There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.iotoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do women pretend to enjoy sex?
    6 hours

    Even women without an medical issue need time for their body to catch up to the mental readiness. What you see in most porn is totally incorrect. If all is okay, 15-30 minutes of foreplay (on the rest of her body, touch is a huge thing) is best before any actual sexual action. There are some good Youtube channels that cover how to prepare a woman’s body, with the key elements being lots of touching all over, and not rushing into it. The human female body has to be convinced it is safe and secure, even if you feel turned on, but once the parts are relaxed, sex is not painful at all.

    That being said, a lot of the other comments seem to pinpoint one direction to talk to a doctor about. If even your own touching hurts, something isn’t right. But once you figure that out, teach your partner to help you get both mentally and physically ready and take time to enjoy it.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.iotopics@lemmy.world•Dennis Muren setting up X-Wing miniatures for the original Star Wars.
    4 days

    Back then it was probably a lot easier to make more models, and the quality would be better with a single shot. Some of the original footage has blocky areas where the merging wasn’t perfect. Didn’t matter back then, it was far better than most anything else, but three model shots plus a background would have been ugly. Original Star Trek footage also has some of that.

    Or to put it another way, we couldn’t have faked the Moon footage because the technology to fake it wasn’t created yet. It was easier to just build a big rocket and go.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.iotopics@lemmy.world•Hurry up and wait.
    24 days

    I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.

    Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.iotoLinux@lemmy.world•Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year
    2 months

    The key is how they introduce it. How many Ubuntu users (who are usually novice in Linux) read through an update notice? I’m guilty of just scanning through it. A vaguely named new thing isn’t going to be unchecked.

    I like Ubuntu’s “feel” vs. others. I can’t explain what that is, just know I test ran a few before I settled on it. I’m slowly weaning off Snap though, mainly because I’ve had many things be so out of date it made sense to go Flakpak or just find a .deb file. And Snap is obviously bloat if you watch what’s using CPU and mem regularly.

    I’ve also used some LLMs to diagnose computer issues, so I can see how a local version that walks through such thing would be helpful.

    I’ll give them rope, and I can always bounce to Mint if it gets too in my face.