Rust users are informally called Rustaceans and there’s even a book for them:

Those kinds of arguments fail if someone believes that God created logic as well.

There have been times when I’ve thought that but I think the test has to be based on how much it affects or doesn’t affect the rest of your life. If you’re spending huge amounts of time and money on it while the rest of your life and relationships suffer, it’s probably an issue. If it’s mostly a hobby that occupies a reasonable portion of your life, it’s fine.

It does bother me though that some collecting hobbies seem to be mostly about spending money and trying to achieve a complete set rather than a mixture of stuff of collecting, repairing, researching, and visiting people, and going to shows etc. I’m all about variety in life though, so that may be a personal bias of mine.

I can’t really wrap my head around collecting anything, be it knives, Pokémon cards, video games, or classic cars.

Maybe the closest thing I have to a collection is seeds, but I plant those to grow stuff. Is that a collection? Maybe! I guess you’re not disqualified for using the things in your collection.

Yikes! I wouldn’t want to work at your company!

Which sounds nice but it’s really a false intimacy unless you actually go on to develop a long term relationship with that sex worker.

I think one of the biggest contributors to our growing societal sense of alienation is all the surrogates we use for genuine adaptive functions. Everything from fast food to hardcore drugs has been optimized to mimic what are supposed to be honest signals in our brains that guide us toward making good choices in the long run. Intimacy (and feel-good hormones) are supposed to help us survive in the long term by building relationships and strengthening bonds that protect us against all the random risks of life. Building a sense of intimacy with a stranger that you never see again is ultimately going to lead to greater pain and a sense of loss down the road.

Did you read my second paragraph? There are loads of illnesses and conditions that don’t get treated in my country. There are loads of procedures with extremely long waiting lists (multiple years) and there is no legal alternative unless you want to fly to another country and pay out of pocket for treatment.

I’m not saying that our universal health care system is bad. I’m saying it’s not perfect and it isn’t better in all situations. And if you have rare diseases or a lot of terminal illnesses you just don’t get treated at all. Or in the case of drugs, you could just have the government decide not to approve it for your condition and now you have no option.

Yes. Medicare and Medicaid are public health care, they’re just not universal.

Public healthcare doesn’t eliminate insurance companies, instead it makes the government into an insurance company which does all the same things: approve and reject claims, exhaustively categorize what is covered and what isn’t covered, and finally pay health care providers at the end.

I live in Canada where we have public health care. In another discussion on Lemmy it was mentioned that Ozempic started out as a diabetes drug and is now mainly used for weight loss. Well in Canada, Ozempic is not approved for general weight loss. You need to be diagnosed with diabetes before you can get it.

Seriously. Advertising is worse than a zero sum game. It’s an arms race. Not only does it eat into profits of every company that advertises, it causes prices to go way up to pay for even more advertising. We regular people just keep paying more and more to be advertised to.

Lord of the Rings: Vol I for SNES. The game is worse than mediocre. It’s utter trash. I remain convinced they blew the budget on the soundtrack! It does a lot of things you really don’t hear that often on the SNES! Amazing!

I think a lot of them find their way onto eBay where they get sold to unwitting gamers.

A lot of that hardware is junk pretty soon anyway. Graphics cards run at full load 24/7 don’t last very long.

To get YouTube to work you need to curate your watch history. Any video you regret watching should be deleted from history so that it won’t be used for recommendations.

If your history is filled with these bad videos then you’re better off wiping your history entirely. Then start from scratch watching only videos that really interest you and your recommendations will all be based on those.

Like the internet itself, there is a TON of great content on YouTube. The trouble is finding it! For me, the internet has been gradually reverting to the situation I remember from the mid-90s (before Google existed). There were lots of search engines but they were pretty much all bad. I relied a lot on word of mouth (and site-to-site links) to find things.

You could say this about most standup comedians. The sober ones are the weird ones!

They’re not just random examples for some people though. For some indigenous peoples these items are a foundational part of their cultural practices.

They’re actually not hard to replace at all. Just look up “shower cartridge replacement” on YouTube.

How about using birds’ discarded feathers for decorations? Discarded seashells? Pearls from clams that died naturally?

Wow! I’ve been using the internet since 1995 and I’ve never heard of this site. Thanks! I’m actually interested in learning about mixing drinks!

Gravity wells don’t have breakpoints like that though. They extend out to infinity, decreasing with the reciprocal square of the distance (Inverse-square law).

What you may be thinking of is the event horizon, but the way that works isn’t nearly as magical as people might think. As your orbit spirals in closer to the black hole (which takes an extremely long time from a stable orbit) your escape velocity gradually and smoothly increases. The event horizon is the point at which your escape velocity reaches the speed of light. What this means in practice is that you disappear from view, as the light reflecting off you can no longer escape.

The really weird part though is the gravitational time dilation effects near a black hole. To an outside observer, your approach to the event horizon (during spiral in) slows down more and more. That observer never sees you cross the event horizon because time dilation extends your descent time out to infinity. So you’ll end up appearing frozen in time, never reaching the event horizon.