Even with people using more than they need we still overproduce by an alarming amount. Also someone wearing 5 shirts a day doesn’t contribute that much to consumption, just extra laundry detergent, which is a resource that can be stockpiled for a long time.

There are a lot of ways that we do over consume, though many of them just… Do kind of go away when we’re not run ragged constantly. Don’t need to buy shinies to numb the pain when the pain is gone, y’know?

A lot of overconsumption is fueled by industries doing it on purpose, too, clothing being a prime example of that. Clothes used to last, but that’s not as profitable as making things without enough seam allowance to alter them, and making them out of cloth so bad it falls apart if you even think of wearing it anyway.

Some of it is definitely personal choice, but I’d wager that most of it is down to the second one, with a runner-up being the first.

Not too far off of how a lot of AIs function, unfortunately

Oh, neat! Lemme check it ou-

Every time I die I drink a cup of tequila, and every 10 minutes I drink another

Well that seems irresponsible.

Facebook messenger. I was afraid people wouldn’t want to deal with using other chat apps, etc. DM’d everyone I knew with “Hey I’m leaving Facebook, I have XMPP, Signal, texting, and email, lemme know which one you want” and most people were fine giving me their phone number.

Turns out most people don’t care.

Everyone needs at least one friend who’s willing to break their own brain about tech, so they can host all the neat shit! Plus if everyone chips in it’s pretty cheap

You can’t on Lemmy, but can on mbin. I saw someone else mention just post, which will work for it, but I also just have a second account on a microblogging fedi platform for that, and that’s what I’d actually recommend for it. “You don’t need multiple accounts on the fediverse” yada yards, but there are certain instances where it’s helpful to have multiple, like this one xD

Yep, though with calibre in particular you want to kind of make sure it’s locked down real good. People sniff for the ports it uses, so open calibre-web libraries get found quickly, and then will usually have some attempts at cracking.

I had mine set up as a local-only thing (could only access from my home WiFi), but from experiences with other apps that have similar crawlers, it takes about a week for them to be found. Just make sure everyone’s passwords are decent, or just share one account if it’s people you trust.

I need to look into calibre-web more. I definitely tried it, but I remember it being awkward. Might give it another go to see

Ahh, I somehow missed that, my bad. I’d never even heard of that one holy shit

Right, it can generate child porn, tell kids to kill themselves, and tell you to put gasoline in your pasta sauce while while also quadrupling or more the price of hardware! Much better!

I’m not even sure where you’re getting the idea that you can’t buy drugs with crypto, though, because you absolutely can???

From what I saw from my old room mate, it worked fine as of about 6 months ago. They got lower performance than on Windows, but still ran most games over 155fps (their monitor’s refresh rate) without any notable bugs. They had one of the cards that was like $2k new a year or two ago, idr the number, I think 4090?

I mean. Useful how? At least you can but drugs with crypto. Can’t buy drugs with AI.

Hah… Haha… Hah… Ha… sigh

Fair xD I’m wondering how much of that is a true preference for not receiving (I know one person who just. Does not, because it tickles?) and how much of that is the stereotype of straight men being bad at it, though. Could be worth putting that to a poll

I… Honestly don’t even think about my adblocker enough to even think to disable certain websites in it. Generally if I like a site enough to disable ads, I’ll also generally like them enough to pay them more money than they would have gotten from me turning ads off for a year

I’d say 8 would be better, just because they can have a second term. Usually those are consecutive, but still

So. In my experience, places with a generic “No politics” rule tend to become Nazi bars very quickly. That’s not the case here, partly (I think) because it specifies US politics. Makes it more clear that this isn’t a place where the only genders are “Male” and “Political,” even if that kind of is the case in the US.

I think something akin to “Nothing about any current or former politician, or government entity” could be a way to allow discussions about certain parts of politics without others. In the communities (non-lemmy) I’ve run that’s the usual rule I have alongside some others that aren’t relevant here.

I would mention that word filters exist, but this post is a great example of why those don’t work very well in a lot of cases. “The daft orange lardsack” is a case where self-censorship ends up leading to word filters being less effective. It’s also a great way to showcase that you think body shaming is fine in certain circumstances. I, personally, disagree, and think that we can talk about his actions without mentioning his weight, but y’know. What do I know

He also has Pounded in the Butt by my own Podcast, a podcast where he gets people to read his stories. Hasn’t been updated in forever, but it’s still around.

Interspecies doesn’t even begin to describe it, though. When COVID first hit he released a few short stories for free, and one of them was “The Physical Manifestation of Washing my Hands Gets me Off”

Ehh, it’s a Christian holiday that got commercialized to sell shit. Much like with Christmas (though that has roots in… Just about every religion that came before it, and early Christians didn’t celebrate birthdays anyway). AFAIK Valentine’s day is an original Christian holiday to commemorate St. Valentino.

(I guess the 28% of women who describe giving it as pleasurable are each doing it more than 20 times in a month?)

From the people I know, the ones who enjoy it do end up giving oral 20+ times a month if they’re in relationships with partners who they live near enough to be giving it most nights.

Instead, I suspect that that number describes the number of times that sexually-active Americans

Wouldn’t surprise me, yeah

52% of men

Yeah, I mean only 59% of women do, that’s not that different? It’s not rounding errors levels, but still