Absolutely. I’ve gotten myself spun up about determinism before and eventually decided that I’m going to believe in free will for the time being. Much like theism is for many, the idea of free will is kinda comforting for me and it helps me cope with reality to feel like I (and everyone else) has agency. Plus, if I’m wrong it doesn’t really matter and I never could have been right at this point in my life anyway.

But we never could have designed it any other way (assuming no free will)

High humidity can cause them to go off as well. Used to use a cool air humidifier in our kids’ room at night and had to stop because it would eventually set the alarm off.

Started on Friday… still coming in waves. I had a breakdown a few weeks ago… just pushed myself too hard for too long…it was probably building up for at least a year. Went to the VA (veterans affairs, for those not in the US, the VA is the sole source of health care for many veterans in the US), and they started making adjustments to my anxiety and depression medications which eventually precipitated into a ER visit. A few days later, they got me hooked up with the mental health clinic where I talked to a provider about going on short-term disability while we’re messing with my medication doses until I feel normal again. He says something along the lines “sounds like a good plan, sned me the paperwork.”

Queue up to Friday, I get a call from the insurance company saying they got the paperwork from the provider, and it recommends I go back to work. Now I’m out of PTO, disability is denied, and I’m trying to decide whether I lose my job or go back to work on while tettering between “extreme anxiety” and “drug-induced haze” from all the new prescriptions.

Role a d20 and d4. If the d20 result is less than the caster’s wisdom saving throw, collect <d4 result> lemonade (healing item). Otherwise, the caster must pass a constitution saving throw or become blinded and silenced from lemon juice in the face and mouth.

It’s all a joke

Per-swipe ads on phones. Free tier: every 5 swipes, regardless of app, full screen unskippable ads (content saved to devices locally so airplane mode doesn’t stop it). Then you pay more to increase the number of swipes you get between ads.

What do they mean I can’t pay in qubluds?!? What else would I pay with?

Yeah, but the guy that thinks sharing snuff films at work ok is likely to also be the kind of guy that is vehemently homophobic…and I mean the more scientific definition where exposure causes physical disgust or discomfort as opposed to the more political definition of just not viewing them as equals. I don’t think it’s a huge leap to assume this is the kind of person that would have the same visceral experience they shared with OP…especially if OP were to imply the massive, throbbing high definition photo was also actually gore.

I think some of this is also just that pop science often lags years or decades behind real science. Most people couldn’t name another famous psychologist, or an evolutionary scientist beyond Darwin, or a physicist beyond Einstein.

Specifically regarding art and philosophy, even if Freud’s idea were wrong, you can still glean something useful (or at least interesting) from using them as a starting premise.

I mean, if that’s ok, it’s surely ok for OP to send the offending coworker random dick pics every day at lunch.

It was like 2003…so probably not “latest”, but definitely a niche thing that you had to be part of a specific subculture to be exposed to.

Nobody wants to think of the guy in the latest drone video as the father of a 6 month old who’ll never know their father because he was drafted by an authoritarian government to fight in an unjust war. I’m sure a lot of those Russians are full on board with the war, but I’m certain a lot of them aren’t, too. Same reason people have such a hard time empathizing with both the Oct 7 victims of Hamas and the Palestinian people. It’s horror enough thinking of these things as good vs. evil…it’s so much worse when you see all the grey. As an American, I can’t help but see Israel making the same mistakes we did after Sept 11. I’m sure they feel the same rage and fear I felt then, and I imagine it’s making them blindly lust for revenge just like I did. It’s all just so fucking bleak how easy it is to convince ourselves that our enemies aren’t people.

If I had to guess, it’s likely a weirdly written local ordinance… maybe something that had good intent, like ensuring room for crosswalks, but it’s being applied in scenarios that don’t make sense or weren’t considered when the rule was written strictly for compliance reasons. It’s definitely something that varies by city/town.

Baking

https://lemmy.world/comment/8894540

Its one of the top comments

I’ll premise this list of (far more than one) progressive thing Biden has done with something I’d like you to consider. It seems from your tone that you think progressives can only count something as a win if it hurts or angers the center-left. That’s not the case. Now…the list:

Inflation Reduction Act, that a MINIMUM of $386B in green energy subsidies, tax credits and incentives and directs that money in a way that encourages domestic production.

$1 trillion Infrastructure package

Withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan

Lower prescription drug prices, specifically giving government the ability to negotiate those prices and capping others.

Millions in student debt relief

Thousands of simple drug possession pardons

$1 trillion in covid relief directly to families

Lower inflation than most of the western world

Doubled the child tax credit

Expanded gun background checks

Largest number of progressive judicial appointments in loving memory

CHIPS act

Repealed DOMA and ensured states must recommend same-sex marriages

ECRA takes away one avenue Trump used in his attempted overthrow of the government.

Rolled back racist and xenophobic travel restrictions

And so far, Biden seems to be a candidate that is able to moved further left by agitation. Keep pushing him, but we still gotta vote. He’s the convincable candidate. I doubt Douglass was saying shit like “this Lincoln guy isn’t perfect…let’s just elect Breckinridge and get it over with”

I truly believe that Trump and MAGA are a threat, and while I consider myself pretty left, I clearly don’t meet your definition. I’m willing to compromise. So tell me, what is your plan to keep to Trump out of the White House. As long as it’s not starting our own genocide of everyone we disagree with (this one will be ok though because its the leftists doing the killing) and it’s at least plausible, I’m game. What’s your plan?

Not much different than weirder than meat thinking.

For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html