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I honestly don’t remember the exact car model or even the manufacturer but it was nothing fancy. Some smallish car with manual transmission and no parking sensors or cameras. There weren’t any others to choose from. This was in 2012.

Why would someone “less smart” not deserve success?

It can be used to manipulate the sorting order of posts and it can also be used for targeted harassment of users.

As someone who was banned after downvoting anywhere from 1-3 comments from a mod before, I’d take these claims that it’s a huge problem with a grain of salt though. Some people, including mods, just take downvotes very personally.

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Videos for entertainment are pretty much a big screen (tablet or preferably larger) only thing for me. But when for example I’m in my bike workshop and want to watch some bike maintenance video, I’ll watch that on my phone.

I guess you could close the threads after the day is over. For me personally, it wouldn’t matter either way, as I never use the active/top feeds to browse. They don’t seem too useful on a “small” platform like Lemmy, where they’ll remain static for quite a long time.

Maybe you could have one day a week where it’s allowed? The constant barrage of US politics can be exhausting, but there can definitely be some interesting questions about it.

That was actually a great invention, considering it replaced the unlimited hour work week (60-96 hours being normal in Victorian times). I agree that we should go further though.

The problem is that it only takes one ruler insane enough to use them to wipe out most of humanity.

Sounds like a case of Hikikomori.

There can never be reciprocal love with an LLM. But people can be in love and form a parasocial relationship with a fictional character. There were cases of that even well before the current trend of generative AI.

Eh, kinda. You can buy table salt with or without fluoride, so I wouldn’t say it’s that comparable to adding it to everyone’s tap water.

A VPN is essential to access most of the Western/English-speaking internet (in Mainland China, less so in Hong Kong). The VPN might also be blocked though, so research ahead of time to find one that currently works in China.

I’m in Germany so fluoride is not a thing in our water. I don’t think it’s necessarily unethical to add it though.

For those living in countries that do this, does it have any effect on taste or limit how the water can be used, e.g. for watering plants, cooking etc?

Having a healthier sleep schedule.

We’ve had that in Germany for many years but for the last few years, many supermarkets in my region have stopped using the tokens. Looks like the “training” worked though, as I still never see any unreturned shopping carts on parking lots.

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Train driver as a young child, then later game developer. I’m a software developer now, not making games, but pretty close as I mainly work with game engines. Due to various reasons I’m now considering quitting IT altogether at some point though.

Basically all porn I consume is fictional, so I don’t have that issue.

I’d say I’m at a very fluent level when it comes to understanding and writing. Most of my media consumption is in English and I can understand it just as well as German. I even think in English sometimes.

Speaking is a slightly different story though. I can still communicate just fine, but my English becomes much less eloquent compared to my writing. I just don’t get to practice it very often and even when I do, it’s usually talking to other non-native speakers, so we’ll both be talking at a relatively basic level.

No, and I don’t think any country really is nowadays. I expect it’ll still be a better place to be than where the bombs are getting dropped though. Unfortunately Europe quite often had the misfortune of being that place.