Honestly, to me it feels more insular than Reddit. It feels like there’s no room for nuance in opinion. So for example, if I argue against something that isn’t a hard left economic idea I’ll get down voted pretty heavily even though it’s a pretty tame comment. It does feel like if you go against the grain here, it’s actually worse than that other site.

On Reddit if I posted something against the grain there would usually be one or two people who would chime in and say “yeah. I agree with this guy.” … But on Lemmy there’s no room for that.

For me it was fish. When I grew up we didn’t eat out often and when we did I never had fish. The fish my mom cooked at home was few and far between and it wasn’t very good in my opinion.

Up through college I would have said I didn’t like fish, but when I started working I went out some work dinners where the company was paying for it at upscale restaurants. The first few times I ordered steak, but I got old so I decided to try the fish dish. I still remember it, 30 years later, that I had a fish with nuts on top that was just awesome. After that when I went into fancier restaurants I tried to find a fish as good as that. And the fish weren’t good, but some of the fish were awesome, and I really found I liked fish if it was prepared right.

Oh that’s funny, I thought this was a joke about the Titanic… Probably because I pictured it going from Europe to the US.

Holy shit! Who would have thought the bots would be downloading that much of porn?

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I’m betting he was the ONLY democrat. Yep. ONLY democrat. That’s why this is significant.

I felt this when I was struggling with depression. I recommend seeking help for that.

Nah, this is simply a question of training. You can train yourself to do it either way.

I do this, except I don’t swap the buttons so that I could go back and forth from left to right hand without changing anything. (When I first did it, I swapped the buttons because that seemed more natural but I’ve since trained myself to use it “backwards” on the left hand.).

I think that’s the ticket for a lot of things like a rave, a party, or even a concert. I’ve been to 5 or 10 concerts in my life, and every single one I’m bored silly after 30 minutes. I don’t drink or do drugs and I figure that’s the missing ingredient.

When I realized that guys typically need an activity to bond together, sports start to make a lot more sense. Sports are just a catalyst to male friendship. Yeah guys take the sports way too far, but it makes it more fun if there’s an emotional high or low when they watch it.

Religious wars are usually about power, not actually because they believe in different imaginary beings. Religion gets control of our population or the people in power youth religion to control the population and then they bump heads with another group doing the same thing… and you get war.

It was advice I have myself in college… Don’t focus on getting good grades, focus on learning. Judge your success on how much you learned.

The only time my grades actually mattered was interviewing for jobs right out of college. After that, every other job is based on your previous job and non no one ever asked again.

I’m in engineering and it this doesn’t necessarily translate to other fields. But I’m currently the cto for a mid sized tech company.

No, it doesn’t. The ambiguity rises from the fact that it’s not that repeatable. There are many experiments that don’t find this phenomenon to exist when they test it. Then there’s some that do. That’s the problem.

My memory is that the majority of them find that it doesn’t exist and that a small minority find that it does.

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Many studies of this are actually ambiguous!.

Like the other person commented, I use Firefox Plus adblocker on my phone and it’s fine.

It’s not weird that you meet someone through your parents, it’s weird that instead of starting a 10% of a relationship, they start at 90%. . Like they skipped a courtship, have two or three dates and then get married. That’s the part, as an American, I have a hard time accepting.

But hey, in my preferred model you should be living with your significant other for at least a year or two before you get married.

We did the disposable camera thing too, and out of them we got zero good shots from them. I don’t regret doing that, but I also don’t recommend it.

They also have to be within your budget, and they have to be available on the day of your wedding.