This briefly happened with Brooklyn 99, before the uprising, that is. Now we have Brooklyn 99 again :)

The question is rather What is “reality”: the dream (et al.) or the physical world (what you describe as reality). See Descartes first two meditations (and note that he relies fully on the existence of God to prove the existence of reality later). In this case, us experiencing a “dream” just serves to outline the point; Descartes, for example, also suggests that we are being fooled by an evil daemon. If it’s a dream or an evil daemon — doesn’t matter; it would likely be something entirely beyond our comprehension anyway. But genuinely proving the physical world as being reality is very difficult.

Well, thanks for the impressive alacrity either way.

If anyone else has suggestions, please do tell!

Edit: and welcome to lemmy!!

I think I officially need to migrate to a different instance. Any recommendations?

UN link here: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3951462

The problem you describe is very real, and not just in the US or the UK, but in most of Europe as well. A big part of writing is how to actually write, not just the letters et al.

I mean the literal way you move you arm, the angle you write at, how you hold you pen, etc.

I didn’t learn any of that, and as an intensely dyslexic and left-handed individual, writing was extremely painful to me. That is, until 10th grade where I taught myself calligraphy.

It turns out that, when learning calligraphy, you do learn how to write properly.

After that, my handwriting in school (and for the rest of my life) became much better: I didn’t have hand-pain anymore, I didn’t smudge the ink, and, of course, my handwriting was very orderly and neat. Teachers even started commenting on it!

Most notably for me though: writing became fun. For me, as a dyslexic, this literally felt revolutionary.

Anyway, that is what I think they should teach in schools.

I was 99% unconvinced by him until some family persuaded me to listen to the interview (I don’t usually listen to Pod Save America). Now—if I lived in Maine, which I don’t—I would definitely vote for him. He is the second politician I have ever heard to sound really, genuinely authentic, right after Mamdani. I can only recommend listening to the interview, even if one isn’t a fan of the podcast in general.

My understanding of the situation vis-a-vis the skull is that he was drunk in Croacia with some other Marines on leave and got the scariest skull tattoo he could find, not being aware of the symbolizism. He also said in the interview that until now he was not aware of that meaning and no one had ever pointed it out (it’s not obviously an SS tattoo to the layman).

Honestly, I believe him. His reddit history, years and years before he was publicly engaged, serms pretty progressive (calling himself a communist, etc — not the earlier mimimizing sexual abuse towards women in the military). And, like I said, he seems exceedingly authentic and sympathetic to me. This whole thing feels a lot like your typical Republican smear campaign to me, as well.

But I hold no stake in this whatsoever, so my opinion isn’t particularly important. I just wanted to express my surprise at him seeming really genuine to me.

I learned as a kid to deal with nightmares. I would be scared, and then wonder if this was a dream, and poof. I was free.

Can’t do it anymore though :(. I think, as a kid, it just kinda started happening. It wasn’t intentional at all; a natural solution to recurring nightmares I guess. It made for some cool times.

I feel seen lol

This is 100% true, and the reason I left Spotify. Back to buying records and CDs online and in niche record stores (I live in a metropolis, so that works even for obscure music). I also got a tidal subscription, and I like the recommendations from there much more. Bandcamp & SoundCloud newsletters are also great for suggestions.

But now, since collecting records and CDs, I find myself spending much more time with individual albums and critical listening, and relying less on playlists and suggestions. Anyway, Spotify is just garbage now…

The 7900XTX has 24 gigabytes of video memory vs. the 3080 Ti’s 12. That’s a big difference…

Here’s a couple Linux benchmarks by phoronix (don’t take this as literal game performance, rather as relative performance between different cards): https://www.phoronix.com/review/rx7900xt-rx7900xtx-linux/6.

As you can see, the 7900XTX performs much better.

Lol I just gave Good Omens to a friend for their bday and they just told me they finished it and really loved it wait are you my friend??!!??!!??!

Das Video ist phenomenal, ich habe lange nicht so gelacht. Ich glaube der erste Platz geht für mich aber immer noch zu Right Time to Thiel…

Shawshank Dick.

Or

Dick Redemption.

I can’t choose, I’d watch both…

Of course his favorite book is animal farm lol

I did not expect to see CS2 news on lemmy… I’m all here for it!

Annihilation is great! Easily one of the best horror-type novels I’ve read in a while. I didn’t quite like the sequel as much though (it’s also literally twice the size, which I feel like is a bad sign; maybe the author was rushed?).

Of course that’s up for debate; we’re not even sure what consciousness really is. That is a whole philosophical debate on it’s own.

I genuinely think there should be a legal limit to when children are allowed independent access to JavaScript & Internet enabled technology. I would suggest twelve years.

Having it be law would remove probably the biggest reason children are drawn to technology initially today: social pressure and anxiety.

I didn’t grow up with anything like this (and I’m pretty young… or I was at some point) and thank fucking God I didn’t. I barely read today as it is, instead wasting time with screens and YouTube and shit like that; I’m happy I had the opportunity to consume hours and hours of time with reading as a child. Not just reading: I learned basically every knot that exists (I still have my copy of Ashley’s Book of Knots), learned an absurd amount of physics (with textbooks! for fun! I wouldn’t, couldn’t, do that today), learned to program and use Minix (ok, that was highschool, so a little later), and even got into Marxism.

These are all opportunities I don’t think I could replicate today, because I don’t get bored in the same way today. Now, if I’m bored, I automatically look at my phone (…lemmy…), or open YouTube, or do something else equally stupid. I didn’t have that option when I was young. We didn’t even own a TV. I was forced to do interesting things, and I’m really happy I was, because I’d be an exceedingly illiterate boring moron if I hadn’t read those novels and learned how the universe worked and understood why capitalism sucks.

Maybe I’m yelling at clouds and people will become interesting through other means, but it really frightens me how much dumber I’ve become. I don’t want to imagine how much harder it will be for masses of gen Z and Alpha.

Ok, I feel like I got a little off topic there. Rant over…