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  Highly recommend volunteering at a food pantry instead of a getting a gym membership. It's free, it helps your community, there's no rigmarole with cancellations, and carrying heavy boxes of food up a flight of stairs several dozen times is far more applicable to the real world than lifting weights. my poor legs tho

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  The uncanny valley of pseudoscientific explanations for important story elements in science fiction and fantasy.

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  It's been a year since #CoMaps released, and I still have no idea whether it or #OrganicMaps is better. Both are open source, offline-first, and privacy respecting, although CoMaps seems to have made some claims that Organic Maps isn't, but I can't find indpendent evidence showing that is correct. Allegedly CoMaps added some new features, but I don't know if those features matter at all for my use, or if Organic Maps has merged them as well by now. Is there any me...

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  Nuts that _this_ is what might finally take #Platner down. Like, I understand why nobody should support him now, but nobody should have been supporting him months ago. How does he still have support to lose? #USpol #USMEpol

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  This past election cycle has given me a new appreciation for Kathy Hochul. Don't get me wrong, she's still bad, and I'm going to be disgusted with myself for voting for her this November; but she's not unconscionably bad, so I will be voting for her this November. This is where the bar is now. This post is _not_ (exclusively) about Graham Platner. #USpol #USNYpol #Hochul

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  I'm usually not a cooking elitist, but the way my roommate makes pasta is genuinely horrific.

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  You never truly understand how much you like the art until it comes time to separate it from the artist or cut it loose entirely.

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  Today my old version of the #Duolingo app finally lost support, and I had to update to the new, infinitely worse (in terms of both antifeatures and lag) version. I honestly might just drop the app entirely, although I expect to tough out the next few months until I reach a 1000 streak before dropping. Maybe the website is more tolerable? Doesn't seem to work on my phone though. In the meantime, does anyone know of a good service I can switch to? Needs to support #Spanish, and preferably...

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  @tmalesys@wonkodon.com Hasn't it been like this for a while though? At the very least, there was a photo added to its Wikipedia page 7 years ago that showed asphalt paving that had already become somewhat worn.

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  Me, having Shabbat dinner with my family: "SpaceX is really irresponsible. Like, what happens if one of their Starlink satellites deorbits and hits a skyscraper?" My family member: "Well, I guess Candace would be in charge." #SpaceX #Starlink #PhineasAndFerb

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  יום העצמאות שמח! And a picture of some babka for my friends on Babka.social!

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  Anyone know what's going on with defcon.social? There was a period of about 24 hours where all my API requests timed out, and even now it's slower than usual. I experienced this across two computers, IP addresses, and logged in and not, but it could still be me since at least some other people were still able to post. Mostly I'm just confused. @support were there any incidents that might have caused this?

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  Not that I expect the answer will be yes, but would anyone here with any kind of experience with the Linux network stack be able to help me troubleshoot my longstanding connectivity issues? I'm using NetworkManager, but that might not be where the problem is, and months of searching up journalctl output has not solved the issue. Results of posting on standard forums have been predictably unhelpful. Also sometimes it just seems to fix itself temporarily and I have no idea why. #fedihelp

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  @whitequark File uploads could probably be kludged exclusively on the client side with something like ``` START FILE UPLOAD METADATA BODY END FILE UPLOAD ``` although it would be problematic in that it would show up as spam for anyone without the client extension, and would be less efficient than a binary solution. It could work the same with image, audio, video, and stickers, since those are all just specially tagged files. Could even work for streaming (hence live audio/video calls) if the f...