We need to start making the years sound cool

I'm looking to what happened to To foreigners (non-Americans), is respect for the USA dead? post (posted here about a day ago), mostly out of curiosity. I assume it was deleted (by an admin?) but can't see anything in modlog. Could it be deleted by author and that's why it isn't listed in modlog or anywhere else?

I mean, come on. From one corrupt regime to another. Who is next in line: Netanyahu? Putin? Or will there be a second one for the current holder who definitely not invaded Venezuela nor started a war with Iran.

I subscribe to some, low volume, Lemmy communities (i.e. FreeBSD, Postgersql) and sometimes the posts won't show on the first, or even second, page if I sort by day.

Is there a way to see just something like

subscribed community | posts (today|week)

So I can keep an eye on those low traffic groups

I have seen a lot post talking about how Chinese companies collect US citizens data but I never seen a Chinese person complain about it. Do they think US doesn't have the power to abuse that data?

Really curious

This is not a facetious question. I know I can technically ask AI but i don't think this is a simple answer TBH, as I am confused about process, and I do not know enough about US politics.

All my life when observing US politics (which I don't really do for fun) there has generally been a very visible opposition leader, you know their name their stance etc. It's the same for most major powers. But for the USA I simply do not know anymore. I get the jist there is only 2 parties but the democratic party seems like its just disappeared. Previously there was news of candidates etc but that's just gone.

What is happening? and who is the leader of the opposition now?

I am not looking for a bunch of FTrump answers, it would be great to have a discussion that's rational and not about him.

Seriously every other post, every sub seems like nothing but politics. It's so boring and disgusting. What made reddit great at one time was the diversity of genres and depth. Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems. I have been here since the Reddit exodus. It's always been this way.

Do different Lemmy servers have different content?

Are certain severs curated?

Where do I find the depth and deep subject matter.

I have a lot of issues with AI in general, but frankly the biggest, most immediate one is that I reeeally hate when tech pretends to be human. Like search engines giving me a seventh grader's essay before the actual one-word answer I was looking for. Or the uncanny valley voice at the drive-thru speaker saying "great choice!" to everything I order. Or the AI on shopping websites saying "I'd recommend this model..." Etc etc.

There's just something so strange and uncomfortable to me about a thing that we all know is not a person pretending to be one; feels like someone telling a lie directly to my face, and I know they're lying, and they know they're lying, but I'm supposed to.. appreciate it? For some reason?

But a lot of people I know actually prefer it. They'll ask ChatGPT something—even something that has a simple, definitive answer that doesn't really need further explanation—rather than just looking it up on a search engine. I'm just curious what the difference in psychology is between us. And I'm wondering if maybe it's actually just a me problem; I mean, I hated Jeeves too, and he seemed pretty well-liked back in the day.

Since four of the first five answers I've seen are so mild, let me give you what my list would include and tell me if I'm wrong or if I'm missing something:

• Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those known to have committed child sexual abuse from the Epstein files
• Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those related to Trump's corruption schemes which are:
  • Stealing oil from Venezuela
  • Insider trading during the current aggressive unprovoked full-scale genocide against Iran, Lebanon and possibly all nations in the Middle East, including US all allied nations in the Middle East except for Israel.
  • Cryptocoin frauds
• Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those involved in war crimes
• Designate all detractors of these demands as rape, murder, thievery, and pedophile protectors

• Establishment of an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate allegations of ICE brutality
• Retraction of any designation for this protest made as anything other than peaceful
• Release of every political arrest made during this protest and any protest prior that are still in prison with exception of the Jan 6th Capitol storming
• Reimprisonment of every pardoned criminal during Trump's presidency

• An amendment that abolishes the first past the post winner-takes-all system.
  • Instead it should have indirect elections to prevent campaign fraud (so you only elect local leaders, who elect those above them) and an approval voting system, but if that is deemed to radical here, then at least have initial proportional representation, with a majority amount of seats shuffled towards the winning coalition in order to prevent lame duck governance.
  • If indirect elections with approval voting is considered acceptable, I suggest that each for political position one must complete a civil exam created by an independent institution. Failing to pass will result into disqualification for that term's elections.
• An amendment that guarantees all citizens, including prisoners universal basic income
• An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership of basic housing
• An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership a basic amount of land that can prove themselves to be Indigenous First Nations US-soil Native American
• Rewrite the 13th amendment to abolish of slavery in prisons
• An amendment that secures roaming rights by making any vagrancy and loitering law illegal
  • Have the amendment above include making it illegal to restrict access to gated communities. So no walking or driving around 10-meter-high, kilometer-wide walls.
• Amendment that guarantees continuous slower traffic paths through faster traffic paths, so walkways > bike lanes > roads.

• Repeal the Patriot Act
• Universal Health Care
• Nationalize all casinos except those owned by native Americans
• End all sanctions and embargoes on other countries
• Close down the Board of Peace
• Close down all ICE death camps

It's everywhere. Why not just eat it instead of searching for veggies and meat which are more difficult to have?

Hello, I would like to say a few words at my mom's funeral service. I did not do so at my dads funeral because I did not think I could even make it through my first sentence before becoming a puddle on the floor. For those of you who had to do this, was it easier than you thought, or are there any tricks to try and hold it together? I am wondering if once I get up there, instinct will kick in and it won't be a problem. Sorry if I don't reply to what you have to say, but I will read all advice and am appreciative of it.

I've got this horrible neighbour upstairs who might possibly be the loudest person in the western hemisphere. Walking around in heels for hours at a time, phone rings so loud that it's more effective at waking me up than my alarm, constantly screeching furniture around all day everyday, blasting the same annoying movie at random times, and slamming doors every 15 minutes.

The apartment isn't even that bad for noise seperation, I never hear the neighbours beside me or the ones under me. This woman is just annoying and I've gone upstairs before to tell her to stop blasting music at midnight in the middle of the week, she treated me like I was the maniac for having the audacity to knock on her door.

As I'm laying in bed last night after getting woken up and hoping today is the day she drops dead, I was wondering why she even needs to close doors. When I lived alone I don't think I ever closed doors, maybe the bathroom on occasion but this old woman lives by herself with no pets yet she's constantly slamming doors. Do people normally close doors often when they live alone?

Lots of small companies won't survive the components price hike and shortage

I've read some people over here refer to Wikipedia like that. Do they only use western sources or something like that?

According to Google maps: there's no definite border (indicated by dashed lines) between the Kashmir region (located near both India & Pakistan) in which India considers the entire region as theirs but both China & Pakistan argue against India's claim.

I’ll go first. Franz Marc. I particularly like “Blaues Pferd I”. I love me some German expressionism.

asking especially people whose country didn't qualify

Can't tell if this is a op sec failure or psy op, but I'm pretty sure I got a us soldier to reveal their location in al jahrah governate.

Maybe this is common knowledge. Either way fuck Trump's illegal war

The thing is that, acting in a role within a movie (as in Hollywood tier) differs from making a short on TikTok or being a YouTuber. As in you can have the title of "actor" or "actress" but lack long term experience within the industry (Tom Cruise has been actor for 45 years making his debut in 1981 while Millie Bobby Brown has only started acting since 2013, she became famous in Stranger Things).

Most famous actors today started as extras or in minor roles first before making it huge in cinema, kind of like how Brad Pitt is an extra in No Mans Land (where Charlie Sheen was the lead actor) where he's a waiter or how Bruce Willis was in The First Deadly Sin (Frank Sinatra has the starring role) as an uncredited extra ("man walking in diner") where he's not famous yet until Die Hard.

Meryl Streep would obviously have a longer acting resume than Jenna Ortega (the biggest contrast is that Streep was born in 1949 making her a Boomer while Ortega was born in 2002 deeming her Gen Z) since establishing a long term acting career takes ages (on achieving stardom), like Streep has been an actress for 50 years while Ortega only has 14 years of experience within her acting career.

Now, I've heard that Hollywood at least: is considering the metric on hiring (TikTok) influencers as potential movie stars, the thing is that being an actual movie star requires talent, dedication and grinding from "nobody" (extra) into being famous when the opportunity arises while those from TikTok don't possess "acting" talent.