Disclaimer: I am actually not a coffee person (saw this post on All).

Went to Sumatra a few years ago, and my friend wanted to go to one of the more “ethical” producers of luwak coffee. We did a tour of the place, they seem to treat their civets fine (at least from what we saw). Tasted the coffee at the end of the tour, and for me it was so different than other coffee that I’ve tasted before. Like it somehow managed to simultaneously taste richer, but also milder in a way that makes someone who usually doesn’t enjoy coffee (me) to actually like it. IDK how to explain it lol.

All in all, it was probably the best cup of coffee that I’ve enjoyed the most in my life. But again, I am not a coffee person–I probably only drink coffee like 3-4 times a year–so maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about, haha.

I opened Google for the first time in three months just to try this lmao

My sibling’s delightful ex-roommate–a conservative, 20something, middle-class, cishet white man–said that he feels very oppressed in their college town! He’s always scared of saying what he thinks bc then everyone will think of him badly! Literally the most oppressed! (His actual words)

I’m the same when I’m going on a vacation with my parents! I want to have as much memories captured with them as possible… But it’s only when I’m with them lol. I usually go to vacations solo, and the pictures without me is still memories to me–even if it’s a bad picture and not professional quality, it’s still something I saw and experienced myself. Like maybe my sunset picture I took is crooked or too dark etc, but when I see it I remember the moment I was there; it captured exact hue of the sky that I saw, the birds that I was watching earlier, the clouds that I thought looked like a Pokemon and made me smile. The better pictures that other people took do not have that, so for me personally, it’s not a wasted effort.

The other day I was looking at my solo vacation pictures from 10, 15 years ago without me in them, and the memories are still with me.

Anyway, I think that although we take them differently, we both agree that vacation pictures should be for our memories, and not for “showing other people that we were REALLY there” (as my cousin said, haha…)

I hate selfies, so whenever I’m on vacation I just take pictures of my surroundings but never with me in it. Once, my cousin wanted to see my vacation pics, so I showed them to him. He then asked why I’m not in any of them. When I said I didn’t think it was necessary, his genuine confused reply was, “But how do people know you were really there, then?”

It’s really insane out there.

Exactly this. I read the article in the post and thought it actually sounds like a nice service, but after getting this ad when searching “depression” on DDG last year, I don’t think I’ll ever trust them again lol.

It’s not a cop, it’s Captain Pikachu from the anime.

Japanese Misskey/Mastodon servers have also been spammed by the exact same thing since about 15 hours ago, and it’s still going. I guess they’re targeting Lemmy as well now, damn…

Just binged Skip to Loafer a couple of weeks ago, I’m still thinking about it now.

Our research has several limitations and should be interpreted with appropriate caution. Firstly, our evaluation technique likely underestimates the real-world value of human conversations, as the clinicians in our study were limited to an unfamiliar text-chat interface, which permits large-scale LLM–patient interactions but is not representative of usual clinical practice.