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  • Aren't there dedicated communities for political memes? I blocked those for a reason. Why is more and more politics bleeding over to here?

  • Living is an extremely high demand product and capitalists have realised that they can charge whatever they want for it.

  • How to treat a man

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  • Ok

  • Just drop kick every opponent.

  • How to treat a man

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  • A lot of changes is society have come up in the last couple of generations. Changes equality, sexual freedoms, modern parenting, men's roles at home, women's role at work, etc. Many of my parent's generation really do not know the first things about changing roles and expectations of the sexes and what people of the current generation want. Most people I know of that generation are (mildly to extremely) socially conservative. I get along great with my parents and I happily welcome them to live with me for 5 months of every year..... But I would never have the teach anyone in my generation the lessons from their generation (I do speak to them about these things out of interest, but more to talk about how different the culture is between or generations now).

  • How to treat a man

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  • Most parents/adults don't know how to treat the opposite sex either though.

  • So far it seems like people develop around the ideas laid down by social media giants. Rather than replicating, it would be good to see incorporation of healthier options (e.g. time monitoring displayed in app, stopping endless scrolling and keeping to page by page scrolling, avoiding prioritising low effort content (by showing older posts in people's feeds as well and displaying more that prompts comments rather than just upvotes, etc). Don't know how they would design to minimise the hivemind....there's still plenty of that.

  • I myself have called it "a place to dump your child", but in reality even nursery is early years education. The real purpose of these places was meant to be education. Many politicians do think of nursery (and school!) primarily as a place to keep kids busy with little regard for quality of learning.

  • My NewPipe app stopped working for a week and it wasn't difficult at all living without YouTube. There's tons of content in the world that can be consumed in its place.

  • Most people aren't ready to accept the message of privacy importance. I would say that's the vast majority actually. Many in my family throw all sorts of personal information into "online contests and signups".

    Privacy now is like climate change was 20 years ago.....incredibly important, but hasn't come to the forefront for most people, governments, etc. Say your message politely and only when welcomed, and otherwise leave people to make their decisions.

    If you're actually interested in changing people's minds, it is an incredibly difficult and complex process, but you can start learning about it. Here's an author whose podcast I follow and he's doing really good work on the subject:

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/09/how-minds-change-by-david-mcraney-review

    A lot of other comments talk about hitting him with some bullshit " gatcha" or some variation of scolding......which is all bullshit and counterproductive.

  • "Made a sketch to help identify the perp"

  • Honey

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  • Never Ending Bukkake is going to be my band name.

  • Thanks. Really helps to know where to start looking when I get time over the weekend.

  • My Arr's are unreliable. The trackers they search keep becoming unavailable for some reason. Flaresolver doesn't seem to work with my VPN setup. Sometimes the file it finds to download turns out to be 54GB for a 1080p movie and I can't figure out what the hell is going on there either. I haven't got the time to look into Usenet any time soon. If I try to deploy something and it doesn't work 100% right off the bat then the "wife acceptance factor" drops to zero, so I've got to be damn certain before I start tinkering.

    This comes off the back of a device on my network causing router issues and making Plex unreliable for a couple of weeks. By the time I diagnosed and fixed the issue, the damage was done and wife acceptance factor was lost.

  • Sorry for the loss OP.

    Maybe not what you want to hear right now, but I'm really glad Steam cloud minimises the impact of a loss. When I had a Nintendo Switch I was terrified of losing hundreds of hours of Dead Cells or Enter the Gungeon progress. Losing a Deck is obviously a financial loss (and the emotional attachment of someone special giving you yours), but at least there isn't insult to add to the injury the way Nintendo would do.

  • That is beyond the capabilities of normies.

    My wife would agree with this:

    And I've got Plex running on an always on NAS.