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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I don’t really trust myself with guns tbh. Not in a “might decide to use them inappropriately” sort of way, but whenever I’ve fired them before, it’s gotten my anxiety issues to spike in a way that only a couple other things do worse, and my ability to think clearly and actually aim at anything has been serious impaired. It does depend on the type of gun a bit, shotguns trigger it the worst ive found thus far for example and very small-caliber bolt action rifles the least, but anything actually reliably useful if you were in a fight is likely to be towards the worse end of it and even the milder ones are stressful enough to use that realistically if I bought one, it’d get used for target shooting maybe twice and end up forgotten in a gun locker as bait for thieves or something.



  • If you wanted to make it possible to opt out of certain categories of ads (like alcohol) on personal devices/computers, without having to tell the advertiser that you’re an alcoholic or similar, perhaps a law could mandate that ads made for those products or brands associated with them be tagged as such in some way, and that software that displays ads should have a setting to not display ones that arrive with that tag? That way the setting only needs to be client side. I mean ideally you’d just not have ads at all but that’s a much bigger and more difficult fight than just alcohol obviously.










  • Are psychedelics really this popular, or is lemmy just full of people that like them? I had assumed they were a rather niche thing, but the sentiment towards them here today (and not just this post either) seems notably positive, though the descriptions people give sound existentially horrifying to me. Then again, I get anxious enough towards drugs that Ive not even tried alcohol let alone anything less common, so maybe I’m just the weirdo here.