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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 89 points 3 months ago

Some online friends called 911 on my son when he was just a few weeks shy of 18 and he was placed on a psych hold for a week for self-harming thoughts.

Don’t get me wrong, I am very grateful they saw signs he’d managed to hide from us, but since the paperwork took a few weeks to process, he not only had to deal with his mental health issues, but also got an 18th birthday present of a $20,000 bill for inpatient services under his name. That definitely didn’t help his mental state at all, and it took years to sort it out.

Later, he told me all he learned from the whole experience was to never tell anyone what he really thinks. As a mom, that scares the shit out of me.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 109 points 3 months ago

The fuck? There are conspiracies about this already even though there was a live stream of it? What the fuck is wrong with people?

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submitted 4 months ago by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

My cat needed to be euthanised last month, and I just received her ashes. They came with a round black sticker. What’s the purpose of this sticker?

They mentioned my chosen urn was suitable for sprinkling cremains (I don’t plan to do that) – maybe it’s related to that?

Thanks.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/timetravellerguide@lemmy.ca

A team from TU Dortmund University recently succeeded in producing a highly durable time crystal that lived millions of times longer than could be shown in previous experiments. By doing so, they have corroborated an extremely interesting phenomenon that Nobel Prize laureate Frank Wilczek postulated around ten years ago and which had already found its way into science fiction movies.

The results have been published in Nature Physics.

Paper abstract – Robust continuous time crystal in an electron–nuclear spin system:

Abstract
Crystals spontaneously break the continuous translation symmetry of free space. Analogously, time crystals lift translational invariance in time. Here we demonstrate a robust continuous time crystal in an electron–nuclear spin system of a semiconductor tailored by tuning the material composition. Continuous, time-independent external driving of the sample produces periodic auto-oscillations with a coherence time exceeding hours. Varying the experimental parameters reveals wide ranges in which the time crystal remains stable. At the edges of these ranges, we find chaotic behaviour with a lifted periodicity corresponding to the melting of the crystal. The time crystal state enables fundamental studies of nonlinear interactions and has potential applications as a precise on-chip frequency standard.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

Back in Apollo, we had a feature where you could long-press on mobile and save a screenshot with options to include usernames, number and levels of parents, and original post, amongst other things. Those were the ones I used. I also remember there was a checkbox for watermark, which defaulted to on, and which I never touched but always respected, because it never condescended to me.

Anyway, I used that feature so much that there was no Apollo without it before the ensittification.

As a user experience designer, Apollo had done a lot right that the big tech names had been doing wrong, and I’d floundered on Lemmy until the Voyager team started from that foundation.

I appreciate everything this team has done for me, but I do miss this feature. It seemed aimed straight at me, so I almost hate to bring it up, but it was beautiful and I loved it.

(I’m sorry for not saying this on Git, but I just can’t right now)

eta: you guys are the best. I love everything you’ve done. <3

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 89 points 5 months ago

Watching the party call MAGA Mike Johnson – the guy who they hand chose because he was as MAGA as they come – call him a RINO because he couldn’t unite their basket of rabid weasels is just

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 142 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is why NATO has begun ramping up defense purchases recently.

Trump has been polling higher recently, and that scares the fuck out of Europe, because they know Trump will at best allow Putin to steamroll the region and, at worst, actively use US resources to help dictatorships expand their sphere of influence, culminating in WWIII.

They’re not willing to wait until that happens.

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submitted 6 months ago by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/lifeprotips@lemmy.world

This only works by phone. Be nice, but firm. Don’t be satisfied with their first answer – make them escalate you to the retention department. They’re often authorised to give much larger discounts because it’s cheaper for them to retain customers than to recruit new ones.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 90 points 6 months ago

Yes.

Also phones made in the US have back doors that the US government can access. It’s not really secret.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/politics@lemmy.world

Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books' removal.

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The purge of books from Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, over the course of the past semester is the latest consequence of a conservative movement across the country — and strongest in Florida — to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive. While the vast majority of such challenged and removed books involve race, gender and sexuality, several Jewish books have previously been caught in the dragnet.

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Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books' removal.

JTA – A global bestseller by a Jewish Holocaust victim; a novel by a beloved and politically conservative Jewish American writer; a memoir of growing up mixed-race and Jewish; and a contemporary novel about a high-achieving Jewish family are among the nearly 700 books a Florida school district removed from classroom libraries this year in fear of violating state laws on sexual content in schools.

The purge of books from Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, over the course of the past semester is the latest consequence of a conservative movement across the country — and strongest in Florida — to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive. While the vast majority of such challenged and removed books involve race, gender and sexuality, several Jewish books have previously been caught in the dragnet.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/space@lemmy.world

Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Learn the truth behind these 10 dubious stories.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • While there have been huge scientific advances in a wide variety of aspects of physics and astronomy, there have also been wild headlines that do not reflect at all what's true in this Universe.
  • No, we haven't found a room-temperature superconductor, overturned the expanding Universe or Big Bang, discovered that the cosmos is twice as old as we thought, or discovered alien technology on the seafloor.
  • There has been a lot of fiction permeating science news this year, and the frustrating thing is that these untrue stories are posing as actual facts.

Here are 10 lies you may want to learn the actual truth behind.

[Article continues…]

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/science@lemmy.world

Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Learn the truth behind these 10 dubious stories.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • While there have been huge scientific advances in a wide variety of aspects of physics and astronomy, there have also been wild headlines that do not reflect at all what's true in this Universe.
  • No, we haven't found a room-temperature superconductor, overturned the expanding Universe or Big Bang, discovered that the cosmos is twice as old as we thought, or discovered alien technology on the seafloor.
  • There has been a lot of fiction permeating science news this year, and the frustrating thing is that these untrue stories are posing as actual facts.

Here are 10 lies you may want to learn the actual truth behind.

[Article continues…]

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submitted 6 months ago by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/eurovision@lemmy.world

The visual artwork for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 has been revealed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Swedish broadcaster (SVT). The visual identity is inspired by the northern lights and sound equalizers.

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submitted 6 months ago by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/eurovision@lemmy.world

Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO has just revealed their artist for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Raiven will represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

The song that Raiven will sing on the Eurovision stage is titled "Veronika" and will be released on 20 January.

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submitted 6 months ago by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/eurovision@lemmy.world

Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has just revealed their artist for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Joost Klein will represent the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 after being selected internally from over 600 potential participants.

The song that Joost Klein will sing on the Eurovision stage in Malmö will be released at a later date.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 140 points 8 months ago

Annual reminder that it’s now been 14 years since Hannity promised to be waterboarded for charity.

He talks a big game, but that’s all it is – and his talk gets cheaper by the day.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 128 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My father has been designing and building bespoke aircraft for 45 years, was an FAA test pilot, inspector, and trainer for most of that time, and was in the US Air Force during the Korean War. He has more aviation experience than most.

His license plate reads GO RAIL and he won’t fly commercial if he can avoid it.

e: I am not surprised.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 99 points 9 months ago

Daily reminder that unregulated capitalism hurts all of us.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 125 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Corsets. They were not uncomfortable or restrictive, and they did not make women faint. Only the Victorian equivalent of the Kardashians were into dangerously tight lacing – for regular women, they were just a fitted support garment, no worse than spanx. I’ve worn them for 25 years as a late-Victorian reenactor. They’re actually really nice for back pain.

On the other hand, hoop skirts were immensely dangerous, and women were burned to death when their skirts caught an open flame (of which there were many), were dragged to death when their hoops caught in coach wheels as they disembarked, and fell to their deaths when the wind caught their hoops and sent them flying Mary Poppins style from rooves and balconies.

Corsets were fine; hoop skirts were a death trap.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 161 points 10 months ago

Fascism. They keep dancing around it, but what they want is fascism.

This isn’t politics. They want to remake US politics into a fascist state, and they’re not even that shy about it.

Thankfully only about 30% of US adults are falling for this grift. Unfortunately about the same percentage of Germans fell for it in the late 1920s. It seems really low, but it’s enough if the rest of us are complacent.

So let’s not be complacent.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 119 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fascists always do the ole ‘he hit me first waah’ gambit. All you can do is ignore it and treat them like the crybabies they are.

Perhaps if someone gives trump a dummy (binky) and rocks him gently we’ll all be able to sleep for a while.

‘It’s okay, you were the bestest president, sleep now, everyone lubs you. Shhh.’

Followed by a brick.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 134 points 11 months ago

They spelled ‘eat’ wrong.

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