philthi

@philthi@lemmy.world
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I can't go to sleep if I don't set an alarm, due to worrying about oversleeping lol

It took me a while but "cocktails" for anyone else out there like me

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I suppose in reality it's the average of people who post pictures online and are willing to display it publicly, and probably weighted slightly by how many pictures of a person are uploaded (e.g. if someone has uploaded tens of thousands of pics of themselves - a celebrity or whatever - they will throw the average slightly towards their own face). Assuming the sample set is something like: all of social media photos of a person's face.

I know this is completely unrelated, but I think I'd actually find it impossible to get to 11:50 in the day with only 7 steps. That's a one way trip to the toilet...

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I got an oral b toothbrush (primary selling point for me, was the pressure sensor that alerts you if you're pressing too hard against your teeth, I think I paid around €150 for it back then), well over 8 years ago, and it's still going strong. The battery still easily holds a week's charge too, which is great for holidays

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"You ARE the droid I've been looking for"

I'm sorry to correct you, but it's actually nipped in the bud. I'd hate for you to use that in public and get egg on your plate.

I noticed how many of the verbs in English can mean different things depending on what word comes next, e.g.

  • Put
  • Put down
  • Put up
  • Put upon
  • Put on (wear)

English has so many words that mean the same thing, it's amazing, astonishing, bewildering and flabbergasting, there was a thief, mugger, robber, bandit... Who stole, robbed, nicked, thieved from me... I don't know how anyone ever learns all the English words for stuff, I honestly don't know how I have.

It also made me reflect on how languages are just noises we've all agreed to make at each other. The rules try to match the language and fail, not the other way around.

Recently I was also thinking about how interesting it is that some words we use are SO OLD, and we just... use them like it's no big deal, but if we we're transported back thousands of years, people were still calling vanilla something very similar to vanilla and arteries something very similar to arteries, and that is super cool to me.

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Aaah thank you, I reread the original post trying to find a point related to a ladder and eventually decided I just didn't understand what the "ladder point" was referring to, but now I understand them!

Languages are fun :)

Or to quote Terry Pratchett:

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

I was essentially certain that this meant: "their face when"

In the future this will be a period of time I'll remember clearly, which makes it valuable. Easy times lead to no substantial memories which is effectively the loss of that time.

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Metal gear solid was brilliant.

Then wipeout 2097.

Also, does anyone else remember the Music franchise of games on PS1?

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This is my favourite comment of all my experience with Lemmy so far.

But the idea of an indicator is to indicate that you will soon turn the steering wheel, not that you've already started to turn it.

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Hang himself by his own retard, is - in my opinion - a suitable alternative here

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This is reductive to the point of absurdity, if this were true no one would ever die from any problem (i.e. drowning, falling, etc.) They'd simply activate ingenuity.

Some problems do not have a solution in a given circumstance.

E.g. I'm locked in a prison on a sinking ship that's already 1km underwater, and my cell is completely full of water and I've held my breath for 2 minutes now.

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I'm open to discussion, but now that I've existed for a substantial period of time, I've found that my most prevailing memories are the ones hard won (e.g. when I almost had to sleep on the streets or ran out of money in a foreign country or got evicted from my flat). Whereas days sat on my couch watching telly, or in the pub having fun with friends, or another routine day in the gym are all blurred memories with no definition and no real sense of elapsed time.

This is a great quote, I also like to say (especially in places like airports or government buildings):

It's not a rat race, it's a rat queue.

Yeah, it did suck. It is much much better now though. I genuinely enjoy it at the moment.

We can easily stop having children then

Brilliant post, and I try to do the same thing, if I'm somewhere beautiful or profound and I have a few minutes to myself I like to make a "memory bubble" to me it's like a little snapshot of experience that I work really hard to recall every minute detail ( including my emotional state and sounds and smells, etc..) and then I can revisit them in the future.

I like this because it makes you appreciate where you are at the time more, and gives you good memories to lean on in the future.

Ok, I can agree with this logic "it's better to try than to give in" much more than "there's always a solution".

That to me still leaves some people starving of hunger due to a lack of money and an excess of bills. But I agree that even in that horrible situation it's better to keep trying than give in.

I was worried the argument here was closer to "you're in this terrible situation because you didn't try enough" which I wholeheartedly disagree with.

I feel now that we're in agreement though?

I've had this game since ea with 4 hours played time. I decided to give this update a go, and I'm so impressed. Performance is much better and I'm actually having tons of fun.

The missions to slowly grow the challenge and reward science work so well. I highly recommend giving it a go, if you already own it

No, I meant this game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_(video_game)

I spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours on that!

There are no noodles in this picture

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