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I would sleep through my pillow being shifted or taken, my phone buzzing next to my ear/face, or being poked/slightly shaken, but I would wake up to loud laughing, yelling, smells, and ringtones.

I just went to get a sandwich. The ordering is (optionally) done via kiosk. This time, the kiosk started suggesting items for me based on what I'd purchased before. I was initially puzzled as to how it could recognize me prior to any identifying information being input, then realized that there was a small camera embedded in the kiosk, and that it must have done facial recognition.

Identifying customers isn't new; I understand that facial recognition has been used by grocery stores for loss prevention, to help flag people likely to steal things. But I wasn't aware that it'd reached the point of sticking all purchases into a database, regardless of the usual methods to obtain a unique identifier, like loyalty cards or obtaining a phone number.

Assuming that this becomes the norm, short of wearing a mask

which is a pain, and runs into anti-masking laws in some areas

I don't see how one can realistically avoid having all of one's purchasing being placed into a store's database for data-mining. That kind of bugs me

I'd like to be able to do stuff like purchase a sandwich without having the store profile me.

Thoughts? Ways to counter it? Okay with this/not okay?

There's something good in every week even if we have to look for it! What's made you smile or laugh this week?

I feel so strange just reading about the tech that has been invented, the human brain that was evolved... Like... a bunch of atoms floating in space (Earth is in space technically), being self-aware of its configuration in this vast and magnificient universe. So... strange...

Like a sort of "out of body experience", metaphorically speaking.

Now these weird creatures have magic pocket glass that can talk to another weird creature using radiation and electrons. And also built machines that can observe other planets. Transported a human to another celestial body (moon landing).

(Also I love how the wikipedia article was written in 3rd person, as if the writers themselves arent human lol)

I think I might be having another existential crisis again. 🫠

Sorry if I'm being weird

wasn't sure where else to put this, since, while chronic, this definitely doesn't qualify for /c/chronicillness LOL (idk how to link communities sorry)

(post tone: lightly frustrated, somewhat comedic description of problems and viewpoints; i swear a lot in my normal speech, but i'm not pissed or anything)

i've been dealing with nasal/sinus issues for over a decade: i've had a couple surgeries for it, i'm currently doing braces, which is fixing the underbite situation and helps with nasal drainage, and i'm on a good amount of allergy meds to mitigate the situation

the doc i had ten years ago and the doc i just saw today told me the same thing: rinse my nose with saline twice a day

now, if i was willing to do that, i wouldn't be seeing a doctor. i know that i can simply waterboard myself persistently enough and the problem will go away

my issue is that i need to flush my sinuses at all to be a functional person (thankfully, on the current routine, it's maybe a few times a week, vs twice a day)

i should have talked about this in more detail with the doc, and i'll see him again after some allergy testing and talk about it more then (i needed a minute to compose myself 💀); but i mostly wanted to get a survey of other folks with these issues: do y'all just fuckin live with rinsing your nose out twice a day?? i been doing it for a decade, i know how to do it correctly, i just HATE DOING IT, i cannot imagine doing it 2x a day willingly

(if you're wondering what part of the process i hate, it's all of it; having to bank distilled water, dealing with either cold water in your congested nose (shitty) or having to heat up the water to the right temp to be warm but also not burn the shit out of your nasal passages (pain in the ass), and then having to clean a shitload of salt water out of your face because why the fuck would it drain out cleanly)

Unexpectedly and loud, money wise or emotionally, bang bang went its little fists?

How are you all doing? Anything fun with your kids if you have any?

If you are born in a small country, you're stuck in a small geographic area out of a massive world. I mean sure you can travel, but its really hard to permanently move somewhere unless you have special skills or something.

If your country goes through autocratization, you kinda fucked.

I wish the future just have one "Worldwide Schengen".

I mean, right now we have: visas, passports, citizenships, like wtf. So tribalistic...

Today is my second cake day on lemmy!

There are exciting things on the horizon the rapid innovation of piefed, the addition of lemvotes, the amazing tesseract, the useful lemmy-federate, the comfort of voyager... lemmy has lots of promise.

Over these two years I've found some recurring characters here that I enjoy seeing, kinda a small town vibe - I like that.

This is a great place to be!

What do you like about lemmy?

• Manga is usually better than TV series, and TV series are usually better than movies
• Too many internal struggles that drag on and on
• Frequent flashbacks. Things that happened in the same episode they would have to remind you with flashbacks

Feel free to have a look at

!movies@piefed.social
!television@piefed.social
!animation@piefed.social

Could be any piece of trivia, scientific or historical fact, etc.

So back in highschool, the grade for 12th grade was based 100% on the mid and final exams. Homework didn't matter, quizzes didn't matter, projects didn't matter, participation in class didn't matter as far as grades go. You could of course still do these things and most people did care about them to practice but in the end it was all about the exam.

So I used to always take quizzes seriously as a chance to practice. I would note down my mistakes on my notebook IN ALL CAPS with red ink and a spiky border. Just so I don't make the same mistake again in the exam.

One day I made a mistake in a biology quiz because I confused heart pulse and blood pressure. That day I had cut myself and was bleeding. After writing the usual warning I looked at my hand and thought the blood matched the red ink really well...so I smeared my blood under the red ink warning.

After a few days the blood smear turned chocolate brown and no longer matched the warning :(