Ask Lemmy

I’ve treated Lemmy as a fun, silly blog since I made my account. I love how you can freely post anywhere and as much as you like, unlike on Reddit. I’m also a teen who grew up online with unrestricted internet access and does online school, so I’m a bit addicted to being online. I love how much more interactive the comments feel here, despite it being a smaller platform. I’ve had fun reading and interacting with people. But I think I might delete my account and everything, because people analyzing my behavior and accusing me of things has started to get to me. Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender. All I wanted to do was make people feel some fun and giggles. I’m wondering if you’ve ever felt something similar.

My location is Asia, rural, and I discovered these things. I have no real friends doing it right now? Is this just new?

I’ve been with my boyfriend since 2024. Our relationship has to be on the down low / an open secret because dating isn’t permissible among his people. His family says they really like me, but they’d never accept me as his wife since I’m not Arab, maybe as a second wife, but the first wife has to be someone they approve of. I don’t want to be a second wife. I’m with him despite all of this because he treats me great, fucks me good, and gets me (he’s very open-minded and chill, and I feel fully comfortable with him). But I know he won’t go against his family for me because of $$$.

With Daylight Savings once again coming up, it never fails for it to spark discussions about its purpose in modern times. People hate it widely while few seem to be okay with it and depending where you live, others don't even know what the deal is.

Politicians have actually put it on the docket to be voted on, but seems to have lost traction. Quite frankly, this is an issue that should be done and over with. Just end it, but please end it when we have the clocks dialed back than forward, because I wouldn't like time going faster than it already is.

Give me something juicy

The whole concept of not knowing what you've got until it's gone. Remember that song you used to hate hearing and now 20 some years later, you'd wish we'd be back to music like it because music today is too artificial and AI-powered? Remember nearly a lot of things you criticized and now have a soft spot for because everything now has gone to shit?

Yeah, that hits hard. What sucks is that sometimes, you don't know for certain if you're experiencing the best of things. But once it passes you, give it 1 - 5 years, you'll know it.

I always reject them, but mostly because I never really understood what their purpose was.

Is it to track my info and send me a bunch of emails I don't want? Do websites even need cookies? Why do they use them?

I feel like I remember a bot a while ago that you summoned it somehow with a username and shortly later it would respond with a summary of what it knows about you as a person based on your comments and posts. Does anyone know what happened to it? I'd like to try it out again, if it still exists

I was browsing a technical store's website and came across some DVDs. On sale. You'd need an optical drive to use them, unless you use them to decorate your walls

If you do use them, what do you use them for and why do you not just use hard drives, SSDs or USB thumb drives instead?

This is not a hate post. My whole existence is living in the 90's, so... :P

Violet (my birth flower) + 08 (my birth year). Pretty basic.

Hello. I am new to mastodon, just made my account. I chose mstdn.ca. Who should I follow that isn't boring? memes, humour, news, leftist politics, shitposts, etc. or is it serious at all times like bluesky?

By "important" I mean that it didn't just become hugely popular, but it also changed a music genre or launched an entirely new one, or otherwise made a huge impact on music in general.

I am only recently learning about how widely used these things are, but how little is known about the long term risks and more subtle impacts of the drug. Anecdotally, what have y'all heard about it?

What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?

Why did you choose your Fediverse Instance, does it have a bigger meaning than it was a bigger instance or was it for a certain reason? Did you have to be on your instance you chose?

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My parents and I left our home in the Gulf on Friday evening to visit family in Switzerland for my birthday last week. We were supposed to return today, but the airspace there is now closed. Do you think things will go back to business as usual soon?

I'm trying to degoogle. I've heard good things about DuckDuckGo and I've been using it for the past few weeks and it's pretty solid. But I'm just wondering what the Lemmy/Piefed community prefer for a search engine.

That appearance in france the other day is so weird. Is it actually possible it's an impersonator? It sure seems like an impersonator.

Is he putting on some sort of act to prove a point?

I have seen theories as wild as they killed him and replaced him with a lookalike for the nasty things he's said about hollywood/the elite/illuminati lol.

His speech in France: https://youtu.be/cLQmKyQAplg

When he claimed he is a whistleblower and why some say they killed him: https://youtu.be/eG9i7d8yfKQ

An appearance from 3 months ago, the last time some say we saw "the real Jim Carrey" : https://youtu.be/puZLQwvYABQ

My test has two critical dealbreakers to them.

One is kids. If someone tells me that they don't want kids now but later? Nope, they failed automatically.
Another is when they tell me that they're on the fence on deciding on kids, then that to me is a no too because I am someone who does not want kids and never wanted kids. It has to be a hard no, there's no being technical or indecisive about it.

Another one is, is whether they can accept the lifestyle I'm living. Where, I live on the average lane in life, I don't want things too hard and I don't want things too easy either. I'm not ambitious enough to upset my comfortable way of living and reaching for imaginary brass rings in careers. I'm not entirely a deadbeat, I just try and make things work with whats infront of me and I have a particular pace in how I go about life.

I've had people where they've passed the kid test but I know for a fact that when I describe the life I'm living and how I'm living it and that I'm okay with it. That's when I expect there to be people dropping off like flies. Because people normally are always looking for someone with great careers, busy enough to be earning lots of money, traveling constantly and indulging on many fantasies.

And I'm just not that type. This is probably the crucial crux as to why I don't see myself getting dates or even in another relationship anytime soon.

In Super Mario Bros, I called fire bars (those rotating fire thingies in castles) "fire spankers". A friend called Goombas "chicken nugget heads".

So I have always hated Tesla and don't like that they've in a lot of way tarnished the name of electric cars. The second you say electric cars every person and their mom says OHH you're getting a tesla! Quite annoying.

Anyways, I'd like to hear from some of you folks some models of electrics you like. I have always been a gearhead deep in the gas and oil, and I still enjoy my cars, but an electric would be fun and a cost savings for me, especially since I have a ton of roof space for solar panels if I wanted to.

It sounds superficial but a big reason I used to hate electric cars is they are for the most part, hideous. Then again, to me, most new cars are hidous, the designs are just not good. But I think i can look past that.

It would also be a huge bonus if there were any models out there with the least possible features. I prefer cars with manual locks/seats/doors and no screen, which is of course impossible with current cars (sadly). But the less digital garbage the better.

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