Personally, most of the stand-outs that come to mind are all OK Go music videos, since they still incorporate the music, but also feature videos that are creative and engaging in their own right. Of theirs’ I’d say I Won’t Let You Down is the best, but I personally prefer Obsession.

I have a friend who is from a non-“western” country, and moved to North America. This has been one of their biggest gripes with living here: food (especially but not exclusively prepared food) is either full of sugar, or full of artificial sweeteners. Seeing as they don’t particularly like sweet foods, and they absolutely don’t like the taste of artificial sweeteners, this means that like half the food in a grocery store or restaurant has to be immediately written off. For example, if you want a soda thats not so overwhelmingly sweet, currently the only options are Bubly and imported stuff. Obviously, there are other drink options, so its not like its the end of the world, but having a glass of milk or cup of tea with your pizza just doesn’t hit the same. At the same time, everyone is talking about dieting and about how terrible everything is for you, yet no one seems to consider just making food less sugary.

Notably VR also generally wasn’t the main pitch. It was just seen as axillary. The reason they promoted it as the next big thing, was the “”“metaverse”“”. Definitions varied, but it was generally a social media platform owned by the seller, and/or was virtual real estate.

You can just use the website, particularly with old.reddit, but u/CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone suggested redlib, which also looks really promising.

The API. At that point, I deleted my account and created an account here. Unfortunately, at this point I’m debating going back, especially since you need a login to use old.reddit. As much as I want Lemmy to succeed, there just isn’t enough here for me. I was on Reddit for the niche interests like Dota, CS, 3D Printing, military hardware, and Virtual Reality, and none of that is really present here. That said, no way am I downloading their official app. All their new UIs are unusable.

It depends on a lot of factors, which is part of why the question is divisive. To oversimplify:

On one hand, when done optimally, nuclear provides huge amounts of power extremely cleanly and safely - even compared to renewables. There is also a number of options that could allow for significantly reduced costs and significantly increased flexibility such as SMRs, or other reactor technologies. On the other hand, nuclear has a mountain of roadblocks in front of it including antinuclear sentiment, policy blocks (particularly stemming from that sentient), and a lack of know-how increasing cost and slowing both building of reactors and development of new technologies. This means it could be amazing in the long term, particularly in regions that are suboptimal for renewables, and for industries requiring large amounts of power 24/7, but it can’t do much in the short-term.

Renewables meanwhile, are cheap, fast and easy to build and easy to expand to the point where until ideal conditions, even individuals can afford to install and run their own electrical infrastructure. As such, its amazing to quickly reduce prices, reduce emissions, and reduce dependence on governments. On the other hand, most renewable options lack flexibility. Solar only runs half the day, and the further you are from the equator, the lower the efficacy. Wind takes up huge amounts of space. Hydro requires damable rivers and space to avoid destroying ecosystems. There’s lots of options, but they also have large limits. As technology improves these will limits will be reduced (such as improving battery technology) but they are still present.

Ultimately, this means that where available, renewables are nearly always best in the short term. Long term, it gets messier, since it depends on what we invest in now, which technologies end up going somewhere versus being dead ends, and how the world changes in general. Most predict a mixed approach would be best, both to address the variety of global needs, and to spread risk. All that said, global warming is, at this point, a short-term problem. We can’t afford to focus on the long-term anymore, which is why there is so much focus on renewables. We need to be replacing and expanding infrastructure yesterday so we don’t have time to wait for nuclear, and debatably, can’t afford to be investing in an energy technology that won’t pay off for decades when that could be further invested in renewables.

Theres a whole host of issues, many of which are already mentioned, but two other big ones are treating it more as a health issue rather than a moral one, and improving healthcare - especially mental health care.

People don’t realize, but a lot of obesity cases are tied into other health issues - especially mental health. This is doubly true for more extreme cases. For a very simple example, those who are neurodivergent often struggle with specific stimulations including food textures (limiting food options), especially in combination with food deserts or areas with little selection. On the other hand, this can often be improved or worked around with medication and/or therapy. Medication such as antidepressants or antipsychotics causing weight gain is another very common example, and while it isn’t as easy to avoid, better medical support can make it easier to manage, especially if you need to change diet as a result. For a more extreme example, trauma is very closely tied to weight gain and eating disorders. Watch any episode of My Six-Hundred Pound Life (or better yet, don’t), and you’ll notice that almost all of them have significant trauma. For example, childhood abuse can lead to difficulty self-regulating, or sexual abuse can cause someone to feel that being “”“ugly”“” will help prevent future assaults. These examples just scratch the surface too, and things only gen messier when you have comorbid conditions. Just imagine, for example, someone with OCD affecting how they eat, depression treated with a weight-gain causing medication, and PMOS (a hormonal issue common in women, which often makes it extremely difficult to lose weight). Doctors often ignore or struggle to treat any of these individually, nonetheless all three together, and thats before we open the conversation around affordability.

Given this, and just how sensitive and defensive humans are in general, that makes it all-the-more important that we treat people respectfully and kindly. Even ignoring basic decentcy, demonizing or mocking people for their weight delegitimises efforts to change systematic barriers, makes accessing care more difficult or unfriendly, often wastes time or confuses with “advice” that is unhelpful or outright destructive given the context of someone’s medical background (I.E. telling someone with an eating disorder to control their eating more), and increases stress, which in turn, makes medical issues worse and harder to cope with. Instead, if we treat it as a medical issue, we avoid all of this and stop moralising or hurting people already struggling.

Pretty much, yep. The only people I know who aren’t are old, and even they’re feeling the pinch.

Yep, as I said, there’s only soon much you can do, and supervision and education are the be-all-and-end-alls. At the same time the internet is a horrific place and kids are impulsive and stupid (especially when spurred on by peers), so it makes sense to take additional steps and use additional tools where possible. Thats what I’m asking about primarily, tools to assist in parenting, not replace it.

I was assuming something like that would be used, but even then, its still a bunch of additional drag for little or no gain relative to existing options. As another comment pointed out, tailsitters are pretty comparable in benefits, but they also lack the the drag issues and will likely be at least a little more stable in vertical flight.

It would probably be possible to make functional (especially on a small scale), but wouldn’t be very efficient. With four rotors to drive, you’re going to have significant weight, and on top of that you have the flat profile that will make it difficult to fly vertically. At the same time, the large spaces for the propellers mean it won’t be as sturdy or aerodynamic, and you’ve only got one propeller for forward thrust, so it won’t be able to go very fast. Very optimisticly, I expect that you’d be left with a vehicle that can barely take off or land, although might perform a bit better than something like a helicopter once in the air, but not competiting with existing VOTL designs.

I never had a problem with ratings over 50%. My writing seems to be especially prone to false positives, but I still didn’t receive higher than 20-30%. Unfortunately, at my school, anything over 0% was considered suspect, so I was still penalised even if it was clearly human-written with full APA sourcing.

Basically, you’re just looking for PC game stores that carry free games other than Steam, right? In that case, Itch.io is the main place to look. Beyond that, games will primarily be distributed on their developer or publisher’s website. Piracy probably won’t be an easy option, as people aren’t going to put in the work creating/uploading pirate copies of a game thats easily available otherwise.

Edit: Also, I think you may be able to use SteamCMD (Steam’s non-launcher, CLI tool) to download the game if its DRM free.

Something like this in SteamCMD:

Cold water wakes you up because its a shock, in the same way stubbing your toe would wake you up. Its not something specific to fish, but technically go far enough back and we got much of our sensory system and brain from fish (as did almost every other animal on the planet).

Berry Bury Berry, A Game About Digging a Hole, and Scritchy Scratchy are the games that I know of that are closest to the gameplay loop I’m looking for. Basically, doing a simple satisfying task to buy upgrades to make the task more efficient. Also similar to a lot of old flash games.

csgo is a notoriously cpu-bound game. i hear ark is as well.

I don’t know about Ark, but CS2 fixed the overreliance on CPU with the new engine, so its more evenly balanced between CPU and GPU. Notably, it also wouldn’t really make sense for it to be a consistent 80% limit, so its something about the OS or the hardware rather than anything game-specific.

Man, people here have a very different sense of “A long time” on YouTube. I was hesitating to include TimeGhost because I’ve only watched them for about eight years.

For stuff I’ve been watching for less long, the creators that come to mind are:

Timeghost - they do history documentaries, focusing on chronological “real time” content, such as their current series, the Korean War Week-by-Week

LEMMiNO - does deep-dives into supposed mysteries. His older stuff isn’t great, but shifted towards higher-quality long-form content about 8 years ago, and he does a good job on them.

AHOY - does documentaries on the history of games, and adjacent tech and culture. Not usually super deep, but well written, produced and animated.

Desync - makes stupid gaming videos, usually abusing bugs or just being silly. Doesn’t post often, but on the rare occasion he does, it’ll be well produced and funny.

For stuff more at the age I was thinking of originally, 10+ years:

John and Hank Green - cover a whole range of topics, although nowadays, it tends to be a mix of advocacy, science, philosophy, and just sillyness.

The Yogscast - Just a plain old gaming channel, albeit with unusually frequent and higher production quality videos. Nothing extraordinary, but consistently good and fun, despite the fact that they’ve been making videos for nearly 20 years.

Tom Scott - short video essays, explainers and documentaries on a variety of topics. Primarily, videos on different interesting places.

TomSka - The ASDF Movie guy. That said, just as good or better are his other skits, and now even his long-form content and videos essays.

asklemmy is explicitly not a support community, so that sort of question is usually locked and removed. Its more for open-ended discussion questions.

It can be disabled, but IMO, choosing to leave its default so low is pretty hostile towards your most dedicated users. I know you don’t agree, but as seen by the pushback you received, many dedicated users in the fediverse’s already small userbase were against that design decision. I’m not trying to attack you, and I’d still rather use PieFed than Lemmy, but a user looking to set up shop somewhere will want to know about design philosophies like that, whether it affects them immediately, or is just something they may be concerned about in the future.

I’m using PieFed at the moment, although its more a matter of avoiding the Lemmy devs’ hate and support of violence.

PieFed is definitely developing faster, and has a host of features Lemmy doesn’t as a result. PieFed has following users, de-duplication of posts, flairs, among other stuff, which Lemmy still lacks. That said, the PieFed dev has some very weird opinions on social media design, so for every new feature, there’s an anti-feature. For example, I love the extra moderation tools, but the voting quota limits the ability for more dedicated users to contribute. Its mostly a dislike of internet culture and those who spend a lot of time online, so PieFed tends to discourage things like memes. All-in-all, I’d say PieFed is better, but if you care about the specific downsides, you can easily disagree.