“Oh. Ok.”

“Well, now I need to know what kind of gods these are. I need to know if they pretend they are perfect and yet need constant validation from me. Or maybe they are flawed and they accept it. I also need to know what their stance is toward genocide, CSAM, prion disease, and parasitism.”

For one, it would help to stop saying that phrase.

Better to call the opposite:

• Go trad, go sad
• Go regressive, go recessive
• Build the wall, take the fall

Hey I like Gnome :((((((((((((

Masturbation is totally normal and healthy, and you're spot on that it shouldn't be demonized or shamed. In men, it might even reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

At the same time, it's important to have a balanced and psychologically flexible relationship with masturbation and sexuality. As psychologist Steven Hayes, a leading expert on psychological flexibility, explains: getting too fixated on any one activity or coping mechanism, even a healthy one, can lead to psychological inflexibility if it is used to avoid experiencing your life fully (For a thorough explanation of how this works, feel free to check out A Liberated Mind by Steven Hayes). Psychological inflexibility here means getting stuck in rigid behavior patterns to the point that it messes with living a full and meaningful life.

So while I'm totally with you that masturbation is healthy and that bullshit social taboos against it should be rejected, it's also good to be mindful about your motivation behind doing it. Are you doing it because you're escaping pain? Or are you doing it because it aligns with your values and makes your life meaningful? If you rely on masturbation too much and don't have ways of accepting your emotions and connecting with the world, it could potentially tip into unhelpful psychological rigidity and a frustrating life. The key is to be able to experience masturbation while still staying flexible enough to show up fully for the rest of your life too.

1. Of course, people should donate to make Lemmy sustainable.
2. I recognize that this is true of any website that is not enshitified or, more broadly, is designed to maximize profits. Websites made with libre software are the public libraries of the internet!

I MISSED THE EQUIVALENT OF PLACE IN LEMMY? Does anyone have context?

Nice try, FBI (which would be “Fun Hard Knob”) or CIA (which would be “Big Bear Wand”)

TL;DR: man wore skirt

Thx for your ethical considerations 🙏 here’s another important cause

This post tickles a fond memory of mine. I was talking to a right-wing libertarian, and he said there should be no research done ever if it couldn't prove beforehand its practical applications. I laughed out loud because I knew how ignorant and ridiculous that statement was. He clearly had never picked up a book on the history of science, on the history of these things:

• quantum mechanics. It would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn't have semiconductors in his phone, or if he didn't have access to lasers for his LASIK surgery (which he actually did have), both of which are technologies built by basic research that didn't have practical applications in mind.
• electromagnetism. It would be a shame if the poor libertarian was having his LASIK surgery and the power went out without there being a generator, a technology built by basic research that didn't have practical applications in mind.
• X-rays. It would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn't have x-rays to check the inside of his body in case something went wrong, a technology built by basic research that didn't have practical applications in mind.
• superconductivity. It would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn't have superconductors for an MRI to check the inside of his body in case something went wrong, a technology built by basic research that didn't have practical applications in mind.
• radio waves. It would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn't have radio waves for his phone and computer's wifi and bluetooth to run his digital business, technologies built by basic research that didn't have practical applications in mind.

I love your comment because this is literally what happens with democratization efforts in societies where there are very strict gender roles or religious duties. It is very easy to preach about democracy and freedom, but it is harder to truly expand people’s capabilities. If someone is to truly be themselves, they need a context that truly empowers them to be free.

Here’s an example I witnessed: I once saw a man lose his house, his job, and his inheritance, because he came out to his conservative family. He went from a comfortable middle class upbringing to being homeless in a matter of minutes. A friend took him in while he found a job, but it was only a matter of time (and money) for him to flee to a more inclusive society.

In the face of this, perhaps it would be easy to just say “well, at least he found out who truly loved him for who he was”, but we shouldn’t romanticize homelessness, poverty, and severed connections. They’re devastating.

So what can we do? At a shelter I worked in, we made darn sure people had a clear path forward before fully leaving their abuse-filled reality. More broadly, we should strive to expand human capabilities.

Talking is easy. Being capable is harder.

Ironically this exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic_growth

It’s about time Instagram enshittifies in a grotesque way, grotesque enough for people to realize it’s shit (because it’s enshittified).

I think the way to formally prove this is to find the difference between the Fibonacci approximation and the usual conversion, and then to find whether that series is convergent or not. Someone who has taken the appropriate pre-calculus or calculus course could actually carry it out :P

However, I got curious about graphing it for distances "small enough" like from Earth to the sun (150 million km). Turns out, there's always an error, but the error doesn't seem to be growing. In other words, except for the first few terms, the Fibonacci approximation works!

This graph grabs each "Fibonacci mile" and converts it to kilometers either with the usual conversion or the Fibonacci-approximation conversion. I also plotted a straight line to see if the points deviated.

Edit: Here's another graph

So it turns out:

• Fibonacci-approximated kilometers are always higher than the usual-conversion kilometers
• At most, the difference between both is 25%. That happens early on in the terms.
• After that, the percentage difference oscillates around a value and comes closer to it.
• When talking about more than 100 miles, the percentage change approximates 0.54.

TL;DR:

• Yes, the Fibonacci trick is true forever as you go higher in the sequence if you're willing to accept a 0.54% error.

This is just so evil. The hubris and ignorance behind this shitty manifesto…

Everything about Palantir is baffling, but I just want to point out one section. It is so disgustingly self-serving. It is the ideology of a child playing king with his little friends:

“The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public"

Oh how very convenient for those despotic assholes. It’s insane for someone to articulate such blatantly self-serving discourses. And it’s even more insane how people on X will be licking Palantir’s boots gladly.

Just… gimme a sec. Gotta take a deep breath and go touch grass or something.

I see that she’s female-presenting and white, but I guess the point is that she’s incompetent. If so, what’s the context? /c/OutOfTheLoop

It actually took me a while to realize he was not wearing the clothes of a McDonald's worker.

The one that says that conspiracy theories are used by elites to distract us from the real injustices and problems in this world.

Is it really worth it?

Imagine that piece of writing would’ve been submitted as a school assignment.

If I would’ve written that for a creative writing assignment in high school, I would’ve failed that assignment.

Trump writes like a baby. I can’t believe he graduated high school.