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I've never had a WFH job and I generally don't think I'd personally want/be successful with one. My sister is fully remote and she actually hates it, but I think its more the job she doesn't like than the WFH aspect. She says its lonely and isolating on top of disliking her daily tasks. I'm not anti WFH for others at all, to absolutely clear.

The Fediverse is thankfully less US centric than most of the web but I find many non-English communities that look interesting but are obviously out of reach due to a language barrier. I could use a web client and browser extension but a native app always feels better, are there any that auto translate text? Is anyone interested in this feature request?

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Also what do you see?

The internet has always been my salvation.

As a socially underdeveloped kid, I’d spend my lunch hours in the high school library on those public desktop computers, reading fandom sites about my favorite video games. Computers always made sense to me. I even owe my entire career to them.

But the internet today feels wrong. Whatever the fuck kind of psychological warfare is happening right now with this Epstein stuff is too much for my mind to handle. I can’t do it anymore.

I will love. I will vote. I will support my community and continue to oppose this fucking nightmarish system we all find ourselves in. But I need to sign off.

Imagine the door closing sound effect when logging out of AIM.

Pretty ignorant of China's politics myself, who to follow for good coverage of what's going on in China? This latest consolidation of power by Xi, is it more of the same or is this something we haven't seen before?

Inspired by this comment.

I'm curious.

Where I live, most men have some degree of jaw recession, while women tend to have stronger jawlines, even if not perfect. Is it only where I live, or have you noticed that too?

I always wondered if this ever mattered at all to left-handed people. Like would it matter? Would you feel more confident about driving?

I know they also drive on different sides/lanes in some countries compared to the US where they drive on the right and wheel is on the left seat.

Would it impact you? Would you feel better with wheel on right side, driving right side while being left-handed or does it change when you have to drive on the left side as well?

This is assuming you are primarily left-handed but would also be curious if right-handed folk feel like driving on one side is easier/better than the other. I feel like I'd be very dyslexic if having to switch and drive on the other side I'm not normally driving in.

I'm getting AI-hate fatigue, like there's a lot of valid reasons to hate AI based on how it's been implemented and how it's fucking with markets regarding PC components. But it's gotten also to a point where, just the minor things in where AI actually has a use in, it gets scrutinized anyways because it's the norm and cool thing to hate it.

A common thought finally hit me today. The thought pop out in my end randomly, everything we do is really just an excuse to keep our minds busy for our inevitable end.

We create all this distraction from hobbies, jobs, family, technology, entertainment, science and religion to keep our minds occupied. We invented money to buy us more time to be occupied.

It is like the whole thing is just a fidget spinner.

Curious how you approach this?

I have tried several different kinds of gin in the past and liked none of them. Some of them were highly regarded and popular but I just did not like them. However my family got us a tour at a local craft distillery that does gin. I was not expecting to like it at all, but it was actually good. So I went in with negative expectations and enjoyed it. It was good stuff. So I know a very small amount about what a local craft distillery does, but I know nothing about the big brands. What does a craft distillery or small scale or local or something do different than the big popular name brands that I can look for in a gin?

I don't mean like how happy you are today. I mean overall, are you satisfied with everything you are up until this point? For me, for an example, I have a decent job that keeps my head just above water. I have a loving family that I see every couple months or weeks. I have the freedom to do what I want, when I want. But, overall, I'm sort of lonely and exhausted from constantly working. So, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'm about a 6.

My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.

Only catch, you can’t use your wealth to fix th system, donate it or give it away. It’d only be for yourself.

Do you agree? Disagree? Why?

Please avoid "I'd not waste my time" etc... kind of answers.

The title may sound weird. I initially wrote it as "fuck over the billionaires". But it is not only billionaires, but also multi-millionaires and people who think themselves hierarchically superior.

So:

• Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

I was eating some chocolate when I imagined a world where Hershey's was widely accepted, even by elitists, as the best chocolate.

Is consumer elitism just a facade for pretentious contrarians? Or are there things where even most snobs agree with the masses?

Also, I mean that the product is intrinsically considered to be the best option. I'm not considering social products where the user network makes the experience.

Edit: I was not eating Hershey's. Hershey's being the best chocolate is a bizarro universe in this hypothetical.

When I fill up my almost-empty car (20 year old, diesel engine), if I pump 50€ worth of gas, the needle goes up to 55 or 60%, tops. But to get a full tank, I only need to pump another 15€.
Why is it so non-linear? Is it just old and out of whack? Is there a design choice in there? What am I not getting?