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[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Idk if op is in the us or not but there was a hurricane in Texas recently and apparently hurricanes will suck water from clear across the country so this summer was uncharacteristically hot, idk about the humidity, maybe the hurricane is pushing water back this way too.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Its a term that a relatively large number of businesses and people have agreed to call shoes that have zero drop and thin soles and often but not always, more flexible upper materials that are also shaped to give your toes more wiggle room so your toes actually splay outward correctly when you take steps.

Feet have a built in spring system that activates when we put enough force on it usually by going at a brisk walking pace or while running called an ankle which allows more momentum to be conserved with each step as well as less load on the rest of the body. Barefoot, also called minimalist shoes, allow people to use their feet correctly which happens to strengthen a variety of feet muscles around the toes and builds some more hard skin on the bottoms of feet so that if you step on things its less likely to hurt as well as holds onto more momentum with each step by being more dense and at the outskirts of where the momentum is going.

Highly recommend more people try some, even if only just one time for a month.

I compare barefoot shoes to a manual vs automatic transmission, its technically not a better shoe because shoes with a lot of cushion will conserve more momentum in a more ideal location like certain automatic transmissions (and yes some shoes will make you go faster and so some have been banned from races) but what a barefoot shoe will do, much like how a manual transmission will give you a sense of how the drivetrain is coming together to propel the car and it strengthens your ability to handle more environmental situations with more efficiency, which is very good for our joints long term if we can keep doing it the right way.

This does mean that we can wear regular shoes with the knowledge of how to move our feet and reap the benefits of both, but we should aim to strike a balance between a barefoot shoe and a regular shoe with a lot of cushion because both have their ups and downs and we dont have to choose between them in many cases.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

I've been using some Lem's boulder boots and some wildling Arni shoes for a little while and this seems to be a great way to do most situations well but there's an occasional few times where I think some other shoes with some other benefit would do well in a specific situation.

In the past I didn't understand why some people have so many shoes but I'm starting to see why some might do that, like I'd imagine 4 pairs one for each season wouldn't be a terrible idea as long as they cover enough points on a scale in a gradual way between sunny concrete and wet mud.

I like all the wildling shoes a lot but I think they are all pretty sameish besides a handful and some of that is to do with the bottom of their shoes always being pretty much the same, like no form of serious wet or winter or mud shoes would be from them simply because none of their shoes besides the one pair that looks like big classic yellow rain boots would have the right tread for those conditions.

At the moment my Arni's are about done but ithink I could probably squeeze the rest of this year out of them and then my boulder boots from lems will last a long time still.

I do a bit of running and I find that is an important factor for shoes in all the conditions too because you can have those classic yellow rain boots that would do fine in a lot of rough conditions but you couldn't run in them too well I don't think.

Sometimes I wear the toe socks from injiji, sometimes I go no socks, the barefoot shoes from wildling are close enough to clothes for your feet that going without socks tends to be ok but not always. They say not to put them in the washer but they have done fine which is nice because I can treat it literally like clothes.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 weeks ago

I saw something once that explained how you can have an ai trained on a set of soccer games and have it generate soccer games as a use for it.

The idea is that the model has compressed all the soccer games into a smaller data size form than the total of having let's say 100+ games on video or whatever.

That's the real utility I see in generative ai that I know can keep going basically as long as we want to.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think what will eventually happen is much like what happened to email, it too was very fragmented feeling early on but more and more adopted it and more servers kept developing and popping up and then at some point more service providers became more similar than alike and then it became what it is now.

The tricky part is that the concept and usefulness of a federated network mostly only grows in the long run and looks like its not going anywhere in the short term much like email and that is always what makes people question its efficacy.

Participation in any and all forms is what establishes it more and more.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lmao was not expecting this to be so wrong, a friend handed me a old book about things in the body and I was flipping through pages and posted it when I saw it.

It was associated with time so I figured it probably wasn't just straight up false.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wait really lol? Idk how this could legally have happened? And why isnt this across the news (nobody is allowed to say some degree of "but that's what they want you to think") lol

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Lol woops I guess autocorrect got me with the compassion

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The thing is, ai is compression of intelligence but not intelligence itself. That's the part that confuses people. Ai is the ability to put anything describable into a compressed zip.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

My cartoons that I remember as a kid were 4kidstv shows, whatever was on there at the time, so I guess things like kirby, tmnt, sonic x, wins club, yugioh, chaotic. One piece was apparently a thing that was on at the time too but I wasn't really interested in it at all. There are some other shows tucked away in my memories that may or may not be from 4kidstv but I feel like they sit in that timeframe as a kid...idk what these other shows are, I just know I'm forgetting a few.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How did they also not fall once they passed the equator lol

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Designer psychedelics incoming (www.sciencedaily.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/psychedelics@lemmy.ca
 

Holy moly, they actually did it, awhile back I saw a research paper about the possibility to make designer psychedelics which don't have the hallucination issues but still provide the neuroplasticity benefits, and now of what little concerns there already were for it's safety, are now less of a concern.

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Star trek clothing line (www.volantedesign.us)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/startrek@startrek.website
 

Yoo this is actually kinda sick, its star trek inspired clothing line.

They dont scream star trek but any fan will not miss it if they notice, I'm not sure I'd wear any around much even if I got one just because they are still slightly noticeable as not usual clothing but they just look like fancy clothes, some of them like the v necks or hoodies seem like they would be pretty wearable though. They sell the old dresses too, they stand out like a sore thumb lol If you are into leather jackets they would work well, they don't stand out much but still very much seem like star trek.

They are suuuper expensive though I think the materials reflect their price

And they sell cool golden metal star trek badges

 

Today I learned that it is illegal to sell tritium in the us but it is not illegal to buy it in the us...so here is a website selling tritium trinkets that come from taiwan!

They are like glow sticks that last for 10 years, it is perfectly safe unless maybe you were drinking liquid tritium for a few weeks.

 

Maybe soon we will have our breakdancing robo-caretakers that never sleep and allow us to not spend time on upkeeping our homes, even if things like this end up costing as much as a car I think it would still be a worthwhile time saving investment

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/astrophotography@lemmy.world
 

Got my pictures of the total lunar eclipse together, this was my first attempt at doing a final collage photo at each phase, which I kind of bunged up the timings a little bit but it still turned out good enough.

Wow thankyou everyone! I was not expecting to get 280+ upvotes

 

In terms mamalian biomass, humans make up 36%, our livestock makes up 60% and every other wild mammal makes up just 4% of the mamalian biomass, witch is absolutelly wild In terms of all animals, we make up 2.5% of biomass, and in terms of all living things we make up 0.01% biomass

 

I am looking to migrate from mastodon to friendica because my mastodon server is shutting down and the idea of friendicas all in one platform approach fits my needs/wants out of my use case. Which is basically me wanting a personal account for my real identity, its not something im looking to use a lot just a way I can see the rest of the fediverse in a easy way that is separate from my internet identity.

 

I think this guy also made some other ads that are just as hilarious too but I may be misremembering, feel free to link them below too.

 

This is funny to me because san-disk literally means no disk, same as how sans serif means no serifs.

https://www.westerndigital.com/

https://shop.sandisk.com/

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

why is it that when i post on some communities i cant see my post on the community but apparently at least some other people can see and respond to it?

example is when i posted on the kgatlw community about the band called doom gong recently.

is it some kind of federation shenanigans like when a server is not federated with one but the other one is?

...now that i think about it, this is probably something thst has been asled before, i should have checked before posting this but ill still post anyways.

another question, if that is the case then is there a easy way to tell which servers are federated with which?

fixed: turns out hide read posts setting was enabled so i didnt see them, i had to change it on through the browser login, changing it in the voyager app for lemmy didnt change it.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

id like to make the comment section into a list of ways to use peertube. i know there is grayjay, going to the peertube instance website of your choice, and the peertube app which if i recall isnt completed yet but is expected to be done sometime soon but correct me if im wrong, im sure there are other apps people use for peertube but maybe not, i havent actually looked. As well as how does everyone interact with peertube? Is it mostly following specifically people or more like other fediverse platforms where you just make an account somewhere on a instance you deem worthy and check out the whole peertube userbase, I know each instance is like a whole YouTube website, does that mean that you have to search based on instances to find things or can you search like all vs local or whatever?

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