The finish on these cybertrucks are so bad. Looks worse than the paint on a 20yo Civic that spent it’s life in Arizona…

I swear, I don’t know if it’s a Catholic/Lent thing or what but I’ve been dragged to Italian-American restaurants and 80% of the “Vegetarian” section has anchovies. Like… No matter how much mental gymnastics, fish is still a meat. Still an animal.

F-Droid or Obtainium for applications. Decouple and log out from the Play Store, if you need a proprietary app there’s proxying through the Aurora Store.

For PS2 emulation, theres the NetherSX2/GrindrSX2 community that picked up where the AetherSX2 left off. For streaming it’ll depend on what service you’re using. F-Droid has alot of Youtube Frontends.

Same, and besides the crap that Windows comes with (that thankfully my work’s group policies disable most of it) they took away my top taskbar. A feature in Windows for as long as I can remember and IMO looked clean and was more functional was taken away by Win 11.

Thankfully at home I can take solace in my Linux and MacOS enviroments. Wish my job would let me just run Debian or Fedora/Red Hat for work. Everything is a web application anyways.

God I hate gambling and casinos with a passion. And since I live and work near casinos I have to deal with coworkers either bragging about how much they pissed away that weekend or getting invited to go piss away money at these predatory businesses.

My partner and I play locally with an old PC as a server (we got tired of constantly needing invite codes). Its not bad and they’re still adding new content and pals. We stopped for a bit around release because of the rubberbanding though.

To be honest, if I didn’t live in Amerikkka and instead somewhere where Ladas were common I’d do it. Aesthetic, simple, cheap, and no built in capitalist spyware.

“Who pays for the guns? The ammo? Pennington says guardians can use the stipend to buy firearms.”

What are they going to be using? Hi Point or some cheap .22 hunting rifle? $500 ain’t alot for firearms. I mean, it’s an horrible idea that either places dangerous armed facists in schools or provides more cranking pressure on schools.

In some places in America they still count if they were ‘unexcused’ (ie no doctors note, even if your kid was sick) and parents taken to truancy court. I remember some friends growing up that had to fight that because they didn’t have the money to see the doctor over every sick day.

CW for work, medication, and mental health.

Men loving men.

Kind of forgot TekSyndicate still existed after Qain and Wendell left years ago.

But yeah, Windows seems to always get worse. Even 11 has gotten worse as it’s been out. I hate dealing with it when I help my partner out with her pc.

I used them during covid, not specifically to avoid the virus (because I know it just passes the risk along), but because I was in the beginning of my transition in an unfriendly state so did not want to undo all of my work to boymode and at the time I was more financially stable so I could afford it. Always tipped well too.

For the average situation it doesn’t make alot of sense.

Also Capitalism trying to shoehorn AI into every product possible. Why does my work software need an AI built in? It won’t help us employees or the company, what would help is to fuck off with the ‘do more with less’ and pay us more. But no, someone somewhere got paid to add a worthless implementation of AI to our software.

Gin, if you can’t handle straight gin then a gin and tonic. I feel like it’d be the right headspace drink for flying. Clean and proper.

Dropping the first в helps alot. Because trying to ‘v’ right before going into a ‘st’ was tongue tieing me really bad

Thanks! I’ll probably start looking for some films, there’s one I already intended to watch (but not sure if the pacing would be conducive to learning).

I do have a small collection of Russian music which is slow enough for me to kind of learn, even if pronunciations are stretched a bit.

That makes sense. I’ve been meaning to add phonetics to my flash cards to assist with longer words, здравствуйте has been the hardest to pronounce so far but защищающаяся seems alot worse. I’ll definitely start trying to pronounce it today though.

And being able to get at least an idea of what people are discussing online is really fun. On YouTube I’ll sometimes use random Russian comments as flash cards if they’re short enough.

Thank you!

Raised with a very politically charged father, I just mimicked his beliefs, not understanding anything other than democrats bad. Once I reached my early teenage years I started to consider myself a classic libertarian because queer people should be allowed to live their lives and we should be allowed to smoke weed, but ‘the government’ shouldn’t bother people.

Fast forward to moving out with my at the time partner and immediately hit with rent, work, bills, etc while not making much. I started questioning there and as the effects of the ‘real world’ started crunching down harder and harder I was sure that ‘people’ can’t be trusted to not abuse others so might as well do something about it. Then Bernie Sanders started his campaign and I got sucked right in to being a demsoc.

Few years pass, still jaded from the DNC’s actions in the 2016 elections, people are starting ironically/unironically joke about communism. And at this point I had been considering myself as a ‘socialist’ so it really didn’t carry the scary vibes that alot of American conservatives and liberals accossiate it with. So I started looking into Marxism, reading about events, listening to reading podcasts such as Marx Madness, finally realizing that its not ‘people’ that was the problem before (see paragraph 2) but that it was Capitalism. And well… A few years later I’m here on Lemmy.

I only use it when it shows up as a search result in SearxNG or Ecosia, through a frontend like Redlib, without signing in, and with Mullvad active.

Otherwise I haven’t gone back. Accounts scrubbed and deleted. Honestly better mentally (disregarding real life stressors and depression) and less new hobbies since I left Reddit.