leadore @ leadore @lemmy.world

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Neither Medicare nor most health insurance covers hearing aids, or glasses for that matter. And it's not like hearing aids magically make people able to hear like normal.

Not to mention that all the waiting rooms also have TVs in them, making noise. I really miss the days when you would go places and it was just quiet unless someone was talking (and it would be to someone physically present). The place I take my car for an oil change or whatever plays country music in its waiting room. It's torture.

Same, if I'm walking around outside with it in my pocket, I don't notice the vibration or even hear it ring over the background noise and wind.

Glad there are still a few out there. I'm surprised to hear it. When I was a kid, you could still get paper grocery bags. My mom would pop enough corn to fill one and we'd take a cooler with pop to the drive-in and eat all that popcorn, then we kids would fall asleep in the back seat.

Where are these drive in theaters you speak of? I haven't seen one since I was a kid.

Timeshift is just for the system itself. BTW in Preferences you might want to turn on Automatic Maintenance/Remove obsolete kernels and dependencies (in the Automation tab). This keeps old kernels from filling up your drive.

For backing up my data, I use Lucky Backup (in the repositories) set with the default profile to back up my entire home folder to a secondary hard drive and another profile that backs it up to a USB drive. It's basically a user-friendly front end for rsync.

Yay, welcome to freedom! Glad it's working for you and feel free to ask for help here. Of course Linux Mint has its own forums where I've almost always found an answer already there whenever anything has come up for me, and it feels pretty friendly.

Enjoy!

The real reason is that it's competition for the broligarchs. They want it gone, thinking that all that traffic will come to their platforms.

That's why there's no chance that the govt will do what many in this thread are saying would be logical--ban the data collection and manipulation itself, not just one foreign competitor--be consistent, Meta, X, etc. should also be banned.

So regardless of how stupid people are for signing up on the Chinese alternatives, at least it's good that they're refusing to move to Meta, YT, X, etc. They're deliberately not rewarding the broligarchs.

I guess he couldn't think of a buzzword for "C" so he just left it out. Never mind, someone already said this

Welp. I'm glad people are learning about this though.

Trump didn't attend Biden's inauguration, why should Biden feel he has to attend Trump's? (I know this is about the lunch, but still). Obama and the Clintons should take a pass too. They think they have to go to somehow prove something like they're not petty or that the country isn't really falling apart or whatever, but all they're proving is that they're A-OK with the rise of fascism in the US. God I wish they'd show some spine just this once.

Many years ago, I offered a girl in my dorm to get high with me and to my surprise she got very freaked out and scared, which I had never seen happen to anyone before. And what we smoked back in those days was much tamer than what they have today. I had to sit with her and keep her calm for what seemed like forever. Really harshed my mellow (from my language in this post, you can guess my age 😄 ).

Point is though, yes--some people can have a negative reaction to it. Was it mj-induced psychosis in this case? I dunno, I don't know the definition. I don't think she actually hallucinated or anything, it was more like a major anxiety attack.

Yep, the only time I buy eggs is if I'm going to be baking things that require them, which I don't do very often. I just get the 6-pack, then any remaining after baking usually sit forgotten in the fridge for weeks and then I'm not sure if they're still edible so they go to waste. 🤷

Why is everyone so obsessed with eggs? Do people really eat them that often and if so, is it some kind of addiction like coffee or what? Stop paying those prices, stop buying the damn eggs.

The only way I can think of is to secede and have Californians pay the amount they would pay in federal taxes to the State. At that point, the State could modify those tax rates and laws to better reflect the needs of the people and the State.

You don't have to promote yourself or be fake at all. If you reply to people and they like things you say, they or others who read it may follow you. Often if you follow someone they'll follow you back--but that most likely depends on you having put some info about yourself in your profile so they can get an idea of who they would be following, and even more likely if you've interacted with them before.

Since there's no algorithm, hashtags are big on Mastodon. By subscribing to some you'll find people to follow and interact with. Also, a common way for people to find and follow you is to write an introduction post and pin it--include the 'introduction' hashtag plus hashtags of your interests. That way when people search for hashtags they're interested in, they'll find your intro post and may follow you. And whenever you post about something you want to have more reach, put a relevant hashtag or two at the end of it.

As someone who had never used corporate social media like FB and Twitter (for my own reasons), when I found out about Mastodon back in 2017-18, I decided to join it because of its philosophy and it not being a corporate-owned walled garden. It has its flaws of course. But since I didn't have any preconceptions, I mostly liked Mastodon as it was and didn't find it confusing at all. That's probably because I read up on Mastodon first to decide whether I'd want to try it, so I knew what to expect.

So I can understand how people who had been using Twitter and had their expectations shaped by it would assume that Mastodon was just a Twitter clone, not having learned anything about it beforehand. That's why they were confused and disappointed to find that it was its own thing with its own philosophy, and had existing communities aligned with that philosophy.

Some (not all) of those who saw the differences as flaws, complained that Mastodon was crap for not having certain Twitter features, and some (not all) existing communities didn't take kindly to demands that Mastodon abandon its philosophy and transform itself into a Twitter clone, so there were conflicts as well, and those new people didn't stick around.

OTOH, many other new people found that they liked the different philosophy and those people did stick around, so Mastodon has grown. But IMO since most people like the Twitter-style algorithms and "broadcast/consume" culture (as opposed to Mastodon's more personal interaction culture), Mastodon will always be a much smaller thing. But its existence is an important and good thing, like the quiet room away from the riotous street party, where you can hear each other speak.

Well it was obvious from the start that the provision that TikTok either has to sell to a US owner or be banned means that some oligarch would be buying it. I suppose the broligarchs have been competing for who will get it. Sure, maybe some in Congress care about the security aspect, but underneath, that was mostly a pretext to get support for it. Would be nice if Tiktok refuses to sell it.

A three year old would not have the ability to form that concept, let alone verbalize it.

Age two to five years old

Young children are interested in the idea of death, for example in birds, insects and animals. They can begin to use the word 'dead' and develop an awareness that this is different to being alive. However, children of this age do not understand abstract concepts like 'forever' and cannot grasp that death is permanent.

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Wow. I've heard about things like that happening to people from New Mexico, but never WV! Don't kids have to memorize all the state capitals in school any more? I may not remember all the capitals now but at least I remember all the states!