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  • I can understand that you don’t have those in Canada, but there should be other options right? Maybe contact support?

    I think you’re on the verge of understanding the problem. You’re so close. Just trust that the guy you’re replying to isn’t an idiot and you’ll finally understand.

    Sure in the Netherlands you have options. But other places aren’t the Netherlands. Different countries have different options, but Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal work pretty much everywhere.

    Edit: Completely unrelated, I’m munching on some licorice Mentos I found in the Dutch section of my local grocery store here in West Michigan, and I just want to thank the entire population of the Netherlands for the wonderful things y’all have done with licorice. No one likes it here, so no one bothered. But the variety your country comes up with for this stuff, it’s fantastic.



  • Update: The psychiatrist who looked at her said she had too much weed -_- . I’m really disappointed in the doctor but she had finally slept and sounded more coherent then

    There might be something to that. Psychosis enhanced by weed is not unheard of. As I’ve read, weed has been shown in studies to bring out schizophrenic symptoms in people predisposed to it. Not that it causes it, just brings it out in some people.

    I say this as someone who loves weed and consumes it frequently. Just like any psychoactive chemical, it’s going to have different effects on different people. We all know alcohol causes psychosis all the fucking time but we just roll with it.




  • Maybe. I suspect it will be much better than last time.

    Processing power is much better now than in 2006. Back then it was about having some blurry transparency and lots of light beams and lens flares and shit, because it was easy to layer that over stuff. This is going to be more about refraction at the edges and clarity in the centers, with frosted looks as background when needed.

    I am hopeful, it looked mostly good in the WWDC video, with only a few examples of poor legibility that hopefully will be ironed out.

    I’m personally ready to move on from the flat look as long as it remains cleaner than Frutiger Aero. I miss having depth in my UI.


  • Uh… didn’t this happen like 7 years ago when they stopped using intel chips?

    I think they were still releasing updates for the non-Apple Silicon Macs, which meant Hackintosh was still possible.

    Also why not just buy a pc to do this diy-adjacent bullshit? Not like you can’t get Mac equivalent (or better) hardware for literally the same price these days. It’s not 2004.

    That’s what a Hackintosh is though. It’s running Mac on non-Apple hardware.





  • And it’s on the IAEA to declare that they are indeed working on a weapons program, not speculation and assumption like yours.

    Okay. Don’t use your reason if you’d prefer not to. It does make me wonder though:

    Do you think the killing of the civilian scientists was wrong because they were civilian scientists, or because they were ostensibly working on an energy program?

    Because as I said, I’m not claiming the murders were justified, just that we ought to be honest about the why.

    There are plenty making the argument that Iran needs a nuclear weapons program to prevent exactly these types of attacks. That is intellectually honest. I’m not sure where I fall on that argument, I’d rather no one have nuclear weapons (but obviously that’s not going to happen).

    The difference between 5% and 60% enrichment is pretty huge. And the research and effort required to get there is neither cheap nor easy. If what they’re after is nuclear energy, there is absolutely no reason to continue risking the ire of the international community and the repeated attacks by Israel. They’ve had energy-level uranium for a very long time already.







  • Going in with the aim of making Lemmy “more popular” is not the best approach.

    This (and the rest of your excellent post) reminds me of a fantastic quote from a letter J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote to his younger brother:

    “Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one’s living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”

    Similarly, Lemmy being popular is not a specific aim which we “may learn to attain.” Rather it is a description of the adequacy of the content. Build the community we want, the popularity may follow, or it may not! But to try to make a popular website “is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”