What is your personal definition of value?
I’ve spent my life wasting my time, rationalized with words. In terms of my own human life, I’ve reached for a vague sense of meaning, purpose, significance… and value. At least, value of distinct characteristics of instances relatable THROUGH those characteristics measured....
Can Milky Way and Andromeda collision reconcile with an Expanding Universe with galaxies spreading away from each other like "raisins in a loaf"?
I understand that our local galaxy group is considered “gravitationally bound” and therefore exempt from the expansion from each other ((, but we don’t seem to have other galaxies collected into their own “local groups” of gravitationally bound clusters, so are we saying we’re somehow unique? Is there a trick of...
Trying to find a song about being wedgied
When I was a kid, like a real little kid, I remember having this one song I liked a lot about a guy trying to deal with getting wedgies at school. I remember almost nothing about it now, other than the guy eventually finds that Fruit of the Loom brand underwear has stretchy enough elastic to make the wedges painless. (This song...
Scariest/creepiest production logo?
When I was little, TV shows and movies apparently liked to make their production logos creepy. That logo that appeared either in the beginning of a VHS tape or DVD or in the end was enough to get some of us to not sneak out of our rooms at night and watch our favorite shows/movies. And as I grew older, I’d be confirmed of the...
If you could add 'You piece of shit,' at the end of any famous movie quote, what would it be?
New to this kind of social media format
Hi everyone! I came here for interest to try reddit-like social networks. I’m used to the concept of microblogging (and telegram), and I’m wondering how to post my own here, as well as search for interesting posts and people/communities?
What picture do you have in mind when you hear "New Balance, Tennis Socks, white polo"?
Minecraft world design
I have been working on a minecraft mod pack that has a mechanic where the player can fly between different worlds via the elytra. eg. the overworld -> moon -> mars etc. I have a few different directions I can take Mars’ design:...
what is your best YOLO moment, and how it ended up?
Fairphone 3 (LineageOS) acted weird in France (near military bases), possible explanations?
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What is your favorite voicemail app and why?
What do people think will be the fate of ryujinx?
Seeing as Yuzu has been nintendo’d recently, what do people think will happen to ryujinx? Can Nintendo get them on the same grounds as Yuzu or would they need to come up with a new case against them?
Spotify/Ytm
I am trying to move away from spotify but am really stuck. Ytm has opensource mobile apps that can directly use ytm and its recommendations but spotify doesn’t have any decent option, but i like the recommendations more in spotify....
Do you occasionally mistake internet based awareness with knowledge?
I follow a lot of subjects and diverse interests but occasionally I catch myself staring at something I thought I knew and realize I’m not quite there....
how many US states have a single payer healthcare system?
cross-posted from: linux.community/post/596415...
Anyone get that feeling of pure euphoria/ecstasy after eating following a period of malnourishment? What is that??
I recently went for a period of about 1.5 months in which I was eating very little due to some psych trauma work I was doing and a lifelong history of ARFID. I eventually started to get symptoms of malnourment and decided to get it under control. On the first day, I had a smoothie, a multivitamin, and an iron supplement....
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You wake up and read that China decisively has moved in to unload it's military in Taiwan. What do you do?
Are there any FOSS Mahjong apps for an elderly person?
My grandmother wants to install Mahjong onto her phone. I couldn’t find any results on the Play Store with no ads or in-app purchases. She doesn’t understand technology and could get tricked into purchasing stuff or compromising her data.
Is there a website and keeps track of what bad stuff big tech is responsible for?
I’m talking for example about Apple relying on child labor in China for cheap labour, being directly responsible for suicides in the factories of their Chinese partners, them sabotaging their clients phones to make them slower....
What's a reputable charity for donations to citizens of Gaza?
This is not intended as a political post, hopefully its allowed. What are some charities I can donate to that are reputable, and will use the proceeds to help civilians in Gaza?
Does anyone actually buy the higher tiers of fuel at the gas pump? If so, why?
Minimizing instance defederation now
I wanna see instances federated with most instances now that in individuals can ban entire instances. I know theres still some instances you want completely blocked from the off tho....
Is there a Firefox extension that allows me to toggle microphone access so that I'm only sending mic audio when I want to?
I am looking for a firefox extension that will allow me to toggle microphone access, preferrably per tab, for example disabling it while I’m not speaking in a zoom meeting to reduce tracking....