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The problem is that the most important apps for users aren’t on those platforms. Bank apps and identification apps. They need to make apps for those platforms first otherwise a switch makes no sense.

Also I have tried Ubuntu touch and it’s a nightmare and dysfunctional. e_OS however works great.

And in Sweden. I don’t think any country in Europe allows voting without photo ID. Could be wrong though.

These are spicy 🔥 beetles!

In our family we are very familiar with dementia and senility. This is not it. He has always been repetitive (I suspect rather autism or OCD). For as long as I can remember he has always retold the same story in the exact same words to me, knowing full and well that he has told me it 12 times or more before. His mother was exactly the same. But it has gotten worse. Maybe it is because I have spent more time with him recently so he gets more opportunities to tell the same story.

In this family we are on the outlook for dementia etc though. But he is aware of his repetition. It is compulsive rather than forgetful. It is just that he tells his conspiracy theories more often, explaining them in the exact same details he did before. it is more annoying than worrisome.

Yeah, that’s what I have decided to do, to stop contradicting him with his extreme views. Just try to change topic instead. It is no use, he is too old to change now, if anything the change is just deeper into what he already was.

I understand that someone who has seen a lot in life and have a lot of experience will be annoyed when they see someone do something the wrong way for the millionth time, which you know has never worked in the past. But the constant complaining about it and complaining about the same thing too. It isn’t like complaining about it the 311th time is going to fix it… I just had a argument with him, so I guess I am just venting.

The thing is, he is very critical of mainstream media. There is nothing wrong with his critical thinking of other people, it is being critical against his own thinking that is the problem!

If they bring up the perspective of someone who is negatively affected by a policy that he likes, he will say that the media are biased and are bringing it up to try to affect the public, that they have some kind of agenda. I agree that all media have agendas and bias, that is the nature of humans, of course you are going to want to bring in the perspective of someone you sympathize with! But he is getting to a point of thinking it is some kind of conspiracy and only media that reports things he likes are any good and he seems uncritical of their agendas or their agenda is good.

This is certainly true for him, he is both highly educated and narrowminded at the same time. He has basically no friends, only work colleagues, is quite unsocial (like me) and rarely tries to expand his horizons on things he doesn’t already agree on or is interested in. Anything he isn’t interested in is a waste of time and wrong… I never talk about my hobbies or interests with him because he has always been entirely dismissive and even judgemental about it in the past. Especially things I do for fun, because god forbid you do something fun in life instead of something productive…

Have two mandate periods (8 years) of normal relations under the Democrat. Then peacefully switched presidency to another president, but this time Republican, who also maintains normal relations for two mandates. So I guess 16 years of normal relations under both Democrats and Republicans? I know, too much to ask because that will never happen. Hasn’t been the case for many decades.

Iran’s original blockade still allowed Iran affiliated and Iran approved ships through. US blockade blocks those ships.

I mean they literally did the same thing and more in the 1960s… We barely even had computers then! This isn’t that impressive.

I feel like we have more important things to do back on earth than spending trillions on a space empire on the moon that will exclusively benefit billionaires… But that’s what you get when you have a world run buy billionaires.

For guys (and girls) who feel confused: ask them first if it is okay to do something or touch their bodies. If they say yes, you are in the clear. If they say no, then back off. This includes if you are trying to do a joke or prank. Touching someone as a “joke” is still harassment if you don’t have consent.

Could be that the delivery service absorbed the cost in order to not scare its customers. Might have raised their service fees instead.

I am sorry I didn’t realize this was an echo chamber where you can only voice validating and approving opinions.

I mainly think banning SM is better than trying age verification or some other way to exclude children. If it is 99% toxic trash then it should just be banned.

Next in line is 99% of all porn, which is also toxic trash. If one applies the same logic as previously, then it should be banned too.

Unregulated use of morphine (heroine) is bad, thus we ban it.

It is interesting though how strongly you react to porn specifically getting banned. Maybe you should reflect on that.

Don’t worry, neither porn or social media will ever get banned :) but the fact that you react so negatively to it should perhaps make you reflect upon your own habits, the way people using social media should reflect upon theirs.

I have been pro banning all for-profit social media for years. I can live without Reddit. Especially now with Lemmy and fediverse. I can even live with no social media whatsoever. We should probably ban all porn too. It is just as brain rotting as social media. I say this as someone who does watch porn. I can live without it if society gets better from banning it.

They are not entirely wrong for not trusting them though. I have broken more than one Ubuntu installs… and I consider myself a semi-advanced user.

If more windows people join and Ubuntu wants to keep them, they need protection from doing stupid things like uninstalling all display and graphics drivers or system critical packages…

Don’t underestimate people’s stupidity, at least that something that Microsoft and apple get right.

It can be both. I am certain that there isn’t one explanation for it. What i describe is the feedback loop. What you describe is the initial conditions. Combined they spell disaster.

This is why we have so much tribalism, polarization and extremism today too though. People find their information bubble, gets validated for the shit they say (i.e. emotional support), feel good about it so they post more and more extreme shit and validate (give emotional support) to others in the bubble.

Now you have an extremist movement. Getting emotional support/validation from strangers on the internet is not always a good thing. Even if it makes you feel less anxious. Some people should feel anxious about the things they think about.

It is so they can fantasize about being captured and used as a sex slave by the blond hot amazonians instead of plotting the ‘accidental’ death of their abusive commander who stole half of their wage and threatened to send them on a suicide mission if they complain. Or something like that.