How would you measure your stats in real life like a game ?
I do training that focuses on strength, endurance and flexibility but I have never measured it so it’s difficult to see if I have made progress or not....
How reliable are EV chargers?
New EV owner here. We charge at home so I don’t need to use them, but stores nearby have chargers. I tried them to see how they work. They are often broken....
I get that AMP sites are supposed to load faster. But why do they have to be so ugly?
Or why do they need to change the appearance from the original version of the page at all? It just looks unaesthetic
How are 144hz screen possible?
Had this reflection that 144hz screens where the only type of screen I knew, that was not a multiple of 60. 60 Hz - 120hz - 240hz - 360hz...
How can I get better at remembering names in video games?
I’m playing Cyberpunk 2077 and keep forgetting names. The database section helps but it can be tedious going back and forth when I’m reading emails and notes to see what is relevant. This isn’t just limited to Cyberpunk though. I feel like I run into this a lot with games. Any tips for getting names to stick?
Does anyone feel like an actual adult?
Even with a good career and all the “adult milestones” I don’t feel like an actual adult. I feel like I’m pretending to know what I’m doing. Anyone else experience this?
Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt?
This question always comes to mind whenever I see people jogging along sidewalks, and wonder. Sidewalks are generally concrete or cement or something, which is definitely harder than dirt, so…
If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?
It seems like it’d get increasingly impractical as the years go on to hundreds of thousands and millions of years to write them out that way, but then…I guess technically one may already do this with the preceding years, so future’s fair game for it?
Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has?
Is it all from the same company? Or do multiple terrible cake companes all just share the same terrible formula?
Is there a way to make an interface or to use an app like Signal so your texts can't get "legally intercepted" via bluetooth from all car manufacturers?
They deemed it legal for all car manufacturers that any text you send through their system are free for them to read.
Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?
how do you even use twitter?
I’m not actually using twitter, just never got into it, but now that I’m trying out mastodon, idk if I’m just too old now but I don’t… get it. I just can’t seem to engage with anyone, the UI seems confusing and counterintuitive, I don’t seem to have the context to get into this type of website, can someone tell me...
Is there an imagehost like imgur or imgbb that supports avif or jxl files?
Lemmy and pixelfed do not currently :(
So when Kanye said he was going Defcon 3 on Jewish people, is there some new conspiracy circles going on that I'm not aware of?
Why does juicy juice not have sediment, and exactly how do they do it?
Juicy Juice among other brands touts “100% juice” however if you leave it undisturbed for months on the shelf it never seems to develop any sediment. How can they be 100% juice and not have any solids? What exact process are they using to remove all the sediment and or perfectly homogenize the liquid? You will notice other...
Ring finger interactions with pinkie
I recently heard that the nerves controlling the pinkie and ring finger are intertwined to the degree that it’s almost impossible for most people to move the pinkie and ring fingers without the other. Does it count as “independent” if one twitches while the other does the real moving? I think I may finally be special!
What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?
A few year back, there was a Netflix documentary about flat earther. They’ve done a couple of experiment to prove that the earth is flat which (Spoiler alert) demonstrated that the earth is round....
What Android or Linux programs are the best to have all my email boxes in the same application?
I use different web interfaces to access Gmail, Hotmail, ProtonMail, Disroot, etc. However, I would like to use a single client to receive all my emails. Which desktop programs would you recommend for Linux, and which apps would you recommend for Android? I need them to support all of these email boxes. From what I’ve read...
Why is that on the internet, people assume you're a male from America, but if you're a vegan on the internet, people assume you're female?
Brazilian social media habits
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Can willpower be trained ?
I have heard that willpower is finite and every person starts their day with a limited capacity....
Is there a discussion platform between Reddit and image boards that uses tags instead of subreddits?
I’m curious if there are any discussion platforms out there that fall between Reddit and image boards in terms of structure and moderation....
Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space?
So I have a born again christian family member in their mid twenties who stated with complete confidence that there is a dome in the sky called the firmament and beyond it is where heaven is. She believes space doesn’t exist and rockets just blow up because the bible said so. She is not the brightest and normally I would let...
Would life be significantly different if no light were detectable when closing our eyes?
Currently, if your eyes are closed you can still get a sense of the light around you, and moving your head around you can tell if you’re moving it toward or away from a light source (barring maybe if you’re outdoors and it’s bright out all around you)....