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My area isn’t the hottest, but it does usually get up to about 100F for a day or two most years, and in the summer temps are in the 80s or 90s during the day pretty consistently, and it can be humid. I have a mostly finished basement, I’ll spend a lot of time down there over the summer, it stays pretty consistently cool. I’m lucky that I work night shift, so it’s easier for me to do stuff in the evenings or early morning before it gets too hot. There’s a saying that there’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate gear. I usually joke that in the summer that means air conditioning. But if you don’t have a/c, opening your windows and getting some fans going can really go a long way to keeping your house cool. Limit your time outside, find somewhere to sit down in the shade and take a break if you need to. Dress appropriately for the weather, lightweight, light colored, breathable clothing, linen is great if you can find it. Maybe consider wearing a wide-brimmed hat to keep the sun off your face and neck when you go outside. Drink lots of water, find some cool foods to eat, watermelon, cold soba, ice cream etc.

That same week I happened to be out in the middle of nowhere on a backpacking trip when both of them died, and along the way we ran into a couple other groups who had started their treks more recently, and they dropped the news of those two deaths on us, so I think that was the first thing each of of us asked our families about when we got back to civilization and got a cell signal We were also a little relieved that the H1N1 swine flu hadn't killed everyone while we were gone.

Lemmy (and other fediverse services) users are mostly here because we have some strong opinions about mainstream social media, and those opinions are tied closely to politics these days. If we didn’t, we’d probably be on Reddit, xitter, Facebook, etc. instead. And if you get a bunch of people with strong opinions about something together, there’s a good chance the conversation is going to go in that direction sooner or later. And like others have said, everything is politics, basically every aspect of life can be tied to politics in some way. And there is a lot of political stuff going on all around the world that everyone really should be concerned about and following, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. And I get it, it can be exhausting. I definitely wish I lived in a world where I didn’t have to pay as much attention to politics as I do. The best thing you can do is to be active in communities you want to see have more activity. If no one’s posting the kind of “non-political” content you want to see, be the person posting it, if you build it they will come. Be the change you want to see. In general, all Lemmy servers have the same content as every other one because they’re federated. There are some cases where instances have defederated from each other, and admins have done bans and such that I think may change what content is available to you Also you’re on .ml, which is a pretty explicitly political instance. I don’t know all the technical details but I’m also under the impression that the mods and admins there are pretty quick to bring their ban-hammer down hard on people who disagree with them, so that could potentially be having some effect of what you’re able to see, though things are certainly looking pretty political from over here on .world too.

Different steaks for different purposes If you're just gonna plop a slab of meat on a plate with some potatoes and such, I'll go ribeye any day of the week (although there are other cuts I may actually prefer truth be told) But if I'm making maybe tacos or something, I'd probably go for the sirloin

I’ve never dived too deep into in, but I know there has been some research into native Esperanto speakers (denaskuloj) because that’s a thing that exists

Basically none. A couple friends have learned a little bit with me, and I’ve sought out a couple Esperanto books, podcasts, etc. But otherwise I can’t say that I’ve ever randomly run into another esperantist I could talk to, and I’m not the type of person who sucks out clubs and conventions or making friends with strangers online. But it’s an easy language to learn, and I feel like it’s taught me how to learn a language, and I think that I’ll be better prepared if I ever decide to try picking up another language somewhere down the line. And while I’m not holding my breath, I like the idea of an international auxiliary language, and while there’s some valid criticism of Esperanto for that purpose (like that it’s too eurocentric) it’s probably about the best option that we have right now since it already exists, there’s people who actually speak it and it doesn’t have all of the weird grammar rules and such that natural languages all tend to have.

>No one is arming This is anecdotal, but I'm basically what passes for being the "gun guy" among my mostly very liberal friends Basically my qualifications are that I went shooting when I was in boy scouts, have a few friends who own guns and have gone shooting with them, and have a lot of outdoorsy hobbies that have overlap with hunters and such (my own attempts at hunting have been with a bow, and I wasn't very successful,) and generally have a casual interest in guns, but don't really have money to throw at them, I have plenty of other hobbies and things I'm worried about and guns are near the bottom of my priority list. Which isn't all that much, but it's a lot more firearms experience than most of them have. And they also know I'm someone who will do some research and not just make stupid recommendations. But a good handful of those people have been asking me about guns because they've been thinking about buying one themselves. And some of these same people were, at one point, fervently anti-gun. And those who already have guns have been going to the range more, trying to stockpile a little extra ammo, maybe acquiring some new guns, getting a carry permit when they never felt the need to and we're content to leave their guns at home in a safe before, etc. They're not out there talking about it, spreading it all over social media, posting pictures of their guns or at the range. Some of them, I think, are a little ashamed of it, others just (probably justifiably) think it's not wise to spread that knowledge that they have them. So there is arming happening, I don't think it's on a massive scale but I do think it's happening, but you probably won't hear much about it unless you're someone those people have already decided that you're a safe person to discuss guns with. And I don't think it's specifically building up to any sort of an armed revolution or anything. I think it's mostly people wanting to be prepared to defend themselves if/when things get bad. I think we're a long way off from liberals wanting to take to the streets, pull a Jan 6, or even show up to protests armed in any significant numbers. The overwhelming sentiment I've gotten from most of my liberal gun owner friends is that they *really* don't want to be the ones who take the first shot.

There’s a number of ways to get non-steam games to run through proton or other compatibility tools. I’m not the expert on that matter because basically everything I play is on steam, but off the top of my head Lutris comes to mind As far as mods, I’m not a huge modder, so again I’m probably the wrong person, but the handful of mods I do use (mostly some basic quality of life/bug-fix things) I’ve been able to get running on Linux without too much drama. No, there’s not currently a nifty tool like Vortex to automate it for you and you have to manually copy files to the right place and such, but most mods tell you that information, so all you need to do is get used to the folders you’re looking for living in a slightly different place than they did on windows. YMMV if you use more complicated mods than I do of course.

For starters, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone say “anonym” in that sort of context before, so if that’s something you say regularly, change that habit, either leave it at “anon” or fully write out “anonymous” And I’m not saying that to be a dick, I’m illustrating a point, if you have a unique style of writing, that’s something that can be used to fingerprint you. That’s how the Unabomber got caught after all- someone noticed that in his manifesto that he said “you can’t eat your cake and have it too” instead of the more common “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” and said “hey, that sounds like Ted.” A while back there was a post on one of the food communities here where someone made a post about the “salmond” they cooked, and I immediately thought “is this the same guy who misspelled ‘salmon’ that same way like a week ago” and sure enough it was. Those stupid little things can stick out to people. And if you carry those quirks around to different websites, it’s possible for people to connect the dots if they really want to. Search around for different accounts across different websites that say “anonym” and they might be able to piece together a profile on you. Hypothetically, let’s say maybe somewhere on Lemmy you say that you’re a fan of the Chicago Bulls, and on xitter under a different username you mention that you grew up in New Jersey, but both accounts have used the word “anonym” and they figure they might be the same person. Then on still another site with a different name where you’ve also said it, you mention that you were in marching band and went to Catholic school. So now the profile is for bulls fans from New Jersey, who went to Catholic school and were in marching band. That is fairly specific. That might have narrowed down who you are to just a few hundred, or maybe even dozens of people. So the most important lesson is to just be really aware of what information you’re willingly putting out there about yourself and think about how it could potentially be used to identify you. It doesn’t matter if you’re on Tor and a VPN and all of the other technical measures you can take, because you’re still just putting information about yourself out there. Possibly the best thing you can do is to not post, comment like, subscribe, or otherwise interact with anything if it can be at all avoided. For most people, most of the time, that’s of course way overkill, I’m here writing this comment after all, and I’m sure there’s plenty of information about myself on this account for some to build a pretty good profile about me if they really wanted to. So really you need to consider why you want to be anonymous, and just how much you’re willing to sacrifice your online experience to meet that goal.

I work in 911 dispatch, so I frequently have to go back and relisten to calls I've taken to see if I heard something correctly It was very weird at first hearing my own voice played back at me so much, but it's something you get used to after a while But even after 7 years on the job, if I think about it my voice on the recording never sounds quite right to me.

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