Most unique looking celebrities?
I’m working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It’s been helpful to study celebrity faces because it’s easy to find numerous reference photos. I’ve actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it’s been harder to find...
is Texas really that cold and cruel as depicted in movies of the Coen brothers, the novels of Cormac Mccarthy and the movie Hell or High Water?
cross-posted from: linux.community/post/844237...
What is the most well thought out, inoffensive, post you've seen get down voted?
What is your favorite flower and why?
Red spider lily is my favorite because of its blood red hue and symbolism.
What advice would you give to someone starting a business?
I’m thinking of the type of thing you wished you knew sooner. But if you have other advice, please share!...
Boxers or Briefs?
What are some popular fermented sauces in your area?
I’m curious what you like and how you use them in food.
What is the best star trek moment of all time?
Besides Tuvax being eliminated in voyager
Is anyone else caught in a weird Venn diagram of Imposter Syndrome and furious indignation and disdain for actual imposters in your field?
Context: I’m a second year medical student and currently residing in the deepest pit in the valley of the Dunning-Kruger graph, but am still constantly frustrated and infuriated with the push for introducing AI for quasi-self-diagnosis and loosening restrictions on inadequately educated providers like NP’s from the...
What's your favorite show focusing on wellness and mental health and emotional integrity?
My current fave is Ted Lasso
What opened your eyes to what's happening in Palestine?
We’re a group of activists in a Western country where most have been brought up with either “Israel = good, Hamas = bad” or “It’s a sad, but unsolvable conflict between two equal sides”. The media heavily skewed to the Israeli perspective, and our politicians want to condemn protests in support of Palestinians....
What song are you listening to right now?
If you aren’t, What song is stuck in your head?
Any advice for babysitting a toddler for 6 hours-ish?
Good friends of mine would like a reprieve so they can have their anniversary dinner. I’ve been a camp counsellor and was pretty good at it but those kids were all 6 years old, this one is 13 months old. Adorable kid but I figure maybe some folks here might have good ideas/thoughts/suggestions/crass jokes?
Am I the only one who can’t get used to Fediverse?
I’m fairly new to the Fediverse, and I’d like to share my onboarding experience. Personally, I appreciate the concept of decentralization and the community-driven aspect of Fediverse. I’ve used Mastodon and Lemmy, based on ActivityPub, for a while:...
Could Lemmy be used as a classroom tool (like having a classroom's own instance)
I feel like it would be an interesting learning tool cuz I learn a ton on here and it gets me writing without anyone having to hold a gun to my head. I mean like even essay-length or at least essay-worthy treatments of things I respond to in longer-form, and even for the shorter-form stuff
[Serious] What are you doing for NaNoWriMo this year?
Are you interested in a (cross platform) desktop app for lemmy?
I just managed to get a absolute baseline working app in avaloniaUI using this library that someone cooked up. No idea if the library is actively maintained, but uh, we’ll figure that out when we get to it....
What is the fundamental limit on game streaming?
Let me clarify: We have a certain amount of latency when streaming games from both local and internet servers. In either case, how do we improve that latency and what limits will we run in to as the technology progresses?
Should you apologize to someone you ghosted before if there is a chance you might run into them?
Say you went out on like 2 dates and said person was too clingy and you ghost em, now you might have to face them due to work. Apologize or not? And if apologize, do it preemptively or upon meeting?...
Russia states they have confirmed Prigozhin’s death, what do you believe happened?
This is a guy who was known to hire body doubles and he had numerous passports.
What is your opinion on tickling ?
In the sense of creating laugh.
What is your favorite car ?
For me is the “Fusca”(Beetle/Vocho/…) love the curvy design, something that you dont see nowadays.
When someone says "games", what's the first thing that comes to mind?
For me it’s PC games, for my gf it’s tabletop games, so I was interested, what do you folks imagine as the first thing when someone says “games”?
What’s the average tip for a delivery driver in the US?
I’ve been tipping pizza type deliveries 20% since Covid, but it seems high to me. What’s everyone tip their delivery guys? I don’t want to short them, but I don’t want to go broke either.