I get a lot of enjoyment from having so many of you to share all I learn with.

It does still try to hit me with political ragebait, but I ignore all that.

Comments are total shit no matter the subject. Even reading the comments for the rescue I work at, at least half of it is people telling us we’re the worst people on Earth. 🙄

I very valid question with a very valid answer.

I’m sure Meta dislikes my use case, as I’m basically a data miner. I have a profile that I haven’t contributed to in probably 5 years or so, I don’t post or upload. I was going to delete my account around the time I moved over here to Lemmy, but I started posting to the Superbowl community as it was fizzling out already. I shared what handful of photos I had, but I soon ran out.

I started getting stuff from various sources like Flickr and eBird and the news, but I started getting really interested in wildlife rehab. As charities, Facebook is still the way to go to promote charities since it’s free, widespread, and easy and quick to use. When every penny, second, and view counts, what beats Facebook for that?

Now my feed is basically nothing but animal rescues and wildlife photographers (and increasingly AI) and I curate (steal) the good stuff and bring it to you all here without Zuckerberg getting his mitts on your data and the original source still gets all the credit.

Doing that and seeing the positive stories lead me to volunteering at my local rehab this year and it’s been lifechanging. So there is still some good that can be taken from it if one puts in the effort, but you still shouldn’t because it’s Meta and they’ve got the ick. So let me do it for you. I’ve already taken the hit and shared enough stuff, so now I’m going to siphon their stuff like they want to do to us, but I do it to promote wildlife rescue.

It’s not like any of the rescues particularly love Facebook that I’m aware of, they just want people to exist and know they need volunteers and money. Photographers want to promote their work or sell prints or their guided tours. I pass all that info along to you guys so you can find them on whatever platform you want. It’s not like I want to take any credit for it, I want you guys to support them, but if you guys won’t touch Facebook, they lose out. But I’ve dedicated hundreds of dollars and 100+ hours this year because of my sharing content, one or 2 of my subs have become volunteers, and hopefully a handful of others have kicked in something to their local rescues.

So Facebook can still provide some stuff, at the cost of privacy, but if I can extract the good and leave the bad behind for my 5000 subs, I feel that’s me doing something good.

Most likely YouTube, Lemmy, and Facebook. After that is assorted pirate streaming sites and whatever Tachiyomi sources I have. I give a little education and entertainment, I take a little education and entertainment…

Unfortunately I spent more time watching him for anatomy lessons than taking his fitness advice! 😂

Guy seems very legit, gives away so much help and info for free, good sense of humor. I love seeing the internals of movement on the skeleton, especially things like impingement, and then the demos with his body or an assistant so you see what you’d see watching yourself do movements. I’m glad to see he’s still doing his thing.

I always enjoy your support!

Yeah, it may be more than coincidence since it started this year. I try not to worry about things beyond my control, but it’s been hard to look anywhere lately and not see something dark.

I’ve had to learn how to deal with things in healthy ways since “getting better” and this may just be the hardest situation I’ve come on since then.

Some of my stressors should be going away soon, and I have a few vacations coming so perhaps relief is near.

I’ve always liked the way the Athlean-x channel demonstrates anatomy and solutions with both a static model and his more average bodied assistant. He doesn’t dumb things down, but still explains and demonstrates them in a way where you feel you understand, even if you can’t grasp all the fancy vocabulary.

He has this video on scapular winging, and a bunch more about basic posture correction exercises which may help you.

Before I was diagnosed, I tried the Zoloft my brother wasn’t taking, and that kinda put me in a numb cloud. I dealt with things better but it smashed down the good stuff too much so I gave up on that.

Tried a girlfriend’s free sample pack of something that wasn’t working for her, and that worked pretty well. Just leveled me out. It was harder for me to get frustrated and angry, and I just had a better baseline feeling. That was fairly early internet, so we had no clue what the pills were, so when they were gone, they were gone.

I don’t know how much any of that would have helped because I was still around my family, which was the prime source of my depression.

About 9 years ago, I hit a low point in life and decided to deal with this in an appropriate manner after realizing I’ve had depression for about 20+ years. Doc gave me Lexapro and said it would take 2 weeks or so to kick in.

I swear the next day I felt like a new person. The doctor said it doesn’t work that way, but I felt what I felt. Maybe I was just bone dry on serotonin and just a little bit was a shock to the system, who knows.

It didn’t make anything better, I want to be very clear on that. Before the pills, my insides were like a sponge. Anything that happened to me would soak in and get held onto. Bad stuff from my past, my own self esteem issues, any perceived slight someone gave me, whatever, it was all soak into my head and stay there until I blew up or panic attacked, etc.

What happened with medicine is now like I had an emotional raincoat. Most of that stuff would still hit me, but it would run off instead of soak in. The intrusive thoughts were there, my stressors were still there. But I could deal with them as they came up. I wasn’t still trying to get out from under a pile of them every time another hit me.

I could still get sad or depressed for no reason, but it felt like something I could handle instead of that being the only thing I could be. And that got better with time.

This year, I’ve been having problems again so I’m going to need to check in soon to discuss if I need to change something. I’ve been feeling slightly depression more often, I’m low on energy, and I’m losing interest in a lot of things I enjoy. There’s no real new stressors I’m aware of, so I’m not sure what’s going on.

I feel I’ve had a luckier time than many with medication, but even so, it isn’t a silver bullet, it’s still a chronic condition. Working meds just get you to the same starting line as “normal people” for you to deal with your day. You’re still running the same obstacle course every day, but you’re not starting way behind. Hope that was some help.

That makes sense. Thank you for explaining it. I’ve only played with Hyundai’s and Subaru’s smart cruise and lane assist, and it doesn’t take long to know it’s nothing like what I’d picture FSD to be. My car is a 2008, so I’ve only got basic CC.

Thank you! That at least makes it better than most subscriptions since it should add some value to resale if it’s transferrable. The buy it outright price pays off vs the sub in about 4 years too, which isn’t too bad either.

Good points. I do feel like I remember that the Full Self Driving was a paid upgrade and I’ve seen enough stories of Tesla locking people out of things via update. For something like FSD, does it throw you off any driving it after the trial ends, like do you get reliant on some of the upgraded features and then forget ever when they get turned back off? Having something as a potatnetial aid or safety feature that is potentially sometimes there and sometimes not seems a bit weird. Something like VW’s speed limiter would just make you slower, but if you get used to the car steering/braking and then another day it doesn’t, that seems a bit questionable. You sound like you pay attention as you dont like it especially anyway, but just for your average Joe.

Not directed at OP, but just in general about this story, but for the number of times I feel I’ve seen this story posted in the last few days, I have some critiques and additional info that doesn’t seem provided by these articles being shared. For anyone else curious:

This appears to be old news. I don’t follow electric cars because I live in a NIMBY complex where we will not be having means to have any kind of charging in the foreseeable future. Looking this up to see what exactly is being paywalled by VW, I see forum posts from at least as far back as last August.

What is being limited is the electric motor. Basic is 150 kW, the optional is 170 kw of power. People on the id3 forums say this is essentially taking the car from the electric version of 205 HP to 231 HP.

You can do a one month free trial, an annual subscription, or a lifetime purchase, but I didn’t see if this was tied to the purchaser or the car itself. I’m not in UK so I don’t care enough to look that up.

People on the forum are also saying some leases bar the upgrade and that the insurers there wish to know if the car is “upgraded” and there is a slight premium for having it, so some may wish to forgo the added power rating and associated fees and premiums.

I have no real opinion as I have no skin in the EV game, but I am generally anti-subscription, especially for what sounds like a software setting.

I hope this helps anyone else trying to see what this story is all about. Again, no shade on the people sharing this, I just wish some articles/posts would have a little more context for those less familiar as this community is generalist and not a car/EV one where we should probably expectedly be more versed in the topic.

I like seeing the fans and Seth antagonize each other, like with all the Mac Tonight stuff. It’s just so random and probably wouldn’t play well in the actual show.

It’s also fun to see the professional joke writers really have some bombs, but there is the occasional bit of gold that again may not with for the actual show, but if it’s some really obscure reference or just so bad it’s good, it’s good to still get that laugh instead of having it never get shared. I enjoy a good trainwreck is it’s all in good fun!

I like Seth as I like that it feels a little less polished. It feels like more goofy mistakes are left in, and I like things like Corrections where they share the jokes that got rejected and tease the audience for focusing on weird stuff.

I’ve been tuning into Colbert more lately as he’s gotten a little more vicious after the cancelation news. I usually just watch Kimmel now and the Jon Stewart Daily shows.

Kimmel has been off for his multi-week summer vacation and it’s been just reruns the last 2 weeks, so not a shock his numbers are down. Seth Meyers looks to be having a nice boost too, larger %-wise than Colbert too.

I stumbled on DBZ to start my anime journey like a lot of people probably did, so associating big with filler isn’t an unfair assumption.

Seeing something so big in both story size and fan base hyped up all the time also feels unrealistic for most things, but One Piece to me lives up to its reremovedtion.

If you’ve watched it already first, in my opinion I don’t think you need to go back to read it. I can’t think of anything significant they’ve skipped like in some adaptations of manga.

I’ve gone back to reread things like Golden Kamuy where some stuff was too graphic to put in the anime or if the anime was well behind the manga like MHA was, but One Piece is wholesome so nothing got skipped and I imagine it prints money so it’s only one partial arc behind for the most part now.

That’s a bit why I waited until I was a huge chunk into the reading to start the anime. I could just enjoy the animation and to see how previous events tie into where I am in the reading. The anime feels pretty true to the manga. Continuity feels great, and I really wonder how much was planned to play out this way 30 years ago or if Oda is just that good at not painting himself into corners with plotlines.

With the huge online fandom, it isn’t hard to search up what chapters events take place in if you want to reread a section. I think if you really want to get deep into it and work on your own theories and such, doing an arc and taking a break to roll it around in your mind and to go back to key events and hint drops, that feels very doable.

There’s only 2 arcs that drag on a bit, but I think it’s paced nicely and there’s good delineation between key events.

I dislike fights in manga since I can’t seem to visualize it clearly, so I like a bit of jumping back to watch the anime and get an experience like what you seem to describe. Since so much is out already too, you can watch some of the anime to get the voices and outfits in your head too, which I always find helpful too.

You naturally know what works for you though, but One Piece is truly top notch and it would be sad to see someone skip it for its size. It is almost all solid gold material, and while there is absolutely some stuff less interesting than others, it really isn’t much, and there is no filler in the manga. The anime has filler between arcs, but it’s easily skipped if one desires and slower parts of the story drag even more animated than read, but I think that’s true of any story.

It’s not a race and you can wait to start whenever, but I’m glad I’m caught up and don’t have to risk having the ending spoiled in a few years when it wraps up.

I never wanted to jump into something that big because it felt too daunting. I had seen maybe 3 episodes on Toonami like 20 years ago but that was it. I gave the first couple of chapters a read since we liked a lot of the same stuff.

I was hooked right from that start. I read a ton of it, and then picked up the anime from the start around when I reached Fishman Island.

That was a little over 2 years ago, and I’ve been caught up on the manga for months, and the dub anime since last week.

It hasn’t been anywhere near the only thing I’ve read or watched, but it’s always just been that good I haven’t wanted to put it down for long.

My SO is nowhere as into this stuff as I am, and she cannot believe she’s just watched 1100+ episodes of the same thing. She’s needed more breaks than I did, but she is kinda bummed there’s no more at the moment.

I had held off on the Gunslinger series from Stephen King forever for similar reasons and it turned out the same way. Some things are so loved for good reason, and the time goes by way faster if you agree than for something you find mid.

Nice article here on why a kill switch is unnecessary. It goes into the supply chain of parts, control over maintenance and IP, and associated systems tied in with the fighter’s advanced features.

Its development was in coordination with (at the time in the 90s), and while a lot of funding was the US, it was built as something for us and our allies, even if those relations are strained now. There are a lot of countries that make things for the F-35, and if a killswitch were discovered, I can’t imagine it would please any of those countries and they could cease supplying parts or services the US needs in turn from them.

To reiterate, there is no evidence to date that F-35s in service anywhere feature some kind of dedicated capability that can be used to fully disable the jets at the literal or figurative touch of a button. What is true is that Joint Strike Fighters are subject to particularly significant U.S. export and other governmental controls. Virtually all F-35s in service worldwide are dependent in critical ways on proprietary support from the U.S. government and contractors in the United States.

“You don’t need a ‘kill switch’ to severely hamper the utility of an exported weapons system, you just stop providing support for it and it will wither away, some systems very quickly,” TWZ‘s own Tyler Rogoway wrote on X yesterday. “The more advanced the faster the degradation.”

I’m no expert on this, but it all sounds pretty reasonable. If anyone understand better, please feel free to correct anything I’ve said!