I can understand why all the other things would be listed here, and I would understand if sexuality in general was considered inappropriate for children, but why homosexuality in particular? This is strange to me....
There was a bit of news in the world of decentralized social media over the past few weeks. It kicked off with the announcement that Jack Dorsey had left the board of Bluesky. This was followed by an interview Jack gave to Mike Solana where he explained his thinking on all of this. There was also a flurry of talk claiming...
Great article! I had not heard of many of these projects, and it’s great to see an intelligent conversation about the struggle to keep social content accessible and “complete”, for lack of a better word, while also providing necessary structure to curb abuses from users, criminals, and gatekeepers alike.
Neatly separated the concerns of content, algorithm, and branding.
I love how the art snob is like “who cares, we already knew that, it makes no difference” and then points to an article from 8 years ago that makes a guess on the 500-year-old mystery.
In fact, I was told by art teachers that the landscape was imaginary and this was an important novelty in portraiture at the time and meant to add mystery and allure to its subject, an idea that receives plenty of attention in Sassoon’s own book on the subject.
It’s hard for me to explain in words how disturbing I find this. Here’s a manifestation of how we as a culture see “stuff” and how we relate to the material world.
Watching this can change the world. It does make me ill.
The secondhand market should be huge and top of mind. Furniture stores should have 80 percent of the store used goods. Craigslist, etc, is fun but frustrating. I’m not particularly picky or fearful, but person to person is just inefficient.
Also, people have been sold on needing everything to reflect themselves and their tastes and knowledge, sort of catalog/review envy, I feel it myself. But you know, it’s just a chair or a shelf or a food processor or a jacket or whatever: try to embrace serendipity :) They have pens at goodwill, a bag for $2, and it’s all kinds and brands and it will cover your household needs for years rather than leak and rot into a hole in the ground-- that kind of thing, just consider it as often as you can. Once you have that down you will find you need less stuff because you are not using it to represent yourself, just for it’s actual purpose, and you will find it easier to pass things on as well.
You may be right, but I think by staring it in the face as much as possible we can generate that physical feeling that is what the tide is made of. Politics can turn as they have before. I’m not so sure we are in a “coasting” part of history. Feels pretty choppy and changeable right now. Makes powers that be grip harder, but I’m hoping that’s just a symptom of general readiness.
First up yes I’m a camo nerd. Metal Gear Solid 3 awakened something in me! Anyway every now and then I take different camo patterns into the woods and take photos as a reference to help people choose what works best for them. This one, Pencott Wildwood looks way too brown in most photos. Check it out!...
My phone camera has the option to save and view the raw file as well as the processed jpeg, and when you do that you can see that the software is doing a lot of work by default to sharpen and add contrast and color enhancement. My guess is the selfie camera may be tuned to reduce redness in particular to smooth skin tones? Or it’s just a smaller sensor not collecting as much color info to begin with.
May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk’s X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform....
Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used “risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest.” The judge also said X was not entitled to “de facto copyright ownership” in copyrighted content that X’s users made available to the public.
I just visited some web galleries of bathroom remodelers in the US, and it looks uncommon to have external shower fixtures. They tend to bury as much of the fixture as possible in the wall. From the photos, I don’t get the impression they are using thermostatic mixing valves. But it’s hard to tell. Can anyone confirm or...
I have not seen that in the US and didn’t know it existed, but I have not really looked anywhere other than the usual home Depot or Lowe’s, so I don’t know what new home designers are doing. We just installed an electronic version that has temp, volume, and wand vs overhead switch controls and presets on a wall mount thing. Of course it comes with an app, but we just use the controller on the wall. Maybe not as dependable as a mechanical control, but works fine so far.
Most controls I see in the US, like in houses and hotels, are all-in-one type things where you basically have to have max volume to get hot water. Usually inside the control you can set a max temp that limits the percent hot water in the mix. Some have separate volume and temp controls, but I don’t know if they’re doing anything fancy like you describe; and a few old homes have separate hot and cold knobs, but that’s rare.
i don’t eat meat cause it’s a thing i do since birth but it’s also a thing i have to be kind of annoying about at restaurants etc to ensure that they hear me and interpret what i’m saying right (social anxiety is fun) cause then i’d have to eat the thing i don’t want or have another more awkward interaction w the...
I am currently struggling heavily with depression. Which impacts my quality of sleep. Sleep now has never been a talent of mine. So I generally make up for it by napping. I used to absolutely love it. Both the initial and the waking up (feeling well rested). But lately the waking up part is getting more and more difficult. It...
Just as a quick hope-it-works because it’s easy, try drinking a glass of water with just a tiny amount of sugar and salt (like literally you should not be able to taste it, should just taste slightly fishy) before your nap.
I’m with the others on seeing a therapist, though, and first-round antidepressants have had huge positive effects in my personal experience, so it’s not necessarily going to be this long mind warping journey that I think people are scared to start sometimes.
I think you are meaning “confident that this will go your way” when it should be “confident that your mood and well-being are going to be fine no matter how it goes”.
The second one takes the anxiety out and let’s you respond to how things actually are, instead of comparing to some other story. Then you can see yourself, the situation, and the other person more clearly, which helps make experience more worthwhile in any event.
Yeah but he skipped adoption and the idea that parents can continue to support their daughter even if she’s not a virgin. Teens getting married because one of them got pregnant is not the first thing I want people to think of. A teen marrying her statutory rapist should be even farther down the list.
This is a very interesting study, but I really wonder if cultural change from 1940 to 2000 is predictive of the future. I’m not sure the concept of a national/generational cohort is as useful going forward as ideas and norms are 1. Distributed globally and across age groups through online discourse, and 2. More completely manufactured and controlled by more or less corporate interests. But, maybe the most sensitive issues are still more immune to these influences?
My friend has been talking with this 24 year old man online since early 2022. She is into stereotypical nerds that are on the chubbier sides. He is a stereotypical nerd both inside and out, and is 350 lbs at 5"11. She thinks he’s the cutest man she’s ever seen. She met him on Reddit, he lives in California while she lives in...
I’m not a therapist, so this is just a guess, but the “scared you off” comments and maybe the hints at depression could be seen as manipulative, especially when he really never wanted anything from the relationship beyond the online attention. He made her feel guilty for not spending more time and energy on him while exaggerating his own interest in her. Perhaps in his previous relationships the manipulation went further. Your friend needs to know she is not at all to blame for the end of this relationship. Nor is she dumb for caring about someone more than they cared about her: you can’t always tell. But perhaps she will take from it the idea that she could ask for things that are important to her, like in-person contact or space to be doing something other than talking to him without being nagged, sooner in the process to be sure the other person is on the same page. Help her understand that whatever anxiety she felt to shore up his emotions should be at most a small part of their interaction. A relationship shouldn’t feel like a tomagatchi pet.
Article is very interesting and talks about the mix of goals in regards to the protests, and how speech negatively and positively helps accomplish those goals.
Most of the media works for war. They want to see flags and make enemies. They don’t want to report on people speaking up for basic rights in solidarity with other people against the machinery and “inevitably” of war.
Btw, I support the Guardian with a small monthly donation, and if you have the means I ask you to consider it
It’s definitely a concern. The answer seems to be to have more of them, not necessarily wider, and to make sure there is cover and protective spaces along them for smaller animals. here’s one study from Canada
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15411587...
oars (OpenAgeRatingsService) in appdata.xml files: why "sex-homosexuality"?
I can understand why all the other things would be listed here, and I would understand if sexuality in general was considered inappropriate for children, but why homosexuality in particular? This is strange to me....
[WP] You suck at cooking. It's so bad, you accidentally summoned a spaghetti monster, and once your yellow cake turned radioactive, but you're not gonna stop chasing your dream to be a head chef.
Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)
There was a bit of news in the world of decentralized social media over the past few weeks. It kicked off with the announcement that Jack Dorsey had left the board of Bluesky. This was followed by an interview Jack gave to Mike Solana where he explained his thinking on all of this. There was also a flurry of talk claiming...
Mona Lisa, Smile: You’re in Lecco, After All | A mash-up of geology and art history has identified a likely setting for one of the world’s most famous paintings. (www.nytimes.com)
Metro South Trash Cam: A Tangible Manifestation of the Contemporary Condition (www.oregonmetro.gov)
It’s hard for me to explain in words how disturbing I find this. Here’s a manifestation of how we as a culture see “stuff” and how we relate to the material world.
Camo is hard to photograph, and not for the reason you think! (Main cam vs Selfie cam colors)
First up yes I’m a camo nerd. Metal Gear Solid 3 awakened something in me! Anyway every now and then I take different camo patterns into the woods and take photos as a reference to help people choose what works best for them. This one, Pencott Wildwood looks way too brown in most photos. Check it out!...
Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company (www.reuters.com)
May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk’s X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform....
Have thermostatic mixers caught on in US showers yet?
I just visited some web galleries of bathroom remodelers in the US, and it looks uncommon to have external shower fixtures. They tend to bury as much of the fixture as possible in the wall. From the photos, I don’t get the impression they are using thermostatic mixing valves. But it’s hard to tell. Can anyone confirm or...
Georgia Republicans boot vice chairman after ruling he voted illegally (www.ajc.com)
Judge found Brian K. Pritchard voted nine times while serving a felony sentence
Onion Gift Guide: Mother’s Day Gifts For Every Type Of Mom (www.theonion.com)
Embarrassing experience at casual dinner ahh ahh
i don’t eat meat cause it’s a thing i do since birth but it’s also a thing i have to be kind of annoying about at restaurants etc to ensure that they hear me and interpret what i’m saying right (social anxiety is fun) cause then i’d have to eat the thing i don’t want or have another more awkward interaction w the...
I have chronic sleeping problems therefore I love(d) taking naps but waking up afterwards is absolute hell. What should I do? **Edit: I have found a short-term solution**
I am currently struggling heavily with depression. Which impacts my quality of sleep. Sleep now has never been a talent of mine. So I generally make up for it by napping. I used to absolutely love it. Both the initial and the waking up (feeling well rested). But lately the waking up part is getting more and more difficult. It...
When dating, "Just be confident" is just bad advice if you ask me.
“Being confident” is dangerously close to straight up bothering people. Plus it only really works if you’re good looking.
Tesla vehicles kept crashing even after the Autopilot software updates, NHTSA says (www.theverge.com)
Nine crashes involved Teslas striking objects in front of them.
Solved: Name that song (pop rock) (lemmy.world)
Clue: the band is crowded house...
Guess the song (alt rock) (sh.itjust.works)
I feel like this is going to be impossible to guess but the image just turned out so nice I wanted to share it.
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ (www.nj.com)
Public opinion on controversial topics such as abortion, euthanasia and homosexuality is changing mainly due to generational change, that is, the extinction of older generations (www.cambridge.org)
My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean?
My friend has been talking with this 24 year old man online since early 2022. She is into stereotypical nerds that are on the chubbier sides. He is a stereotypical nerd both inside and out, and is 350 lbs at 5"11. She thinks he’s the cutest man she’s ever seen. She met him on Reddit, he lives in California while she lives in...
How pervasive is antisemitism on US campuses? A look at the language of the protests (www.theguardian.com)
Article is very interesting and talks about the mix of goals in regards to the protests, and how speech negatively and positively helps accomplish those goals.
The 'World's Largest Wildlife Crossing' Will Help Animals Walk Safely Over Eight Lanes of California Traffic (www.smithsonianmag.com)