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Acamon

@ Acamon @lemmy.world

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  • What Does Lemmy Think of WikiHow These Days?

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  • For the last decade or so I've always thought it was a weird site. I've maybe used if for a few questions, but most of the time I didn't really get a sense of trustworthiness from it. I've not checked recently, but I could imagine it's an ai slop hell hole?

  • Emotional abuse of immigrant children by their immigrant parents probably contributes a lot to to why the kids hate their ancestral language(s).

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  • Do you think emotional abuse is more common from immigrant parents? I feel like I see a lot of comments about the stress and pressure that immigrant parents put on their kids, but it's not something I know anything about.

    If so, why do you think it's like that? Is it just that families that immigrant are often in difficult financial situations, without lots of social support so the parents are super stressed? Or that the kinds of people who are willing to immigrate are aspirational and so demand a lot of their children? Or is partly that their way if parenting would be normal back where they grew up, but for its difficult for their kids growing up in a society with different standards and expectations around childhood?

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    Do you think 20 is too young for a guy to get married?

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  • The answer really depends on you and your relationship. People will say 20 is too young, and that people make bad decisions or might have regrets. Sure, that can be true (remember your brain doesn't finish developing til your late 20s!) but older people still make bad decisions and have regrets.

    If being married, and starting a family is important to you, and you really believe this person and this time are the right choices for that then do it. I got married at 40, and by the time it was official we'd basically been living like a married couple for a few years after dating for a long time before that. By that time I knew my spouse extremely well, I'd seen them in happy times and sad, I'd seen all their flaws and weaknesses and they'd seen mine.

    We're very happily married, but there are time when things are hard, and there's definitely been moments when I wished I was with someone else, but I knew what I was getting in for and I made that commitment. 98% of time its amazing and I'm so happy with my eelao, and even those moments of frustration or upset are different. When we were just dating, they would make me consider whether we should be together, now they make me want to find better ways to be together.

    If you want to feel more confident in your decision, consider the common pitfalls for young couples. How well do you actually know each other? Have they seen you at your worst? Do they know those deep fears and anxieties that influence our life's but we don't even admit to ourselves? Would you love them if stopped looking attractive? Have you talked about the future and are on the same page about kids, where you want to live, etc? If you both really understand yourselves and each other, and want to spend your life together then do it!

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    British snobs casually hating on poor people ("chav" is a derogatory British slur for working class/poor people and 60% of the UK is considered "working class".)

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  • In case any non-British are reading this, 'chav' is a term used to describe a small subset of British working class people. It used to describe young people with "loutish (ill-mannered) behaviour, violence, and particular speech patterns (all of which are stereotypes)" (Wikipedia.)

    It is not a term used to describe the general working class population of Britian.

  • British people of Lemmy, what's up with the normalization of hatred/dehumanization towards working class people in the UK, considering that 60% of the UK population is considered to be working class?

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  • You're right that Britain has a big issue with classism and there's lots negative stereotypes about working class people. But 'chav' is a term for a specific subculture within working class British culture. Most people I know who hate 'chavs' are working class people who have to interact with them regularly. It's like if you were claiming that anyone talking about 'thugs' and 'gangstas' were hating on working class black Americans.

  • What happened to nuance discussion?

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  • I think people spend less time have long conversations with people that they trust, which are best space for nuance and exploring ideas honestly. If you're messaging on social media, or even writing articles for blogs or publications, there's a whole bunch of incentives and barriers that push people away from nuance.

  • Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with?

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  • There's lots of architectural guidance, building codes, etc. normally linked to number of people in the household. But it's all pretty damn relative, both culturally and individually.

    When I lived in the city, I was pretty comfortable with a small appartment, because I spent a lot of time out of my home in cultural spaces. Now I live in the country, and in city-terms our house is gigantic for just the two of us. Netherthless, we're continuing to convert old out buildings into more space because the demands on our home are much higher and we have lots of unused space.

    Not only do we live there, but we've got jobs that involve a lot of remote working, and it's also a building site/workshop as we renovate and make our own fixtures and furniture. Plus, because it's more remote, we want guest bedrooms and extra space so that guests can come and stay for a while without feeling cramped. Then we've got animals, who bring their own clutter, and we also want to create a guesthouse that we can rent to tourists. Even without those extra requirements, we choose to sleep in adjacent, but seperate, bedrooms because we have sleep issues. And I know that is a crazy luxury that we wouldn't have been able to afford in the city, but when space is cheap, there's no real reason not to.

    I know that my example is pretty extreme, but everyone's needs are different. I have friends who basically live in one room and love that, because everything is within easy reach and they don't want to have guests. But I know it would be depressing and claustrophobic for others. Sharing an apartment with four adult strangers is a different experience from a family home with four children.

    I think there can be rules (you can't claim something is a bedroom if it's smaller than 6sqm) but there isn't a one size fits all solution.

  • With bathing, water recirculation is more easily accepted.

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  • It's the case for all dishwashers I know about. It's not that weird if you think about it. When people wash dishes by hand, they often wash a bunch of dishes in the same basin, with the water becoming increasingly dirty. Depending on how dirty and how much they care, they'll change the water occasionally. Then they'll give everything a rinse in clean water to get rid of soap. (obvs people do dishes on a variety of ways, but this is pretty common in western cultures.)

    Dishwashers are the same, spray the same hot soapy water over the dishes for a while, until it's dirty and most of the solids have been removed. Then drain and wash again with clean water. The soapy stage is about removing dirt, but the sanitising comes afterwards with the hot rinse and drying.

  • Hi. I'm from egypt and had things that isn't common for the average egyptian living in egypt. AMA

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  • What's a change that your government or society could make that would improve things for the people of Egypt?

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    The brother of the White House Press Secretary had his latina ex detained by ICE in order to win a custody battle over their 11-year-old son

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  • Important story, horrible situation. Definitely not "mildly infuriating"

  • What's a good job thats easy to get?

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  • Really depends on what you want from a job. Does good mean high pay? It's generally rare to have high paying jobs with low entry requirements, but ICE seem to be throwing money around if you've got no morals and abnormal low levels of empathy.

    If good means 'good for community' or 'fun' or 'doesn't involve speaking to too many people' the answers will be quite different.

  • Do you think you’d be able to identify a given Gatorade’s color just by taste?

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  • I've never tasted gatorade, so it'd definitely be a wild stab in the dark. Be intresting to test though!

  • Why are the you are the problem comments so common on Lemmy?

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  • Same as most of the other commentors, this isn't something I've noticed. But that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, so it would be helpful to hear some examples. I feel like most of the time people here are pretty supportive / helpful, but maybe I've got a skewed perspective?

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    American Liberals were blatantly used as puppets by MAGA Zionists to install an authoritarian government in the USA

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  • You might have an intresting point here, but o don't really understand what you're saying. Can you explain a bit more?

  • I need a savoury, summery drink as an alternative to beer

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  • There's lots of dry / tart option, especially if you like tonic water and that dry quinine taste. Add a dash of citrus or bitters and it's not much more trouble than a beer. There's also some intresting non alcoholic herbal 'spirits' that bring complex (and often dry / bitter) flavours, and could be used to make something nice with tonic or plain soda water.

  • How much of your interest in something is subtly based on esthetics?

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  • I love old, heavy furniture, and have managed to aquire a lot of nice stuff for free at house clearances by being willing to turn up with a trailer and take something off their hands. I love how it looks, and it really suits our old farmhouse vibe.

    But it can be pretty damn annoying to use. Drawers that are a struggle, inefficiently large spaces, and it's dark and akward to find things in. Sometimes I think about being old and having to downsize, and how I'll live in a nice bungalow with a fitted kitchen and have closets with lights and spinney gadgets and shit. But til then I'm going to man up and continue wrestling with solid wood armoires.

  • If many were given the option to order a Stupid Cat or a Smart Cat, the vast majority would pick the Stupid Cat despite Stupid being bad.

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  • Can you share a link?

  • My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate

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  • Weird. I'm on 145.0.1 (Build #2016126887), I even tried going to arstechnica.com in case it only happened on certain websites, but the urls Firefox shares to whatsapp are totally normal for me. Some sort of A/B testing?

  • If many were given the option to order a Stupid Cat or a Smart Cat, the vast majority would pick the Stupid Cat despite Stupid being bad.

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  • Yup, just read the other post. No one picked stupid cat. Really weird behavior OP.

    Edit: also, reading the reponses here, people don't care or pick smart cat. Just like in the other post..

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Should bots get reported?

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    Do jingle writers constantly have annoying songs stuck in their heads? Or are they immune?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Easiest way to have a forum style/threaded conversation with friends?

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    I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it

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    Anyone willing to justify chicken and waffles?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Alternative to discord?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Has anyone ever heard of the "classic prophet-squeeze-monster trope"? What could it possibly describe?

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    Zigbee probe thermometer?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Anyone still live-streaming their life like oldschool webcams?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Hear a lot about flat earthers, but folks don't seem to have a problem with heliocentrism

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Can we estimate how many deaths a company is responsible for?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    If "AI" doesn't attract customers why are companies hyping it so hard? Are they just dumb or is there another factor?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Site / service that will send a message at a specific date/time?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    ELI5 How does chatgpt do its shit?

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    Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter?

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    What are up votes (uplemmies?) actually for?