you should be dead and that is the only true way to be free of microplastics.

The microplastics will seep into your corpse.

I was waiting for it all to come out before I watched it. Then the consensus was that it wasn’t worth watching.

The IHOP by my place is pretty bad too. Not very clean, food tastes off.

Also check out:

• !casualuk@feddit.uk - casual conversation with people in the UK
• !general@lemmy.world - general discussion
• !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world - people saying things they need to say

If you have the right to do it, then you may find it worthile to invest the time to obtain a sample of the target’s voice.

My friend, if AIs were more like you, the world would be a better place.

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a cupcake recipe.

Not sure why/how it came back but it did: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pondering-my-orb

Yep!

When I went on vacation, I left my phone behind and took along an old smartphone with no sim card. I used the smartphone as a camera. It still received a GPS signal and I loaded off-line maps so I could use Google Maps. When I was at the hotel in the evening I checked my email and looked up local information with wifi and played games on it. But work couldn’t call me, which was nice.

I don’t know if you have a techical mindset, but think of this formally.

Let’s say we have individuals A, B, C, and D, where you are A. Maybe you can learn things about B, C, and D, but what you’re really interested in is the pairwise behavior: (A,B), (A,C), (A,D). Because B may behave differently with A than they may with C.

But B may also behave differently if D is present. So the behavior of B in the setting (A,B) is going to be different than in the setting (A, B, D). Imagine that D is the workplace manager, and you can see why.

However, professional and personal context will also play a role. Think of professional contexts a = in a work meeting, b = at work but in the cafeteria for lunch, c = in the parking lot on the way home. Think of personal contexts x = a loved one is terminally ill at home, y = their neighbors initiated a lawsuit against them, z = their sibling just had a child. In each individual’s case, they will react differently to those personal and professional contexts.

Finally, all of this is “noisy”, meaning each individual is working with limited information, and likely to misunderstand why a given person is acting the way they are. So imagine the setting (B, D) where B knows that D is going through a messy divorce. Compare it to (B, D) where B thinks that D is just annoying. Clearly this will change the behavior of B, and therefore of the interaction.

All of this may seem overwhelming, but in fact it’s fascinating. @Today@lemmy.world recommended “just follow basic social norms” and that’s great advice. Cultivate a baseline way to act professionally, accept that you may never really know why someone acts the way they do, and take a detached but interested approach to the complexities of human interaction.

• active: !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org - I’m never 100% sure what’s going on here, but it’s pretty interesting (comics)
• active: !wtf@lemmy.wtf - things that make you say “WTF!”
• active: !heathcliff@lemmy.world - daily posts of “Heathcliff without Heathcliff” comics edits that are usually pretty surreal.
• active: !jingszo@lemmy.world - weird news (sometimes leaning towards pseudoscience/conspiracy-theory)
• semi-active: !offbeat@lemmy.ca - weird news (usually from mainstream news)
• semi-active: !atbge@lemmy.world - “awful taste but great execution”
• semi-active: !13thFloor@kbin.social - was a fairly-regularly-updated collection of interesting stuff, but then the main poster “disappeared”, and another person took over for a bit but then there were kbin federation problems…
• semi-active: !the_pack@lemmy.world - I think the idea is to sound like a badass but to actually be wholesome?
• inactive: !evilveronica@lemmy.world - basically this guy complaining about his ex-wife. feelz bad for him but it was pretty entertaining. Hasn’t posted since December, hope he’s OK.

The English Bed - by Guillermo Lorca García Huidobro (2020)

I thought the swiss people seemed sometimes kinda "rude"or maybe a better word for it “cold” and a little annoyed

I have some Swiss-American relatives, and I think this is cultural. They just have a different set of indicators, they’re not going to be grinning and hugging.

I have a friend who went to London and just ate at Whole Foods all the time. So, vegans can survive.

“smoke copium, non-resident”?

visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).

This will be a key moment towards Lemmy’s growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it’s so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out !fedigrow@lemm.ee, @Blaze@reddthat.com has started posting a weekly thread on “How is your niche community doing?”

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat a machine learning algorithm.” - traditional Native American saying.

Yeah but you’re right.