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  speaking of those two formats, most of Europe uses both at the same time and sometimes it's very annoying for us - "you said to meet you at 5!" "oh sorry i meant 15"

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  our natural body temperature does its best to perfectly balance out to 36.6C, but you are a biological machine, you keep generating heat by just existing, and you need to release the excess. it's much easier when the air around you is colder, but when it's starting to reach the same temperature as your body then your the "uh oh sweating time" triggers to help you along

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  none of the "smart" devices are actually smart. in my experience they're really fucking dumb i once bought a "smart" electric kettle because i thought it'd be nice to boil my water to exact temperatures for my teas. it had a little button on a little screen to turn it on and of course the screen stopped working, and that was the singular thing that broke. if the kettle had a physical switch i'd have only lost the ability to boil to exact temperatures instead of...

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  i always use this as an example of how deeply the languages we use shape how we understand the world even the answer to the question “how many fingers do you have?” changes depending on the language, and that’s a physical fact that seems to not have any degree of subjectivity to it

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  that’s what i love psychadelics, they make you stop running away from yourself. when you set yourself up correctly you can do years of therapy in a single night. sometimes it’s a painful process (mentally speaking ofc) but it’s always worth it, always helping you grow

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  my theory is: psychadelics open your mind to love love makes you more aligned with leftist ideas lemmy is a decentralised place that was popularised by people with leftist ideas leaving other platforms an average lemmy user is more likely to have taken psychadelics than the average twitter user