I am starting to see individuals as how dependent they are on society.

The good news is that I don’t think we need to worry about a “,World War”. The bad news is that when WW3 inevitably happens, it’ll be the worst waste of lives yet.

I don’t know where I was going with that, but that’s where we’re going.

I had some teachers when I was in school that would just hand you a paper, hand you a book, and that was it.

Couldn’t do that if I even tried. I’d be so bored, I’d have to teach just to pass the time quicker lol

I was educated in Australia for quite some time and we kind of formed friendships with our teachers. Always ceremonious thank yous, gifts, and hugs from the class as we’d finish up the year and move onto new teachers.

Will never forget Mr Schwartz, Mr Hornby, and Ms Chamberlain. Teachers that lit up our worlds and had massive respect from all the kids.

56% of them are partially illiterate or worse.

It is many things. Institutional misogyny can be a cause for some.

per se “by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically.”

My female friend had a female doctor try to talk her out of a contraceptives prescription; that she was 28 and should be having babies…

It’s not a misogyny thing, per se, rather just people that define their lives by the templates supplied by societal stereotypes. Never take advice from a person that doesn’t think for themself.

More than that. Planes are just fancy flying cattle trucks. A lot of the time I’m in one it’s so I can get to a destination I’ll be hiking for several days lol. I’m all for Team Pilgrimage.

I’m sure it’s fine. Most Christians aren’t Christians anyway, especially if this takes place in the States.

It is. Humans aren’t forbidden and we’d be considered a clean animal.

“When I grow up, I want to be a stereotype!”

I thought this wasn’t a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it’s a state thing.

My head says stuff in other languages all the time because a word’s easier or funner to say.

Yeah. Personality is big for me. There’s a big difference in unintelligent and unknowledgable; most people are intelligent enough, just lacking knowledge or information.

I’ve learned anything involving animals doing unusual things through night vision video or image is AI slop, aimed at a Facebook trend surging in 2024-2025, possibly still going.

Usually it’s something stupid like kangaroos or rabbits on a trampoline, a racoon riding on a dog’s back, or a bear and cat snuggling.

It’s a 365 instance on a small partition for work. I use PowerQuery a lot and found a VM slows down ETL times too much. I work at a university and can use our powerful VMs for remote researchers, but they reset workspace each day, so it’s a hassle.

There’s no other reason why I have a local copy still and it’s always a relief to be done with it for the day.

Dogs are incredible at reading facial and body language. It’s why they tend to go into their submissive, “Oh shit, I’ve fucked up.” sit and stare when they see your reaction. Most of the time they’re not sure what the specific thing was that they’ve done to upset you, just that they can tell by your stern face that they’ve done something you’re unimpressed by. This is why it’s important to catch them in the act, rather than getting mad later. They won’t know if it was the pot plant, the slipper, where they were sleeping, their bark, etc. just that one of the many thing was not good.

That’s very assumptuous. Assuming things is just gambling.

In truth, I have no idea what quote you’re referring to and 0 ≠ 4/5; since this is about as far as I made it first time at film class before leaving. While the second is marginally better, it is much the same. I don’t think I’ve ever made it to the third; there’s been a few attempts and chances over a couple decades bringing my total Godfather minutes to an unfortunately but substantially above average amount—especially the front 120 mins or so.

This is quite on contrast to your “so, you…” styled assumption. It’s better to not be like that.

I’ve tried to watch it several times but always shut it off.

It’s a movie that’s constantly aware of itself and tries to push that onto the audience through self-conscious directing—which explains all the nepotism in casting too—and hat makes for disengaging storytelling and characters. And then there’s the cinematography that tries too hard, so it’s more a technical exercise than an effective one, but was successful in its era for that uniqueness.

Not to nrglect it’s an awful portrayal of organised crime, much like The Hurt Locker is at war. And Luca Brasi, ugh. It’s just awful.

In the modern day, I’ve understood the trilogy to be a go-to for “movie buffs” that are vulnerable to ad populum.

I have All because I like the diversity. But that means community, keyword, and user blocks are needed.

Obviously ML is blocked, quite a few NSFW communities, gender-centric communities, religion-centric communities, political ideology communities, fan art/anime communities… Basically if it’s not of interest, or of social contraversy, and loud, it gets blocked because of the types of people it attracts. This makes for a relatively toxic-free experience, few soapboxes, but still a big diversity of posts and topics come in.

Keywords go in and out when I’m fatigued by US politics or the same headlines about the same people over and over.

For users, I find it weird that many Lemmy users are obsessed with their enemies or the things they disagree with, so user blocks get dished out when I see people behaving that way too. Doesn’t matter what the topic is they’re “discussing”.

There’s kind of been an increase in things being more accessible and usable by the standard user where previously they would need to be quite savvy or know a language.

But, yeah, I can’t think of much else. Not user-based tech anyway. Just the usual insignificant increases and a bunch of bullshit no one asked for and actually ends up using, but has to pay for.

I think smartphones are an excellent example. Most people wouldn’t notice the differences between a second-hand $150 Samsung Galaxy from five years ago, and the latest flagship for 10× the price. The innovation is almost entirely unnoticeable.