By using Lemmy we're already filtering out certain people and opinions. I personally think that the more control we have over what we see, the better. I don't think it's opposing views people want to filter out. It's the ones having those views and being dicks about it.
My 10 year old TV which I watch 10 year old TV-series via HDMI from? I don't think so.
Tomorrow there's going to be article about how my car spies on me as if that's not 15 years old too. Or something about my office job that I don't have.
I'm becoming irrelevant. Not the target audience for anything.
It's not the people whose opinions I disagree with who I usually block. It's people making snide comments like this while fishing for upvotes. I'll reserve my attention to the ones who have something to say rather than ones just wanting to make noise.
If this mean we'd be able to see who has up- / downvoted a comment on our own and possibly on other people's posts then I'm all for it. This would be highly useful at filtering out the people here I want nothing to do with.
Other than no longer being able to use an app to access twitter, I haven't noticed anything else changing for the worse. They even made the "media" tab into grid rather than list which was a welcome update.
I call it a "perfect moment" and I try to make a mental note when ever I experience one so that I'll be more likely to notice the next time it happens. It's most often in the nature for me as well.
I'll resist the temptation to voice my opinion about your relationship as I don't know either of you and don't have enough information.
I do however live in a open relationship myself but our situation is a bit different. It's me who has practically zero interest in sex so my gf is allowed to see other guys and she does. I used to be extremely jealous person before but I somehow grew out of it. The first few times she went out with one felt kind of weird but as time passed I got over it and no longed does it make me feel jealous. What I've noticed is that as long as I trust her there's no problem. It's when ever she acts in a way that I find suspicious that all my insecurities creep up. Having been cheated on before likely has something to do with this. If you've been suspecting that she has done stuff behind your back, even if she hasn't, then that is not the time to go forward with this. Trust is the number one, two and third most important thing in a open relationship.
Depends on wether it's a loving or an abusive cat owner. Cats are carnivores and need a diet consisting of mostly meat to stay healthy. If buying meat products is against one's values then don't get a predator as a pet.
My possibly unpopular opinion is that just using water is probably more than sufficient unless you've been handling something that has visibly stained your hands. Some level of "dirt" on your hands is probably better for your immune system than perfectly clean ones. I've never been much of a hand washer myself. I use my hands a lot, I touch everything, I don't wear gloves at work and I bite my nails. Yesterday I pulled carrots from the ground and rubbed worst of the soil away onto grass and ate them like that. I can't help but feel that behavior like this is to thank for the fact that I'm never sick and I have zero allergies or food intolerances.
Seems far more likely that the recycling rate is low because not every piece of plastic waste is put into recycling. Not that they simply don't recycle it.
That assumes the plastic is already being collected, so why not just make new products from it instead of dumping it into the ground and then using even more oil to make new plastic?
That's a bit cynical take. In many countries, including mine, there are dedicate bins for plastic waste which is the majority of waste from your typical household. It's all being recycled into new products, not being shipped anywhere. Also, when it comes to plastic bottles for example, close to 100% of them are returned and recycled into new bottles. I've got a tiny-ass bin for the stuff that ends up in landfill because I separate and recycle it all as does most other people.
EDIT: Nevermind then. It's all apparently dumped into the ocean. Sorry about the attempt in some positivity.
The first time I saw text written by GPT it all seemed alright at first glance but once you started to actually read it was immediately obvious it had no idea what it was talking about. It was grammatically correct nonsense.
I'm glad phones weren't banned when I was still in school but it would've been better for me if they were. I think this is one of those things where we need an authority to prevent us from doing something that's bad for us because we're not going to do it ourselves. It's equivalent to mom telling you to eat your vegetables.
We let distracted and inexperienced apes drive on public roads as well. I bet these drive better than them.