Dessalines
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lemmings over 30 who try to stay active, what are you doing to accommodate for your incredibly decrepit bodies to avoid boo-boos?
17·22 days agoGo for a walk (outside) every day. I used to try different posture exercises, running, sprinting interval training, but as you get older, nothing is healthier and easier on your body than just daily walks.
We kinda are walking machines anyway:

Bonus points for mental health if you walk in nature, without any headphones or entertainments.
Also do strength training (you can get hand barbells very cheap if you don’t have a gym close by), starting very light at first, and working up to whatever feels comfortable.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Toki Pona speakers, how would you translate my boyfriend and my name?
2·23 days agoAgree, siwe is probably closer.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Toki Pona speakers, how would you translate my boyfriend and my name?
6·23 days agomi sona e toki pona, taso tenpo mute la mi toki ala e ni.
i know it, but haven’t spoken it for a long time.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Toki Pona speakers, how would you translate my boyfriend and my name?
12·23 days agoSewe, lawi
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•[US] What happens when the government shuts down, and if it stays down, what do we do?
27·24 days agoThe long term is typically what happens to empires like Rome or Britain: a slow, whiny, unstable decline into obscurity until everyone eventually leaves.
Rome had so many civil wars, imperial overextension, political instability, famines, and an inability to cope with disasters, that by the time it fell, it hollowed out to like < 1% of its peak population.
/end doomposting
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s contributing most to the death of the open internet?
10·24 days agoHighly recommend everyone read yasha levine’s surveillance valley for a lot of the specifics on this, looking at the internet in particular.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?
4·26 days agoTrue. I have a decent hand-one for $50, but they can get pretty expensive.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?
293·26 days agoYou must buy $1600 iphone to support failing US economy.
Please don’t look at all the alternatives that are 3 years ahead in tech and 1/3rd of the cost.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?
7·26 days agoThe smart ones know how to avoid the shit now. I’m not testing that out tho lol.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?
5·26 days agoYou can find these old / used / open box pretty cheap now.
I got a 2+ year old model that originally sold for like $1500 USD, for ~200.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?
6·26 days agoThe best pourover kits in existence cost like $25 USD max too. There’s no reason to not learn how to do it right.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?
74·26 days agoStreaming subscriptions. I swear the average nowadays seems to be like 4 per person because ppl don’t know how to torrent anymore

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Who are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?
12·26 days agoGot memory-holed by google, not much we can do about that (apologies for the orwellism)
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Who are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?
281·26 days ago@Cowbee has a great reading list here that goes over many of these. Any anti-imperialist historical account is going to give you a better view
Here’s a few documentaries about different leaders:
- Fidel - The untold story (Cuban Revolution)
- Malcolm X - Make it Plain
- The Upright Man (Thomas Sankara)
- Grenada - Future coming Towards Us
- Paul Robeson - Here I Stand
- Lenin - old British Documentary
- The Murder of Fred Hampton
- The Revolution will not be televised (Chavez and Venezuela)
- A place called Chiapas (EZLN)
- Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들)
- The Haircut - A North Korean Adventure
And I keep a study guide here.
It’s either the instance or the app.
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy Development Update October 2025English
4·27 days agoYou’ll need to be involved in development if you want to contribute that setting.
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy Development Update October 2025English
5·27 days agoEvery other lemmy app I can find right aligns action dropdowns and thumbnails, we were the outlier. Pics of all those other apps were linked in my PR.
I’m making lemmy-ui match jerboa more closely from now on, so that we can have a uniform UI standard that works better on mobile.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Matrix movie lore opinion question. Did cypher try anything else before betraying the group? Would neo and the others have tried to help him if he asked?
24·1 month agoPart of the reason is that he didn’t just want to live a life of pleasure… he also wanted to revert to a state of blissful ignorance, and not know that the matrix was a fake reality.
That would go against the moral principles of the ship, whose main goal is to enlighten and bring awareness about the matrix. It would be immoral for them to erase his memory even if they could.
Cypher also was extremely selfish, secretly hated the crew, and had no qualms about selling them all out for his own benefit.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you had to choose a new _lingua franca_, what language would you pick?
4·1 month agoGlobasa. A constructed language, but with most world language families represented, and a process that ensures new words meet a few other good criteria.
Barring that, toki pona.









No we are a long way off from a 1.0 release yet.