LillyPip

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Americans barely know ‘acetaminophen’ , too. Some, sure. Most know Tylenol.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, this video was an bit unsettling. But perhaps after they kill us, they’ll learn that’s suboptimal?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (6 children)

Literally no Americans know what paracetamol is. Randomly ask anyone.

Americans know brand names: Tylenol, Advil, Prilosec, Ambien.

I’ll bet you could survey Americans and 999/1000 have never even have heard the word paracetamol. Or zolpidem, and slightly less often, omeprazole (though that one may be increasing due to the general state of things and subsequent need for prescriptions). Most won’t have heard anything but the brand names, and the brand names have been drilled into their heads by way of constant advertising.

US brands have spend stupid amounts of money making sure people think of their propriety name instead of the real name of any drug.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why does anyone anywhere want slaves?

It’s profitable.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 33 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

My neighbour has raised concerns about me because I’ve stopped trimming parts of my lawn to foster the bees. Apparently it’s weird and concerning to let some areas grow wild. I didn’t rake the back last year, and started to see fireflies again.

I was going to buy a wildflower mix, but that will be too unkempt.

Fuck HOAs.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

And before that, it was all kinds of slurs I shouldn’t say. It’s been here forever, we’ve only developed empathy for it recently.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 77 points 17 hours ago

Fascism has always been weird and embarrassing. And deadly. So very deadly.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why aren’t we shooting these Lemmy posts?!?!

lol, like people can’t arm themselves whilst also taking 5 minutes to post.

Are you eating? No! Shoot!
Are you pooping? No! Shoot!
Are you breathing? No! Shoot!

Don’t reply to me, you should shoot!

Stop doing what Lemmy is for, shoot your phone!!

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

At some point, other countries will stop taking these extrajudicial deportations, and guess what happens then?

(*Spoiler: Hitler did this until other countries started refusing all the deportations. Only then did he start gassing people. This is stage 1.)

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey now, let’s not judge them as American. They might be a member of the German AFD party!

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

No, but it’s good to hear what his audience is hearing, to stay abreast of what’s driving them. I’d rather know, but I can’t stomach actually listening to hours of their bullshit, so it’s nice having highlights.

Lately he’s not just lying and moneygrubbing – he’s outright inciting them, very explicitly. And enough of his audience is mentally unstable enough to do something about it.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 11 points 18 hours ago

Honestly, that’s a good choice.

 
 

Today we see if Claude, one of the big AI language models out there, would commit murder when given the chance playing hit 2015 indie RPG Undertale by Toby Fox. (Video by @Kris_Roomba)

 

Use case: sometimes I want to see my own comments in context – which is why, I assume, the ‘View parent’ option exists, but sometimes I also want to see it in the context of the whole post, for similar reasons.

In this case, I’ll tap ‘View post’’… and then lose all context, because my comment disappears into a sea of thousands, and I can’t find it again. Having the option to colour my username (like is done with mods and OP) would be very helpful.

Use case 2: sometimes I happen upon a post that I had commented in, and that post exploded after I’ve made a bunch of other comments in other posts, so I don’t want to sort through that post to see how my comment compares to the general consensus. It would be nice if I could easily see my own comments without mentally breaking the conversation flow to read every username (my brain has been trained to mostly ignore them, since that’s largely irrelevant to the conversation). Highlighting my own username would allow me to read a conversation I know I contributed to without subconsciously looking for myself between each comment. Yes, I know my own writing, but my brain still wants to do this, and it’s very slightly distracting.

Cheers, yours is literally my favourite app. Thank you for your hard work!

 
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/poetry@lemmy.world
 

Still working on these lyrics:

We were good you know, in the beginning
Safe inside the light of one another’s heart
Life was beautiful and love was easy
(And another line that maybe rhymes with heart)

All those little moments have become our memories now
But what was us has broken into me and you
We both know that it’s over, though we haven’t said it yet
And I’ll go on pretending if you say you love me still

And we’ll be fine
Just for today I’ll go on living if you say
We'll be okay

I'd really love your feedback. (e: formatting)

 

I don’t think this is available anywhere else. Flute, violin, piano. Light and airy, great chamber music. I’d be very appreciative if you’d have a look and a listen.

 

If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?

 

I haven’t seen this with alphabetical characters.

e: here’s the comment:

https://lemmy.ca/post/50654491/18661961

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