You're lying down, trying to sleep. Some part of your body is itchy, scratching will wake you up, not scratching will remain itchy. Do you scratch or wait for the itch to go away?
I have this issue often. I know if I scratch, it will wake me up and take longer to sleep because of my body movement. If I don’t scratch, my mind only focuses on the itch. Sometimes I’ll wait 5 minutes for the scratch to go away and then I just cave and start scratching any minor itch I have on my body. Has anyone just not...
Is it possible to burn fat without changing my weight?
I have been working a very labor intensive job for about 3 months now and have lost enough inches on my waist to go down two pants sizes yet my total weight when I go on the scale remains around the same. How is it possible that I lost 4 or 5 inches off my waist yet the scale doesn’t change? Is it possible what weight in fat I...
Cool YouTube cooking channels?
So I moved out recently and discovered I pretty much only know how to prepare scrambled eggs and smoothies....
What is your easy to prepare go to meal to cook when you want to impress someone?
Without using pronouns (me, he, she, it, etc) or articles (a, an, the), how did you come up with your user name?
Essentially, I want us to sound like cavemen....
When you vet someone for whether you can be close friends with them, what's a seemingly unimpactful characteristic about someone that would instantly rule them out as a potential close friend for you?
What simple changes should people do in their lives to make a positive impact on climate change?
I do believe the biggest impact would come from regulating large companies and billionaires, but it’s not one or the other.
Does Lemmy have a "multireddit" like function?
Currently using Voyager as my main app, was just wondering if there was a way to group communities so that I can just scroll through one group at a time. For example, I would have a group just for stock market related communities or a group just for gaming communities. Does this feature exist?
What would get you "back to the office"?
There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible....
Im looking to get a tracker for my car. Is there one you guys can recommend?
Basically I’m looking for something that’ll help if my car happens to get stolen. Ideally it’d be something I can just set and forget, and doesn’t have a subscription....
Why do washing machines prevent opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends?
Most washing machines have a timer that prevents you from opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends. Instad you must wait for the timer to go off, usually a minute or two, before you can open the hatch....
Question about possible vulnerability in lemmy
User “Wookie_the_ewok” appears to have changed their username on the same account to “Chuckles the cheese” unless im misunderstanding how lemmy works. Seems sketchy in the sense that could be a way to troll, violate TOS, and evade bans and defederation. Maybe someone more knowledgable than myself could explain better...
If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share?
how would the world react if a real Thanos snap would happen?
Recommendations for podcasts to fall asleep to?
Something not high energy, and interesting but not too interesting lol...
Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?
What are some of the best methods you've found to feel emotions less intensely?
Is it okay to close my laptop during Folding@Home? Does that ruin the process?
Does it still work in the background when the computer is idle but closed?
What's the most you've spent on groceries in a week?
What were the items that really pushed it up? Was it for a special occasion?
Are there any good Lemmy tools to easily but properly nuke your history yet? Like PowerDeleteSuite works for Reddit?
It just feels kind of gross having parts of me hanging out on the internet for too long. Like I haven’t been able to wash my hands/face for a while. I do it manually occasionally, but I have to block off a morning or evening for it now when I used to be able to do it with a couple mouse clicks then go off to take a shit or...
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular....
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”?
if you could fight one person – living or dead – without suffering legal consequences, who would you choose?
No fictional characters. Sorry, Grandpa Joe haters.
Do you pay with cash or card?
Does your choice depends on somehing? And from what country are you?