I live in a country that has experienced the hottest recorded weather while neighboring countries are literally experiencing heat stroke deaths. I don’t live in those countries, but fortunately where I live there are organizations that are focusing on incremental steps to change. And I mean incremental because change doesn’t happen overnight. How is it in your area? Do you have any local organizations that can help mitigate or further prevent the effects the climate crisis, no matter how small?

Have you considered the possibility that the internet was redesigned to pull your attraction towards many fronts that you get too distracted on focusing on what matters in your immediate surroundings?

The article may have a point. The internet is full of doomsayers and people who just want to provoke others because of how the online space is now built to attract as much attention as possible. Meanwhile in the meatspace, I had a nice discussion with people and they are focused on the here and now.

Try connecting with academics. Just met an artist who’s a professor at a university and even though I’m not of the same educational level as her, we had a very nice chat.

Accounts created to give unsolicited promotions exist though. It’s especially common for AI products

Usually a (competent) doctor knows you physically through examinations. It’s very personalized so I can see the justification

That’s already being done to the general populace, especially now with sophisticated algorithms tailoring social media posts to individual needs. It’s gonna get worse with LLM-powered chatbots

I live in a country with multiple problems right now, but I’ve grown to be aware that the more I actively look at negative commentary on the current situation (most are online given anonymity), the more I get into panic mode, which clouds my longterm thinking of trying to get into a better situation (whether it’s self-soothing, changing state policies by any measure, relocation, etc)

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Have you tried cross-posting? It posts the same thing to multiple communities without making duplicates on the front page

Now that you’ve mentioned it, subreddits with “r/Academic” as the prefix managed to create some communities here on Lemmy, but discussions continued on Reddit anyway

Really? I thought the Z Flip was pretty popular

I’ve made a commitment to block anyone who does that in a serious post.

I guess, but at the same time, I don’t think red necessarily means luck in India based on the sources that I’ve read.

This could be a good starting point. It seems that in China, red represents fire, and fire back then was like electricity today. As for India, I’ve found this article which says that red symbolizes the Hindu goddess Durga for her feminine power and new beginnings (which may or may not be because of menstrual or postpartum bleeding)

Speaking of single speaker audiobooks with multiple characters, I listened to an audiobook by Raza Jaffrey: The Stone Song. The characters were well acted, in my opinion. Some characters are kids, men, women, even an alien or two. But it’s easy to distinguish them. And the thing is, he didn’t even have to adjust his pitch. Goes to show how you need a specific skill if you want to do single speaker audiobooks with multiple characters right. Then again I am biased in a way that this is one of the first audiobooks I’ve ever listened to.

Elevenlabs Projects seem to make them possible now.

As for AI voices, it doesn’t quite match real life voices yet. I think what’s more feasible is to get an above average actor with a decent budget, then mask the voice with programs like RVC.

I love classic music so that would extend to opera somewhat, and I also love tech. It’s quite an interesting combination, to say the least.

Virtually everyone in my country uses WhatsApp. I’m essentially living off-grid if I don’t use it.

Given how Japan seems to embrace AI and robots more than any other nation, it makes me wonder if Japan may inevitably have a significant portion of the population comprised of robots.