Those only detect actual cancer. Getting the butt probe can also find ulcers and pre-cancerous polyps.

Strolls nervously through room with RX 580…

On the same note, going to the cinema alone or eating out alone. If you want to go with someone and can’t find anyone, that’s sad, but I only bother with a movie ticket these days when it’s something I really want to let soak in. That works just as well alone, if not better, and my family doesn’t have the same taste in movies as me. For eating alone, it could get old if it were all the time, but sometimes just a book and me and some food that’s better than I could easily manage, it’s really nice.

Yeah, it’s just an administrative and “marketing” question. You would never want to harm a community that’s doing well. One just sort of wishes that the reddit refugees (myself included) had been a bit more thoughtful in how the Fediverse world work most efficiently at the size it is.

I like the analogy that it’s a small and slightly isolated town, but one where people are pretty friendly. There’s plenty of people to talk to, but the only issue is, say, if you wanna talk sports you may need to find the couple of folks at the coffee shop who actually like sports and hang out with them whether they’re talking about your favorite team or not. There’s the Linux factory in town, though, and most of us have at least a passing interest in the goings-on there. 🤣

Yeah, and it’s certainly not anything wrong that the users and mods did in creating the communities that did gain traction. Just one of the unique challenges of setting up shop here.

Dedicated comms should be popping off of more general ones like so many Mogwai spores, but things happened differently and it is what it is.

I maintain that we need to be funneling engagement into fewer communities. I mod !cad@lemmy.world but I probably shouldn’t. It should probably be co-located with a 3D printing community, but the name makes anybody doing subtractive or 2D feel excluded.

In a perfect world, maybe there’d be a “Makers” community that was, sure, 70% 3D printing, but the other 30% wouldn’t feel like they needed to leave and shout into a void, and people into 3D printing would get to see cool shit done with other tools.

The APIpocalypse resulted in a land grab followed immediately by “Wagons East!” back to Reddit by many of the new mods, leaving us with every named neighborhood we might want, yet feeling Balkanized because you feel like you should respect the communities’ boundaries, but there isn’t anyone there in the “perfect” one and likely won’t be for some time.

I’ve had a scalp biopsy before. The specific spot they cut will have a scar and if it’s a large area and you keep your hair extremely short, then you might be able to spot the specific spot, but generally speaking, no. It won’t case hair loss. I honestly don’t even remember where they cut me. They should also give you a little shot of numbing agent, so it shouldn’t hurt much at all during and then afterwards it’s just like any other incision.

No biggie, and generally always well worth it if your doctor thinks they seem something worth cutting off.

Wasn’t gaming basically aynonymous with gambling at that time though?

Yes, in large part, and certainly to the way that the introduction to a book of that era would have been presented to the censors; there would often be a wink and a nod, though: “what a horrible thing to be doing! Now, so you can be completely sure how not to get caught up up in it, here are the complete rules to every game we can think of.” This book is almost entirely consumed with games that were most often used for gambling, though stakes can be set at any level and played for fun at any time.

I think gaming as a recreation without gambling didnt really come about until the 1940s - 1950s, right? Commonly, of course.

I’m sure there’s an element of truth in that certain direct modern lineages of trends in non-gambling gaming are sort of post-WW2 phenomena, but overall I don’t think that’s fair. Even just in the narrow sense, Monopoly was released in 1935, and other American board games date back much farther, which at east one scholar referring to the 1880s to the 1920s as a “Golden Age” for board games in the US. Also, certain games, like chess, have always had cultural associations beyond gambling. Children’s board games have also been common forever. Additionally, TTRPGs and Wargames trace back not to gambling, but to military planning and education.

EDIT: Also of important note, in 1638 the Puritans in the US state of Massachusetts (colonial at the time) enacted a law that made gambling illegal. It outlawed ownership of everything gaming related from dice to cards, and citizens were not allowed to even play in their own home.

True enough, but there’s an important context that they banned all forms of “idleness,” and gaming got wrapped up in that.

Constantly posting pictures from high school to social media. Everybody likes a few 'member-berries, especially as we get older, but they are a garnish, not an entire diet.