[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

In my mind, charisma is easily the hardest one to improve. The rest you can grind out or get better with age but Charisma is tough

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

My advice would be to treat investing in unique assets - like shares in one company or Cryptos - as gambling: only put in what you're willing to lose. Anything you can't afford to lose should be saved or put into index funds with lower risk and volatility.

You just cannot know what an asset will do in 6 months. You can have a really good guess, but at the end of the day it's still a guess. And that guessing is even more difficult when it's a non-productive asset like Bitcoin, because then you're just gambling on vibes. There isn't much logic to Bitcoin's price besides "what if" and FOMO.

So yes, if you can afford to lose the money, you can leave it in. But if that money going to zero overnight would impact your quality of life or ability to absorb unexpected expenditures, then liquidate.

And on a more personal note, you're probably better off having the drone you want than flipping a (digital) coin and hoping it's heads

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

White.

I think because when I was young I associated it with angels and purity and I wanted to be a good person.

Now I just think it looks crisp and clean and it's always been "my" color in games

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Everyone has about the same answers here, and I agree with many, but I've got a weird one:

Super Size Me

Something about it just compels me. And it always makes me want McDonald's afterwards... I truly struggle to explain why.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

The answer is still to adopt. The dogs are coming either from a shelter or a mill and both are good sources for adoption.

The former means it's still giving a dog a home. It is still a dog that needs a home regardless of which country it originated from.

The latter seems completely nonsense if the German shelters are paying full price and still giving the dogs up for adoption at reasonable rates. They'd be losing a ton of money. And if they're taking the leftovers from the puppy mills for cheap or free, then those are still losses to the mills and are discouraging more breeding. Also, those are still dogs that need homes regardless of source. Just because a dog was born in a mill doesn't mean it deserves not to be adopted.

In either case the answer is still to get a dog from a shelter.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I have a four, but most are from instances I've moved away from.

Started on Beehaw but when they started defederating from everyone I made a programming.dev account.

Also created a personal instance, but it was too heavy for my NAS to be worth it.

Finally, an Mbin account recently because the communism stuff from the main developers seems to be pretty contentious right now and I want to explore alternatives while I'm still happy with Lemmy. If some "event" happens and I find the need to move somewhere else its good to have an alternative in the pocket

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Ask this in the Perchance community https://lemmy.world/c/perchance

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

We do have a couple containers of cat grass I rotate in so that they can have some to eat, but like you said getting a "lawn" out of the grass is difficult. It's usually very large, thick seeds that don't disperse very evenly

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely make your own, if you can stomach the time. You can buy molds online for a cheap initial investment, then just water down some fruit juice.

You can also use real fruit if you don't mind a chunkier texture and own a food processor already.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see a lot of posts that are spam that get a shipload of down votes. Usually advertising some pills or something

Fortunately, they are removed pretty quickly

Edit: Hey look one showed up

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Apparently unpopular but I use Mozilla VPN

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