Don’t mind @NotASharkInAManSuit. Your take is mature and the internet needs more of this :)

Regarding the image in the OP, complimenting things that you like in another person’s house is just good manners. You want others to feel comfortable with hosting you. This woman might also just have been able to do some lovely things with simple artwork and rugs.

Or… maybe the guy felt sorry for her, seeing how she clearly lacks decorating skills, so he politely lied. Even though normally, he’d never compliment anyone on a <$70 knife set :-) anyway, it’s a shit post

I think you’re reading things into this thread that aren’t there. Nobody is saying women should be forced to mother grown men. You’re entirely right that women shouldn’t have to bear the brunt of someone else’s unresolved childhood trauma.

But there’s a massive difference between expecting a partner to fix you and simply seeking a support network from other people. And your partner is a natural part of that.

Expecting people to just “grow the fuck up” by sheer willpower ignores everything we know about psychology and trauma recovery. It’s counter productive. If someone is struggling with an abusive past, telling them to wipe their own ass doesn’t help. Instead, point them toward resources like therapy, support groups, or journaling. These actually do help.

Dude, you’re using the most aggressive language towards others in this whole thread. You’re not exactly making a convincing argument that things are as simple as ‘growing the fuck up’ given how you’re refusing to engage in sensitive meaningful conversation.

But… being active overall does help. Just cycling to places instead of driving can easily add up to 1000+ calories per week. Depending on where you live, it might not even use that much more time. And then there’s the possibility to have active holidays and to walk more. And the great thing is, you can still go to the gym and do sports in addition to all of this.

Let’s say a mouse that is competitive in terms of utility. Function isn’t allowed to follow form in Apple devices; looks are too important. And with that mindset, manufacturers that prioritise function more will always be able to deliver better performing products.

This isn’t a generalizable rule or anything, especially where the competition is limited. And where form doesn’t suffer, Apple is able to do really well, such as with their ARM chips.

The ugliest urban environments were designed around older cars, long before SUVs were the norm. Like you said, it’s not just the car, but also the infrastructure it requires.

I guess this is an instance where ‘mission critical’ actually means something!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XvxLERo5iJkV5PeLA

I started drinking white tea recently. It’s nice to change things around

I think it’s more nuanced than that. It all depends on what you’re asking it to do (and a bit of luck that it complies as intended). Using a thesaurus can also either improve or worsen a text.

I’m not a native English speaker, but have lived in an English speaking country for many years now. I still make mistakes, but there is no point in me asking for help with English writing as my mistakes are subtle and I don’t realise I made them. Getting an AI to detect clumsy use of English and grammar mistakes has worked quite well for me before publishing reports. While I don’t always use the correct grammar while writing, I’m very capable of judging whether an LLM suggested improvement is actually better.

Of course, letting an LLM rewrite a whole text is much riskier in terms of the original meaning getting lost. But that’s not the only way to use it.

I have tried some of the popular LLMs a few months back when I had to digitise an old policy document from which only an old scan still existed. I had trouble reading it.

The results varied wildly. OpenAI was really poor at it while Gemini got it right completely. I was quite impressed. ABBYY FineReader is supposed to be the best non-LLM software for OCR, but it doesn’t come near the performance of Gemini

There are differences, but also similarities right? Artificial insemination doesn’t mean voluntary. Swap the species and you’d call the same acts rape.

The vegan making the comparison is likely against rape, as well as artificial insemination of cows.

What makes comparing it deserving of bashing and psychopathic?

Most content about veganism on Lemmy or Reddit is about bashing veganism. It’s honestly really disappointing. This is where conservatives and progressives find each other.

Very good explanation on why it’s not a personal choice.

This is how I explain it to people: The animals we eat aren’t able to stand up for themselves, so some people try to do that for them. Kust like how activists do this for dogs or orangutans. It’s not against personal choice, but about trying to protect those who are hurt by the choices of others.

Besides, we all share the same planet and animal agriculture has a big impact on it. So it’s not like our choices don’t affect others.

What sounds better, LibreJet or Free35?

The pain of misplaced apostrophes is why I’m not a programmer

This sounds awfully similar to my story…

Lol, alright ChatGPT

I suspect that in the countryside it’s more common to ask guests to take their shoes off. Which makes sense, given additional mud people might bring in. It was a bit of a mixed bag where I grew up, but definitely very normal to ask guests to take their shoes off.

After moving to London there was no way I’d keep shoes on in the house, looking at how dirty streets and sidewalks can be. Context probably matters a lot alongside the cultural aspect.

I can think of a few reasons like ecological decline, climate change, antibiotic resistance, pandemics and public health.

Maybe control isn’t the right word though