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Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local?
  • I agree, but evidently you need to put local in bold because it's never what people are thinking about in these nonlocal forums. But that's where third parties will come from unless it's some celebrity case, who will most likely coopt an existing party, resulting in the same two party system and a dramatically shifted politics that leaves half the country without ideological representation.

  • Metro South Trash Cam: A Tangible Manifestation of the Contemporary Condition
  • You may be right, but I think by staring it in the face as much as possible we can generate that physical feeling that is what the tide is made of. Politics can turn as they have before. I'm not so sure we are in a "coasting" part of history. Feels pretty choppy and changeable right now. Makes powers that be grip harder, but I'm hoping that's just a symptom of general readiness.

  • Metro South Trash Cam: A Tangible Manifestation of the Contemporary Condition
  • Watching this can change the world. It does make me ill.

    The secondhand market should be huge and top of mind. Furniture stores should have 80 percent of the store used goods. Craigslist, etc, is fun but frustrating. I'm not particularly picky or fearful, but person to person is just inefficient.

    Also, people have been sold on needing everything to reflect themselves and their tastes and knowledge, sort of catalog/review envy, I feel it myself. But you know, it's just a chair or a shelf or a food processor or a jacket or whatever: try to embrace serendipity :) They have pens at goodwill, a bag for $2, and it's all kinds and brands and it will cover your household needs for years rather than leak and rot into a hole in the ground-- that kind of thing, just consider it as often as you can. Once you have that down you will find you need less stuff because you are not using it to represent yourself, just for it's actual purpose, and you will find it easier to pass things on as well.

    Just my drunk advice

  • Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It
  • Great article! I had not heard of many of these projects, and it's great to see an intelligent conversation about the struggle to keep social content accessible and "complete", for lack of a better word, while also providing necessary structure to curb abuses from users, criminals, and gatekeepers alike.

    Neatly separated the concerns of content, algorithm, and branding.

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    Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company
  • Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used "risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest." The judge also said X was not entitled to "de facto copyright ownership" in copyrighted content that X's users made available to the public.

    Based.

  • Camo is hard to photograph, and not for the reason you think! (Main cam vs Selfie cam colors)
  • My phone camera has the option to save and view the raw file as well as the processed jpeg, and when you do that you can see that the software is doing a lot of work by default to sharpen and add contrast and color enhancement. My guess is the selfie camera may be tuned to reduce redness in particular to smooth skin tones? Or it's just a smaller sensor not collecting as much color info to begin with.

  • When dating, "Just be confident" is just bad advice if you ask me.
  • I think you are meaning "confident that this will go your way" when it should be "confident that your mood and well-being are going to be fine no matter how it goes".

    The second one takes the anxiety out and let's you respond to how things actually are, instead of comparing to some other story. Then you can see yourself, the situation, and the other person more clearly, which helps make experience more worthwhile in any event.

  • I have chronic sleeping problems therefore I love(d) taking naps but waking up afterwards is absolute hell. What should I do? **Edit: I have found a short-term solution**
  • Just as a quick hope-it-works because it's easy, try drinking a glass of water with just a tiny amount of sugar and salt (like literally you should not be able to taste it, should just taste slightly fishy) before your nap.

    I'm with the others on seeing a therapist, though, and first-round antidepressants have had huge positive effects in my personal experience, so it's not necessarily going to be this long mind warping journey that I think people are scared to start sometimes.

  • Is there a reason sometimes I can't block a community from the three dots menu on a post?

    Usually the option is there, but sometimes only block user is available.

    Thanks.

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