To be honest, I don’t think anyone can be truly stoic (think Spock from Star Trek) 100% of the time, it works with fictional characters, but “I control y emotional response” is always more of a goal than the reality.
That’s the problem. I’d love to be able to control my emotions to that degree, but I know myself and I’m more the kind of person to have sleepless nights over the most pointless things.
In situations where learning the true information would only cause me worry and stress, even though I’m powerless to do anything about it. For example, let’s say my sister’s dog has fallen ill and I’m on holiday somewhere. I’d rather be told that everything is fine and only learn about the truth when I came back.
It’s an interesting exercise. If agentic AI is capable of easily recreating commercial software, I wonder if that’ll make some software companies change their stance on it.
Not interested at all in using it though. I’m sure it’ll be buggy as hell and I much prefer using software developed with actual care and purpose.
You need to use a ton of energy to produce the hydrogen fuel, so just using an EV is much more efficient.
Lifestyle is another factor. Japanese people walk a lot more, living in neighborhoods where they can go shopping, socialize etc all on foot. An elderly American living in the suburbs who has bad eyes and can’t drive anymore will be mostly stuck at home, contributing to the deterioration of their health. Japan also has universal public healthcare, so dying from being unable to afford treatment is not really a thing. There’s also a strong culture of respecting and providing assistance to elders which I’m sure plays a role as well.
Having learned a lot of Japanese and a little bit of Mandarin, I’d say that Mandarin is easier overall. Pronunciation might be simpler in Japanese, but the grammar is much more complex.
The black forest. A tiny part of it has recently been made a national park, but the vast majority still isn’t. There’s a lot of opposition to increasing its area, as it couldn’t be used for logging and farming anymore.
I wouldn’t want to live as one, but I find them a fascinating culture. I’ve seen a few documentaries about them. If I were to ever visit the US (unlikely at this point), visiting some Amish places would be on the bucket list. Being able to talk to them in German would be pretty cool, I think in some regions they even speak a very similar dialect to my region of Germany.
I don’t think we have any similar subcultures in Germany, although the Amish originally came from here of course. A lifestyle like that would pretty much be impossible in today’s Germany for many reasons.
I hate reddit letting all the bots in and shadow banning my account. Will that happen on lemmy.
No, because shadow banning isn’t a thing on Lemmy in the first place. Any bans you may or may not receive will be public and in your moderation history.
I said on fediverse the big instances/communities for those topics are (or at least tend to be, I don’t have my finger on either’s pulse and blocked most long ago) run by people obsessed with AI and very eager to defend it.
Db0 certainly is, but I’m not sure which pro-AI furry instance you’re thinking of.
If any ingredient is a part of a dead animal, I don’t eat it.
From what I’ve read, cat food often uses byproducts that can’t or wouldn’t otherwise be used for human consumption. For that reason, I think it’s more ethical to use stuff that would otherwise go to waste than to breed mice for them to eat. Plus, from my experience with house cats, many wouldn’t actually eat the mice, but just play with/torture them until they’re dead.
Those are probably more important considerations than the age of the dad TBH.
Right now I prefer reading, but for a while it was Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I have great friends, but they live far away so I only see them a couple times a year. I’d love to make more friends who live nearby, but it feels more difficult the older I get.
Suggestion for perchance users: Make your suggestions in an appropriate place, not AskLemmy. And maybe touch grass once in a while.
Probably federation issues on your instance. There are plenty of replies to recent posts.
That probably means OP won’t see the replies here either though…
Pawb.social does. Lemmy.world also has some NSFW communities.
While it may enable you to delete toxic comments, it’ll enable other people to be toxic without being called out. I think it makes sense for “personal” spaces like user profiles, but not really beyond that.