Company instead installs a blade at the front of the trolley to make the deaths more humane and a large metal panel to avoid anyone seeing what happens.

They also increase the speed to generate more profits … even though it kills more people … but at least we can’t see it any more.

Usually it means it wants drugs or some stimulant that you eat, drink, smoke or inject that will give immediate satisfaction

If you are ever in this situation … go for a walk, run, exercise or lift weights … the dopamine hit from the effort will immediately satisfy whatever it is the brain is feeling and also make you forget about other things for a while. Physical activity immediately relieves those bits of stress.

Because if you don’t … you’re on the path to wanting to satisfy these cravings with a pill or drug … either legal or illegal and you’re on your way to more problems.

… and you happen to spawn during a period when a game wide PVP session is happening

God: … I’ll make a game … random spawns … one life … no instructions … no directions … open world … play as you want

Isn’t it just a limitation of human vision? No matter how much resolution we can create, the human eye will only ever see a certain level of resolution … anything beyond that is imperceptible to us. I think I remember reading that 4K is the maximum we can realistically appreciate and anything beyond that is impractical because no one would ever notice the difference.

The only way higher resolutions work is if you start blowing up the size of the image itself. A 20" wide image at 720p looks good but the same image blow up to 60" becomes noticeably pixelated. A 20" wide image at 8K looks sharp and blown up to 60", it still looks sharp.

I do have a nicer board … a big thick one I use most often.

I use several boards for different things … one specifically for meat … one for just garlic and onions … another for fruits … and a general one for everything else.

It’s the smaller cheaper ones that annoy me. I use them because they’re cheap and you use for a year or two and replace them easily. I just don’t understand why you need a handhold for a small cutting board. But today I was holding in my hand and just started playing around with it wrapping my fingers around the hand hold and I automatically started treating it like a weapon to push, pull, swing and hit things with.

I’ve also been gifted older type cutting boards that look like a paddle. These ones are definitely melee weapons.

They’re melee weapons … lol

I’ve heard of that and I’ve seen that but I never do that.

I do quite a bit of my own cooking. I learned from my mom who worked in a commercial kitchen and I worked next to her for a few summers.

Every cutting board she had was just one large block with no holes. We’d cut tons of food and every time to needed to clear it, you pick it up and dump it into the sink or trash can. It’s just faster that way.

I never saw the use of taking a few extra moments to guide the board to the trash can, align it to the top of the can, then carefully move all the scraps to the hole.

A faster way is to just pick up the board, move it to the trash can, use the nonsharp end of your knife as a scraper and push everything off in one quick move.

Jackie Chan can turn any living space into a dojo and weapons room.

But you’re right, I should watch a Jackie Chan movie, it’s been years.

Local politician … a member of town council but also a character that just hung onto any and all political positions related to local politics. He never did much expect make money for himself. If he didn’t get on council, he would try for mayor, and if he got neither, Financial Controller, Administrator, Manager, whatever, as long as it was with the town. He was in essence a salesman because he could talk circles around most people with political language and a bit of education, especially when he dealt with the uneducated or gullible people. It was basically his entire career and he’s well on his way to retiring after having done nothing for anyone else or the town.

The current point of our human civilization is like cave men 10,000 years ago being given machine guns and hand grenades

What do you think are we going to do with all this new power?

It’s great because the internet was initially developed as a decentralized service so that if any part failed, the rest could maintain communications.

Over the past decade, corporations have been actively developing an internet of services that heavily rely on just a small set of services … and if any of them go down, everything is lost.

This isn’t new … it’s been by design for a long while now

… that run on fuel for a limited time … once the fuel runs out, the data centres go down

Need to transport more fuel there? Can’t because the entire system is down.

If a nation wants to go to war with the US … this is how they do it, they just shut down one, two or all of these systems down and watch the country go crazy. It wouldn’t destroy the country, just disrupt it enough to make them go nuts and then do more things to them in other ways.

It’s amazing when you think about it, first the US invested in heavily defending and arming itself in the 60s, 70s and 80s … then it spent billions more in the 90s and 2000s to try to come up with ever more inventive ways to screw itself from the inside.

Same here … I just didn’t like the atmosphere there any more and jumped on Lemmy

I realized that I jumped on Reddit years ago when it was smaller and less known and I grew with it over time … I thought the same thing about Lemmy and now I feel good about growing on this new platform.

It’s a matter of numbers and community.

If you want to be a jerk, people will ignore you. If there are ten other people in the room, you can only be a jerk ten times before everyone in the room starts to ignore you.

That’s the Fediverse, it’s a small community and word gets around fast with people who see and notice a bad character and start blocking them, their posts, their comments and their activity.

That’s the thing about numbers … if you are a small group, word gets around quickly who the jerk is … if you are a big community, there are more systems in place to deal with jerks

So the only way for jerks to survive … is to build a community of jerks for themselves … and surprisingly enough, those communities don’t last very long.

Loved the movie but it had one of the biggest plot holes of them all … how they could manufacture an international American passport with a razor and a photo in a hotel room and get by electronically controlled immigration systems to fly to the Philippines like it’s still 1945

It might not be better … but it is certainly a lot cheaper

The only cost to an education or learning about subjects, ideas and people these days is the cost in TIME, NUTRITION AND EFFORT

Sure you can spend tens of thousands of dollars and go to university, college or whatever institution for a whole bunch of years and learn a bunch of stuff. Or you can just take the time to read a bunch of books, study them, learn from them on your own time.

I never had the opportunity to attend post secondary school … I read, I write on my own and do things on my own. I’m not the smartest person but I’ve surprised my more educated friends and family in my ability to know a lot about many things. I’ve also traveled the world to many countries and in each country I visited, I took the time to read about it’s history, read books from there and learn as much as I could about it all. I also enjoy learning about the latest technologies, so I’ve learned to tear apart computers, put them back together, install, uninstall, reinstall an OS and just generally play around with computer systems often. I have friends who are teachers and nurses with qualification in many things and lots of education, yet they come to me to fix their computers and they’re surprised when I can talk to them about most subjects about history, politics, travel, countries, science, technology and many other things.

I hate to say it because it sounds stupid … but having an education these days often doesn’t amount to much. Unless you have a well defined goal as to what you want to do and you have a lot money, resources and support, you get to become a well rounded, educated, knowledgeable and capable individual. Otherwise, the majority of post secondary educated people I’ve seen are just people collected certifications and diplomas to add to a collection and don’t really gain much of an education in anything valuable.

Read, read books, read all kinds of things and read often … it’s probably the biggest thing they get people to do in higher education. There is so much content out there that is freely available. Read, watch and listen to lectures that are freely available in all sorts of sites and made by actual highly educated and knowledgeable professors and professionals. Find those free resources that are vetted, recommended by people you trust.

The other part of the equation I honestly believe is nutrition. Eat properly and eat enough of the right things. My mom literally raised us on oatmeal every morning. I grew up with kids who ate sugar pops or nothing at all and the majority of them didn’t end up with a good life path. Then we seldom had processed foods as mom and dad were hunters and trappers that fed us a steady diet of wild meat and especially fresh fish. We’re Indigenous so a lot of our diet was from the land … we were poor and didn’t get to eat much but the food we ate was highly natural and nutritious. Eat enough good natural food, enough protein and fats, exercise, walk and train if you are young and capable and all that nutrition and blood pumping will get you to learn more, faster and retain things longer. The younger you do all this, the better it is because the older you become, the harder it is to do anything.