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I love cooking, but because my mom is too much of a bimbo and my dad too much of a “manly man” to ever step into the kitchen, I never had the chance to learn from them. I grew up on delivery, takeout, eating out, and the incredible food made by the amazing woman who cooks for our family. I became deeply interested in cooking at the start of my teenage years and taught myself through the internet, books, that same woman, and other relatives.

I noticed that local communities and posts within don't show up at all when you are unauthenticated, and they are basically exclusive to users of that instance. It makes me wonder if there are hidden exclusive gems only you have access to across various instances.

What are some of your favorite local only communities?

I'm asking for public policy ideas here. A lot of countries are enacting age verification now. But of course this is a privacy nightmare and is ripe for abuse. At the same time though, I also understand why people are concerned with how kids are using social media. These products are designed to be addictive and are known to cause body image issues and so forth. So what's the middle ground? How can we protect kids from the harms of social media in a way that respects everyone's privacy?

What do you think we should replace it with? Some years back, when my country replaced a corrupt, entrenched coalition govt of 60+ years, the winning party sort of looked around and said: 'uh.. huh, OK, we won. We werent expecting to win. Now what? We have no plan. Lolz?'

In that light, what do you think should replace the big C, and how do we ensure human nature doesnt juat exploit it for a few individuals benefit?

And if he isn’t, have the option to voluntarily accept the child as his legally or not to do it?

I can't find any specific Yes / No via search and my understanding is that's not really possible due to how federated websites work, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can give me a straight answer.

I had something I wanted to post that wasn't very relevant to any particular community, but more specific to me, kinda like a blog post.

SiriusXM.

I felt I needed it to help me get through trips to and back from work. I always listened to comedy stations and nothing else, because the music resembled nothing I hadn't heard before on repeat through retail stores and FM radio. When I couldn't afford SiriusXM, I downloaded a podcast app that seemingly worked without needing a data plan or a subscription (I know the episodes are probably downloaded ahead of time on wi-fi). With this, I felt I don't need Sirius anymore.

Monster Javas

I was an addict and still a recovering addict of this drink. It's the only Monster-related beverage I always had, never caring for the other flavors. For a while, starting back about seven some odd years ago, I drank a can and I felt energized. Then as time went on, it turned into just a drink I'd have for the sake of comfortedness, because it was no longer doing anything for me anymore. Plus it was burning a hole in my budgeting because cans of these weren't exactly cheap on their own.

After being off from a single can after three weeks, I actually felt a lot better. Probably not going to get back into them.

I've recently started trying to improve my typing speed, which has probably been held back by my somewhat unconventional typing style. Formal touch typing was never a part of my education, and while years of computer use eventually led to me being able to type without looking, I'm probably not as efficient as I could be.

Can you touch type - and with proper form? QWERTY, DVORAK or other layout?

I'd like to be remembered as someone who rode life by as they took it. I was born with no map and I simply just exist. But growing up through trial and error, I tried making the best of it as I can. Learning things the hard way and taking pleasure of the easy way. I would've wanted to be remembered this way through my circle, whom I would hopefully inspire and influence by living as your own of being a spirit of individuality, even if your path isn't clear.

I know I didn't invent anything to help society, didn't become rich and famous who could move mountains. However, I'd like to think I'd given ideas and creative input to be built upon and realized that could serve as a net benefit, big or small to anybody who needed it.

Tidal

This was an alternative to Spotify that I've seen being recommended. I've tried it during work as a way to try and escape Spotify's onslaught of ads. However, after I created a playlist on Tidal of songs I wanted playing, all of them went for 30 seconds a piece. I couldn't deal with it and ran right back to Spotify to have a functioning playlist.

Me (13 years old at the time): Dad, Mom’s cheating on you. I saw her making out with this man.

Dad: Listen here, princess. The guy’s filthy rich, and when you have money, it’s normal to have a hot mistress like your mom.

Me: But aren’t you jealous?

Dad: laughs

I was flabbergasted, lmao.

We are heading towards the unknown, seemingly with no brakes. Our fate now more than ever truly is up in the air. What do you think life will be like in the future?

I saw that Indie Gala has a royalty free music bundle for sale of this - https://www.arcade-origins.com/

Thing is, checking their site, there's no way to actually buy straight off them, which is super weird. All "covers" are AI images and every video on YT channel was posted after Jan 2025.

I don't know enough about music other than listening to it, so I have no idea what cues, if any, to look out for when it comes to AI music. I also do not want to spend a single cent buying something done with AI.

I usually help her setup and leave but she never really makes any profit because she wants to do things in her own way in her world. Is there more that i can do to help her at a craft fair instead of losing money? can i make something perhaps?

Im unsure, what would you advise? if you have any questions leave a comment.

What are the best ambient music channels on YouTube?

As I'm sure you've already memorized the community rules as if it was your moms birthday, I probably need not post it, but here is rule 6 anyway:

6. No US Politics.

Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online

I am writing this post in an effort to gather feedback on how the community feels about this rule. In short, keep it as it is, or revise it.

It is my personal belief that the main purpose it serves is to avoid the community from mainly revolving around whatever daft thing the orange lardsack last said or did. And while it serves that purpose well, I think it also inhibits some potentially interesting discussions.

For example, one possible revision could be to allow for questions regarding US politics, but with a requirement that the topic has to be regarding issues 25 years ago (that may or may not be relevant today).

Alternatively, would it be useful/entertaining to occasionally have a "Contemporary US politics question megathread" as a contained outlet?

Please let me hear your thunks. This post will stay stickied for "a while".

UPDATE: There seems to be overwhelming majority in keeping r6 as is, at minimum. Thank you for your input, and stay classy.

Asking for a friend. No seriously, I’m trying to figure out how to best explain this to a friend as I’m having trouble enumerating how I can do it.

This would be great if you wanted to talk to yourself without anyone understanding what you're saying, for example, or if you didn't want anybody to know what you were writing down. It might also be useful if you enjoy lots of foreign language media (see music, tv shows, movies) and want to experience the "original" rather than through dubs and subs.

Personally, I would go for either Russian or Estonian, both of which are because I frequently listen to lots of music that are in those languages, and they aren't spoken by any of my friends.