humdrumgentleman

@humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world
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Friendly reminder of the core problem: medical treatments are all balanced against the risk of what it counteracts.

Undergoing physical and chemical changes to grow another creature inside you and have it damage everything on the way out is pretty risky. Female birth control only has to be less risky than that.

A male has zero physiological risk from impregnating someone. Therefore, anything except a miracle drug with high efficacy and almost zero side effects is going to stall at the trial stage.

On another note, that speaks to how safe and effective vasectomies are.

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You know how this goes, right?

The resulting thirst for scientific knowledge results in unparalleled technological advancement, but also an endless demand deciduous teeth for further experimentation. Eventually their personally-developed, secretly manufactured and deployed microdrone monitoring network alerts them every time any child loses a tooth in the Western world. Slightly larger drones sneak into the home and collect the tooth. In an attempt to avoid further pressing of ethical boundaries, the drones are equipped to carry in small amounts of currency that are left in place of the tooth. Your family, more literally and on a larger scale than any family before, DOES the tooth fairy 🧚 stuff.

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It's probably Emacs, but I'm a Neovim user, so I'm going to go with that.

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Lazy plot setups. Main example: if someone coughs for no reason in the first 10 minutes, they DEFINITELY have a terminal illness that will be revealed shortly.

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I know there is a fediverse Goodreads replacement, but I cannot more highly recommend BookDigits. It still has the social aspect but is so much more powerful. The developer is also very responsive.

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I grew up next to a stop sign in a tiny town straddling a one-lane road that by some joke of fate was the the most efficient automobile route between two points of much greater interest.

To me, the sound of a big diesel engine idling at a stop is the sound of a peaceful winter night with my bedroom window open.

The comparison to Wikipedia is a really good one.

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I was raised evangelical protestant in the USA, at some point attending both Seventh-day Adventist and Pentacostal churches. My mother did not consider my Catholic grandparents to be Christians, based on her belief that one cannot be saved by confession/prayer to a saint or clergy instead of directly to Christ. As many other have said, this is not the mainstream definition.

For me lately, it's been GitHub " awesome" repos.

Since you have LAN parties in mind, be sure to check this list to know what games are (or are not) well supported by Proton under Linux.

https://www.protondb.com/

Proton is the compatibility layer that allows Seam games developed for Windows to run under Linux. Some games, unfortunately, may have problems that cause you to be left out.

Me and another churchgoer now occupy the same space. I'm on my phone; I wonder what she did to deserve this.

I think that to answer that, we would need to know what about Mint, Pop_OS, Vanilla OS, and Nobara you didn't like.

The Animorphs series explores this quite well. It's not actually painful for them, but should be and is plenty disturbing.

I know there is a fediverse Goodreads replacement, but I cannot more highly recommend BookDigits. It still has the social aspect but is so much more powerful. The developer is also very responsive.

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It's like Mad Max, except you have no guns or ammunition and so are mostly reliant on turtle carcasses and fruit peels instead.

The room is filled with a deadly gas. Either it is built so that it vents into the room naturally from deep under ground, or a diffuser is periodically refilled by whoever controls access to the room.

The McGuffin is the antidote to the gas, which you must obtain and administer before entering.

I remember the shot where we see many possibilities illustrated via many Nics, and thinking "Huh. That's really interesting. I'm not sure this movie deserves it."

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I went to the Stranger Things popup in Vegas. Not gonna lie, I had a good time. It was like an amusement park exhibit with the classic gift shop at the end, but the prices didn't seem inflated. If I was interested in buying merch, I'd rather go to to one of these than just order it online. I'm not saying it will be successful, but I don't hate them for trying it.

And, yes, they did sell DVD boxed sets.

There are kids around, so it's gonna be real bad.

As a strictly desktop/personal Linux user, could someone enlighten me: What advantage (if any) does RHEL have over Ubuntu Pro at this point?

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When the box (and instructions) to frozen convenience foods get lost, I use mine to figure out when it's heated through.

More of an app than a platform feature, but the ability to collapse all child comments.

I have other thoughts, but these are the most objective ones:

  • The theme was integrated with all applications I tried and I didn't spot any problems with it. (I'd tell you I liked it, but that would be subjective)
  • Installing via Pamac required knowing what source (repos, AUR, et cetera) you were installing from or to try multiple.
  • My Brother wifi printer couldn't connect and I didn't find a guide to resolve it.
  • I couldn't get audio to work correctly on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 9th Gen.
  • The forums seemed to be active.
  • I ran it for a week in a VM without breaking anything. Didn't run for any length of time on bare metal due to the printer and sound issues.

Compared to Fedora and EndeavorOS:

  • Default GNOME theming, of course also through.
  • GNOME Store will show you all available sources when you search for the package on Fedora. For EndeavorOS I have to search two places on archlinux.org and flathub.
  • My printer worked with Fedora out of the box. For EndeavorOS I found a detailed guide they put together.
  • No audio issues on either.
  • Fedora also has a large forum. The EndeavorOS forum seems to have fewer users.
  • I ran Fedora on my laptop for 6 months. When I upgraded between versions, I ended up with two versions of some applications like "Terminal" and "GNOME Terminal," which was confusing. No breakages.
  • I've been running EndeavorOS for 14 months. I broke GRUB when everyone else on Arch and EndeavorOS did. I still had the live USB, and EndeavorOS provided instructions on how to fix it, although it was written for Ext4 and I had to make some educated guesses since I use BTRFS. I was successful and that was my only breakage.

lemmy.world seemed reputable with a straightforward domain name, and no out-of-the-ordinary policies.

All of the Phil Collins songs that were played in the Tarzan movies.