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When will the would get better? Thinking of ending my life.

I'm asking because I just had to verify my age thanks to YouTube requiring me to watch a video that was age restricted.

i'm in the usa and my school has german, spanish and french. i'm taking spanish all 4 years of high school and german starting this autumn.

I've got some software creators that I'd like to send some money to because I use their stuff often. But I'd like to maintain my privacy. What's the best way to do it?

For my wife and I, it's Big Vegan Flavor

Also if you like baking, The Vegan Baking Bible is a must!

Niche media like Slay the Princess, Talentless Nana, Divine Gate, etc.

Finally dumped SwiftKey after being served with an ad for OneDrive inside the fucking keyboard itself. I'm still pissed they sold-out to Microsoft. (Been using it since long before that acquisition)

Now I need something to replace it, but I've not explored other options much.

Seriously, I have not been this tilted since the last time I played Brawlhalla and League of Legends.

I deleted all my photos online, the day I saw nano banana. A lot of people called me paranoid, but this technology just seemed too dangerous. I am now also seeing open source models catch up with them, which was the exact thing I was scared of.

Does it scare y'all too? Especially open source part?

Let’s suppose the 2028 election is over and there is a new president who, during his term, implements good policies such as (free, standardized ID for all citizens, an improvement to the ACA that includes several measures from M4A, more lenient copyright laws, more lenient patent laws, increased funding for science and technology that benefits the nation, the creation of a Department of Science and Technology, etc.) However, he also implements bad policies (a tax on all types of software, including FOSS; more rampant and less transparent lobbying at all three levels; budget cuts for science and technology that are not useful to the nation; and the elimination of health standards for imported food products.)

But in 2031, a news story breaks revealing that the president used AI (Algocracy) to propose, manage, and implement policies. A controversy erupts over a lack of transparency, prompting the president to issue a statement confirming that the report is true.

How would people react to this development? Would the president face any sanctions or impeachment proceedings for using AI? Could it affect his reelection chances?

So i just learned Threads from Meta is on Fediverse but never heard about untill now, what is it and is anyone here interacting with it?

I’ve noticed that people either accept or reject Supreme Court rulings, especially the most significant ones. But they’ve come up with a way to overturn them.

This proposed amendment would be based on the ratification provision in the Constitution, which requires only three-quarters of the states to approve an amendment. However, this amendment would only serve to overturn Supreme Court rulings if three-quarters of the state supreme courts reject the ruling or issue a contrary ruling.

If the threshold is met, the ruling could be overturned in the first case or the contrary ruling could be applied in the second. What would be the political and judicial consequences if this amendment were to take effect?

I can't. I'm dead. GameChanger new season aired ep1 yesterday.

I'm not a shill, but if you're not watching dropout and you like to have fun, please go do so. A solid variety of content from mayhem to inspirational.

I need to discuss and/or see other people's takes on these shows.

Help me Lemmy: Where can I talk about this stuff. Dropout doesn't seem to host any internal forum or promote a space on another tool, and I don't want to use a subreddit or discord server named after them because fuck those companies.

The dropout lemmy communities on lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone seem dead.

Is there another place everyone already knows about? Should I be the change I want to see in the world and post to a community to try and revitalize it? Should I sit and stew in my own thoughts?

For me it's Tony Benn. Probably not greatly known outside of the UK. He was one of the old guard of the UK Labour Party's socialist faction. A man of principle and integrity, who would be ashamed at what Labour have become.

I have waist length hair. I don't like how I look with no hair or a buzz cut, and I find longer hair easier to manage. I'm not dead-set on this length, it just seems the best config for my life in general.

When it's not gardening season, I wash my hair 2x per week. I have a super low tolerance for greasy or dirty hair and this frequency works.

I rely on bug spray while gardening. I wear full coverage clothes and try and spray the clothes, but I need to spray the exposed skin on my face and neck. This leads to spray or the spray+sunscreen+dirt combo getting in my hair.

I have tried special clothes and hats (including with nets) but I get bit right through them. I want to avoid getting bit because of the risk of disease, but honestly I mostly want to avoid hearing or feeling them on my skin. Thermacell type products have not been useful.

Currently I try and pile my hair in a hat and today I am trying to wrap it in a kerchief first. The bulk isn't great with the hat. My hair type is 1a, but I imagine people with more texture also deal with this challenge.

So I guess my questions are:

1. Do you have tips/tricks for keeping long hair clean while using bug repellent?
2. If your solution is a protective wrap of some kind, how to you keep the sun off your face/neck if the bulk prevents the use of sun hats?

Thanks!

I have a few spare glass bottles and want to explore what decoration I can make with them, without just painting outside them.

Preferably safe, in case of an accidental breakage or leak. Preferably indefinite shelf-life.

Some ideas:

• Density layering experiments ('rainbow in a jar', maybe suspending an upside-down toy boat in a dense clear liquid with a blue watery liquid on-top)
• Phosphorescent liquids to glow in the dark (pref with no UV lamp needed)
• The oil+water+antacid+food coloring lava lamp, but the effect is probably too short-lasting to have running for a few hours

I genuinely believed that AI this capable wouldn't be feasible in my lifetime.

For me it's the long term commitment, what about y'all?

My problem is I’ve got a clear job description that management and some coworkers who feel entitled to boss me around oftentimes forget because it suits them to offload what they don’t want to do on me. What infuriates me is, it lasts way longer to argue with them than simply getting the job done, but if I don’t establish a boundary I feel like an idiot, because I feel they offloaded their shit on me, meaning they’ll keep doing that in the future, because I didn’t establish a boundary.

Establishing a boundary sometimes means they badmouth me, complain about me to my superior or yell at me, but I’m in a union.

I’m also not a patient person and arguing with a coworker about job duties when those are clearly written is not my strong suit. I just want to do my job and get paid.

When management offloads like this, I comply the first time, but then I start half assing it, working slower, not doing the job as good as I could.

This is not sustainable and feels like bullying. How do you deal with this?

Sorry I didn't know which other community to post this on😅. So let me take example of my country, Well so what most people don't know, is that India is a socialist democracy by the constitution, and I must admit before I start that yes, there's plenty of problems with this country, but I was surprised by how deep socialist roots go in this country, so I thought a few of India's policies would make an excellent case study.

Firstly, a subtle one, existence of MRP, maximum retail price, on everything you buy. Packet of lays, coke, medicine, everything has an MRP, over which you cannot sell the product for. Enforcement had been weak historically, but even then you would only see people selling above MRP in amusement parks or movie theatres, for everyday shopping, you are almost always likely to pay the MRP price. I was surprised to know that such law doesn't exist in the west, though feel free to correct me.

Second, India's medicine patent laws. India has strict 'non evergreening' laws, which means a patent of a medicine cannot be extended unless you made the medicine better. Also government can give orders to bypass medicine patents if deemed necessary.

Third the farming in India. A nice rabbithole to dig in, but I am picking one example, Amul, the most popular brand of milk in India, is less like a company and more like a co-operative society, where they co-operate with regional dairy farms. Most of the money made by selling the milk actually goes back to the farmers.

Plenty of examples, but just these few I could think of. Infact MRP does not even exist in China, so in that policy, India is literally more left than China.

Yeah again, Indian laws in practice are riddled with corruption, but I think the template they work in are interesting, and I think west would tackle those problems a lot better.

Any more examples of socialist democracies?