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Akasazh, in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

I don’t have kids. Both a personal sacrifice and a way to massively minimize my carbon footprint.

And I don’t even get to claim that I want a better climate for my offspring.

I do get to shamelessly do everything I want to do in my lifetime, though. Can recommend.

june,

I’m not one of those ‘I hate children’ child free people, but I really love not having any kids of my own. There’s plenty of kids out there that need parental figures who’s need I can meet. My partner’s daughter is one of them, and I love the hell out of that kid.

But at the end of the day, I’ve still done better for the world by not bringing one of my own into it, for a multitude of reasons including climate change.

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

No, I’m not a hardcore no child person. Just didn’t happen to find someone to have them with, and when I found someone, turns out we can’t.

I do think more people should try out the dinky lifestyle, for a variety of reasons, but I’m not proselytizing.

Kolanaki, (edited ) in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?
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During standardized testing, because I hated math, I always just bubbled in my answers at random on the Scantron and still got average marks for it like half the time.

Later in high school I also learned that in a multiple choice questionnaire, C is the most commonly correct answer so if you just answer C on everything your odds of getting a passing grade are pretty high. Legit were told to just answer C when we didn’t know in a class preparing us for an academic decathlon.

MrJameGumb, in I was just telling someone about how the loyalty plan for groceries was that you got the next letter's edition of the encyclopedia.
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

When I was a kid we had a whole set of encyclopedias we got that way!

Battle_Masker, in Does "Rock music is evil / of the devil" have racist roots?
@Battle_Masker@lemmy.world avatar

I think we’re ignoring the bigger question: what kinda music DOESN"T have drums? like, literally EVERY FORM OF MUSIC uses drums, or some machine playing back a drum beat.

son_named_bort,

Acapella

Pat_Riot,
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

So barber shop is the lord’s music then. Hmmm

Pea666,

Classical music doesn’t necessarily have drums. It might have some percussion but they’re not as prominent as with a lot of pop music.

pythonoob,

Church hymns

ThatFembyWho,

Ambient and some styles of classical music come to mind.

chitak166,

Umm, no.

Lots and lots and lots and lots (repeat ad infinitum) of music has no drums.

OmgItBurns,

I’d say that most forms of music have some kind of rhythm instrument, often those are some form of percussion instrument.

I’ve definitely heard some experimental stuff that didn’t use any form of rhythm instruments. Then again, you can just record the ambient sound of a city and call that music, so to each their own.

afraid_of_zombies,

A cappella

afraid_of_zombies,

String quartets? A cappella?

NextNoobi, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

bigclivedotcom has been my favourite channel for almost a decade. Specalized on electronics and his soothing voice is pleasant to listen to.

BeMoreCareful,

I’m vaguely interested in what he’s doing, but I sure enjoy watching him do it lol.

HonorIsDead,

He has a video where he talks about his experience caring for his mother who had alzheimers at the end of her life. Very sad situation. His video was informative on the difficulties it presents and the perspective of trying to make it as easy as possible to let your loved on live while having to watch them regress and adjust.

NextNoobi,

Oh yeah that one hit hard. :'-|

Etterra, in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?

Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter - their fall from grace was slow at first. First yet another corporate sellout and Bernie leaving, then the employee scandals - especially Ryan. RvB outlived itself and it was their prime thing. RVBY went downhill after Monty died. The new talent wasn’t as entertaining as the old, and then the pandemic really kicked their ass.

MDKAOD,

New funhaus, while different, is just as good as old funhaus. Shame they’re moving towards live content.

_number8_, in Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?

definitely. i’m usually dreading the part right after opening gifts. – the whole day feels stagnant and dead, everything is shut, there’s nothing to do but wait for how shitty jan and feb will be. brutal dead awful months

Xariphon,

Seriously fuck winter

Nefara, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

A bunch of my other subs have already been mentioned, so I want to add Caitlin from Ask a Mortician. She has demonstrated integrity and consistently high effort for her channel despite growing to over 2mil subscribers.

Jenny Nicholson is another that’s been around and gotten big but her videos have only gotten more weird and interesting.

Climate Town has rapidly become one of my favorite channels and consistently puts out well-researched, informative and entertaining vids

gilokee,
@gilokee@lemmy.world avatar

hell yeah Climate Town! eagle noises

pewgar_seemsimandroid, (edited ) in What do you think would happen if Putin was assassinated right now?

destabilization until the Kremlin finds a new president in that time probably multiple nations would be indipendent and Ukraine would pretty much launch their offensive and the union state collapses and tv stations all across Russia hijacked

Anarch157a, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
@Anarch157a@lemmy.world avatar

Usagi Electric (Old mini-computers and terminals)

Adrian’s Digital Basement (Old micro-computers restoration)

bigclivedotcom (electronics reverse engineering)

Nerdforge (Arts and crafts)

potterpockets, in What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy?

The Graduate.

themeatbridge,

Wasn’t that the point of the ending?

potterpockets,

Youd be surprised by the number of people i have talked to that dont pick up on that.

jawa21, in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?

ThatGuyWithTheGlasses fell harder than any I have seen.

donslaught,

For real, what happened with that whole family of creators? I haven’t watched any of them in over 10 years.

JonVonBasslake,
@JonVonBasslake@lemmy.world avatar

Google , but to sum up, people got fed up with the mistreatment by the Walkers (Doug, the NC, and Rob) as well as Mike the ceo, especially after one of the best liked members was fired from the site.

And THEN it came to light that they had known about a pedo in their midst and protected him for years. Justin Carmical, Aka JewWario.

perviouslyiner, in Does France have a terrorism problem?

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  • magnor,
    @magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh avatar

    What even are you on about ?? We have no colonies left. There are a few French “enclaves” left out of the mainland, but they are isolated, forgotten about (in a bad way sadly, shit is tough there) and absolutely not a source of immigration.

    Tar_alcaran,

    Mali(Chad, Mauritania, Niger) may not officially be French anymore, but let’s not forget French soldiers spent a good decade at war with Jihadist groups in the Sahel, which made them extremely unpopular with a lot of people.

    France has also been quite interventionist in other countries in the region, like Cote d’Ivoire.

    Also, technically speaking, France doen have a handful of colonial regions, 2 million people live in them.

    magnor,
    @magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh avatar

    Technically speaking, those regions (which I mentioned above) are not colonies. Of course one could argue they are in all but name (and I would agree), but they have nothing to do with any case of terrorism on the mainland, which is what the above poster was saying.

    As to the rest of your post I agree with your point, but those are not colonies (the OP was deleted since but it said that terrorism happens because France still has colonies, which is bullshit on many levels).

    shikitohno, in Tips on making your data less sellable?

    Do they not have phones or emails? Why do they specifically need to contact you via Facebook? The whole setup sounds rather intrusive and unnecessary, just tell them to call or email you.

    JustMy2c,

    You know he’s the slave and the boss is the master, right? It’s not like HE can tell THEM what do ‘just’ do…

    BlackXanthus, in Tips on making your data less sellable?

    Choose an unclear gender (other, agender, etc) and your data becomes less useful. Marketing campaigns are based on broad categories, like male or female, so choosing neither lowers your data’s value.

    Similarly, lie about your education and your employment. Pick a made up job, be a wizard, or a spaceman. Jobs, again, are wide categories, so nonsense jobs, the more niche the better, the less they have to market things to you.

    In theory you can do the same with hobbies, but three points of data, even made up data, is sellable somewhere.

    Lie, of course, if you can. I’m sure there are more denizens of Hell on Facebook than the real place.

    Where possible, choose other.

    Rentlar,

    Hitachi noticed your career in wizardry, and would like to recommend you the Magic Wand Original! Buy one today!

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