I really wish there was a better version of these kinds of graphics that showed all options better, I guess that would end up being more like a website because there’s so many and followable links are nice, it would end up looking like one of the privacy guide websites but I wish there was something that was less privacy and alternatives focused and was more about giving more options in general because not everyone cares about privacy specifically or being green or whatever else.
My photos don’t really convey the experience of watching it happen but I did get awesome pics last year. I had total coverage and got super lucky with the weather and didn’t have to leave the house. There are comments from me that has more details about how I got the photos in case anyone finds it interesting.
Oops lol just realized I just sent the link to my lunar eclipse photos, lemme fix that
This links to my photo vault that has my solar eclipse pics sprinkled in https://blog.machinations.space/photobombination/
These are my lunar eclipse pics with the more details https://lemmy.zip/post/34119331
Idk if op is in the us or not but there was a hurricane in Texas recently and apparently hurricanes will suck water from clear across the country so this summer was uncharacteristically hot, idk about the humidity, maybe the hurricane is pushing water back this way too.
Its a term that a relatively large number of businesses and people have agreed to call shoes that have zero drop and thin soles and often but not always, more flexible upper materials that are also shaped to give your toes more wiggle room so your toes actually splay outward correctly when you take steps.
Feet have a built in spring system that activates when we put enough force on it usually by going at a brisk walking pace or while running called an ankle which allows more momentum to be conserved with each step as well as less load on the rest of the body. Barefoot, also called minimalist shoes, allow people to use their feet correctly which happens to strengthen a variety of feet muscles around the toes and builds some more hard skin on the bottoms of feet so that if you step on things its less likely to hurt as well as holds onto more momentum with each step by being more dense and at the outskirts of where the momentum is going.
Highly recommend more people try some, even if only just one time for a month.
I compare barefoot shoes to a manual vs automatic transmission, its technically not a better shoe because shoes with a lot of cushion will conserve more momentum in a more ideal location like certain automatic transmissions (and yes some shoes will make you go faster and so some have been banned from races) but what a barefoot shoe will do, much like how a manual transmission will give you a sense of how the drivetrain is coming together to propel the car and it strengthens your ability to handle more environmental situations with more efficiency, which is very good for our joints long term if we can keep doing it the right way.
This does mean that we can wear regular shoes with the knowledge of how to move our feet and reap the benefits of both, but we should aim to strike a balance between a barefoot shoe and a regular shoe with a lot of cushion because both have their ups and downs and we dont have to choose between them in many cases.
I read something recently that explained every moment was like a mini death (referring to how Change is the only constant) and as such everything we do is to understand and integrate death-like processes and to see them as one cohesive whole, if we extrapolate this pattern to the process of death as a human we begin to realize that our death is so much more likely to be some pattern like that where we must question if the life we had was ever so subjectively experienced to begin with, at that point we begin to realize that our death is not to be feared any more than we should fear taking off our clothes to change them when they are dirty.
Hmm, maybe its a bias of mine because I’ve had totally the opposite experience, I knew way too much about all these kinds of things before the terms got trendy so it only ever seems like hindrance to fixing things.
I personally do not like the way that the world now tosses around autism like its a collectable, that started up with adhd and its only gotten worse, and then it started up again with autism.
I understanding the benefits of having labels for things but like, you absolutely don’t need to rush finding labels for things you experience when you can just do the things to improve your experiences that you know you need to do, and if you can’t do them this is just a sign that more focus on health habits are needed somewhere because sleep diet exercise is our bodys gas and oil that is absolutely vital to working efficiently so we don’t kill ourselves.
I saw something once that explained how you can have an ai trained on a set of soccer games and have it generate soccer games as a use for it.
The idea is that the model has compressed all the soccer games into a smaller data size form than the total of having let’s say 100+ games on video or whatever.
That’s the real utility I see in generative ai that I know can keep going basically as long as we want to.
I think what will eventually happen is much like what happened to email, it too was very fragmented feeling early on but more and more adopted it and more servers kept developing and popping up and then at some point more service providers became more similar than alike and then it became what it is now.
The tricky part is that the concept and usefulness of a federated network mostly only grows in the long run and looks like its not going anywhere in the short term much like email and that is always what makes people question its efficacy.
Participation in any and all forms is what establishes it more and more.
Lmao was not expecting this to be so wrong, a friend handed me a old book about things in the body and I was flipping through pages and posted it when I saw it.
It was associated with time so I figured it probably wasn’t just straight up false.
“I too love to rub heavily metals into my skin”…idk if anyone has said this before lol
Wait really lol? Idk how this could legally have happened? And why isnt this across the news (nobody is allowed to say some degree of “but that’s what they want you to think”) lol
I was thinking more like a community of organization within the fediverse that is people grouping together to make goals happen whether they are development of backend things or just posts to fill niches that make lemmy more comparatively useful or things outside the fediverse to get people onboarded.
Looks like a community for sub a thing doesn’t actually exist but there are a few similarly minded ones.
Maybe its time to start a grow the fediverse community todo list haha
Its nice enough that I’m even considering putting it on my parents PC when windows decides to stop updating here in a couple months
Lol woops I guess autocorrect got me with the compassion
The thing is, ai is compression of intelligence but not intelligence itself. That’s the part that confuses people. Ai is the ability to put anything describable into a compressed zip.
That wording you did there is perfect, that’s the exact kind of precise wording people need to be hearing, not this other relational wording junk.
When windows 10 stops getting supported I’m expecting to see lots of Linux noobs or at least somewhat of a noticeable spike.