Dharma Curious @ DharmaCurious @startrek.website

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Damn, really? Anywhere to follow the progress? Not a techie, and I do not understand GitHub. Lol. Mastodon account or lemmy community to follow?

Good. Because he didn't. I refuse to accept it. Florida Man lives.

Curious as someone who absolutely does not understand things. Would it be possible to create an open source algorithm that could be used successfully? As in, you view certain types of content, similar content is recommended, home feeds are personalized, et cetera, but without the generally horrible shit that comes along with algorithm feeds currently?

No. The Romulans allow level 12. But if you do go to the gamma quadrant, they allow for Blatant Unrepentant Sinner Level 10. But no humanoid has ever survived it. Major Death By Snusnu vibes.

Debauchery level 11 is outlawed in federation space. Even the Breen do not allow level 11! I have heard that Grand Nafus Rom is preparing to outlaw it in Ferengi space as well.

Riker once tried level 11. He was never the same afterwards.

Brain and brain! What is brain‽

Why do you think I ordered debauchery level 9?

Get a large communist movement going in your town. The rich are terrified of actual communists. They'll flee to England.

My guess is that on a star ship you're only allowed a certain amount of time, and there are probably some kinds of rules about the... Nature... Of the programs that the computer won't let you override.

At quark's it's probably just too expensive. Pay by the minute. Only the horniest can afford to spend that long in there.

If we figure out this whole telemere lengthening thing and I live long enough, though, I fully plan on figuring out how to have my own holodeck. And I have no shame in admitting that I will be using holoporn programs. Especially since you can use your voice to create a program.

"Computer, generate debauchery, level 9!"

This'll be my first trek book. How excited should I be? Garak is my favorite trek character from any series.

Holy crap. I don't really use cannabis (not against it, majorly in favor of legalization, and occasion user. Just don't particularly like being drunk or high personally anymore), so I've never really considered how gallbladder removal might impact edibles. That's crazy.

That truly sucks. I'm sorry you're going through that.

Just one thing real quick, though, just in case. My entire family has had similar issues, and for every one of us* it has been our gallbladder. Also for every one of us, they have refused to check our gallbladders. My mom was told ulcers, which she had none. Had to have emergency surgery when her gallbladder was on the verge of ruptured. My brother was told it was his drinking (±1 drink a week), quit drinking for two years with no improvement. When they finally removed his gallbladder it was so bad it literally fell apart inside him when they tried to remove it, and he was in the hospital for a week *I'm currently going through it, and they're telling me it's acid reflux.

The gallbladder is the medical bigfoot. Doctors refuse to believe it exists, I'm pretty sure.

I mean, not a fan of these type of threads in general (to each their own, though), but feet are the single most common fetish, and more and more so considered a pretty normal thing to be into. It's close enough to vanilla to work well as a joke.

At this point, I'd say I am definitely a nondualist. I was raised Christian, so that flavors my outlook in major ways. I'm some weird mix of Hindu and Christian, and recently I've become very interested in Buddhism as well. I really enjoy the writings of Swamiji Vivekananda and Rama Krishna. A sort of universal view of religion, with many paths that lead us to God.

What about yourself? Do you subscribe to a particular religion or philosophy?

Also, related, do you recommend any Lemmy communities for this sort of stuff? I haven't found my esoteric and spiritual people on lemmy yet.

Cool cool cool

... well, I've been trying to describe what happens to me sometimes for years. Been calling it a panic attack since I was like 8 years old. Holy shit. I think I have this.

Someone else will need to answer on the border bit (though I doubt it), but I know from a friend who visited without travel insurance that he did have a bill for something like 30 thousand USD for a broken leg and rib. I think he just never paid it. He's back in the UK now, and says he'll never visit here again because of the experience with our hospitals

Worth noting that those discounted rates are still significantly higher than what insured patients pay, and astronomically higher than what people in actually sane countries pay.

For what it's worth, I assumed you were a lobster on Maury swearing up a storm about how you are not the father.

Around 5 years ago I started investigating my faith. I've always been sort of... Eclectic in that regard, but once I discovered the Dharmic faiths, it made a big difference in my life. Non dualism specifically. I chose the username because I made a new reddit account specifically for that sort of content. I was still really new to it at the time, and associated the branching out from my Christian roots with the same type of exploration people do when they're beginning to explore their sexuality. So it's a play on bi-curious. I wasn't Dharmic at the time, I was just Dharma-curious. Haha.