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At some point, when I was a kid, I latched on to the idea that being comfortable and satisfied was bad.

I used this as a drive to push myself to try new things and to reach higher goals, but also as an excuse to behave in self destructive ways.

Comfort isn't the enemy. Satisfaction and joy are good and healthy. Things can end, that's okay. Good, even.

If you, like me, bought this myth: consider being kind to yourself. That doesn't mean you have to stop growing, but it absolutely does mean you're allowed to enjoy what you have.
Take a walk through the clouds. Reach out and become part of the sky.

Find the nearest true wilderness and spend a few hours in the middle of it.

Clean up someone else's mess.
Mx. Luna Corbden mastodon (AP)
Have you heard Death Cab’s Foxglove Through the Clearcut? (Acoustic version is best)

Cleaning up someone else’s mess in the wilderness reminds me of that, the line “No one seems interested in fixing what they’ve broken, they just sweep the pieces into the bushes and slip away.”

Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL that average human height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm) 10,000 years ago and it took until the 20th century for average human height to match pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.

http://www.hormones.gr/127/article/article.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eccjw6/til_that_average_human_height_went_down_from_510/

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1361059/ J.D. Vance Endorses a National Abortion Ban and Said It Is Necessary to Keep George Soros From Flying “Black Women” to California for Abortions #america #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #UsNews #usa #UsaNews #WeThePeople
J.D. Vance Endorses a National Abortion Ban and Said It Is Necessary to Keep George Soros From Flying “Black Women” to California for Abortions

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1359066/ Russia is offering Moscow residents a record $22,000 to fight in Ukraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Russia is offering Moscow residents a record $22,000 to fight in Ukraine

David August mastodon (AP)
Tulsi Gabbard called Kamala Harris “the maidservant of Hillary Clinton, queen of the cabal of warmongers.” I’m really glad Tulsi is getting good use out of the “How to talk in a way to get people to ignore you” lessons she took.

#news #satire #parody #comedy #sketch #SketchComedy #TulsiGabbard #KamalaHarris #HillaryClinton #politics #political #USpolitics #USpol
OtownKim mastodon (AP)
Tulsi is a nasty Russian asset!!

🇨🇳🤔 "Recently, Russian and Ukrainian sides have signaled that they are ready for negotiations. Although the conditions and time are not yet arrive, we support all efforts that promote peace," - Wang Yi

❗️ "We are ready to mediate in the organization of peace talks", he said.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1361056/ Harris, 20 Years Younger Than Trump, Leaves Republicans Scrambling To Escape Their Own ‘Too Old to Be President’ Trap #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews
Harris, 20 Years Younger Than Trump, Leaves Republicans Scrambling To Escape Their Own 'Too Old to Be President' Trap

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
I remember the days when we did a search and the top link was not an ad !

Hugz & xXx
Jigme Datse mastodon (AP)
@JamesK Just the right age...
Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
@JamesK @jigmedatse

Giggles ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

LA Legault 🇨🇦 mastodon (AP)
And that’s a wrap. 2 hours, $2M 💅 your turn, boys.

Flipboard Tech Desk mastodon (AP)
President Joe Biden is still running for re-election, Donald Trump wasn’t shot, and Kamala Harris is not a contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination — that’s all according to ChatGPT as of yesterday, reports BGR.

We have seen multiple examples recently of why relying on AI to deliver accurate information is foolish at best, and dangerous at worst, but BGR asks whether we should really be expecting more from technology we are so often told is close to “human-level intelligence.”

https://flip.it/Etnof-

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbot #ChatGPT #LLM
Chewie mastodon (AP)
well, it does clarify it further down.

Maybe to "be shot" in AI land the bullet has to penetrate?
Chewie mastodon (AP)
it's it because you have to pay for more recent datasets?

But yes, that is not obvious, and should be showing as a massive disclaimer.

gods this guy is a pig

Elon Musk Causes Uproar With 'My Son Xavier Is Dead' Remark


"And so I lost my son, essentially. So, you know, they, they call it deadnaming for a reason. Alright. So the the reason it's called deadnaming is because your son is dead. So my son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-causes-uproar-son-201533796.html
That's at least his 2nd kid with an X name... he is obsessed with X
It marks his spot. Somewhere between #Muskville and the land of #TrumpVirus.

一口气买了3张话剧票,感觉好爽

second hoax for him in a month... but let's talk about Biden's mental capacity

GOP senator falls for sexually explicit Jimmy Carter death hoax


Lee posted an image of a fake letter purporting to be from the Office of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, announcing the ex-president's death.

One look at the letter's contents, however, would have immediately indicated that it was fake.

The letter listed "getting soft on the Soviet Union" and "failing to rescue several hostages from Iran" as among Carter's "significant foreign policy achievements."

The letter also quoted Carter as making lewd sexual references to both his late wife Rosalynn and former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

"Rosalynn was a baddie. Jill, Melania, even throat goat Nancy Reagan had nothing on Rosalynn," the letter falsely quoted Carter as saying. "She was the original Brat. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it."

Spokespeople for Lee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This isn't the first time, even this month, that Lee has fallen for an online hoax.

On July 5, Lee spread an unverified and ultimately false report that President Joe Biden was suffering a medical emergency on Air Force One.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-falls-sexually-explicit-161140922.html
frater chaos diaspora
hey now, give the guy a break already... the competition to take over Louis Gohmert's place as the dumbest person in government is very stiff...
meanwhile back on the hill, he's running a perennial dead fish up the flagpole—yet another bill to end home rule for DC, as if they aren't already taxed without representation

Steve Silberman mastodon (AP)
Current status of the Trump campaign: Shitting his pants in a brown flood down both legs.
TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! 2024- July 25, 2024- Trump Campaign Statement on General Election Debates "Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee. There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party - namely Barack Hussein Obama - that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone 'better.' Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds."
OtownKim mastodon (AP)
😂😂😂😂

when the leopards eat the chief leopard's face... you love to see it

​'U lost my vote': Trump's fans respond to his latest statement with criticism and bigotry - Raw Story


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-u-lost-my-vote-dearborn-michigan-police/

backup: https://archive.ph/wPKZ0
frater chaos diaspora
"Back the Blue" (unless he's brown)
or unless they're keeping you from hanging Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi

@12thRITS Gotta have a good char.
glasspshr mastodon (AP)
@12thRITS

Not just for steel anymore!

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1361030/ Harris says she ‘will not be silent’ about humanitarian toll in Gaza #america #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #UsNews #usa #UsaNews #WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates
Harris says she 'will not be silent' about humanitarian toll in Gaza

Human attributes for alien contact

Lets say you get abducted by aliens.

They inform you that they want to make contact with human individuals, not the entire humanity. They have a limited telepathy and can "scan" for human mental traits like spiritualistic / non-spiritualistic, artistic / non-artistic, introverted / extroverted, anxious / chill, low / med / high IQ, technology oriented, business savvy, mathematically gifted, socially gifted, scientific, etc.

They want you to define traits that would make encounters go smoothly and be representative of humans.

Without knowing anything about those aliens or their interests. What is your answer?
hedgehog lemmy (AP)
It sounds like they want a representative sample, which isn’t something I’d be confident in my ability to help them with directly, so I’d advise them to first scan for a person who’s very experienced in statistical sampling and to then work with that person to determine a strategy that will meet their goals.

If they weren’t on board with that plan, then I’d see if they were willing to share their target sample size. If I didn’t have an option for the count I would assume they would be contacting 1% of the population (80 million people). I’d also let them know that being representative and selecting for traits that will make encounters go smoothly are conflicting goals, so I’m prioritizing for representation and they can figure out the “please don’t pull a shotgun out, human!” trait on their own. Depending on all that, I’d recommend an approach that accounted for as much of the following as possible.
  • gender (male, female, non-binary)
  • race
  • culture and sub-culture (so this would include everything from religion to music to hobbies)
  • profession
  • age, broken down into micro-generations
  • mix of neurotypical and neurodivergent
  • different varieties of neurodivergence
  • range of intelligences
RBWells lemmy (AP)
Nobody who is an aliens conspiracy person, they wouldn't be believed. Schizophrenia I think would let someone receive telepathy but again, unreliable.

If they can abduct me, and communicate with me, why do they want to communicate telepathically with the rest of humanity, why not contact using technology, our technology? If they were so very different there is no way they could communicate that idea to me clearly.


Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the ISS until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule. https://apnews.com/article/boeing-astronauts-nasa-capsule-starliner-479f3bb94f142a7dcd9ce2f82fcf40c2
Kevin Leecaster reshared this.
Bishop Whitewind mastodon (AP)
they going to die in space then 😭

My wife was released from the hospital today and she is home and well and I am so happy. This made my day.
I hope something good happens to you today as well.


CynAq🤘 mastodon (AP)
If you have several thousand followers and you’re upset about random people’s ability to reply to your posts instead of the horrible content of their replies, you’re just bitter that you don’t have a gig at a major old school newspaper.

Otherwise you’d be posting on your blog.

The fact that you’re on social media shows your desire to reach a larger audience than you can manage on your own. Incidentally, the mechanics of the platform providing you free reach also allows other people to reply to you, because that’s the entire point of such platforms. That’s what makes social media distinct from other types of media.

AI6YR Ben mastodon (AP)
Global News: Jasper wildfire: Up to 50% of townsite may have been destroyed (Jasper, Canada). https://globalnews.ca/news/10642975/jasper-alberta-wildfire-july-25/
#Jasper #JasperNationalPark #wildfires #ABwx #ABfires

AI6YR Ben mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Politics, parking, Dunkin Donuts, Trump


I'm just gonna leave this here:
CATS AGAINST JD VANCE 

BECAUSE HE WOULD BE A CAT-TASTROPHE 

PAID FOR BY CHILDLESS CAT LADIES OF AMERICA And the “Neuter Vance 2024
Rik D'huyvetters mastodon (AP)
Frodo agrees.
The head of a sphinx kitten poking out of his furry bed with the light of hope shining behind him.
Roger Moore mastodon (AP)
Why do childless cat ladies get all the attention? What about us childless cat men? I demand to be insulted equally!


Dan Gillmor mastodon (AP)
That was quick.

Big Journalism no longer covers the question of whether the presidential candidate of one of the two major parties is too old and impaired.

This is because Big Journalism defines impairment as mumbling quietly, as opposed to launching firehoses of degranged, twisted verbal sewage.

It didn't cover Trump's impairment before, and it's certainly not about to start now.
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Spocko mastodon (AP)
the Trump campaign use# Privacy laws to avoid talking about Trump's obvious health issues. It appears that they respect the law & norms. If you were someone covering Trump's health, (physical & mental) what steps would you take to get authentic answers from verified sources?

Looks like my next folktale collection is going to be about misunderstood animals 🥰😊 What are your favorite misunderstood, misrepresented, or underappreciated animals?

#nature #animals #folklore #folktales #AmWriting #storytelling
Dan Neuman hometown (AP)
Platypuses should be in there, though their situation may be more of bewilderment than misunderstanding.

Beavers are misunderstood. They save forest stands and seem to hate the sound of running water.

William Gillis 🏴 mastodon (AP)
Big developments in our house tonight as we learn that the Driscoll’s berry boycott we've been studiously obeying ended in 2016.
HeavenlyPossum mastodon (AP)
Cautiously, you emerge from the jungle undergrowth. A crowd awaits you. “The war has been over for decades,” they gently tell you. “It’s time to come home.”

Kevin C 🎬 mastodon (AP)
#AllStarTrek I need to engrave that #Quark pep talk in bronze and hang it at my desk at work. 🤦‍♂️😄
#StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #PlayingGod
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=jDJcg7uM-Js&si=xeSaJr2yVM1Nxzuz
⛔️🇪🇺EU Chaos: A expulsion clause must be created in the EU to rid the Union of non-European, pro-Russian countries whose diplomacy is based on blackmail (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #Mastodon #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

nixCraft 🐧 mastodon (AP)
Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github #github #privacy #security #infosec
You had me worried for a sec, I thought my private repo full of notes and docs was compromised but no since I haven't forked it and never plan to make it public
1link mastodon (AP)
what....

Laffy mastodon (AP)
Vice President #Harris: 1/2🧵

"Israel has a right to defend itself, and how it does so matters."

"The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time — we cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent."
TP reshared this.
Laffy mastodon (AP)
2/2 "So to everyone who has been calling for a ceasefire, and to everyone who yearns for peace, I see you and I hear you. Let's get the deal done so we can get a cease fire to end the war. Let's bring the hostages home, and let's provide much needed relief to the Palestinian people, and ultimately, I remain committed to a path forward that can lead to a two-state solution."
Linda mastodon (AP)
unless she stops funding and selling / sendings arms to Israel this is no different than Biden’s stance

Missing The Point mastodon (AP)
Breaking: American Upholsterers Association obtains restraining order against JD Vance.

Content warning: unpopular opinion: wildfires


Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
There is a big bus going up Albion Street ... This might be fun ... Giggles

At the other end, the road narrows and has a lane divider there too ... Giggles

I'll finish my lunch before I check it all out

Hugz & xXx
Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
No sighting of the bus ... Pout

Hugz & xXx

WYLD_STALLYNS ActivityPub

Help, looking for laser printer recommendations, rough around 100-200 range?

There’s so many models and companies these days and hard to know what’s quality and refills won’t cost an arm and a leg, or what long term will last at least half a decade.
Previously went with Inkjet printers, but I’m done with them since I rarely print photos. TIA for any recommendations and thoughts on your experiences on this!

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled today that consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, rejecting a suit by a man who suffered serious medical complications after getting a bone stuck in his throat. Justice Joseph T. Deters wrote: "A diner reading ‘boneless wings’ on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating ‘chicken fingers’ would know that he had not been served fingers.” The dissenting justices called Deters' reasoning "utter jabberwocky." Here's more from the AP.

https://flip.it/WdQmZb

#Food #Health #USLaw #Law #Ohio

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