Another reason could be that it makes the act of watching a video feel less lonely than it actually is. Reaction videos turn it into a quasi-social thing.

There are plenty of universities in the world that actively research and freely share their hybrid, advanced cultivars. Not everything needs to be somebody’s property. Knowledge can be and is freely shared.

Yes, but you also need to look at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). PPP compares the relative value of currencies by measuring the price of a basket of goods in different countries. Accounting for that, China’s GDP per capita is more like $30k. To do that in a little over 70 years, when in 1952 83% of China’s workforce was engaged in agriculture, is nothing short of amazing. They are already well on their way to reducing their dependence on non-renewable energy and seem poised to overtake the US as the technological powerhouse of the world within the next 50 years.

I had one recently at a cafe in Vancouver and it was…underwhelming. It was a pistachio-chocolate cube croissant. The edges of the cube aren’t as soft and fluffy as a regular croissant probably because the cubic mold they’re baked in limits their expansion.

I take pride in my Quebecois accent tyvm. It’s the accent of the common man and it helps me avoid the unbearable snobs who sneer at people for having the gall to speak differently to them.

The Swastika may be an Indian symbol but the Indo-Aryans did not originate in India. There is a lot of historical evidence that Indo-Aryans originated as a steppe culture in Central Asia around the neolithic to early bronze period and then spread to Europe and West Asia. This is also why the structure of so many Indo-European languages is similar; they all have a common ancestor in the Proto-Indo-European language.

That is a question dripping with assumptions. I’m willing to engage, but only if you start by elaborating on what you mean when you say “a certain fundamental law of human existence”. That is such a vague phrase that it’s almost meaningless.

Thank you for this post. That was a very interesting read.

I have a 13 pro and battery life seems unaffected. Maybe it’s because I don’t use my phone a whole lot during work hours, but it hasn’t been an issue for me. Liquid Glass is unobtrusive, but sometimes that can be a bad thing. UI elements shouldn’t always blend in with the content. Overall, I can live with it.

• Cozy
• Authentic
• Lately, it feels like everything on Reddit is treated like a joke, and you see an endless string of puns and snarky comments. I like that you can have a serious discussion about a topic on Lemmy without it unraveling unlike Reddit.

I have no problems with separate drives for my dual-boot setup. The easiest way to set it up is to install linux on one, remove it, install Windows on the other, plug in the linux disk back and then use the UEFI boot manager to switch between them. This way, each OS gets its own EFI partition that doesn’t mess with the other’s. You can also do this without removing the linux disk after installing. The only caveat is that you may need to manually restore the Windows EFI.

It was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.

If gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome

And then they encounter the horrible mess that is the Hyprland discord and run back to KDE or GNOME. There’s hope with Cosmic yet.

I’m more surprised by the bunions on her feet. Unfortunately, deformed feet like that are all too common, thanks to our collective obsession with pointed shoes.

You and I seem to have a different opinion on what Tipping culture means. To me, it means the practice of giving gratuities to service workers, which has turned into an expectation at most establishments, with the most recent development being the use of dark design to trick people into tipping more. Card readers now default the tipping prompts to 18%, 20% and 25% for “okay”, “good”, and “great” service. The option to skip a tip, even in places where you’re just picking up the food, is hidden two menus deep. It also means the use of social desirability tactics to get people to tip more. To me, it means the culture around tipping as a whole, not just “having jobs where a significant or vast majority of their income is tips”.

Those who oppose tipping culture should not use tipping based services.

That’s a very US centric opinion. What about places like Canada, where waitstaff, just like every other profession, are entitled to the minimum wage? In Ontario, that’s $17.50 an hour. I would argue that in such places, tipping should be entirely optional and seen as an added reward for good service, and forgoing a tip shouldn’t be seen as “abusing the employees”.

I understood that reference

Good point, meme-that’s-trying-to-control-me!

Who’s going to assault him? The guy’s a champion of the working class.