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I found the opposite. I’m a programmer, too, and still found touch typing to be a huge advantage. However, as with QWERTY, Dvorak isn’t optimized for some of the most common keys in programming: (), [], {}. But that’s OK, because since I started using QMK keyboards, all of those keys are now in a layer and on the home row.

I didn’t realize it until a couple of years ago (back when he was popular, I was into different stuff), but he’s made some really good songs!

Amex makes sense if you (a) live in the US, and (b) can pay off your balance every month. Yes, there’s a yearly fee, but there are many benefits as well. I don’t know what Blue gets you, but you get things like Uber rebates, points that can be used in Amazon like money, airline benefits, and so on.

You do not want you carry a balance over and pay the interest. Amex is not competitive on their interest rates.

I use Amex almost exclusively, and only very rarely encounter a place that won’t accept it.

3 is a triangle; a love triangle. 2 is a line is you’re a religious but and don’t believe in sex before marriage. 1 is a point, of contention, if you’re a religious fanatic and don’t believe in masturbation.

You’re absolutely right about penta-amorous relationships.

Is it a polyamorous relationship? They didn’t say the guys had anything to do with each other, and doesn’t polymory involve everyone involved being, like, in a relationship all together?

Dating multiple people are the same time is just… dating, isn’t it? Hell, I’m older now, and married, but through my 20s, everyone was dating everyone, basically. Yes, occasionally there were times when a state of exclusivity was assumed by ask parties, but most of the time it was just a free-for-all. Hang out occasionally, maybe hook up; isn’t that dating?

I’m not very knowledgeable about polyamory, so it’s an honest question.

Wise move.

For my part, I finally put a decent scope on my .308 to give it the reach it may need.

I love that song. Every time I follow a link, I listen to the while thing.

It’s a great song.

Oh, wait, Friends? Yeah, not a fan of the show, so the intro music has no meaning for me.

Hmmm… Do I subject myself to another ear worm? Is it worth it?

The problem is that I care too much. It’s not good for my mental health. I’m angry all the time - you know, I notice it in my Lemmy interactions. I’m much more aggressive and antagonistic if I’ve been using attention to the news; I’m just not as nice a person. And honestly, I’m equally an ass to people who deserve it, as people who don’t. It’s awful, and I hate who it makes me.

It’s not all news; just the current, recent crop. I can deal with the usual autocrat billionaires, most of the time; there’s just a limit to how much I can handle before I displace onto folks who don’t deserve my ire.

I wish it were that easy. If I blocked everything that popped political news, and everyone who brought up politics, I may as well just not go online.

I can’t even avoid engaging in it myself. But it’s much harder these days to tune it out. I find I have to avoid all news, lest one item be about more treachery, and I don’t want that.

Never heard it.

It’s funny, isn’t it? My mom made me take a typing class at the community college one summer - on IBM electric typewriters. This was before everyone owned game consoles, much less PCs. You’d think in today’s world, typing classes would be even more in demand, but are they? Do kids take typing classes in K-12?

The execution was 😙👌

How can you live a life not being exposed to the news?

I learned, through the second Bush administration, that my mental health is far better when I avoid all political news when there’s a warmongering fascist in office. My wife insists on doing the “have you heard what Trump did today?” thing, and I scan past anything with the Orange Asset’s face on it, but it’s literally impossible to exist with any online presence and not be constantly bombarded by the shit that’s going on. Some of it for certain is because I’m not as quick to skip resistance content, so I still do read about whatever recent traitorous action is going on, but still. How? How can you exist in America and not be constantly exposed to politics?

I once met a young guy who, after doing a term in the Peace Corps, came back, got himself some backpacking equipment, and just lived in the national parks. We picked him up hitchhiking to his next place. Really peaceful, nice kid; he apparently lived on rice and dried beans, and some spices, because it was energy dense and cheap. Anyway, him I could see going long stretches without hearing about Project 2025, but anyone who lives in society? Just… how?

I’m not sure that we’re living in rational times, though. There’s a concerted effort to divided the public, focusing fomenting discontent within the lower and middle class. I am increasingly skeptical of the idea that there’s a large group of people who listen both to Fox News and NPR and seriously haven’t formed a world view favoring one or the other.

And, again, time and again polling has proven unreliable. Lies, damned lies, and statistics? On the other hand, we have verifiable voting counts that show clearly that turnout was significantly - statistically significantly - low this election.

But now I’ve forgotten what we were originally disagreeing about.

Edit: changed a word to mean what I meant

Hmmm. Only involuntarily, like, when I’m reading a book I like and it’s a fight whether to keep reading or go to sleep.

I’ve reached a détante with my body, though. If I close my eyes and it’s any effort to open them, I put the book down.

Are these the same data-driven polling that have consistently screwed up election prediction for the past decade?

Nate Silver did a better job in this last one, but he said going in that they’d finally recognized that polling was broken, it they’d stopped relying on it so heavily and were considering other factors in their predictions.

Have you ever met a honestly “undecided” voter, who votes?

63.7% turn out in the 2024 general. Nearly 40% of Americans didn’t bother to vote. That was 66%, in 2020. There were an estimated 244M eligible voters in 2024; that means about 5½ million people who did vote in 2020 didn’t bother to get off their fat asses this time and vote. Trump won the popular vote by 2½ million votes. So there’s that.

Not that the popular vote means much; most Republican presidents who’ve won in the past quarter century did so while losing the popular vote, proving what a great system we have.

Anyway, I don’t believe in swing voters. Specifically, I don’t believe there are any significant numbers of people who actually vote who swing between the parties. The provable evidence of down-ballot voting speaks for itself. I have no doubt there undecideds; what I doubt is that many of them go to the polls.

How could such images be weaponized against me, if they’re not of me or anyone I know (not selfies)?

Probably more than I know. Browsers cache thumbnails; if you don’t have an ad blocker, you almost certainly have at least one cached NSFW ad thumbnail. Lemmy caches images too, so if you intentionally or accidentally opened an NSFW photo, it’s also on your phone. I suppose there are people who aggressively disable caches and turn on cache purging, but most of us don’t.

People in Lemmy overuse the NSFW tag, which means half the time the actual image is entirely SFW. Which means, I end up opening many NSFW blurred images that might or might not contain actual nudity. So I know there’s “porn” on my phone.

Oh, and there’s also that 4GB folder of Capybara BDSM Vore.