I’ve never understood the whole online relationships thing. Aren’t they usually 1000+ miles away?

I’m the type who when I’m not in a relationship long enough I start to think maybe I want one, but then I remember what it’s like to be in one, and remind myself not to be so delusional. I’m very much happier being ‘alone’. Not that I’m actually alone. I have non-romantic relationships. I will admit having two incomes would be nice tho.

This has to be some european thing I’m too American to understand. How does Catsup make any sense? That looks like a different word. Do you say it out loud like “Cats up”? I say it like “Ketch up” out loud so of course I’d spell it that way too. I need to know if that’s actually the way you say it or if this is a color colour situation.

It’s microsoft. If AI didn’t have a hand in this I’ll eat my dirty socks for dinner.

Ironically security is one of the single most commonly used excuses for companies and governments to violate your privacy. Sorry microsoft, you can’t scan all my files. Womp womp.

You are looking at this wrong. That is a false dichotomy. You don’t need to make your friends stop using the other apps. Just ask them to have both and use Signal to chat with you. What they do other than that is their own business. Sure, educate them, but don’t tell them what to do. If they downloaded the other app and you can talk to them there then your good to go delete the other one. Are you worried about missing some post of theirs on it or something? Who cares. You don’t need to see peoples lunches.

I’m gonna be super for real with you. If your friends won’t download an extra app to message you on then they’re not really that good of a friend. It’s such a small inconvenience. Omg I have to hit this other button on my touchscreen instead and spend 5 minutes setting it up?

This is how I’d do it. You send a message to your friends on instagram and whatsapp with your signal info and say, “Hey, not gonna be checking [this app] often and won’t have notifs on. Trying to be more responsible about my data, and social media use. If you need me or want to chat hit me up on Signal.”

If their response to that is “Okay well I don’t want to so I won’t talk to you anymore.” Then they’re not a friend worth keeping around anyway. Real friends are the people who will wake up at 3am and come pick you up from the airport when your coming home. Because they actually care about you, and when you actually care about someone you do inconvenient things for them.

Now, if by “friend” you mean some person you’ve never met that you chat with online sometimes and send funny videos to or whatever? That’s not really what I’d call a friend to begin with, and you’ll just have to accept that relationship isn’t very deep and it’s totally normal for them not to want to do something just to talk to you. And in that case you have to decide if you’d rather stop talking to them, or stay on the other apps. That’s entirely a you decision at that point.

One girl? It’s actually a super common thing in myths for gods to go down and make themselves a little demigod. Mary lived in a very hellenised region. So I imagine those type of myths were known to people there via the greeks. She was just following a long tradition.

And the fact it was all caused because some chick get pregnant and her excuse was that god wanted to fuck and like who is gonna say no to that? And her husband believed her.

It’s real. The way they get their money to spend is by taking loans out with the stock as collateral. So when it goes down he has less money to spend fucking with society.

Personally, and idk if there’s a phobia for this, I really don’t like things that are small and fast. If I can’t keep track of something it makes me uncomfortable. So spiders are an ick for me.

Lots of coders on lemmy. Anyone want to make one of those tracker websites for how much money Elon musk has lost based on his stocks decreasing in value? I have a feeling it will be relevant soon.

That’s not how the US works. Some career dude comes up with the big plan and pitches it to the president in pieces. Like “Let’s bomb this thing.” “Let’s sanction this guy.” and so on. That is why who the president is has no effect on US foreign policy. They just sign the papers.

谢谢，对我美国人^_ 我的汉字是拼音。哈哈哈

I saw this in my replies and thought it was a real .world user for a second lol

I’d turn that right back around on you. Why not take lessons from those things? Fossil fuels have done horrible damage to the environment and factory automation has caused major labor relations problems in certain countries. But do you know what they both also have in common with AI? The problems OVERWHELMINGLY come from the top 1% wealthiest people/companies using them. Climate change is not caused by individuals. Individuals using 3D printers/automation are not the ones causing labor issues. And people using AI individually are not the issue. It’s the companies. And in fact in both of those situations as well REFUSING to use the technology at all only harms you and your movement. 3D printing can help individual people deal with a few massive factories monopolizing basic things and wiping out the infrastructure we need to make things locally. Refusing to use fossil fuels at all only leads to personal economic issues because society is so structured around them you can’t avoid it realistically. Then AI is causing these open source projects to be bombarded with new code submissions to the point the only possible way they can keep functioning is to use that very AI to try and sort through it all.

The lessons are that the ones we should be fighting are the rich. Policing the actions of individuals is a losing battle and counter productive.

It’s my personal theory that the US is going to back a bunch of cartel operations to take over the governments of countries in Latam that don’t support them. But first they’ll go in and kill the cartels leaders and get puppets in charge of them. Then they do some coups and put those people in as viceroys over the entire country with the cartel as their power base.

What are you using? Web or some app?

also the data you can collect based on who goes to them is highly valuable too.

These events are designed on purpose by the intel community to act as a pressure release valve. You let the libs get in the street and be real mad for awhile. Nothing happens. They go home and get back to work.