I came from Reddit where they definitely did matter. They don’t seem to hold any real weight here. Is this true for some or all instances? If they don’t matter, what are they for?

When it has been demonstrated over and over again, how little they think of anyone beneath them.

So. I like walking with a staff but I also like having multiple things in one. That got me thinking I would kinda like a light weight umbrella on my staff. Combined with the little end caps that allow it to stand on its own it seems like it could be pretty useful. Even better if it had a metal capped spike at the bottom.

My nihilist take of the day: Maybe sometimes its just for the best to do nothing, you can not fix all of the worlds issues yourself after all. Maybe spend your attention on something less important no one really cares about.

Rate your nihilism at a scale X out of 10. For me it is perhaps a 6

Mine has always been those who can't make up their mind whether they want to bother with you or not. Like I have someone who, what felt like was pulling teeth almost, to confess whether they were interested in me or not. The best they could say was "I didn't say I am but I also didn't say I'm not either". Like what the hell kind of response is that?

With things like that, I am a 'yes' or 'no' type of person. Don't be dicking with my feelings like that. In fact, I would want to hear 'no' by this point because that would give me the release to pursue others.

Another peeve is lack of building. I'm huge on building. Pry into my world and I'll pry into yours, lets learn eachother as much as we can. We can't learn anything if the conversation is always short-strung by one-wording eachother to death.

For me, they are people from an online community. We know eachother since 1-2 decades and they know some things about me that even my own mother doesn't know. They even unknowingly saved my life when i was on the nearly suicidal during COVID, simply by responding to my cry for help. Sometimes, we get at each other's nerves, but we still close friends nevertheless.

I wanted to do an school essay on her, but I can't find any trustable fonts on her. Wikipedia doesn't has much fonts being citated, and Hamtaro Wiki too.

My fear is that special AI systems will appear that will analyze every message I send and every action on my device.

What skills should I have? What Linux knowledge should I have? What should I know about routers and how the Internet works, VPN, and so on?

I'm still on Windows, and it's starting to scare me. I just found out that the system records almost everything I do and sends the data to servers. And someone also told me that if I want an anonymous system, I have to figure it out myself, completely.

I hope folks read more than just the title. So im watching a show with a gun exchange and the person has to reload and you can see they are nervous to get the new magazine in so they can fire again and it made me think. Do any guns have two magazine where you can either manually switch to the other magazine or maybe automatically do it when the first one is empty. With the idea that if you need to fire while in the middle of changing out the empty magazine you could. I feel like this seem obvious enough that someone must have tried it. I mean considering the crazy gun things I have seen. Since im not aware of anything I figure if it has been done it had an issue or was just not useful enough to make worth it. So for the folks that are really into guns, especially wierd protoype ones. Has there every been anything like this?

I have been to an international school in egypt (british) North coast, and I live in a gated community.

Basically you would I guess see me as that privileged person in egypt which yea you are not wrong Well I would I think be privileged compared to the average egyptian living in egypt which would be like where you go to a national school and that you live in a normal area (Basically no gated communities) so yeah

And yes I’m 17 years old right now so yeah that too also I know this doesn’t fully fit here sorry but still

Try to keep it practical (like something that would be fairly doable, you just havent gotten around to it...yet)

It seemed really surreal to me so I asked about it, apparently they have hours for people on the spectrum to make it more comfortable for them. As far as I know, I'm not on the spectrum but this environment was soooooo calming. It was like being at a spa. Is this not something everyone enjoys or should I consider getting checked out for autism??

On my previous router, I had it all setup so I go into iPhone > Files app > Connect to Server > and I had a 192 type smb address thingie setup so I could view certain Users' directories (Windows elven11 laptop) and exchange files between the two devices and even make actual changes like deleting shit and creating new folders or renaming or moving stuff around.

SOLVED I figured out the problem and the ipconfig tip was very helpful to getting the actual address (ipv4 address)

Bonus question: What is an invention that was really important and there is no telling how long we would have to wait for it to appear had it not been discovered by the one credited with it?

Meg doesnt want to babysit Stewie

Meg: I could be out having a life.

Lois: Meg, if you don't want to babysit, that's fine, but don't you stand there and lie to me

~~(To clarify I mean the original movie, not the sequel)~~

~~Isn't Knight the guy who does the cameo sarcastically saying to Happy, "Well? We're waiting..." He's not listed in the cast on IMDB (not even in the uncredited section), it's not listed on Knight's wiki (which stops at 1980's Caddyshack), and he's not listed on the Happy Gilmore wiki. I searched "Ted Knight" and "Happy Gilmore" (both in quotes) on DuckDuckGo and got nothing good. And finally Claude and Gemini both are convinced he's not in it.~~

~~I get that cameos are sometimes not listed, especially back in the 90s. But in our current age of completism I can't tell if I'm just dead wrong and it's a lookalike, or if he's just one tier more uncredited than the other uncredited actors. Someone help me out here. If there's no credible online source then at least let me know what you think. This conspiracy goes all the way to the top!!~~

~~(The image is also what I'm saying out loud as I wait for a response.)~~

I am American. I am trying to learn Lao for a planned trip in a few years. Knowing nothing about learning languages, I jumped on the first thing I could find, which was Duolingo.

Aside from the deserved hate of Duolingo, I also noticed that they don't offer a Lao program. After exploring further, I've come to notice that almost no western sources offer any Lao teaching.

Would anyone be able to share their tips and successes in learning foreign languages that aren't really accepted in the west?

I’m talking about a meme that’s been saved on your phone for ages

Had seen a question like this in another sub, thought about asking it in lemmy too.