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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago

My sister-in-law was diagnosed a couple of years ago. It has only improved the quality of her life by allowing her to work with her doctor on a treatment plan that has mitigated the health issues she used to struggle with.

She is currently looking at going for a PhD in the field of her chosen career.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I left Private Internet Access (PIA) for Proton VPN after the Kape acquisition years ago. Still happy with my decision and I recommend Proton VPN to anybody in the market for personal VPN services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I just stated watching The Goes Wrong Show on Amazon. Not sure if I would appreciate more than 1 episode a night, but the first one had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

 

Apparently he only does odd jobs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have they solved the racial bias issues that has plagued facial recognition systems?

 

I have been using ChatGPT because it was the big name early on and I have never really looked into any alternatives. With the rapid growth of AI assisted services, I am curious to hear what others are using.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

City of Heroes (20 year old game). As an NPC, I would be screwed, as a player character, it would be pretty sweet at for the first few days before the lack meaningful interactions and the constant "work" started to get to me.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“... guys like me who have been debanked,” Donald Trump Jr. said

I had to look up "debanked". Admitting to it has to be the financial equivalent of telling people you are a registered sex offender.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I've got a 20 year old Gmail account that I use when I need to sign up for something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Usually in this order

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  3. All - Active or Hot (not really sure what the difference is between those two)
  4. All - Top 12 hours
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

All of my music was shared on Napster in 1999.

I like to think it had a direct affect on the music selection for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and Bill Gate's decision to step down as CEO of Microsoft to focus on charitable works. But, in reality, it likely had no affect on history.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Invictus by William Ernst Henley

When I was younger I clung to it's message of perseverance. It ended up being the first poem that I ever memorized.

Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For me, it would essentially need to be a TARDIS.

Whenever I think of immortality I immediately go to the end of all other life and the idea of knowing that I would eventually be doomed to an inescapable existence of total isolation. Long before that, but hundreds of years from now, I am sure that I would go literally insane with boredom. I need to know that there will always be something new, different, and interesting. A TARDIS would allow me to go anywhere, anytime, with anyone.

I also fear eternal life in some preeminent imprisonment, either some form of external confinement, like being trapped at the bottom of the ocean by the crushing weight of the water around me, some form of locked-in syndrome. A TARDIS could operate on its own to save me from such a fate.

If eternity ever becomes too much, a TARDIS would also give some options to potentially end my existence.

 

but I've never had the seed money.

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