squashkin

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/180669

I'm kind of for legalizing all drugs, slowly, while also putting in place societal infrastructure for discouraging the abuse of drugs and to help people who become addicts.

I can elaborate on further reasons for legalization of drugs if requested; it is not however a top priority to me as a policy issue so I don't focus on it as much for that reason.

What do you think about drug legalization or criminalization?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/180487

meme music

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/179473

I liked the idea of Colemak, but it never became faster than QWERTY for me: https://colemak.com/

Dvorak seems interesting just older

I saw some people promote "Halmak" but it's a minority interest (may have been an attempt to tweak Colemak)

The Carpalx people have some exotic designs: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/

Of course going in a different direction is stenography, the open steno project: https://www.openstenoproject.org/

or the Characorder: https://www.charachorder.com/

Have you tried an alternative keyboard layout to QWERTY or an alternative to keyboard designs altogether with steno?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/177360

It's the summertime when some take more time off or vacations

Any tips on where to go (local or at a distance), what to do, what to pack?

General travel and 'cation post

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/176493

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/176492

https://mistcooling.com/cool-energy-ac-mister.html

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/19381/mistbox-energy-saving-device-proven-to-cut-ac-bill

Review of Mistbox with commentary: https://www.allhomerobotics.com/mistbox-review/

I guess the idea is to use evaporative cooling to keep HVAC units cool when it's hot?

Do these kinds of things work or is there a way to make them work?

Some could save money too

I mean when you think about it, fireworks are often a bunch of lights and sound, which could be replicated in other ways

Some of the ideas that came up or I tried to think of were:

-laser light display

-glow sticks

-bonfire

-firecracker pinata

-break old things (like a rage room)

-bubble wrap popping

-elephant toothpaste (edit: like diet coke / mentos chemical reactions)

-bubbles

-fireworkless rockets

-fly drone / rc planes

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/168902

I've had this idea over a few things, I think sometimes when people do sinful things, that maybe there is something healthy they could do instead

like if someone does drugs to feel good, they could instead maybe exercise and that can make people feel good hormonally and even give a "runner's high" to people (this shouldn't be abused or become an addiction in itself but I think sometimes it could be a beneficial alternative)

So perhaps in this thread we could discuss alternatives to certain things that people do, like sins people commit that could be given some alternative.

For example what do you think about tarot card alternatives? People play with the cards and try to tell people's futures. Could they play a card game instead? I guess the tarot cards were originally used just for card games? Could they play some kind of card game that isn't fortune telling? For some people, it might be best to stop certain activities entirely, so they're not tempted to do the wrong thing.

So tarot alternative ideas?

Ideas of other sins and alternatives?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/168433

could have been steroids or natural causes

he was complaining of finding stuff in his blood tests after recent jab tho i think

Well it looks like sshhhhhhh it just works is voting on defederating with us: https://sh.itjust.works/post/611718?scrollToComments=true

maybe we should defederate from these various leftoid instances before they defed us for the lulz? most of the votes seem to say "yes".

the major leftwing instances defeding with us was probably something we could see coming: lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw, etc.

shh instance seems like the devs want to keep federation but their userbase doesnt, if i am reading this right.

I guess I wanted to see some people poke fun at the " process" by us having our own mock vote here if we should defed them first. The redditors who werent gonna post here anyway are acting like we are being "punished" by defederation, and I think we should respin this somehow (the loss is really to them as they lose access to good information).

anyway vote aye or nay on defederating and mention the instance or propose some lulzy way to handle these goofy defederation vote processes going on LOL

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