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cashews_win@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•To fellow penguins, What is your distro?English1·2 years agoTry AwesomeWM. Or if you are determined to have a tiling only then QTile is good.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Since we have a higher state of awareness as humans, might we also have more intense experiences of pain / pleasure / emotions?3·2 years agoProbably the opposite.
Our “higher reasoning” and “state of awareness” (needs defining) gives us the ability to do thigns other animals can’t. For example chronic pain sufferers are taught how to manage their pain with a variety of CBT techniques. Not something you can teach a dog or cat.
People in intense periods of intense suffering may have thw ability to dissociate from the experience (“go to their happy place”) to lessen the pain experience.
We’re not aware animal shave this ability.
If anything mammals of all kinds that feel pain don’t have our higher cognitive ability to help manage and supress it.
Having said that it’s possible we feel more emotionally complex pain. Pain induced from our own minds by remembering trauma or imagining painful situations. As someone pointed out below a dying animal probably isn’t thinking about the loss of it’s family as it’s dying. But it will be feeling the pain of dying acutely.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?English2·2 years agoHello Mr Hong Kongnese. I’m a Brit. We don’t boil water here and I’ve visisted Iceland - they don’t boil it either.
Diu gau lan tsat hai - Merry Christmas. Enjoy your holiday.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto Malicious Compliance@lemmy.world•[REPOST] Won't Let Me Go To Jury Duty? Enjoy Being Questioned In CourtEnglish1·2 years agoThis is Justicce Porn and I approve.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite memory from the early internet?3·2 years agoastalavista
Oh my god - I’d completely forgotten about that place! I just checked and it’s stil alive: https://astalavista.box.sk/search/
I remember it being dark blue when I used it back in the 90s though.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite memory from the early internet?3·2 years agoI admin-ed my own vBulletin board around 04-06. The script itself cost about £90 back then. It was so great though. Small community of like-minded people all chattng. It was like a slow-Discord or a more intimate Reddit.
I installed a ton of extensions for people to play Flash games at one point too.
One day I accidentally forgot to pay hosting and the site vanished. Lost it all. Never bothered relaunching.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?21·2 years agoTop 3 most upvoted comments always being unfunny puns was getting insufferable on Reddit. Everyone was trying to be a fucking comedian - that’s what was popular and got upvotes.
The early Reddit you could have long, interesting arguments with people and you’d both be getting upvoted because you’re both making interesting points.
It honestly feels like my brain is waking up from a digital coma since coming to Lemmy from Reddit. My own personality and opinions don’t feel pointlessly supressed and sanitised.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto Reddit Migration@kbin.social•r/pics calls out spez' history as jailbait moderator, a former sub dedicated to actual CP. the post hit the front page with 15k karma in 4h, then got removed earlier today0·2 years agoI’m a Reddit user of 16yrs and can safely say: He didn’t just “doi nothing”. Reddit and Steve himself actively promoted and supported the sub AND the main moderator (violentacrez). The mod had a “Pimp” badge added to his profile specially for him. He also had a golden Reddit Snoo trophy sent to him personally.
The original and main mod had a couple of AMAs that were often commented in by admins like Spez and Ohanian.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that 1M users on lemmy from the-federation.info is bullshitEnglish0·2 years agoI like your avatar. I was such a huge Sonic fan since the original Sonic on Sega Master System that I spiked my hair from about 8yo to 18yo when I switched to wearing big 2in spiked hair when out clubbing.
Unfortunately middle age happened and my hair migrated from my head to my back which isn’t as good for spiking. :(
So you’re one of those Reddit ‘comedians’ who post the puns and get upvoted to the top of threads?
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: This service needs more content creators, and you can invite them.1·2 years agoI feel like my brain is detoxing since coming here. In the literal and figurative sense.
- Addiction - I’d degenerated to just doom-scrolling reddit and rarely commenting cos the top 3 comments were unfunny puns with 12,000 others so it never felt worth it.
- Regaining Self - I’d become so outwardly sanitised I didn’t realise I’d stopped swearing entirely in my older comments. I used to pepper my comments with fuck, bitch, shit, cunt as I do in the real woirld. But with heavy penalties against words like “faggot” (which is fucking idiotic for Brits) I’d started to self-censor to the point I wasn’t being “me”.
I’m not saying I hope it turns into 4chan.
But I do hope it grows into the early days of Reddit. Where people only downvoted things they found useless rather than disagreeable. There were less self-made echo chambers with ultra-sanitised ‘drone-like’ users where everyone had the same unfunny opinion.
cashews_win@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?English1·2 years agoFor Brits: Swap “Mexican” for “Indian” or “Polish”
Also buy your spices from Indian supermarkets/shops/sections of Asda rather than getting Schwartz jars.
E.g. My local Asda sells a jar of Schwartz cinamon for £2.50. The next aisle sells cinammon in a bag of 3x the amount for £1! Same for rice, noodles and many other ‘foreign’ foods. Polish meat section can often be cheaper than the normal sections.
Rodent AT-ST