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Waldelfe

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  • What do you call your significant other in your phone?

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  • My husband is in my phone with a nickname of his old name. He took on a new name from our culture when he became a naturalized citizen, but I never changed it and he doesn't mind.

    I was in his phone as "[my name] from café X", until he got a new phone last year. The first thing he did was take me on a date to a new café and proudly enter my number into his new phone as "[my name] from café Y".

  • What are tell-tale signs a series has jumped its shark?

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  • I find it worse when the sexual tension just keeps on going and goes nowhere. I really liked for example that they didn't do that in Kim Possible. They let Kim and Ron become a couple and made new stories about how they work out as a couple. It's been a while since I've watched it, but I remember appreciating that they could just be together instead of some will-they-won't-they bullshit.

  • What is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory?

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  • Vaccines cause autism and/or other major health issues for a significant portion of the population. Since vaccination rates in large parts of the world are close to 90% for important vaccines you'd be seeing large numbers of cases for whatever negative effect you think they had. E.g. if vaccines actually did cause autism, in a population where 90% are vaccinated you'd surely have more than the current ~1% of autism diagnosis.

    Also the Covid vaccine killing people in large numbers. When the vaccine started rolling out a colleague told me with a straight face that the covid vaccine had already killed 1/3 of the population in Bulgaria (or maybe it was another eastern European country). She absolutely 100% believed it and said the media was covering it up.

  • The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for a green pedestrian corridor. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change.

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  • In the last city I lives in they transformed on of the major busy streets that had a lot of shops into a pedestrian zone. Businesses fought it kicking and screaming. Reading the local news and online forums you'd think that the main customer base for all businesses in the inner city were 90year olds with multiple hip surgeries who will not come anymore if they can't park right in front of the shop. Well. The street was transformed, people got suspiciously quiet about the mass extinction of local businesses that was about to happen and all the restaurants and cafes need reservations now where before you could just walk in even on a Saturday afternoon and get a table. Some of the shops need security now to regulate the flow of people. But of course you want read any articles on local news about it.

  • What's yours?

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  • I've startend rewatching X-Files. So that's ging to be interesting. Do I get to do the exact same things (investigate paranormal cases) or would I be a regular FBI agent?

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • If it's only one software you can test if it works on wine.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • Tea (black and green) is only bitter if you don't know how to make it. Get good quality tea leaves (not the ones in the bags, they are usually the worst quality) and look up what temperature the water needs to be for your kind of tea. Usually around 70-80°C for green tea and 80-90°C for black. Especially green tea is only bitter if you prepare it with boiling water.

  • Violence rife at Germany's train stations

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  • I thought the same. Also how many of these offences are connected to drugs, since in most cities the area in and around a central station is where the hotspots for homeless people and drug markets are. And let's not forget that the police has massively increased their presence in train stations in major cities. A couple of years ago they maybe had a police station nearby where you could go to, nowadays you see them patrolling major train stations regularly. No wonder they catch more crime if they patrol more instead of sitting in the station until someone comes to them.

  • OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

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  • Reminds me a bit of the 90s when a popular boyband like Take That disbanded and they had to set up hotlines for distressed teens.

    People have gotten used to parasocial relationships with people they will never meet in real life and it only got worse when the "relationship" to celebrities started feeling more personal thanks to social media. People got used to feeling close to people they only ever interacted with through text, so people getting attached to chatbots feels like a logical result of this development.

  • The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, the two best members of the Swedish group shooting team

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  • Or from inadvertently moving it in a way that moves the whole body.

  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • I liked dating platforms way back in the days when you could make your own page, had large text fields to describe yourself and could filter by age, location and maybe a few other important things like smoking or wanting kids. Years later I tried the apps and it was just frustrating and nothing else. There wasn't even really space to describe yourself or show your character.

  • What would you do if a mummy came back to life in front of you?

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  • Also a good idea. Maybe he woke up before and learned the language.

  • What would you do if a mummy came back to life in front of you?

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  • I assumed some kind oft translation spell to be in place so he would instantly understand the language of the place he resurrects in.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What would you do if a mummy came back to life in front of you?

  • Are gender-exclusive groups ever ok?

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  • I'm not talking about friend groups, just groups that are open to the public. Friend groups are OK in whatever constellation you wish.

    Your choir has a good reason to be men only, since that creates a certain sound.

    It gets tricky when the point of the group or club is something not related to gender. I don't think an all-female board game club that is open to the public but only lets women join would be OK. Personally I think you can have your meetings for only people of your gender when you organize them only for yourself. But as soon as you do something publicly, you don't get to say "everybody can come except group X" without a good reason.

    That goes for men and women, I'm also not a fan of "xy only for girls" clubs without a good reason.

  • Are gender-exclusive groups ever ok?

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  • Gender exclusive groups are OK when there is a legitimate reason. Unfortunately it just so happens that women-exclusive groups have a legitimate reason very often, which is usually "I don't want to be hit on in every activity I do".

    Why are there women only career events? Because many women experience going to "normal" career events, have nice conversations, thinking they made a good business connection just to be asked out on a date and ghosted when they decline. They don't get the same benefits out of "normal" events as men do.

    Why are there women only gyms? Because women want to do sports without being hit on regularly.

    Now you could say "Well, but that's a problem of some men not sticking to the rules. Just enforce the rules." But the problem is, the rules aren't being enforced, women aren't taken seriously or just told to suck it up, that's part of life. You're in a public space so it's OK for a man to ask you out. To which the women's reaction is: "Well, then I'd rather do X in a private space where there aren't any men who could hit on me."

    As long as there are struggles that men face exclusively it's totally ok to have men only groups. The problem:

    1. men do not face the problem of being put in uncomfortable situations by women almost anywhere they go, so they have less topics or activities where they feel like they need a men's only group. For most topics/activities men can go to a mixed-gender group and have the same experience as they would in a male-only group. Women can't.
    2. a lot of men's groups do not form around "we want to address a typical male problem" but "we have prejudices about women being bad at x" or "we just hate women".

    And lastly historically the reason why women wanted to join male-only groups was because those groups were often used to make decisions and policies. Business is being made in golf clubs and was made in "gentlemen's clubs". Women wanting to join those wasn't about playing golf. Sure, we can have a women's club to play golf. It was about being left out of the informal decision making process, the deal making. In my personal experience women are more likely to discuss work matters at work with everybody and at any "women only" outing with colleagues work was hardly a topic. Whereas when it happened that men went drinking with "just the boys" the next day important decisions had been made and suddenly Mark was in charge of the new project. Just my personal experience and I'm not saying it can't happen the other way around in female dominated fields.

  • Are gender-exclusive groups ever ok?

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  • Because women's shelters need to exist even if men are domestically abused too and never in my fucking life have I heard anyone suggest a battered men's shelter might even maybe be a good idea.

    I don't know where you live but men's shelters are a thing. At least I know about them in Germany, the US has them, too. A large problem for men's shelters (and why there aren't as many as women's shelters) is that they want to have only male staff (just like women's shelters employ only women as staff), but there are less men going into social work. Also, men's shelters don't get the publicity women's shelters get, so that is definitely a thing that should change. Men talking about being abused by women should be made more normal and I think it would help if there were more stories in the media about men fleeing from abuse and going to a men's shelter. That would make the concept more widely known.

  • Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump’s friends ‘were concerned about dementia’ after 2017 dinner, emails show

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  • It's also probably bad for your business model if the blackmailed person is so far gone he starts talking about confidential information in public.

  • Which high school friend took a path you didn't expect?

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  • A good friend in school always had really good grades. She worked hard, had mostly As and wanted to become a scientist since 5th grade, later she was mostly interested in biology and wanted to go into genetics. She graduated with really good grades, the second best student of our year, and would have probably made it into a field of her choosing. When I looked her up years later she had studied art and works at an art gallery. I'm happy for her if that's what she wanted, but she had talked about studying biology nonstop from 5th grade to graduation.

  • Ich🤑ieL

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  • Oft stinkt der Fisch vom Kopf her. Da sitzt dann jemand weiter oben, guckt dem Einkauf auf die Finger und macht Vorgaben, wie viel Geld die ausgeben können. "Also ich hab das mal gegoogelt und find hier 10 Optionen, die günstiger sind. Warum habt ihr soviel Geld dafür ausgegeben?" Oder die Boni sind an Ziele in der Kostenreduktion geknüpft oder ähnliche Späße.

    Wenn man den Händler noch nicht kennt, verstehe ich aber auch nicht warum man nicht erst eine Testcharge anfordert und damit testet, ob die Qualität für den Zweck reicht. Das ist nämlich absolut üblich, erstmal verschiedene Hersteller zu testen und die meisten vernünftigen Produzenten schicken Testchargen kostenlos oder nur zu Versandkostenpreis wenn die Aussicht auf längerfristige Kooperationen besteht.

  • DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz @feddit.org
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    Vom Krebs geheilt und dann diskriminiert

    www.tagesschau.de /investigativ/panorama/krebs-heilung-anerkennung-versicherungen-100.html
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Alexandra David-Neel, first european woman to enter Lhasa

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    All my classmates are using AI and I hate it

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Software: Period tracking with drip.

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    What are things that mildly annoy you in SciFi?