I lived adjacent to a neighborhood like this. It was much quieter than middle aged neighbors with Harley’s. Little Cessnas and Pipers are not that loud.

There are not a lot of incentives to make things easier/cheaper. Changing government processes is slow and hard. Take immigration. It is currently a long and hard process to legally immigrate to US unless you fall into certain categories. I’ve heard politicians on both sides say my entire life that we need to improve the process for legal immigration yet little has been done.

Yeah. It’s extremely common. Fluoride treatments, sealants, crown replacements aren’t necessary. And things like veneers, and whiting are pushed pretty hard.

I was talking to a gay family married who was married to opposite gender for 20 years and had a family before coming out. We both grew up in a world that said homosexuality was a choice.

He said he “chose to be straight” for 20+ years and it almost killed him and ruined the lives of others.

My mother in law was an office manager at a dentist. Dentists have sales quotas and have bonuses to everyone in the office for upselling.

You go in to a medical professional for health care and advice and they try and sell to you.

I think that’s it. His vision is to try and make a WeChat competitor. As much as I hate it, I fear that if he can string along the investors for long enough he could actually maybe make it successful if he adds everything else to it.

But the Fediverse is growing too which is better. Let Musk and Zuck have their dick measuring competition and let’s build something better over here!

Uh… I never wondered that till now.

Sure. Let’s also prevent people from voting for the last 25 years of their life unless they serve in the military. /s

Yup. Not to mention we have a Roku, iPhone, Chromebook, and Switch we have to manage, with three kids profiles on each.

Another thing, I have a 13 year old and a lot of apps (like YouTube) have little kid and adult.

When I was a kid and had cable there were lots of content edited for mass consumption. You could turn on TBS and watch an R movie edited down to somewhere between PG and PG-13. No one is editing down all this content now.

I have three kids. I am very present. I work from home and I’m constantly monitoring what they are using . Parental controls are a nightmare.

There are apps that are rated as ages 4+ but they have chat features.

There are apps you’ve ok’d them to use but requires the parents PIN every time they open it.

Screen limits randomly reset themselves. A lot of times that means you have allowed something that limit blocked and now you have to ok it again.

Imagine being out with three friends and you need to know everything they are doing on their phone and have to enter a password on it every 15 min.

This happened to me about 5 years ago. Wasn’t too bad. Just had hives and awful gut pain. Enough to make you not want it but nothing life threatening.

Since I’ve figured it out, I’ve had beef or pork accidentally maybe two or three times. Feel awful for about a day.

I don’t miss red meat too much. Thinking about going full vegetarian.

I was thinking, Kazaa and Napster were pretty decentralized…

I have a small tech business. Ive had employees make more than me. It was because I saw that they were important for the business now and I’m in it for the long haul. At the same time, I’ve had mediocre people ask for raises. It helped me realize that I probably needed a different person in their position. So you should feel guilty but you do need to realize it’s a risk.

This is a running joke in my house. My daughters like to wear a lot of blue/green shirts. Apparently I always guess it wrong.

Abrahamic religions cover Judaism (more than 2000 years), Islam (less than 2000 years), Christianity and a bunch of smaller off shoots.

I’m not sure where you’re getting that the point of abrahamic religions is to never change. Every few hundred years in Christianity there’s a huge shift. Right now, there some very loud and influential people who are trying to go back to 1950s Christianity but event that is very different than 150CE Christianity.

I have a friend who said he was left out of a lot of group chat with his roommates because he was the green bubble. He switched to iPhone and they still were meeting up without him.

That’s when he realized it was him, not the color of his bubble…

I left Beehaw because they defederated from instances where half my communities were at. Ended up on Lemmy world because they had my favorites.

I left Beehaw because the defederated from instances where half my communities were at. Ended up on Lemmy world because they had my favorites.

Exactly this. My specific issue is memes vs my city. My city gets’ about a post a day where memes get’s like 20-30. I really care about the 1 post per day with my city and I care enough about memes to subscribe but not enough to see all 20.

That would be really cool too but I was thinking more like a “See first” “See top only” sort of option between different communities.