The person who wrote this must be absolutely insane. How I’d it a bad thing for the world that people are holding on to their devices? Less e-waste and people don’t spend impulsively. It’s also very logical: smartphones reached a plateau and people aren’t exactly swimming in money with the rising price of everything.

I’m Dutch, but due to the large amount of English content I never really had an issue with English. While I struggled with German and Fr*nch, I never had to pay attention or study for English lessons. I just did what felt natural and ignored the homework etc. Not that I’m a great English speaker or anything, my vocabulary is sometimes a bit limited which makes me have to search for the right words to use. But when watching or reading I can follow pretty much anything. I also sometimes feel like I’m more resilient to accents than native English speakers, maybe because we get exposed to British and American English and therefore kinda learn a more generalized representation of the language? Idk, maybe that’s not a thing

Really? That would surprise me a lot. Maybe it’s a cultural difference, I’m not sure where you’re from. I can’t imagine that the majority of the people I know only brush once a day, I’ve never noticed anyone deviating from the normal morning/evening pattern. But I also haven’t really paid much attention so maybe I just haven’t noticed. How do people do that? I tend to notice quite quickly that I forgot toe brush because it feels yucky.

I’ve never even considered brushing my teeth under the shower? That seems unnecessary and impractical imo. I shower ever other day usually and I brush my teeth at least twice a day, but currently 4 times a day due to braces. I don’t see how these 2 things align in terms of planning?

When you don’t care about the truth you don’t have put so much energy into maintaining quality

That’s probably not too hard to detect based on IP. They only do it for some content though. The only content I watch that has this block is official Formula 1 content on YouTube. It’s probably something that creators can enable when they want to region lock content or something

Two minute papers has really gone down the drain. Or my perspective changed. I used to love the channel, but it got increasingly clickbaity and shallow. Rather than explaining the contents of the papers the videos became hype talks that made it all sounds way more impressive and revolutionairy than it was.

Aren’t CRT monitors actually quite nice for pixel art games? Maybe the dad just really likes his old games

I’m unaware of our governments invading Africa right now, so I’ll have to inform myself there. I definitely also don’t agree with past invasions done by western countries under dubious circumstances like Iraq or the colonial times. The west definitely had its fair share of deplorabele behavior in the past (and potentially the future) and it’s alright to criticise that.

But we should also absolutely defend our borders and our democracy, as well as other sovereign states like Ukraine. Defensively Europe has been asleep, and when Ukraine was invaded we were kinda caught napping. It sucks that so much money needs to be invested in war instead of good things, but democracy is worth defending. At the same time we obviously also need to make sure that there’s still a democracy and freedom worth the protect with all those far-right idiots around. Our democracies definitely aren’t perfect, but they’re kinda the best we have.

I have friends who’ve been to Russia, and I’m also European and not American so this is way closer to home than you’d like to imagine. I understand that there are plenty of Russians who don’t want this, my friends who went there met many great people. But their country is at this moment at war with a sovereign nation for no other reason than imperialism. Ukraine didn’t choose this war, but got invaded anyway. Many innocent people have to die because of the actions of Putin and his regime. When I say Russia I mean their government, and the actions of their country as a whole. They’re taking land that doesn’t belong ot them and causing a lot of unnecessary death and destruction in the process. Should the western nations just let Ukraine fall? Let their people be subjected to a total autocracy instead of the flawed but functional democracy that they were living under?

I can never understand why you tankies are so insistent on seeing Russia as a good guy (or at least neutral). It’s an autocratic far-right regime with a silly desire for invading their neighbours. If the west is so bad for doing so everywhere then why not Russia? They’re not the soviet union anymore, they’re anything but communist. They’re everything the left should hate: imperialist, anti-“woke”, an oligarchy. I get why y’all like China because at least they pretend to be communist, but Russia?

Still grinding Hades 2. Just like the original Hades the game just keeps throwing new stuff at you, so you keep playing. One thing I do find weird tho is how quickly I managed to unlock the different weapons. And also that the initial staff weapon is by far my favorite, so every weapon unlock thereafter felt a bit underwhelming. I guess it makes sense that they provide you with the most all-round weapon first.

Because windows has become spyware and enough shit works to be worth the hassle. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a constant struggle. I have many hobbies, and for some of them it’s really annoying to be on Linux. Programming is awesome on Linux, gaming is for the most part fine, music production gets a lot more iffy and some of the photography stuff isn’t really cooperating. But I’ll just have to endure it, I’m almost one year in and for the most part everything works in some way or another. I only start Windows once in a few months now.

Preparing to defend against Russian expansionism isn’t the same as begging to be next in line to fight Russia. It’s clear that Russia will just keep bullying the west (or basically anyone around them). If you can’t rely on what they say, you have to speak their language and be prepared for war. Not to attack them, but to defend yourself and other sovereign nations around them.

Strongly disagree here. It might not be possible to change them, but that’s never for sure. OP should not let them say hateful shit just to keep the peace, and should instead keep countering it with facts even if it doesn’t help. Don’t make them feel like hatred should just be accepted. If they stop, maybe stop bringing it up as well.

I’m not from the US, and I’ve had to counter the dumb Facebook brainrot that got to my parents quite a few times. It’s insane to see how gullible they’ve become, so it is important to keep challenging them. Recently I was hit with some nonsense about the moon landing being faked. Even some simple statements like “we still have those computers and programs, anyone could’ve checked whether those could viably land something on the moon” and “so many people would’ve had to remain silent for such a thing to be successful” was enough to counter the nonsense. But I just keep wondering how they keep falling for it. It’s important to keep fighting (with words). Any seed of doubt may break their indoctrination, even if it’s not immediately

Lol no. I’ve been using Linux for 10 years and it’s been a continuous dumpster fire. Constant issues l, especially with Nvidia, across many different machines. Issues with wine, no X11 (or Wayland) after updates, games not starting, etc, etc. Across Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch (and derivatives).

Yet I almost exclusively use Linux nowadays. Why? Because it’s a dumpster fire I can influence. Windows is going to shit, they were taking my PC hostage, installing spyware, ads, forcing updated without my consent. On Linux I have to invest hours to fix shit, on Windows I can get fucked whenever something happens that I don’t want.

With proton advancing, Wayland working somewhat usable even with Nvidia,my threshold was passed. I’d rather fix the fixable Linux issues that cost me time than deal with Windows any longer. But for the layman I’m not sure I’d recommend it. I’m a computer scientist. I can fixodt issues, it’s just a question of time and energy. But that doesn’t go for everyone.

I need it to sleep comfortably, but airconditioning is not common here so when it’s 28 degrees Celsius inside the blanket gets yeeted. Having all balcony doors open without really any light cover and sleeping on a bed without any cover feels very exposed. But at lest it makes it somewhat bearable. This is only like 3 days a year tho, I really try to avoid it

I’d love to see the look Macron and Zelensky gave each other at some point during or after this scene. The things you do for peace…

Also Trump 2028? That’s unconstitutional right? And he’s showing this to other world leaders?! That should be some kind of lawsuit in and of itself.

I guess to some degree, not very actively though so I wouldn’t necessarily call myself one. To me feminism fights for a society where people have equal opportunities, safety, etc regardless of gender. I support that idea wholeheartedly. But I’m not actively fighting for it or anything, which is why I’m hesitant to call myself a feminist.

No. It’s also part of internet culture. I know way too many decent people who use the meme. While it’s totally understandable to distance ourselves from a symbol if it becomes too poisoned by the far right, we also shouldn’t just allow them to claim things we like. That only gives them power they don’t deserve.