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It's a quote from the movie Blade Runner. It's meant to produce involuntary emotional responses in humans, to tell them apart from robots.

I have not been able to find this again, but I swear that I once read a study where they had measured oxytocin levels while stimulating a badgers nipples. I just want to see the person who did this. Anyways, it worked as expected, and they had some data on which frequency worked best. Iirc it was one slow stroke every 1.5 seconds. Which is kind of the pace I pet cats to relax.

Steve, I just read this whole exchange between you and the other person, and I just want you to know that it was beautiful. You are the kind of person that we need for the public discourse and democracy to work.

My family will never ditch proprietary apps. It's either me having to have a complicated setup with multiple phones or profiles in grapheneos to talk to them, or being able to use a third-party app I can be ok with having on my main phone. Even if our communication is not private, I'd love to be able to just not have whatsapp installed in any way. That would be good for me.

In my work I've been around many things that can be considered gross. Cutting away dead flesh around a bed sore that's a big rotting hole into the body, a woman eating her own feces like a mars bar, etc. One time I slipped and fell into a puddle that was a mix of edema fluids leaking through the skin, and urine. After a while you get desensitized, and it's just... matter. Atoms. I saw this woman who fell and her head went into the ground hard and blood just pumped out of her head into her long hair, it was like one big lump of hair that soaked up the blood, she lived for a day after that and I held her hand when she died. It's a strange thing to be around dying people all the time, I'm not sure if I've made peace with it or if I'm broken in some way.

The decentralization is the new and interesting aspect. If that doesn't matter to you then lemmy might not offer what you're looking for.

A narrative? Like, "Not only am I naked, I'm on my way to... water the plants. They are thirsty, and so am I... In the background, dimly lit, you can see an ESP32 microcontroller... yup, that's the kind of guy I am... oh my, I can do pulse width modulation with my bare hands..."

I haven't tried typst, how does it compare to plain TeX?

As a TeX hobbyist, I would argue that they serve slightly different purposes. Plain TeX is for typography, the workflow is that of low level control where your human judgement is needed for interventions and decisions. LaTeX serves a different purpose, it aides the author of a text to focus on the content while abstracting away the underlying inherent problems in fitting letters on a page. TeX is small, difficult, but simple. LaTeX is huge, with 30 years of abstractions built on top of abstractions, until nowadays few people know how to actually deal with an overfull or underfull hbox the right way.

You can use a mastodon frontend that doesn't require js.

ANDRUM or FJÄTTRA could work.

Purely anecdotal, but the dominance/submission dynamic is something that many women seem to actually want. I have never steered things in that direction since it's not my thing, but everyone I have been with has asked for some actions like that, being held down, light choking, some pain, etc. Remember how popular 50 shades was? It saddened me, like, "this is what mainstream women actually want"? It's not what I want.