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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • Hey first post on PieFed, Have any pets?

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  • Hello from Lemmy. I don't have pets, but I homebrew beer. Maybe the billions of yeast cells are my pets? Tough to keep their names straight and they keep dying off.

    I just bottled a batch of Mexican-style lager. Any name ideas? I often reference horror movies when naming beers.

  • Why US cinemagoers are dressing as Jimmy Savile to see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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  • In the US and Canada, however, the reference appears to be lost on some fans of the franchise [...] seemingly unaware of the real-life Savile scandal that inspired them.

    I'm not that optimistic. Plenty of US people would lean in all the more if they found out Savile had been "cancelled by the woke mob and ugly women angry at every harmless catcall".

  • Do you fall asleep listening to podcast, videos etc? Favorites to listen to?

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  • Awesome. I'm glad it was a fit for you and best wishes on more improvements to your sleep.

    Apparently, Richter consulted with a neuroscientist specializing in sleep on it. And Richter has a sequel, Sleep Circle, which I haven't checked out yet but have seen positive recommendations a few times online.

  • Do you fall asleep listening to podcast, videos etc? Favorites to listen to?

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  • Yep, lately it's been Max Richter 's album Sleep.

    Supplemented with eye mask, melatonin, and an attempt to keep bedtime and wake up hours very consistent. When I can't sleep, sometimes the last resort is to go sleep somewhere else, like the living room couch or the guest bedroom. For some reason, that can break me out of the rut and fall asleep.

  • To you, what makes a movie a GREAT movie?

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  • I like your answer.

    I was thinking of some of my favorite movies. Some I like that subvert their genre's tropes. Others I like are examples of excelling at the genre; being the ideal of that genre. And even "bad" can be good if it's interesting in its badness. I think of Nicolas Cage movies, his "nouveau shamanic" acting style is over the top and ridiculous at times but his movies still entertain and call for discussion.

  • Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?

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  • When my brother's brother-in-law passed, he gave all that to my brother. Both on the high end of tech/self-hosting capabilities. I've come to the conclusion much of it wasn't worth it.

    I'll be focusing on ensuring access to financial accounts is passed on cleanly. And I'm working on digitizing all remaining physical photo negatives, then planning how to share all digitally with family while still alive. Since I don't expect any to be interested in maintaining a server after I'm gone, I'm thinking I'll keep it simple and just give everyone an external hard drive with all the photos. It's up to them to do what they want with the drive. A copy to each sibling is increases odds it's survives for a generation.

    I'll make project notes and plans available to anyone interested, but no hard feelings if no one is interested. And my music and movies can disappear for all I care. My tastes are pretty mainstream so I'm not thinking about archival value.

  • Waiting in the queue at the gate; why do people rush?

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  • I try to get ticketed for window seats. And so I want to get on before the middle and aisle people sit down to avoid them having to get right back up to let me in.

  • I've heard pro and con that addiction to whatever is genetic kind of like balding. Has there been a defentive to prove yes or no?

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  • Not medical advice unless it's to answer with solid sources.

    Forums like this are better for opinion-based questions. Like, "do you have advice on how to talk to a 10-year old about our family history of alcoholism?" To which my answer would include getting their facts straight so as not to confuse genetic predisposition for alcoholism and genetic alcoholism. The latter is not a thing.

  • I've heard pro and con that addiction to whatever is genetic kind of like balding. Has there been a defentive to prove yes or no?

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  • And I answered. Find a real source and not a bunch of pseudonymous internet randos with no medical background. Don't get medical advice from social media, people!

  • I've heard pro and con that addiction to whatever is genetic kind of like balding. Has there been a defentive to prove yes or no?

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  • Alcoholism isn't genetic. A predisposition for it is.

    This is an easy websearch, keywords "alcohol predisposition genetic". Please inform yourself before you traumatize a ten year old.

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    Americans, what do you have to say to people who lived through governments being over thrown at the hands of your country?

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    Americans, what do you have to say to people who lived through governments being over thrown at the hands of your country?

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  • How old did you get your driver's license? Did you learn driving from a driving school or from parents? (or some friend or relative?)

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  • My home state had a permit for that too, certain vehicles I could drive on certain roads under restrictive speed limits. So I could, like, drive a tractor or farm truck with the right license plates down county roads to another field.

    That was separate from a school permit. The nearest school bus stop to me was miles away and didn't go directly to my school so I would have spent 3+ hours per school day on multiple buses if I hadn't been able to drive myself in. Not to mention sports on weekends and other stuff where the normal school day bus wasn't running. My permit restricted the hours I could drive, it had to be to or from school or jobs, and I couldn't give anyone rides other than siblings. I think I wasn't supposed to drive on the interstate too.

  • Fellow Americans, you likely have at LEAST one billionaire living near you, fyi.

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  • Like the local sex offender website gets a drop down menu to switch it to showing billionaires?

    Kinda surprised NH has no billionaires.

  • I'm gonna chemically castrate myself, should I tell my parents? (I am 26)

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  • Personally, at 26 I wouldn't tell my parents about reversible drugs I'm trying out under doctor supervision to help with mental issues. But at 26 I also wasn't rushing into chemical therapies against the advice of my psychiatrist. So maybe you need your parents or other trusted person to be a sounding board while you make a decision.

    And seems like the same with any large medical decisions, it may be worth getting a second opinion from another doctor.

  • How old did you get your driver's license? Did you learn driving from a driving school or from parents? (or some friend or relative?)

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  • 13, special license in some US states for kids who live out in the middle of nowhere so they can get to school.

    Learned from parents, grandparents, siblings, being around trucks and tractors and motorcycles since I was a toddler. I knew how to drive long before I got a license.

  • Which movie would take you longest amount of time into the movie before you realize it's playing at 1.25x speed?

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  • I routinely watch scrub movies on 1.5-1.75x speed while bopping around the house, multitasking cleaning and hobbies and pacing. It would be pretty darn tough for me to differentiate between 1.0x and 1.25x for a lot of movies as both are slower than what I frequently watch.

    My most frequent rewatch is Ready or Not (2019) and I'm not sure id notice 1.25x speed at all.

    (I do still sit down and watch at 1.0x speed new-to-me movies I care about, before anyone gets too twisted about my not appreciating art)

  • First Poster for "Masters of the Universe"

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  • Goddamit. I was hoping that was just a meme people were starting to say about any cast list. But no, that creep is actually in the movie.

    I so want to know who's sex tapes he has that gives him this much blackmail leverage.

  • What item in the house do you secretly want to break so you can replace it?

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  • Carpets and whatever is restricting whole house water pressure to the low point it's at.

    I dig the house I'm renting at the moment, but swapping carpets for hardwood or laminate and bumping up the water pressure in the showers would make it near perfect.

    After that, next up would be the grass. I don't know what "breaking" it for replacement would look like, a plague of locusts wiping it out? But I'd replace it with something lower maintenance so it uses less water and needs to be mowed less frequently.

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    My College administration supports AI, what do I do?

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  • LLMs and other AI tools are just that, tools. They can be used ethically or unethically. Use the opportunity to learn about them so you can use them judiciously in your career and effectively argue against their use when the situation calls for it.