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HipPriest

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  • What are the highest quality search engines?

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  • A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?

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  • Find the nearest English Civil War reenactment and go watch it

  • Male players: Why do you play female characters?

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  • It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?

    I play all sorts of different games though, some where you're not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don't feel like it's that big a deal

  • What are some generational differences between millennials and Gen Z ?

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  • I mean yeah, I've been unemployed for a significant part of my working life. I guess you can also add to my list being the last generation encouraged to get a degree by well meaning parents and teachers at school 'because it will guarantee you getting a job for life'.

  • What are some generational differences between millennials and Gen Z ?

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  • Definitely as a millennial I'm of the last generation that will remember arranging to meet up somewhere in advance and sticking to that plan (or rearranging over landline with more than a day's notice...)

    But something I've noticed when I ask people in my team what their dream jobs are the younger people tend to say 'run their own businesses', 'work for themselves' etc. Whereas in our generation (in my circles anyway) that definitely wasn't so prominent. Maybe a side effect of seeing influencers making it big?

  • Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?

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  • 2 made mine - 'Hey Bulldog' and 'Cry Baby Cry'.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?

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  • Top Artist - The Beatles (I relistened to their remaster of Revolver a lot this year, it's really very good!)

    Top Song - 'Give It Up' by Public Enemy

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  • What if this is the afterlife of a religion we don't know about from our previous existence?

    I don't think you can have a rational reply to your question - it's all head canon

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    Why not make a bot that copy-pastes Reddit threads into respective Lemmy ones?

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  • The worst thing to do would be an inorganic botch job on here to fill a gap when there's no need, you can read that content elsewhere.

    Anyway, it's not an automatic guarantee of engagement or interaction. It's purely a hack move.

    I'm happy to use Reddit if I feel I can't find anything to read on Kbin. You are allowed to use both you know?

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    Can porn be used in a healthy way? or should it be avoided completely?

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  • I mean yeah I vape, that makes sense because it wasn't the nicotine itself which was killing my lungs.

    Apparently nicotine itself is as bad for you as caffeine, the worst thing about it is it's insanely addictive without giving much of a high or anything in return...

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    Can porn be used in a healthy way? or should it be avoided completely?

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  • That's a very black and white way of putting it. As long as you're an adult who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and you're not spending hours obsessed with it I don't think it's unhealthy. The way you phrase 'avoid it completely' makes it sound like you're going out of your way to avoid it already.

    (I think the problems are coming through with the generation being 'brought up on porn', and thinking real sex is like it is in the videos online but that's a different story really.)

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    Can porn be used in a healthy way? or should it be avoided completely?

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  • Can cigarettes be used in a healthy way? Eh, only in very specific scenarios

    Gonna have to bite and ask what very specific scenarios smoking could be healthy?

  • Oh no, it's one of those episodes, again!

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  • It's the b-plot from what I recall, it's not the main focus of the episode.

    It was written long before his TERF days and so it's not exactly hateful, just ignorant and it's comparable to a lot of other ways comedy treated trans characters from the era - The League Of Gentleman was much, much worse than the IT Crowd imo, and that was a recurring character in every episode.

    It's rather the issue that while Matt Berry has distanced himself from the episode Linehan actually still defends it as pro-trans.

  • Doctor Who: Here's Why David Tennant is The Face of The Modern Era

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  • See I got the impression when watching it was kind of like she was told to 'just play it like you're a female 10th doctor, yeah, that'll do'. Which was really a shame because she could have owned her own character you know?

    I actually thought her best episode was the one with the Daleks and the time loop in the warehouse (Eve of the Daleks I think). Her run got overshadowed by the whole timeless child thing which was more fanwank than anyone needed or asked for. Not that Moffat or Davies had individual episodes which were just as bad for continuity stuff but it felt like a lot of the 13th Doctor stories were arc obsessed. Maybe Flux didn't help.

  • Looks like Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of personalized advertisements.

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  • I guess I'd just assumed they'd already done that at some point already

  • Do you have boots that are comfortable?

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  • I've only slipped over in my current pair once in 4 years or so - but I'm in the UK so winter boots for me are more about warmth and rain resistance than snow!

  • Do you have boots that are comfortable?

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  • I've always had Doc Martens boots for casual wear in the winter. They're really comfortable as long as you break them in by wearing them around the house for half an hour a day for a week or two before going outdoors with them.

    Getting cushioned insoles might help?

  • Why do you use firefox?

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  • I just started using it for Android the last month or so when Chrome dropped the flag feature that let you toggle dark mode for websites with system dark mode.

    I have a VPN with an adblocker so that aspect of Chrome never bothered me so much. Chrome felt like it worked slightly smoother but at the end of the day a browser is a browser and Firefox does the job. (Samsung's browser is actually surpringly good for those with a Samsung device looking for a Chrome alternative)

    Firefox does seem more trustworthy overall, although I've learned by now that trusting tech companies is not a sensible thing to do.

  • UK Has Passed The Online Safety Bill

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  • I've been using a VPN, blockers, all sorts in the UK to disguise some of my online activity from Google and other companies so if I'm just doing the same thing to avoid the government there's not much difference.

    The fact that I still use Google products is a lapse and due to laziness on my part...

    Of course it could be a vote winner for Starmer at the next election to say he'll repeal it on free speech grounds of he played it right. But then the opposition could spin it as him not wanting to protect children online so he probably won't have the guts to risk it.

  • LongReads @sh.itjust.works
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    ‘I Didn’t Kill My Wife!’ — An Oral History of ‘The Fugitive’

    www.rollingstone.com /tv-movies/tv-movie-features/the-fugitive-movie-oral-history-cast-director-1234789685/
  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
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    Finally got access to Tildes today... Seems unimpressive

  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
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    Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2023/07/reddit-calls-for-a-few-new-mods-after-axing-polarizing-some-of-its-best/
  • Movies and TV Shows @lemmy.film
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    Dr Strangelove: Armando Iannucci pens first stage adaptation of a Stanley Kubrick film

    www.bbc.com /news/entertainment-arts-66186362
  • Technology @kbin.social
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    Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, is destined to become a boring playground for brands

    www.businessinsider.com /why-instagram-threads-is-destined-to-be-boring-2023-7