is all the differences on drones 250g and above. It seems to me like so much FAA guidance is written with complete disregard for drones below 250g, so much so that I'm not sure if I have to be licensed, if I have to register my drone, if I need to label it, if I'm allowed to fly in various circumstance and times, all because they appear to write a lot of their documentation as if all drones weigh more than 250g. As a result of this ambiguity and confusion I'm considering getting part 107 certified just to cover my bases, but even then, I wouldn't feel confident that I understood the laws and regulations.

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