I apparently DO get sleep paralysis, I just didn’t know it because I only sleep on my sides and it doesn’t affect you the same way if you’re not on your back. Somehow the part of your brain that immobilizes sleeping you to keep you from actually physically acting out every motion you make while dreaming doesn’t deem your core paralyze-worthy if you’re on one side. Just your arms/legs.
I have occasionally gotten it if I’ve accidentally ended up on my back, and it happens every time I DO end up on my back, but I never connected the dots.
Weirdly enough, it’s never been scary for me, even when it extended to my face and I couldn’t open my eyes, but I’ve also been lucid dreaming since, like, first grade.
Microsoft's secret CADMUS project will finally be unveiled on Monday as the company outlines its vision for the future of Windows PCs, with Arm at the forefront.
Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.
Reaganomics won’t be on it’s last legs until we publicly admit all of the domestic harm his domestic economic policies did and start reversing them and everything that piled onto the spirit of them in later decades.
At Bella’s Hacienda Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the rural Nevada truckstop town of Wells, a half-priced special for adult male virgins this May has gone off with a bang....
There’s an australian show from a decade or two ago called “Satisfaction” set around a legal brothel that I’m pretty sure tackled this sort of thing (ans a whole host of others) at least once.
As someone raised in a wildly conservative household I found it very eye-opening in my 20’s\30’s. It put what would probably been considered a very human slant on the whole sex worker industry at the time. Not sure how it holds up nowadays, though.
I’ve seen jeans with enough dirt caked on them that they’ll stand upright in their own (I once replaced the centre support beam on a cottage built on virginia clay by hoisting it up with a bunch of car jacks) but it never occurred to me to try growing strawberries on them.
To this day I’m amazed they got that one by the censors. (Animaniacs. They’re being detectives. Yakko wears a sherlock hat, orders wakko to do one thing and then tells dot to look for prints. Dot comes back holding Prince out front of her off the ground with both her arms and says “Found him!” Yakko waggles his hands at her and says FINGERprints. Dot says “Ew!” And throws Prince down a laundry chute or a dumbwaiter or something)
Without any concept of where the dude stands and knowing nothing more about him than the majority of hollywood leans more left than it does right, I took that “fresh wind” thing as comparing Trump to a fart without outright saying it.
Yeah, I just looked up the quote. Why in the actual fuck the journalist asked him this is beyond me, but here we have it:
What do you think of Donald Trump?
I have no idea, I’ve never met him. He’s obviously not the classic politician, that’s for sure. I can definitely laugh at some of the stuff he says but I can also go, “Oh my God, did he say that?” I think he’s a fresh wind for some people, but that’s what you’re voting for, I guess, right? It’s a big job.
As answers go, it’s pretty non-commital I suppose but not encouraging.
So I have been a part of this community for a while and it seems pretty quiet. I know Lemmy is not as big as Reddit so this community will always be much smaller but I kind of miss the activity on r/sysadmin. Infinity for Reddit still works for view only so I have been scrolling though posts on Reddit as some of the stories and...
With proper, consistent, non-extreme consequences to poor choices at home, children can usually extrapolate without the need for the application of “serious” punishments.
That whole “scared into good behaviour” thing is bullshit punishment escalation that’s typically only deemed “necessary” when the “discipline” situation at home is random, inequal, unjust, and therefore difficult to understand as a framework in life from the ages where such behavioural patterns are formed.
That’s not to say some people won’t continue to make poor choices anyway, but scarring children emotionally isn’t an appropriate “solution” to that.
One-on-one individualized attention coupled with understanding and empathy is the thing to start with there.
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine’s unstoppable force.
Yeah, I’m no marketing guru, but I feel their actual point would have been better conveyed by a pile of all of the things the iPad replaced slowly gathering dust, spider webs, and eventually archaeologists.
And while it hurts now, it’s REALLY going to hurt when large swaths of useful answers that don’t exist anywhere else are gone and there’s nothing replacing them.
Noone writes hundreds of pages of documentation for their stuff anymore. Without the collected knowledge learned from experience there, what do we have?
Unless we have source code to read, very little.
I’m still feeling the pain of google search results sucking combined with most of the large coding forums being gone and reddit slowly going to garbage. Stack Overflow was the last bastion of collected knowledge of it’s type… and it’s not like it was 25 years ago where we still had phonebook-sized manuals for almost all major software because agile has killed the concept of exhaustive definitive documentation for a given version of something.
I used to sorta roll my eyes at people shouting about federating everything, but at this point I’m scared and agreeing with them.
It’s rare that an actor is SO good in a villain role that I see their face on something else and have a negative gut reaction years later.
Ronnie Cox made Senator Kinsey INCREDIBLY memorably hateable.
Honestly I think the abject cowardice did the most for me in that regard. Cox really sold every last bit of that part, down to the disbelief on being told no.
For example, I remember the time when American Idiot by Green Day came out in 2004. The song “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was everywhere on the radio. The song is about the death of the vocalist’s father dying when he was age 10....
Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....
I thought quest64 happened because square told nintendo to go pound sand, released FF7 on the PS and left previously-leader-of-the-jrpg-pack nintendo with fuck all?
like, snes had TONS of good rpg’s, and the 64 had nothing, despite people clamoring for the things.
I seem to recall it was intended to fill a gap and was instead used to prove “see? Nobody likes these games!”.
Here's how I got rid of my sleep paralysis problem (Feel free to add your own tips)
I used to get it a few times a week. Now it’s down to about 3 times in 10 years. In case this helps anyone, here is what I do:...
The Windows PC is about to get GOOD, and you can thank Windows on Arm for that (www.windowscentral.com)
Microsoft's secret CADMUS project will finally be unveiled on Monday as the company outlines its vision for the future of Windows PCs, with Arm at the forefront.
Reaganomics Is on Its Last Legs (www.theatlantic.com)
Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.
‘More like therapists’: adult virgins turn to Nevada brothels for sex – and healing (www.theguardian.com)
At Bella’s Hacienda Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the rural Nevada truckstop town of Wells, a half-priced special for adult male virgins this May has gone off with a bang....
What vegetables and fruits do you wish were commonly available in the US?
Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’...
A few days late, but a timeless message
Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive (www.youtube.com)
r/sysadmin and the size of this community
So I have been a part of this community for a while and it seems pretty quiet. I know Lemmy is not as big as Reddit so this community will always be much smaller but I kind of miss the activity on r/sysadmin. Infinity for Reddit still works for view only so I have been scrolling though posts on Reddit as some of the stories and...
Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools (www.cbsnews.com)
“Don’t make a wrong move,” the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. “Period.”...
Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad (www.theregister.com)
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine’s unstoppable force.
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
gottem (i.imgur.com)
Wizard (slrpnk.net)
Sorry Kinsey, I couldn't hear you over the sound of all these false gods dying (files.catbox.moe)
Donald Trump says Democrats wanted him to overturn Roe v. Wade (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months (www.newshub.co.nz)
Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix (www.pcworld.com)
A little girl said monsters were in her bedroom. It was 60,000 bees (www.bbc.co.uk)
What are some songs that you associate with it's original meaning than what people always associate it with?
For example, I remember the time when American Idiot by Green Day came out in 2004. The song “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was everywhere on the radio. The song is about the death of the vocalist’s father dying when he was age 10....
Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....
Priorities (lemmy.world)