The whole decentralization aspect of the Feidverse seems great to prevent enshittification, or to prevent a billionaire from buying and tanking the place, but I don’t really see it ever appealing to normal, non tech savvy people.
There’s nothing “tech savvy” about lemmy. It’s like picking email: pick a website, signup, …, that’s it.
Hypermobility can have side-effects. If your diet isn’t right or you live in a very warm or very cold area, it can affect your tissues. If I’m not mistaken it can sporadically be linked to auto-immune diseases.
It’s useful when your ears are under high pressure. It can help relieve it. Sometimes.
Really depends on the skin color of the person visiting and where they are visiting in that country. A non-white visiting most West-European cities will be mostly fine, but if they go out to the country-side, things can be very different.
I watched a documentary of an Indian boy adopted to a Swiss family who then went back to India to visit. He had a terrible time in Switzerland due to racism and nearly as an awful time in India, because he couldn’t speak the language and people thus assumed he was a Pakistani spy.
Why are people so weird about sex? It’s nothing special. It happens all around the world, probably millions of times per day, we’re all here because of it, it’s natural, and with consent it is probably one of the least harmful things humans can do to each other. People should be given the place and time to engage in sexual activities comfortably, safely, and lovingly. They should be able to get to know their own bodies and explore those of others to learn and have fun.
It’s the parents’ job to create a good environment where the children can feel comfortable talking to them about sex and learning important lessons from them e.g that porn is not a good representation of what happens in a bedroom, how important communication during sexual activities is (verbal or otherwise), how every partner is different, and so on.
Be the good parent.
If that really is what they meant, they are still regarding it as “good” or “bad” through the lens of monogamy. Free love, polyamory, and all that jazz don’t necessarily bind themselves to the disney interpretation of love “one partner forever and if you don’t, you’ve failed”.
Some people are happier having multiple partner sequentially or in parallel. Some may have one stable partner and at the same time multiple others that come and go while retaining that stable / main / primary partner. Others may move in and out of relationships with the same people simply because they have other definitions of “relationship”. And so much more.
The evaluation of “good” is highly subjective.
By that logic, a spousal abuse victim is much better off staying with the abuser because “changing partners isn’t good”.
How would you define “success”? 50% of marriages end, there are less people getting married and they are doing so later in life. I can’t remember the numbers but it wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of people who did marry had at least one partner beforehand. Did the end of the previous relationships mean they were “unsuccessful” at relationships?
Also, would how the relationship ended be taken into account? A relationship ending because “you cheated on me you bitch” with an ensuing shouting match is probably very different a mutual breakup due to distance, time, or other factors.
Additionally, it would require defining “relationship”. There are people who serially monogamous and have many short-lived flings are those “relationships”?
And happiness is important too. There are people who are in the same relationship for decades but deeply unhappy with their partner but can’t leave.
I fear for how any such would be misrepresented in the media. “Study with one-dimensional definition of success says monogamy better than polyamory”. “Study with 1000 couples in a university of which 10 were poly says polyamory is a failure”.
Which crystal told you they are poor decisions?
Such emotions are often can be triggered by ignorance - that’s not a negative, we are all ignorant in one way or another. What counts is what we do with that ignorance. Your daughter is in a polyamorous relationship or something similar to that. I would recommend you educate yourself about what that is, what kinds of healthy poly relationships can exist, what kinds of unhealthy ones can, and learn how to accept that your daughter is different - just like you are.
Seminal reading on the subject, which I would also recommend your daughter pick up, is The Ethical Slut.
Edit: You are not a bad person for feeling what you feel. But you are an intelligent being, capable of thought and reasoning, that doesn’t have to simply give in to emotions. How would you feel if somebody found out about something that makes you you, felt icky, and did nothing to question that emotion but simply gave in and treated you accordingly regardless of your other attributes?
Yep. The idea that microsoft can “do nothing” to a system that isn’t hosted on their servers is pure delusion - or ignorant. They haven’t thought more deeply about being evil, which is quite cute actually.
Of course they could. One update could render the system worthless or come with malware that infests systems in the network.
Either it’s a fake ceiling or they are slabs of concrete.
Different interests require different accounts on different services. Not everything is served by lemmy e.g music, video, and blogs. Lemmy can’t do it all --> different accounts.
Officially 40, realistically… 20? Bossman makes a dollar, I make a dime, you know how it goes.
Long Covid doesn’t exist! You’re an astroturfer scientist bot from the deepstate made to make us believe COVID really happened. It was all a ploy to reduce our liberties, but thankfully, you lost because the great orange squirrel is now head of the free world and will make it free once again!
Or look for alternative index funds, apparently.
A longer way of saying what OP said.
It’s a community choice. Has nothing to do with “tech savvy”. There are generalist communities, language orientated communities, activity orientated communities, and many more. Presenting it as a “technological choice” is just a meme at this point. It’s like saying “I want to live Paris because they speak French and love the night life” vs “you know what, I like beaches more and the island life where people are more about easy living, so I’ll go to Zanzibar”. But people frame it as if they had to choose the city because of the altitude, soil composition, which hemisphere it is on, the greenhouse ppms, and the wetbulb temperature. And then it’s repeated ad nauseam to keep the meme alive.
Stop helping Facebook and Reddit by framing it as a technological choice. It’s a cultural one. “idgaf” --> take a generalist website. “I’m queer and it’s important” --> LGBTQIA+ website. “bits and bytes for me please” --> technological website. “I just can’t stop cumming” --> NSFW website.