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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • If anyone knew the answer there would be no addicts.

    In the end, their drive to sobriety must be consistently stronger than the drive for drugs. There’s no moral system with the power to counteract that. And it’s not a moral failure that they can’t.

    In other contexts people love to blather about the power of discipline over motivation. Well this proves the lie. It has to come down to motivation, consistently. And you probably don’t have the power to motivate them to consistently stay sober. You can’t make sobriety consistently more enticing than getting high. The rest of us are more enamored by what sobriety offers. We are not morally stronger. We just prefer being sober, consistently (or some of us prefer other, less-destructive forms of intoxication).

    Sorry about your friend. Take care of yourself.



  • Funny personalities don’t make people laugh, and therefore aren’t really funny. They’re more patronizing and infantalizing.

    Should I explain that not all planets live in the same Federation? I’m thinking no.

    I think you’ve already gone astray from really explaining the (relatively simple) relationship between federated instances. It’s already confusing because you’re trying to make it fun.

    I say, give your app whatever functionality you think is best, and the aesthetic/style/personality you think is best, but don’t worry about making the fediverse “fun.” Fun descriptions actually distract from the information.



  • Oh it makes a huge difference. Without humidifiers I get awful dry skin and nosebleeds from the dry heat of the heaters in winter.

    This humidifier is different from the vaporizers I used before. Those ones would get mouldy and would only last a year.

    It’s a Venta Air washer. It has a turbine inside the water reservoir that slowly turns the water like a mill, so the water evaporates more slowly than with a vaporizer. And on top there’s a fan sucking air down into the wet churning turbine, so the air is being pushed through all the wet pieces of the turbine. Somehow that takes impurities out of the air, they stick to the water. And the impurities don’t evaporate, so as the water slowly evaporates you can see it getting dirtier over a few days.

    EDIT: I have a two-bedroom apartment and the one humidifier makes the whole place comfortable. It’s a really good purchase. You have to buy a liquid to add to the water though.

    I found this video that sort of explains it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvsXL0pk8Y