perspectiveshifting @ perspectiveshifting @sh.itjust.works

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Yeah gotta be this. Decaying arthropod smell is pretty gnarly

A lot harder to buy that at the store unfortunately.

Is this "article" just a summary of a random YouTube video? Not sure this should be on c/news

It depends if it's a voltage that's triggering the speaker via a circuit on that IC, or if it ends up powering the speaker directly, and I'd bet the former. Putting a resistor in series with one of the speaker leads is more likely to achieve what you're hoping for (without knowing more about the circuit).

Do voices and the buzzer sound come out of the same speaker shown in the picture, or is there a separate little "buzzer" speaker in there?

I'm going to travel internationally for the first time thanks to a work trip. Stressed but excited!

Anybody have any "must-sees" in Taipei?

In the house or somewhere else?

What type of cat is this?

I think the intent is to make people aware that someone can externally be happy/successful/etc but still be in a very bad place internally. People who have or do deal with depression and related conditions probably think this is so obvious it's not worth pointing out, but I think a lot of them would be surprised how often the average person takes someone's externalized condition and assumes it's their entire experience.

I have no idea if posts like this picture do anything to actually inform people (and I'd bet not), but I guess I get what they're going for.

I don't have a ton of experience but I've kept Nepenthes pitchers before - the ones I've kept are pretty particular to humidity staying up and not getting dry soil. A lot of carnivorous plants also need distilled (or similar) water to stay happy.

That being said, there's lots of carnivorous species that aren't tropical or picky! Check out some Saracanea pitcher species if the tropical ones are too much to deal with

He looks like a very sweet boy 🥰

Who gives a shit what he looks like. Focus on the real problems instead of being childish like the conservatives.

Yes, and now Trump will help provide significantly more arms than Harris would have, even if she kept providing the same amount as Biden. Surely I don't have to tell you that that's worse?

We need to mobilize to change the DNC and Democratic Party leadership in the time we have in between these decisions, not ignore it for 4 years and then throw away your vote in protest.

Does anybody know if there's groups organizing already that are trying to cause that kind of reform? Would be good to spread the word if somebody has the ball rolling already. I think a huge portion of the voter base feels disenfranchised by not having an actually progressive platform to vote for.

You can be rightfully mad at the party that's failing to represent you correctly (I certainly am) and still make the pragmatic choice of not getting the guy who will make those issues worse elected.

We need to come together nationally and locally to attempt to affect change within the DNC more often than every 4 years, because it seems like every time we're all reminded how incompetent they are, it's too late for us to do anything about it for that election cycle.

What lesson exactly? That if the ideal candidate isn't run, a subset of liberals will pick the worse of two options?

All that does is teach the conservatives that if they can convince you that the democrat candidate fails you enough on a single issue, they effectively have your vote. Regardless of the conservative candidate's stance on that issue.

You have made the choice to make the problem you care about profoundly worse because there wasn't a way to make it completely better. Have fun watching that play out as you intended I guess.

Thanks for the recommendation! Here's the short story mentioned if anyone else wants a read: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

Is this not a thing in other western countries? Serious question and would appreciate knowing more

The Library of Babel by Borges melted my brain as a teenager.