I want other people's account even though i know the chances are extremely rare any have experienced it as well.

I have excellent vision normally and don't need glasses, I can see things from extremely fair away and my eyes have a wide FOV (my peripheral is great). But there was something interesting that happened to me twice in my life and I've been trying to achieve it.

I say achieve because it is given, ~~REDACTED~~ and ~~REDACTED~~

Have you ever had an experience (you can be doing anything when it happens) of suddenly your vision becomes clearer and clearer. Dozens of times over? Spontaneously and over a duration less than 5 minutes. This perception/vision is divine levels of clarity. It is amazing, phenomenonal.

If you have, tell me how long it takes for the vision to peak in clarity and tell me what happens once it peaks. I will know if you're lying instantly if you can't answer or answer those two parts incorrectly. If it truly happened to you, you will know that info for sure.

Which is good because I need to find people who have truly experienced it and this is a serious question.

Most posts to those 3 comms fail, but sometimes that's lemmy errors. Anyway.

Rough Rider .22 revolver. Shells on the right are spent, left are unfired. Cylinder won't rotate after the 3rd shot because the shells deform and poke up. Hell is that? It's like they fire, bounce back and crumple, which doesn't seem physically possible.

Sure seems like that's happening when shooting it. Tested 5 cylinders, .22 and .22WMR, all the same results. Scarily, I can feel some back blast from the more powerful .22WMR, which again shouldn't be possible.

Took it apart for some deep cleaning the other night, didn't see anything weird, put it back together. Still fails. And this is the 3rd such gun I've owned, not my first rodeo.

I know France popularized the Guillotine, but what was the highest profile case of an American fucking around and finding out?

Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Freid, and Martin Shkreli come to the top of mind. Maybe Bernie Maddoff?

I came here around the time the rif app shut down, and the general vibe I get from this place is much more negative than when I joined. Is Lemmy growing more toxic or is it just my imagination?

I wish r/polls equivalent on Lemmy was more popular. As a moderator, how often should I post or engage to help increase its activity and attract more users?

You know how in fantasy worlds, its all english? Kinda breaks the immersion a bit. I wanna find something where they make it as realistic as possible, and make everything in a fictional language, basically using subtitles as the main way to understand the plot.

Habit can be something you noticed about yourself or something that people had to keep telling you about yourself that was true.

Just out of sheer laziness?

For example there is one guy in a country who is being a dick or a single small business in some country that's being a dick

But the internet catches wind of it and it ends up gaining traction online and ends up going from something small and minor to something huge online and actually seeming worser and bigger than it is and potentially makes the country where it happened appear like that when it isn't true.

I'm looking for a word or words to describe this.

Like, I don't think passports exist, right? Could a person travel to another Empire/Kingdom?

I have some questions about advice on what I should do and how to go about doing it. But reading the rules of this community (and asklemmy), it isn't clear to me that such questions are in the spirit of the community, but I'm unsure. Is this an appropriate place to ask such questions? And if not, can you point me to more appropriate communities? (It's not mental, medical, or professional advice)

Not necessarily looking for an answer in this thread, but I suppose just to provide a sample question to better consider what I mean:

• I am thinking about possibly moving to another country. What are things I should consider to decide if I should do so? What actions do I need to take to plan and make such a move? What are some resources that could make those move actions easier or even any companies that can do some of that work for me?

Do you have any ideas or thoughts about this?

I live in the US and have a question about Trump's tariffs.

I am considering ordering a US$600 handbag online from a store in France. Would I have to pay a tariff on such a purchase? As far as I can tell, any tariffs owed are not included in the purchase price on the website.

Thank you for any input you have on the subject.

Edit: The handbag is labeled "Made in Italy" which may change the tariff apparently.

is this light snoring? heavy breathing???

I'm trying to find ideas for what each reader of this question could do given a small loan that could re-"factory" there local economy.

I don't have capital, but I think that some production canning equipment could be used in our local farms. I wonder if I can invest in that instead of an index fund.

And I have always wondered where all the little various size rubber grommets and stuff come from ... like perhaps it would be interesting to start micro-factories with each just making one thing. Like drawing back manufacturing locally instead of waiting for mega-corps to do it.

I think asking this question is getting a list of stuff like that could be helpful to our various locales.

Fly as in what birds and aeroplanes do, fly as in the insects, or fly as in “your fly is down”?

edit: I mean the word fly (as in its use in language), not the act of flying!

Besides VSCodium (which isn't really a fork, it's just building from the source code of VSCode without the Microsoft stuff), there aren't any VSCode forks/derivatives that aren't AI-assisted editors (see Cursor, Windsurf, those are the main two, right?).

That feels a bit weird to me, as many other pieces of software have lots of forks and derivatives (browsers, operating systems, email clients, emulators, PDF viewers, Fediverse clients, etc.). I guess people who would bother to create a fork and doesn't want to put AI in everything just uses a different editor.

There's nothing wrong with VSCodium, it's awesome. My only gripe with it is that the rpm package takes ages to update compared to everything else I use, which is weird. Other than that issue, it runs fine, and I like the flexibility that plugins give me. I just find it odd that there aren't any other VSCode derivatives/forks.

Hey, coming from a history teacher, (now, server as I make 3-4x as much) — it’s horrid! And I miss teaching every damn day! FUCK AMERICA! Here’s my questions to you.

3 parts:

1: I’m here to ask a legitimate question, if we all agree, that “Fascism”, is wrong then why is “ANTIFA”, now made the “enemy”??? Is it because now we’re living in a “Fascist State” or, (soon to be) state?? Lack of education?? Funding for public funding programs?? Do not know what “ANTIFA” truly means?, etc.

Because as Trump stated he, “he did not know Miller during elections”: so again, Trump: “didn’t even know the writer of Project 2025… but now a member of his cabinet”? So lie right?

The definition of “ANTIFA” means anti-fascism… so people who voted for Trump, how do you feel about this? As our economy is crumbling, are egg prices better? Food costs lower, wages higher? Are you MAGA voters living an “America First” life?

2: USA FAILS on ALL educational fields by a LONG shot we don’t even break the top 30 in anything, do you think this is why we have “president” who “won again”? I just want to understand the MAGA votes views… and want to know… America is not first in anything and prove me wrong PLEASE! So please explain why anyone thinks we’re #1, in honestly anything, but ego?

3: Finally question… if you voted MAGA, has Trump ACTUALLY helped you at all? If so please give me examples and FACTS so I can get a better understanding the voting you made the country suffer through? PLEASE enlighten me and others!

Finally thought: VOTE or STFU! You do not get to complain and comment about politics when your ass was too lazy or didn’t care enough to vote! Sit down and bow out because your voice DID NOT AND NOW doesn’t matter, just like you not voting put us here!

So ONLY comment if you had/have a voice with that vote please (any vote, not just MAGA).

Thank you!!!

with people with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace I mean everyone of you, because I suck at this and I'm sure anyone here is better than I am with this kind of stuff.

Tense situation is a karen yelling at one of my colleagues because her father's operation was postponed because I kid you not 4 doctors called in sick today. Rumor has it they're striking for better pay.

My instinctive response if someone starts behaving like a childish, snippy, entitled karen and acts passive-aggressively is to leave and ignore the person. In this case, the karen started ranting to my coworker, getting all snippy and wouldn't shut up. A rational conversation with people that irrational is impossible, so I kept doing my job, transferring a patient to another ward.

I never expected this colleague to tell me she felt let down because I didn't help her to deal with said karen. She said simply staying next to her would have sufficed. I told her I'd do that next time someone yells at her.

I consider myself lucky because I can leave to do my job but my colleague was trapped with this person.

My questions to you people with good social skills:

does it really help to simply stay next to my colleague, letting her do the talking while I do nothing but looking at the karen in the eye?

what if, each time the karen opens her mouth I repeat 'calm down' ad nauseam till she either tires, shuts up or walks away?

what do you say or do to support your coworkers while they're being verbally abused that somewhat defuses the situation?

what if avoiding conflict is a trait of mine to the point that I let people walk all over me?

how do you resist the urge to walk away? Situations like this trigger my fight or flight response.

what if I have to do this with a man and it gets physical? If somebody strikes me and I strike back, and I can guarantee you I'm striking back, I'm as guilty as the first aggressor.