Like I said, it's not hard. Made this while getting ready for a wedding. Enjoy!

The nice thing about percentages is that you can always lose 99.9% more value!

Photoshop/Gimp clone brush and 30 seconds. Copy a section of tooth and clone it evenly across the mouth, add a bit of blur for smoothing rough pixel transitions.

A monero wallet can generate as many transaction addresses as you want. It is not possible for an outside party to know if two addresses are owned by the same wallet. Even if you did reuse the same receive address, an exchange will only know about the transactions going into that address from their end and cannot discover what happens after that.

Never used cake wallet, but the official monero binaries do not offer a public node. Other software I've used to interact with monero also expects you to run your own node.

At most, monero-wallet-gui has settings to auto-start the node daemon for you, so it's not that hard to get started. If you've never used any cryptocurrency before, it can seem overwhelming, but it's really not too hard.

The big thing to learn about monero is that to transact, you need to run a node. Technically you could find a public node that accepts external transactions, but those don't really get advertised and if your goal is anonymity then you don't want to depend on someone else's machine.

So before you set up a wallet or anything, start downloading the monero blockchain. You can either find someone (you trust them?) to export their blockchain for you to download, or you sync the entire blockchain yourself. This can take many days depending on your computer specs and the settings you enable during sync. If you're not planning to mine monero, you can save storage space (and time) by enabling settings that prune blocks.

Then you point your wallet software at the locally running node to transact. If your node isn't running or isn't synced, you'll have to wait until it's caught up before you can do anything.

9/10 people in the US don’t care about Dubai to begin with, let alone the slavery and other human rights abuses. They may have seen the vapid influencers that show off penthouse suites at staggering heights, or the $10k+ plane tickets, and go “alrighty then, anyways”.

I think that is the whole point: To keep the image of Dubai up as the land of luxury. If Dubai is just some place where the world's favorite influencers party, then an indifferent foreigner isn't going to look closer for any human rights problems, etc. "Sure, I've heard of Dubai. They make chocolate, right?" is better for the rulers than "Sure, I've heard of Dubai. They still have slaves, right?".

Put another way: If most of the world doesn't care about Dubai, then people are only going to know what the current culture tells them about it. Chocolate and Lamborghinis is a simpler story to keep in the culture than human rights abuses.

The iPhone picture is wrong. The rightmost screen should have a camera cutout, and the camera bar on the left side has the flash LED in the wrong position.

Compare to this image:

Dunno about the science, but for me the sensations caused by different strains lead to different behaviors.

"Body high": Muscles feel loose and relaxed, maybe a floaty sensation. I could get up and do something productive, but it's just so cozy right here. Then I veg out and eat.

"Head high": My mind is drawing a lot of connections between things, not quite racing thoughts, but a lot of analysis and half-finished ideas. I see a dirty plate and think "Better take this to the kitchen" then on the way there I see some dirt on the floor so I set the plate down and grab a broom. Then I realize how inconvenient it is that the broom closet is so far from the kitchen, and now suddenly I am reorganizing the house.

I used to like the genre term "immersive sim" and was sad that it wasn't getting much love. Then I heard someone say the phrase better describes games that simulate trucking or menial retail jobs and now I'm OK with looking for new language.

Have you tried Lemmy's hot ranking? The default ranking algorithm can be configured on your account preferences page, at least on the web UI.

Friendica is written in PHP. If you didn't hear, there is a big security issue with PHP that got announced yesterday. Many PHP web admins took their sites down until they could install security patches, and your friendica instance could be one of them.