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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, but I wonder how accurate that is, taking myself as an example. I know that I don't have a drinking problem (as in, I don't feel a need to drink alcohol and sometimes go weeks or months at a time without alcohol simply because the opportunity doesn't present itself, and can control and have controlled my alcohol intake when necessary without any issues), but points 2 and 3 have definitely applied to me, and 1 possibly as well. The problem wasn't my drinking, but that an abusive person needed something to criticize and degrade me, and that was a perfect opportunity. If I had stopped drinking that person would have found something else (and they did when I drank less due to covid).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since men have a longer urethra, they can experience the pleasure of urinating more intensely :<⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The. What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas

  Part of the problem is there are plenty of humans pushing agendas as well, which makes everything that much more difficult. They, like bots, don't have any interest in honest discussions, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand that perfectly well. It unfortunately doesn't change the fact that he is distorting the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully get that point, and it would be pretty neat if we managed to pull that through from a legislative standpoint. I just wish he would stick to the facts more. Essentially making the argument you make in your last sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched the first 10-15 minutes of this and have to say, while I agree with him on principle, he's either misinformed or exaggerating the anti-circumvention regulation. There are a number of exemptions in anti-circumvention laws in the US for personal use. How far this goes was made clear in court, Apple took the creators of an iOS jailbreak to court and lost, making it clear that jailbreaking is not illegal, even though it clearly circumvents the "protection" system in place. Similar applies to circumventing DRM for backup copies of media, for instance.

  Of course, I would rather see no anti-circumvention legislation whatsoever, but the way he misportrays the situation makes me question his credibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully realize that. My point is that a blanket "everyone should do X" is the wrong approach here, since everyone's situation is different, and the overall situation has severely changed (and continues to change).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm already assuming that if someone has had that changed, in all likelihood they spent a long time thinking about it. My point is the basis of that decision has changed, things have gotten much more dangerous for trans people, which can change the equation. There will be plenty of people for whom the gender dysphoria has a higher priority, and that's not a problem. My point is that a blanket statement isn't quite the best idea here, everyone has to weigh the risks for themselves, and that will be different for every person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not do this if you are transgender or have an X gender marker. They will cancel your passport and tell you to apply for a new one with your sex assigned at birth.

  Set aside for a moment that ICE has a habit of thinking IDs are fake, I really wonder if this is a point where it might be worth prioritizing. If it's increasing the likelihood of being deported, kidnapped, tortured, or similar, than I think there's a legitimate question of whether dealing with the gender dysphoria is worse than that. I'm not saying it necessarily isn't, that may be different from person to person, but it's definitely something that should be considered carefully.

  Of course, the safest option is probably trying to get the hell out of the US, but I'm not going to get into that can of worms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? That's hilarious and kind of awesome. Where?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can't tell if this is photoshopped or not..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents... Huh...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents: "no sex before the wedding"

  Also my parents: "...and then we had no other option than to drink wine, and that's how we became a couple."

  Mmmkay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ireland recalls almost 13,000 passports over missing 'IRL' code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so the code was only online?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue could have been a warmest color⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you're missing the point a bit. I'm talking about how much heat different wavelengths of light transfer.

  There's an interesting experiment you can do if you have the right equipment: take the classic experiment where you produce a rainbow with a prism. Then, take a sensitive thermometer and go along the spectrum. The red end of the spectrum will be the warmest (unless you go even further, the area beyond that will be even warmer from the infrared), the blue end the coldest (although still warmer than the surroundings).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue could have been a warmest color⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite. "Warmer" colors actually heat things up more. There's a reason why heat lamps produce red or infrared light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨typical lemmy users on their way to work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no way this could possibly go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah except it gets that much more difficult to get up when everything around you is fucking freezing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  into another environment

  No, out of the environment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  all the modern features I want

  What are those? Because the difference between midrange and top of the line has been shrinking from year to year.

  the best processor

  What do you do with your phone that needs the best processor? Maybe you have some special use case, but the vast majority of people don't need the best processor - often that's a case of chasing the shiny new thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There's always Fairphone and Shiftphone if you're living in the EU. Not cutting edge, but should be more than good enough for most people. (Oh, and my Fairphone 5 is honestly built like a tank.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like AI to me. Also, those would most likely be NiMH batteries, which AFAIK don't have any lithium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  'A Canada that it would be very easy to target with 500% steel tariffs, or one patriot missile aimed at Parliament Hill,’ he added, rather incredulously.

  OK, that's pretty crazy to think that someone thought this was real, but maybe the rest of the Beaverton article made it sound like something that should be taken seriously?

  The Ambassador added, “We need to take the tone and tenor of the debate down, and by ‘we’ I mean ‘entirely Canada’ because you are all weak losers who would be better off as the 51st State.”

  Come on, really?

  Hoekstra then poured out a bottle of Labatt Blue while spitting on a photo of Terry Fox, before decrying how “it’s so difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American-Canadian relationship”.

  Really, no one realized this is satire?

  “When our own glorious President Trump, long may he reign, threatens to kick Canada out of the 5 Eyes intelligence group, or to economically annex your crappy country, that comes from a place of love,” Hoekstra added while kicking a live beaver.

  Seriously?

  “When I was Trump’s ambassador to the Netherlands, which is also a complete shit hole, I had a lot of success illegally fundraising for radical right political groups,” Hoekstra recalled while whipping Tim Horton’s doughnuts at the crowd. “Tell me, who do you have that’s to the right of Maxime Bernier?”

  How?

  Hoekstra then ended his speech by urinating on a stack of vintage Anne Murray records.

  HOW???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my case, bookmarking things is something I do to remove it from my sight and memory, but not lose it entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn't even say that it's to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn't be particularly smart financially.

  It's more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn't have to worry about it too much anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even slower than Windows 10? That's impressive...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a question of: what are they doing with the money from the collection plate? Are they using it to maintain the church building, paying the people working for the church a (modest) salary and providing support for those in need? That's not what Jesus had a problem with, he would be for that. Are they telling people "God only loves you if you buy X" and using the money to get rich? That's what Jesus had a problem with. So it's not collecting money that's the problem, it's how it's done and what is done with the collected money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would almost say the background doesn't really matter in this case. You (or someone you know) is being told by their parent that they love them, but there is obviously a reason to doubt it. What is that reason? I feel like there's much more behind your question that you're dealing with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most, no (but that also extends to romantic relationships). But there are parents who will tell their children they love them, but also abuse them without a second thought. I've seen it myself. In that case, I think it's pretty clear that they don't actually love them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best approach to port an iOS app to Android?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't know what kind of a state your code is in, but if you haven't done it yet, seperate the code for the app's logic from the code that interfaces with the iOS APIs as much as possible. The code that handles the logic is the code you'll be able to reuse (at least I would be surprised if there wouldn't be a way to compile swift code for Android). Side Bonus: this makes it much easier to write proper tests. Then you can work on adapting the code that uses the iOS APIs to use the Android APIs. Either there's a direct way to call the APIs from swift, or someone will have made a library somewhere that you can use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't tell if L take or W take⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many women either expect men to make the first move or are just way too shy. I've had a number of women say it directly.

  Case in point, I was at an event a half a year ago and guy said I should ask a certain girl to dance, since she likes me but is to shy to talk to me directly. Only problem is, I only wanted to dance my ass off that evening and wasn't too interested in getting to know anyone.