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  • Where can I design a poster ? Some ai tool ? Some other tool ?

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  • What do you want to do with your poster? Will this be used as a meme or will it actually go to a printer or be displayed on a high-res screen? If it's just a meme thing, any image creator AI will do. Most of them have free options.

    If this will actually go to a printer, you'll need high resolution images and would do well to design it in a vector format, SVG for open source software: Inkscape is free to install on computers, vector-ink is a thing for mobile and the web as well. Adobe Illustrator for the corporate expensive route. Big file sizes work better on a good computer so YMMV.

  • Doorbell rang; I didn't answer. Later noticed porch vid showed teen girl needing help. How do I stop kicking myself for not answering?

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  • I get why the feelings sucks. You're in your head and somehow only the worst possible outcomes ruminate. You've called the cops, good on you.

    You're not in charge of the world, there ought to be others who are charged with taking care of that girl. Their failure in preventing her from showing up on your porch is not your fault either and she's their responsibility, not yours. Keep repeating that in your head.

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  • I know. What you have hit upon here is my obviously unsuccessful attempt at making these people look more ridiculous than the OG death cult.

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  • I think this USSR quote is a good answer:

    We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

    (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

    In any authoritarian system where indoctrination starts young you'll probably have a fifth of the population that's high on the coolaid or never questioned anything due to ideology or intelligence (or both). The rest know they're lying, etc. And keep their mouths shut because they don't want to go to Siberia or El Salvador.

  • Crazy idea, a phone setting that when enabled changes touch sensitivity settings to be more selective of touch inputs while in the shower..

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  • I'm not going to press you on an answer about your emotions if you don't want to tell. You probably have it in you to change your behavior. If the bad touch response is frustrating you, there is probably a time span you can aim for in a shower that will be equally frustrating but without using the phone. Find that time.

    Showers can be an incredibly wasteful way of washing. Finding ways to make them longer, especially on the reg, is something to consider avoiding.

  • Crazy idea, a phone setting that when enabled changes touch sensitivity settings to be more selective of touch inputs while in the shower..

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  • What emotions are you having that cannot deal with 5-10 minutes of pure bodily hygiene focus?

  • 'Make America Great Again': are MAGA monarchists?

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  • No. At least not yet. I don't think they will be because that would entail having any of 47's children succeed him. And I feel like they know they are a shade duller than Hegseth.

  • Everyone uses 4d chess as the example of more intense gambits when 3d chess should suffice because chess is a 2d game

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  • You have unlocked the stylistic tool of the hyperbole.

  • YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...

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  • Hands up if you didn't already know that. Or intuited it. To me this seems to be something only US-Americans who argue purely ideologically for a "small government" need reminding of. They're paradoxically often the first in line calling for government intervention when their drinking water is full of poop or something.

  • Crazy idea, a phone setting that when enabled changes touch sensitivity settings to be more selective of touch inputs while in the shower..

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  • I think technologically this is something an engineering team should tackle. It would probably benefit people who use touch devices for work in dirty and wet environments as well.

    How long do you spend in the shower that you have time to doom scroll? Maybe it's time to switch to baths if you have a tub. If you don't, I would boringly suggest just not taking the phone into the shower if you know that the touch sensor will be wonky. It may speed up the shower and lessen your water consumption as a side effect. That's good for your wallet and the environment. The internet can wait 5-10.

    I get the meditative effect of a hot shower after a long day. I enjoy that on occasion as well. At no point did I ever think the experience would be improved by a cell phone with a camera being present.

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  • I think you need to be more specific with the query. If I'm the only passenger plus crew, yes. If the plane is full of people going to a place to help out, no. If this flight could be done by train without multiplying door-to-door travel time more than 2.5 times, yes. If my blood type or bone marrow was so rare I could save a life, I think I'd be okay again even if I was a lone passenger. There is plenty of gray here to consider.

  • Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you?

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  • Did you skip high school? You're equating normal with socially desirable. I don't. There are plenty of people who behave normally while not being nice. E.g. bullies, mean girls. Some of them never grow out of it.

  • Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you?

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  • I beg to differ. If I were a c-word, this behavior would be par for the course.

  • Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you?

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  • This is not the behavior of a friend.

  • Does Jean-Luc Picard have a large nose by your standards?

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  • By European standards nothing to write home about. By Asian standards, a Mount Everestrian protrusion.

  • 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached?

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  • I don't mind your suggestion. I think universal mail-ins are a good idea. At the same time, I have an inkling that you didn't read my comment all the way to the end.

  • 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached?

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  • I have sympathy for non-voters in the US. Not so much out of principle but because of how it is done. Voting takes place on a Tuesday. That's because in ye olden days you had to allow people to attend church on Sunday before making the trip on horseback to participate in the election. That's a cute tradition but clashes with the way the economy works today. People are very dependent on their low-wage jobs that they can be fired from easily. If you're working two of those jobs to make ends meet, you may not have the "luxury" to skip work to go and vote on a normal weekday. That luxury often includes having to fill in a booklet of stuff that's on the ballot. You're not just voting on a president, a senator, or a congressperson. You may be asked your option on a plebiscite, a judge, a sheriff, a school board, etc. It is overinflated in my view and explains long slow moving lines at ballot stations that you don't often see elsewhere. And that's after a possibly Kafkaesque registration process to be eligible in the first place or to get mail-ins in some states. It is almost designed to keep people away. Maybe you're taking these structural problems as something "politicians cling to."

    Make election day a public holiday that forces businesses who are open anyway to allow all their employees to go and vote.

  • 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached?

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  • I'm being put in a difficult situation here because I'm gonna have to go ahead and defend the American "snowflakes." When it comes to interpreting the phrase "free elections" I think all democracies or close enough to that (which therefore includes the US) chose to say free means you're also free not to participate. Except for the Aussies. And while I'm not an American snowflake, I'm still a snowflake because I agree with that interpretation. It wouldn't just ruffle feathers in the US if mandatory election participation was prescribed. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Horse = voter, drink = vote. And I don't think the Aussie governments of the last two decades have proven to be superior because they're backed by a larger voter base. Remember the guy who ate raw onions?

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  • Lenmy offers me the freedom to get mad at many different people running instances and not just one godforsaken company running roughshod over everything communities had created over years.

    I'm not mad at anyone though because I don't share your views at all. I'm a happy Lemmy user.

    And what is Lemmy dot world acting like at night?

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    French Revolution Redux

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  • I'm going to say yes and no to that one. At the time they establish forevermore what is left-wing and what is right-wing, we're past the estates general being called and I think also past the tennis court oath. For me, that's already revolutionary times, they just haven't cut Louie's head off yet.

    Before that, I don't think there was much exchange between the second and the third estate. I am sure there were nobles who were willing to change things around. But it also wasn't a case where the second and the third estate, and maybe even the king, could agree on something and that would've been the end of that. France was riddled by internal fiefdoms with their own dumb trumpian tariffs. Any relief for the third would have had to involve rationalizing the economy and there were powerful lobbies (like the farmer general) who wouldn't like that. Plus, people were hungry and hungry people don't think straight. And Louie would've preferred to stick his head in the sand anyway and other than maybe Necker none of his ministers satisfied the requirements of "forward looking."