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That's still a benefit of Android. As long as you have the apk of an app, there's usually a good chance it'll keep working.

There's even a patched version on xda of Swype that lets it work on most devices, even though it no longer matches minimum android versions in the last official apk. It's kinda funny, my phone still runs it fine, and it's on 14, but I have a tablet on 13 that it won't allow it without jumping though hoops that are a pain in the ass (but that's Samsung, and they're dicks about a lot of stuff).

When possible, I use Swype. I have the apk, and it works on most things.

When that's not possible, florisboard or heliboard. Both can do swipe typing, though neither is as good at it as swype.

I am metal as fuck at all things.

Which basically means I run around throwing horns and headbanging while doing tasks.

At least, that's how it looks. Truth is it's just arthritis and muscle spasms

When someone gains weight, fat, there's a fairly broad number of ways it can deposit, mostly based on genetics. That basic pattern can end up being shifted by circumstances, so that someone that's prone to being all belly, may end up with it in two sections rather than evenly distributed across the belly.

A lot of times, when I've seen this effect, it's usually someone that gained weight rapidly, often, but not always, after an illness or injury. They'd be prone to carrying excess fat growth around the abdomen to begin with, and by being sorta stuck in a chair or in bed, it ends up folding over at the hips, with it being accentuated by pants being worn low towards the beginning of the weight gain, so that there's less expansion on the pubis than there otherwise might be.

Since its someone that's still ambulatory, just not safely so, you can still see some of the leg muscles being present, but there is still some fat expansion there.

How weight is gained doesn't have much to do with where the fat grows most, but it can influence other things, like skin health. And that's where you're probably picking up signs of illness subconsciously. The skin of the person in the image has a look I commonly associate with a range of endocrine disruption.

So you're likely dead on that the human there is in the scooter because of an underlying health issue that also triggered rapid weight gain along with a decreased metabolism.

Also, while people love to pretend otherwise, if a person can't, or has great trouble, stopping eating when they should, that's actually a sign of an underlying problem, not some kind of personal failing. There's a fairly complex set of reactions in the body that go from the process of eating to the brain, where the brain starts sending signals that it's time to stop.

Anything that interferes with that process can make so you never feel full, or always feel hungry. It can cause delayed satiation, where you don't feel full until well after your body has taken in what it needs. And it isn't just endocrine issues that can make it happen. I've seen it after strokes and TBI. I've seen it post surgery, usually cardiac or abdominal. Medications can throw things off, autoimmune disorders, it's a laundry list.

Since many of those issues lead to at least temporary reduction in mobility, even if the whole chain was working normally, there'd still be problems because it takes the brain and body time to adapt to a lower energy use state. Satiety very often lags behind a change by weeks or months. Then, since the body is healing, it's screaming for more resources anyway.

Nothing about weight gain or loss is in isolation. It's a systemic malfunction.

What's great is when your wife wiggles them on your approach dive as encouragement, then squeaks as you grab hold

Kinda depends on context. Because, if you've ever been around toddlers it means something different lol.

But I suspect you mean when the kids are adults.

It's typically going to be a blend of things. Wanting to see your kids find their groove. Part of the job of being a parent is getting your kids to adulthood in a state where they can survive, and hopefully thrive, on their own. That's because nobody lives forever, so they'll have to do life without you at some point.

You also want them to have stability and success. Not everyone has the same criteria for those things, but it's the hopeful part of parenting. Ideally, you set your kid up to have a better life than you.

The problem comes in when success and stability don't have the same criteria for the parents and the kids.

Settling down usually does mean that a person has found their groove, and they're also likely to be on a career path of some kind. They're also not likely to be partying too much or engaging in risky behaviors.

So, if the parents value that kind of life as "success", of course they'll wnat their kids on a path to that life before the parents age out of being able to help with that goal.

That does sometimes come with parents obsessing over it. Even more common is parents thinking that it has to be reached on a shorter timeline than the kid wants. So it can be a source of conflict, despite it starting out as something positive.

Of course, parents are humans. Humans are assholes. So you run into parents that believe their kids are extensions of themselves rather than independent humans. Those parents want their kids to reflect well on them, to extend their own sense of self. Thus, the child fulfilling the parent's ideals becomes vital to the parents' goals.

It's like anything else, really. Complicated.

Me? I tend to just want my kid to find their groove no matter what it looks like. I may or may not be able to assist them in life, depending on what that groove is, but I just want them to have as fulfilling a life as possible in the world we're stuck in. Anything else is icing on the cake

New to lemmy I see.

This isn't reddit. You'll figure that out eventually. This kind of nastiness doesn't go over well here.

Also, it's not a joke. It's a meme, and it's just poking fun at someone, using a picture of a real human being. If a "joke" is just an excuse to be cruel, it isn't a joke, it's an expression of what kind of person you are.

Exactly! So many dogs just love to nestle into people, often at the small of their back our behind the knees when we're on our sides.

If dogs aren't the most farted on by humans animal there is, I don't know what the criteria is

Is it really necessary to post shitty, smug, dehumanizing shit like this? It isn't funny, and the title just points to you being a really unpleasant person

It's effectively the same thing.

Whether or not the recording is kept or not, it's using the same function.

Ehhh, I don't think there is a unifying "white" culture.

Plenty of regional cultures that are predominantly white, and definitely city level ones, but that's different from a "white culture".

Hell, it's hard to even say there's am American culture because it's just so damn big. Even regional cultures, like the general southern culture I came up in, I can't say is a single one. There's to much different between adjoining counties sometimes, and states can be even further apart.

If I point to the Appalachian culture I'm also a part of, you can't really rely on that as much as you'd think, because five hundred miles in the mountains is a huge barrier to culture connections, even though much of the population shares common ancestry that informs the local cultures.

So, nah, I can't buy the idea of "white" culture any more than I can any singular racial culture. They just don't work when in reality, though they're temping on paper.

Shit, even "ethnic" cultures vary too much between specific cities to rely on them translating fully, so why would arbitrary skin color groupings? The Irish folk here in the hills have kept and/or adapted the culture of their ancestors different than those in Boston, or New Orleans, or New York. Just looking at my maternal and paternal families, there's enough differences that I wouldn't give credence to an Irish, Scots-Irish or German culture being fully passed down in the same way.

The UK is way smaller than the US, and every city has its own distinct culture. Some are big enough cities that there's multiple versions in each one.

If I had to lay claim to a national culture of the US, it would have to be adaptability. The overall culture of the US is to take what comes here and mix it around until it sticks. And that's not a very distinct thing at all.

Bruh

It's a nice play on words, and it is factually correct, they don't state an age. That it wasn't useful or necessary to directly say "Ultron is three days old!" is beside the point of word play.

Sure they did. We were there when he was born, and thus all the events of the movie, he's under a month old

If the clutch doesn't survive, it was already near failure anyway.

It's easy tbh.

There's a learning curve, but if you can walk while pulling something out of your pocket, you meet the minimum coordination test.

If you have a tachometer, it's a little easier to learn when to shift, but it isn't necessary at all, just a nicety.

No bullshit, I learned in a day, and was able to drive without grinding gears in maybe a week. Taught many people over the decades since. A day of practice that includes hills is all it takes to get the basics down.

When you first drive a different car, it may take a few miles to get a feel for the clutch and shifter throw, but that's about it.

It seems way harder than it actually is, assuming you have full limb mobility. If you don't, it can be a good bit harder.

When you first try it, just remember to get the clutch pedal all the way in before shifting, and you won't have trouble in that regard. Letting the clutch out in sync with the gas is where coordination comes in, so test any new vehicle in an empty parking lot or other open space that's flat, so you can get a feel for that safely. Once you have that feel, it's easy peasy again.

At this point, I don't even pay attention to shifting. It just happens without thinking about it as the vibration reaches the right level.

Hell, in my old car, I had taught dozens of people how to drive stick, and it got to 200k miles with the original clutch in it. That's how easy it can be to learn.

So, wait, Google can record calls, but we can't?

Fair enough :)

That's one I hadn't run across before!

Well, for one thing, I'm a sappy old bastard.

For me, it was a culmination of decades as a comic fan. The comic medium is amazing and allows for some great things. But what it lacks is the immediacy and immersion of something that's "alive". Animated movies and shows bring some of that aliveness in for sure, but there's always the barrier that it isn't "real"

My first super hero animation experience was Spider-Man and his amazing friends. Then it was super friends. As fun as they were as a kid, not exactly top tier, you dig?

The Superman movies with Christopher Reeves were my first live action superhero experience. But have you ever seen the 70s/80s Marvel stuff? Totally different experience there. Then there was the chain of Batman movies, with varying degrees of success, but no progress on the Marvel side at all.

Until we got Spider-Tobey, and the Bana Hulk. That's when the path to what has become the MCU started. Spider-Man was being done but Sony though, and it had flaws. Bana Hulk was visually solid enough, but was weird as fuck otherwise.

So, enter the baby MCU. Norton Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor. Those were all amazing. High production values, great scripts, perfect casting, but most important, they stayed true to the spirit of the characters. For the first time in my life, I was seeing not just comic movies done right, but some of my favorite characters being done right.

And they had started building up to the Avengers fairly early in that, showing us old fans that they weren't just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks any more. There was intent, and that brought hype.

Now, it may not seem like a big deal, but at that point in my life, life fucking sucked. I lost everything; the ability to work, a long term partner, and was struggling through a lot of shit.

Enter the Avengers. All that hype, all the decades of disappointment as a marvel fan, and now there's what may be the best super hero movie ever made.

And then there's that scene. It's a moment where all the characters found themselves as a real team for the first time. That scene was the culmination of all of that. It was a payoff. It was a character moment. I might even argue hard it was the real climax of that movie, not the eventual conclusion with Loki.

It was just a camera spin on a technical level, but it was also bringing a comic panel into life. Visually, that spin was taking a fairly common comic scene of the heroes uniting and rallying from static 2d into a dynamic shift towards the kind of reality live action can bring.

I'm a comic geek, and a film geek. And I was a geek that was in the perfect state of being to be totally immersed. That immersion, which was partially built across multiple previous movies, made the scene more than its technical parts.

That's why it worked on an emotional level for me. It was not only a great comic moment, it was a great film moment. And it was hope.

So, one part personal, but also some incredibly deft film making