Glang was common, but so was glinged.

I can’t tell if this is a shitpost or not

Thats a reference to a relatively famous linguistics study lol. A bunch of children were given questions such as “This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. He did the same thing yesterday. Yesterday he _____.” or presenting them with a wug and then asking what the plural of wug is. The children had very consistent answers to these nonsense grammar questions, showing that grammar rules are mainly learned through experience instead of being memorized for each word.

I don’t think the amount of information is the problem, just the way it is presented to us.

IMHO, my mental health improved significantly after substituting Lemmy for Reddit and Mastodon for facebook/insta/etc. Or maybe I’ve just gotten better at being unattached to digital life and social pressure

I disagree. Back in maybe the 60s the public broadcast networks were not fully beholden to investors, did not have competition from the internet, and didn’t have to do 24 hours of news. As a result, they had time to do responsible reporting. The current power structure encourages news media to do whatever it takes to grab your attention and hold it, and the best way to do that is fear.

I have not fully cut out the news from my life. There are some channels on YouTube that do good reporting like Sir Swag and of course Phillip DeFranco.

Another thing to point out is that, assuming you are American, we are in an election year. News companies really ramp up the fear mongering on election years.

Weapons grade ooftonium

Finally, someone with a brain leaves a comment.

For me, the world bible is a separate document filled with hyperlinks that is specifically for keeping stuff straight in my head. I’ve got it pretty much down to a science now, mainly for when I run DnD. It’s hard to describe my process for it, because what I try to do is pin one whole train of thought to each page like an entomologist organizing their bug collection. It’s most like the wiki method, but in a way that keeps my ADHD brain from getting distracted.

What I struggle with is getting organized before my rough draft. Ive tried free writing, but I tend to lose direction halfway through. I need some sort of organization to stay on task.

Assuming it is a paper notebook, the determining factor is how soaked the pages are. If it is too wet, they may start to meld together making the notebook unusable.

The best thing to do is to actually heat up the book. I’ve cooked mine in the oven at very low heat, which allows it to dry out fast. My dad does a variant of the rice method for wet books where he fills a bag with rice and then places it in the sun. However, if the notebook is too wet and the pages are sticking together, doing either of these will instead turn your notebook into a solid block of wood. Instead, your best course of action is to try and fan out the pages by individually peeling them apart, then putting the splayed-open notebook somewhere moderately warm where it can slowly dry out under your careful observation.

If you dunk your phone in water the post will teleport away

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8fnbhC7olnxP0sPD4IMYUOnwwSWjYtq&si=ki4x2HL4HPvADnsa

This is the series in question. I think it’s obvious why little kids like it

@yatoimtop@greatview.video

Makes animated shorts

@WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network

The only weather network that places focus on repenting to your weather lords.

@Iancylkowski@pixelfed.social

Pretty photos of Britain

@wikipediahaiku@botsin.space

in addition to having one of the most accurate account id I have ever seen, it makes haikus from 14-syllable Wikipedia pages. Some of them are even good!

@reece@video.canadiancivil.com

Posts short but fascinating videos about urban transit.

@ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com

Also does videos about urban transit

@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services

Boosts random videos on the fediverse. I found most of the peertube channels on here through this bot. I even caught a couple livestreams this way.

@transportevolved@peertube.tv

Yet more transit content. This time, it’s from a tech angle! Idk why I am such a sucker for this genre.

@FoxNews@brands.town

going to copy/paste their description here:

Follow the Mastodon Network™'s #1 fox news network, delivering you breaking news, insightful analysis, and must-see videos about foxes!

@georgetakei@universeodon.com

Takei is pretty active on here. Posts a lot of news and gay memes.

@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.com

Posts screenshots from random insecure servers every hour. About a month ago it posted a link to a computer controlling someone’s hot tub. It was an interesting day. Usually it’s nothing, but sometimes you see medical tech, people’s security systems, etc.

@dungeons@mastodon.social

a bot that dungeon-crawls following the result of its polls.

@galaxy@botsin.space

Space is cool. Photos of space are also cool.

@mikefurtak@makertube.net

Makes music with modular synths

@TechConnectify@mas.to

I am shocked at how much of my fedi circle also is a fan of Technology Connections. He’s pretty active on here, and not just to promote his yt

I strongly reccomend Zorin OS. I was in his exact shoes when I decided to switch to Linux and for very similar reasons. It feels pretty similar to Windows 7 IMHO, and I like its default dynamic background that changes throughout the day. Steam games run great on it btw.

The other reason I reccomend Zorin is that it is aimed at windows users and Mac users. There’s an “app store” that is in fact a software manager, most windows apps run pretty well (although I reccomend using Bottles for that) and the layout is designed to feel similar to Windows. All the fun Linux stuff is still right there for you to use, it’s just slightly out of sight so it doesn’t overwhelm you at the beginning.

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Honestly, it would be really funny to have a biopic about Neil Cicierga with Neil playing himself in a fictionalized autobiography where he gets to make up a bunch of surreal bullshit about his life. Like a feature-length edition of Guaranteed* Videos

Microsoft is the suits. Suits are for office work. Microsoft is for office work.

Mine doesn’t work. Definitely linux’s fault that I destroyed its wifi giblets while moving my PC a bit too aggressively

Nope, I am lactose intolerant but I can eat cheese, the concrete mixers from Culver’s, and Oberweis ice cream for some reason

That being said, yesterday I had some (because a family member bought some for me) and just out of pure suspicion I took some lactaid pills before drinking it. I had no problems.

I think the Lactaid-brand eggnog is not in fact lactose free, despite what it says on the carton

If you’re gaming, you should be using a distro that is stable. Arch is not worth the effort if you are just doing normie stuff like front-end work

Same. Literally the reason I started using Zorin OS was because it was pretty. Not any sort of logical reason, just “Windows is Ugly, Zorin is Pretty”