No Stupid Questions

Since this wasn't apparent the last time I asked... no, I'm actually not a US citizen or green card holder (permanent resident). Just happened to be in this country for a long time due to career reasons.

not only about presidential and parliamentarian elections, but opinions about the war, raising or lowering taxes, corruption perception, integration in both the EU and NATO, preferred language used at home, prohibition of russian in Ukraine, prohibition of the russian aligned Orthodox church of the moscow patriarcate in Ukraine, capping the armed forces, at what number should that be, trusting putin to respect any ceasefire he promises to respect, how to deal with trump, where do they see Ukraine in 5 years, is it a Ukraine free from russian interference, how to deal with its soviet past...

I don't speak any Ukrainian and don't know any reputable Ukrainian source, but I could translate it.

English speaking media only treats these questions superficially.

Hi, what are some exercise you would recommend to open up the chest to help with rounded shoulders and for winged scapulas. i suffer from both, not in serious way like in the pic but when im bare chested i always have to remember to "force" my shoulders back, and i had these conditions since i can remember. Im planning on getting back at the gym after a 3 months stop and im looking for some exercise to include in my new routine. Thanks in advance :)

After working for many years in a "fast pace environment" I can't help but notice that I have increasing difficulties to do simple tasks.

In office, I always start multiple tasks at the same time. I noticed I often start but barely finish.

At home, it gets even worse. "Let's make tea" takes several back and forth to the kitchen, wondering what I am doing there. Then forgetting I boiled water.

I've tried to trick myself by ordering tasks, but ultimately I end up asking myself what was I doing until now.

I don't take medicines of any kind. "1st world problem" is granted, accepted, validated.

I'm sure I'm not the only one. Have you found a recipe that works for you ?

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for example I am curious about the group who wrote some books and made others call their books holy

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I’m a beginner who plans on getting my AWS Cloud Practitioner license, anyone have any tips?

I’m looking for good study methods, resources, and anything else that may help

A few minutes ago two accounts on lemmy.ml started spamming pretty much every community on the instance with some crypto mining trash.

Moderators also noticed because all those posts are gone now, good job btw. Then I remembered, wait, doesn't .ml have an application process to filter spam and bots? Out of curiosity, I went to have a look at the users profiles and both accounts were about two years old, with no activity.

Are these hacked accounts? Is that an easy thing to do? And how can one prevent it from happening?

I see a lot of posts from the EU and North America but not from other continents.

i recently learned you're not supposed to run a microwave with nothing in it/it can fry itself broken.

but i want to heat up a plate to help keep the pancakes i put on it warm like they do in diners. putting just a plate in my microwave causes it to start freaking out 'cause i guess there's not enough stuff in there to absorb the energy(? this is what google tells me).

are the diners just putting the plates on a burner on low? that feels wrong.

Why is it normal to capitalise every first letter of a word in titles now? Has it always been like this? Is it AI? Am i dumb?

Thank U 🧀🥦

to be clear, this website is less than ideal for what i am looking for

It is going up. But why?

the woman who hurt me for years always finds a way to blame me for things. things are never her fault, and she thinks i’m disgusting or inferior because of my disabilities.

she’s nice to everyone else regardless of their disability, but they either have adhd or autism + adhd so maybe autism + bipolar isn’t “one of the good diagnoses”.

she’s charismatic so everyone defends her. they either don’t know about her or dont care as long as she isn’t hurting them because they love her so much.

she flirts with all her friends and told me I was too “disgusting” to flirt with and that she “hates threesomes” and that we “weren’t close enough to be friends” even though she finds me “too inferior” to even try and be my friend.

she’s fixated on me to an extent it feels, going out of her way to piss me off, make me jealous/hurt, making rude “jokes” (which are more annoying than hurtful) but then acting like she does this with all her friends.

she tries to be friends with my friends in a weird way, such as being overly nice and touching their shoulder/head, and it has been reported several times that she is somewhat creepy towards children irl and especially online and will go out of her way to follow and “befriend” children under 13 on social media apps. she has also defended people who like children romantically and saying that their romance should be okay.

I keep trying to give her the benefit of the doubt and holding onto hope that she’s a good person who just suffered a lot and that she actually likes me, but I know she doesn’t and I get hurt every time I give her that benefit.

I'm seeing one too many people blaming social media for this and social media for that because it's just simply - social media. I think about this because I believe that you shouldn't blame the tool because it is a tool, but blame the person who uses the tool for their intent.

Which means I'm on the side of the camp that actually knows lots of people abuse social media and has it demonized. It's absolutely silly to just blame a concept or an idea for just being as is. So everyone else is going around blaming and blaming social media for their problems. Not too much the individuals that have contaminated it with their empty-brained existences.

And we all know that some of the more popular social media platforms are controlled by devoid-of-reality sychophants in Zuck, Spez, Musk that sways and stirs the volume of people on their platform with their equally as devoid ideas in how to manage.

Social Media, whether you like it or not, has a use. It's a useful tool to engage with eachother as close as possible. Might be a bit saturated with many platforms to choose from.

But I just think social media being blamed for just being as is, is such a backwards way of thinking.

Hi! Just wondering how you folk were feeling today.

As for me, I had a rough last few weeks, but on Friday I started getting out of my funk thanks to the much needed and valued support of a friend.

Finally feeling a bit better today after getting part of my mess together. I still have some stuff to fix before I feel well, but the improvement is nice.

This got me to thinking how you guys were doing, cause idk. Talking about how I was feeling and the problems I've been facing with my friend helped me a lot. I thought a space to share or vent might help someone else.

Would really appreciate it if we tried to keep it supportive and non judgmental too. We don't know what it's like for others, after all. Thanks in advance. <3

So anyway, how are you?

Edit: Gonna go get something to eat now and have to get some work done, but will be back in a few hours. Take care and thanks to all of you that have shared!

As I understand it - which is not at all - the pyramid complex in Giza was always next to a bustling inhabited city, but the complex itself seemingly went ignored/untouched for centuries. Same goes for famous Roman sites. Why were these objects and sites not reused or maintained or destroyed until relatively recently? Where did everyone go, and why weren't they living in and around these structures this whole time? And if they were, why didn't they do anything with the sites?

I understand that empires and civilisations come to an end, but they aren't the result of wholesale genocide, and even if they were, the genociders would surely move into that area next and continue living in the pre-built cities and towns. But that doesn't seem to be what happened.

Why is humanity out of the picture in these monumental and impressive sites for unbroken periods of deep time?

Cheers!

This meme¹ made the rounds here on Lemmy some days back.

And NSFW artists in the Furry fandom will often talk about how payment processors give them guff.

It holds true in lived memory, but like...

... Why?

I actually understand it for Google Ads and the like -- Google, Metabook, Bytedance et al. are really just advertisement companies with a side-gig in providing online services, and if you're an advertisement company, then "how other corporations perceive you" is what you live and die by, which forces the whole "corporate sanitisation" thing down on the users. -- So like. It does make sense, even if it's hateable.

But for the likes of Visa, and Master Card, and whatnot -- It doesn't? As I understand it their whole thing is they transfer money between parties and take a cut of the transactions. (and also give credit and charge interests on that and such) -- Why the fuck would they care what those transactions are about, so long as people are... Transacting, and thus giving them their cut?

¹ Reuploaded as an image because I couldn't be fucked to find it again.

Like do they just guesstimate where they'd see the most use?

I don’t understand how wanting to use feminine pronouns for someone femme-presenting and “wanting to be a woman” is “forcing an agenda”? Is respect an agenda now?

Also, it seems like it would give her dysphoria to use he/him pronouns on someone who wants to be the opposite gender (although I realize pronouns =/= gender)

I am all about minimalism and try to live a bit of a minimalist lifestyle. I know I live as one person in a small-ish apartment, so there's no point to me in having to get things that would involve groups. Like there was a time when I got lots of board games, card games, kitchen appliances like an 8 quart air-fryer and a large size slow cooker. Like who is all of this for? I'm only one person.

So I do pride myself in getting smaller appliances, getting rid of shit when I know I will not have guests ever over. And for the past few weeks, I've been condensing and getting rid of more things that I feel no longer apply to me anymore. I thrift so I have picked up numerous amounts of things that peaked my interest, gotten things because I was thinking of a friend and their interests, gotten things because people online said it was the best thing to get so I sought after it until I had it. Books, movies, games .etc the sort.

But it's like, this shit has been sitting on my shelves and been moved around for years untouched, while I pretty much spend all of my time just doing general life things. Like work, errands and sitting infront of the computer.

And besides the thought of maybe having to move this year, I finally had twisted my own arm to finally get rid of these things as much as I could. Because I don't want to cart these things around again, I did it before. In fact, three years ago before I moved into my apartment, besides clothes, 4 totes were filled with books. Just books. The same books that mostly sat around unread since I unboxed them all.

And I'd like to not do that again, so I donate. I love to give back as much as I can and as much as I like to spend. If I won't give the things I've spent so much time and money for the time of day, fuck it, they should go to places and people where they could be enjoyed.

There's also an article I had read recently, I'll link it here. Because, cutting things out cold turkey never worked for me, because I keep crawling back into wanting that thing again overtime. Though just evaluating where I am, who I am, what the future entails and my ever-changing interests helped a lot more in getting rid of things.

And that's my method. Yours?