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  • Its generic slop by anime standards. Like yeah anime is meant for teenagers and young adults so you can’t be too critical over fanservice or flat YA novel Gary sue tier character writing or forgetting to write an actually compelling reason for the villain doing the bad thing at the start by the time the story wraps up. But you can at least try you know?

    Anime in general is not meant to be high art but SAO goes the extra mile to be uninteresting bland slop that appeals to the lowest common denominator. Young nerdy teenage boys dont care because all they want is the hot anime girl harem and flashy epic gamer op superpower eye candy sakuga battles but the older you get the more apparent the poor writing gets.

    The isekai genre has done a lot better over the decade since SAO initially released things like rezero or even Overlord blow it out of the water in terms of actually interesting plot and suspense. The only reason SAO is still popular is the high quality porn.


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldIt broke again
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    Oof bad guess. my daily driver is a used t460 made in 2015 running Mint. I said that used librebooted thinkpads are a great option to inexpensive preinstalled Linux machines. Are you sure you replied to the right person? Or are your reading comprehension skills fucked? Either way better luck next assumption



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    Except all those Linux specific privacy/modularbility orientated PCs are expensive as hell with base models starting close to 1k last I checked. They’re aimed at the demographic of cushy tech nerds making bank tapping at a keyboard who care about opsec or right to repair and can comfortably afford dropping 1k on a new laptop without thinking twice about if that money has better uses.

    I and many others who don’t live in economic lah-lah land will NEVER be able to justify 1k spent on a laptop just because it has physical kill switches or modular parts and preloaded with a good Linux distro. These companies need to touch grass and come down a couple hundred dollars to the 400-500$ range then we can talk. Until that day comes, the guy selling librebooted thinkpads on eBay running popos or mint is the better option for those who live with the reality of not having a lot of money.


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtoWhat is this thing?@lemmy.worldWhat is this evil plant?
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    I’m sorry to hear that. I love splitting hairs until I can at the very least chart out the molecular nano-structure of keratin in the hair cells with a proverbial electron microscope.

    Dont you think its kind of cool to look at split hair up close? Apparently the keratin is those little strands imbedded in the cell. But why stop there? Let’s keep splitting and examining and asking. Split the keratine into molecules that make it up, split the molicules into base atoms split those to find the nucleus in the atoms, the elections and neutrons and protons that make up that, the quarks that make up those, the boson, keep splitting and splitting until finally nothingness reveals itself to be at the core of all things. But what even is nothingness and the buzz of virtual particles causing quantum fluctuations that live within it? What’s that all about?

    “but what is X, what does it mean really?” Is a fun kind of question to ponder to me. I hope you enjoy expressing curiosity about the fundamental aspects of reality in other ways.

    The dry copy paste definition you gave kind of lines up with the conclusion that there is no concrete distinction when examing from a universal unbiased reference frame its just different forms of life doing their thing existing where they can out of chance and circumstance in an ever evolving world. The definitions are born from human biases, self interest and fear of change leading to disruptions or disasters.

    I feel its the same thing weeds. Whats the difference between a wild flower and a Dandylion? Human judgement and arbitrary language. Well, I like daffodils and dandelions, so fuck conventional made up definitions of what’s proper and not. They’re wildflowers to me!


  • I often wonder whats really the difference between a native species and an invasive one besides the relative time it was introduced to an environment in relation to the present?

    On a geological and evolutionary timeframe species are getting introduced, competing for resources, and going extinct all the time in every part of the world. The plant you consider a ‘native’ was really only introduced 25,000 years ago which might as well be an hour ago as far as life is concerned.

    If it takes 500 years for an ecosystem to rearrange and adapt to incorporate an ‘invasive species’ into the new balance, does that plant now quality as ‘native’ to the generations of people 500 years down the line? At what point does the line sperating invasive species vs native dissolve until it just arbitrary definitions set by what’s convinent to current humans and the present status quo in the ecosystem?


  • Maybe Instead of trying to memorize answers to exam questions, take some time to understand what is being presented to you. Examine, digest, and internalize the knowledge so it can be distilled into real understanding of the fundimental abstract concepts being conveyed.

    Its like the difference between skimming through a paragraph to track down one piece of information vs being invested in reading through the chapter in totality to appreciate the plot of a good story. One might get you a passing grade on this weeks exam in a pinch and let you get back to partying, the other let’s the core of the knowledge live in you forever or atleast long after school is over and your neurons start weakening with age.

    Let the ideas and concepts roll around in your mind like a fine wine tasting. Examine them, play with them, see how they line up with your pre-existing understandings of smilar concepts and reality in general. Make up some toy model example scenarios, visualize with your minds eye, see if its similar to a related concept you’re already familiar with. Think about the concepts and the abstractions and how they logically lead to exam solutions.

    Then when you’re tired of thinking and visualizing to the point your brain actually aches from the workout, rest. Play a game, watch some entertainment, have fun, get a good sleep and let your subconscious internalize all that knowledge. Allow your neurons to rearrange themselves to better model new patterns of information.





  • Glad I could share my pieces and help get your brain juices flowing Can :) The Orb is a great piece the multiple holes give give you options in a way that a regular beaker or straight doesn’t. I still have my straight but I only reach for it occasionally for variety the orb is the real daily driver.

    For potential future reference: The glass bong is the orb v3 from vgoodiez.

    The hookah hose is made by GooRoo for their 3 in one hookah.

    I don’t know if you care about dry herb vaping at all but the vaporizers in the photos are the dynavap (m+), the portable arizer air max and the desktop arizer extremeq All this stuff goes on sale multiple times a year up to around 20% off so if you are interested but the price tags are too high just subscribe to the mailing list and keep an eye out during holidays especially 4/20 and christmas time.








  • There’s three holes, achthually 🤓 Theres a 14mm and a 8mm intake joint that connects with the perc, and one 14mm output where the mouthpiece is slotted in. The 8mm intake can take native 8mm inserts like dynavaps but it gets used as a simple carb cap most often for easy clearing of the milked up glass. the 14mm intake gets the most use its where my vaporizers connect most often with standard 14mm glass male inserts. You can hit two bowls at once using both intakes at the same time. With the 14mm outtake I can swap out the glass mouthpiece for a hoohah hose.

    Heres a video of me hitting it waterless if you want to see.