All my grandparents have passed a while ago, and honestly if I could, the one thing I miss most is talking to them. Even when they didn't understand me. I got frustrated too but now that I'm older I realize I was just scared of losing them. Their nodding along was their way of making sure I didn't worry about them. They didn't want me to worry about them, as impossible as that is. I don't know what type of relationship you reading this have with your grandparents, but if it's not completely toxic go and talk to them. Even if they don't understand. They're used to you babbling in their face, you did it your first few years anyway.
Honestly yeah, actually the building I previously moved out of had both. So I just kept very tidy by keeping everything they'd be attracted to sealed and away and left the cockroaches alone. It was a lot though, every night throw out all the garbage. Seal and put away all the food, if food can not be easily sealed put it in the fridge. Clean up all the crumbs and any drops of water on the floors, counters shelfs, ect. Lightly Borax the sinks, toilet, tubs. Then wake up, collect the ones that died overnight, clean up and go about my day. Oh and make sure you take apart then make your bed every morning and night to make sure nothing else crawled in there. They were never more than a small nuisance and I never had bedbugs compared to my neighbors. Yay adorable housing.... So glad to be outta there.
When I was younger and I had roommates I hated it when they killed the house spiders. It was the reason we had so many other bugs. Once that roommate moved out, the rest of us stopped killing the spiders and after a burst of spiders the rest of the bugs were gone. House bugs are very creepy but they keep the bad house bugs away. Like bedbugs. Fuck bedbugs and the evolutionary niche they've crawled out from.
This is called the two state solution, and it'd be nice. It's been tried and it failed, and that's why Israel and Palestine are fighting now. It seems like the best solution but so far Israel has never agreed to it.
That's a good explanation, but you don't need to be quite so pushy. I don't think I was expressing pro-Israeli sentiments. In fact I think I was quite clear that I view them as 'the bad guys' in this. I think where I get caught up is that if I were to have some ability to pass judgement on both of them I would judge Israel as being wrong, bad, criminal, whatever, whereas I can't judge the Palestinians at all. They're fighting for their existence. I don't have any power, so really my opinion is pointless.
Could you please elaborate why it's not both sides? I'm being sincere when I say that I've read wayyy too much to actually understand their situation anymore. My current understanding is that while both sides have engaged in reckless acts of violence against each other, the conflict is asymmetrical with Israel being more responsible because of their considerable military and economic power advantage. Although I am also left with the question, what would I do if my hope was being taken by invaders? It's too complicated for me lol.
Yeah it's hard to say what form a subscription might take. I hope it's for a developer version and they leave home alone. Actually I hope it doesn't happen at all but who am I kidding? I expect to be paying a subscription for DLSS in 5 years. What I can easily imagine happening is that a base version of Windows will be free and they'll teir the available features and services through the subscription. They don't want to lose their dominance in the market.
The point I think you could be missing is that the organizations which do this have been at best irresponsible, at worst negligent, in protecting customers personal information. There are obviously benefits to this a genetic record. Preserving a comprehensive genetic record for future generations to study is one. A database for law enforcement to use to solve very serious crimes like murder and rape. All that would be wonderful, but that information is already being misused and abused. Most people, myself included, don't think these organizations will ever be responsible to their customers cause who the hell would believe that these days?
I think that was just growing pains. It's unreasonable to expect a community as small as Lemmy was beforehand to immediately moderate itself like a large community when they grow as quickly as Lemmy did. It takes time to build the systems and fill positions. The amount of hate content has been dropping consistently. I barely see any hate posts and far fewer hate comments. Excluding when I make the mistake of treading into Hexbear but that's just cause I'm stupid sometimes.
Awesome! I hope you enjoy it but I expect you won't.These debates confuse me, taste is taste. Each of us has a unique set of chemoreceptors, nurves, and neurons which creates our sense of taste. What's tasty to one person could be vile to another. Cilantro tastes like soap to a small fraction of the population. So why do so many people care about this stuff? It's not like they're eating rotten food or glass.
I had a thought about this on a toke and walk. Imagine all the artisans over the course of human existence. All the skills and tricks they learned to just exist and live. Like a hunter tieing the ends of their bow in a slightly different way so it would work better with what they had, or a cook who figured out a more interesting way to make pasta or something. All that is just lost to the sands of time. That's okay, humanity is struggling along just fine. Still left me wondering, what do we not know?
Adding to your examples in the cannon of Star Trek the teleporter is not a murder machine, except for all those transporter accidents. In "Daedalus" (ENT) the creator of the teleporter somehow proved it, even if not every officer believes that yet.
Real life though, I'd never set foot in a transporter. A real life, Star Trek like transporter would definitely be a murder machine though.
Totally agree, everyone's right! Our individual environmental impact is tied proportionally to our individual wealth, so anyone who isn't exceptionally wealthy probably isn't making an exceptional impact. Together though, the collective impact of everyone who don't make an exceptional impact is exceptional. Now if only environmental and social responsibility were proportional to wealth too, but they seem to be inversely related, at least in my opinion.
Maybe even match the donation, or even half of it. I get that a penny here and there adds up really quickly to an enormous brand like McDonald's, but seriously matching it even for pennies on the dollar would go far to prove that they're not just trying to associate themselves with being charitable.
'Be careful now, you're starting to sound like a communist.' they say.
Seriously though, you're right, we should do all that. Switching over to EVs won't solve very many problems. Everywhere needs to have fewer vehicles in the road and that's public transit.
Just gonna pop in here, are you okay? It's totally fine if you're not. To tell the world the truth I've been going through another small depressive episode with a little bit of suicidal idealization and it seems to me like you are too. If you are, just know that the world is a better place with you in it.
All my grandparents have passed a while ago, and honestly if I could, the one thing I miss most is talking to them. Even when they didn't understand me. I got frustrated too but now that I'm older I realize I was just scared of losing them. Their nodding along was their way of making sure I didn't worry about them. They didn't want me to worry about them, as impossible as that is. I don't know what type of relationship you reading this have with your grandparents, but if it's not completely toxic go and talk to them. Even if they don't understand. They're used to you babbling in their face, you did it your first few years anyway.