• You’re caring and supportive of your partner.
• You put the effort to even let them know when/how you’re getting home using different types of emoji.
• You also emotionally support them with the love reminders and venting/commiseration emojis.
• Having a three emoji system dedicated to task tracking and updates probably means you’re detail oriented or responsible.

Not just married, but a specific type of married.

Typical Aquarius comment

True that. But I feel like you can at least glean something from what pictograms they choose to express themselves with. Like how you can with the posters they choose to hang in their room.

Why

I understand you perfectly now 🫪

Kangaroo is good too. Very lean though, gotta add a little fat to it

You’d have to defeat the native emu population, though. Good luck with that

Same boat. I was increasingly exhausted from pushing myself and masking who I was for decades. I decided one day to just be myself, I couldn’t take it anymore.

Lost almost everything: Job, life-long partner, house, etc. Those things simply weren’t compatible with the new me. They tried to cram me back into the box of conformity, but I don’t fit anymore. I think at some level I knew that, which is why it took me so long; I was clinging desperately to the life I had. Had to throw it all away and jump into the abyss.

Hard to call it a good decision, but I’m still here, and I’ll do it better this time.

Edit: realised I forgot to answer your main question. After a long time of having nothing, I started discovering things about myself. Oh, I like this. I hate that. X feels more like me than Y. Illegal thought crimes for my entire life, that I’m allowed to think about now. After a while you figure out who you really are, not who you had to be.

Same TBH. I like my belongings to look like they belong in Fallout 3 Megaton

Key quotes:

“What our research shows is that compared to a single-event witness, a repeated-event witness tends to report more gist-like details, the overall details of what typically would happen, and the things that remain constant between the episodes,” said Helen Paterson, an associate professor in forensic psychology at the University of Sydney. “Sometimes they confuse one episode with another.”

Paterson’s work has also found that repeated-event witnesses are perceived to be “less honest, less cognitively competent, and less overall credible than the single-event witnesses – which is pretty concerning that the more repeatedly you are victimised, the less credible you appear to others”.

"in trial, it’s defence 101 to say … they’ve made this inconsistency, therefore their whole memory is unreliable,”

We call it digital detox

That falls under being ignored. Most people will only realise it’s a big deal if enough noise is made about it. Sony would maybe lose 10% sales from people quietly quitting, but still profit from the decision long-term. Right now the news article was only written, and we’re only talking talking about it, because enough people made a fuss. That’s how protests work; they’re not convenient or polite.

I don’t buy their games or consoles, personally. But I also don’t call Sony to complain, so I’m very much an outsider’s perspective on this.

I always thought this stance to be interesting, because it reminds me of soldiers in a conflict. The arguments are that the enemy rank and file are just doing their jobs, they have a family, the actual evil bigwig is out of reach, etc.

But also, are you just going to do nothing and let them steamroll you? They’re choosing to continue to work at that business, and are the only “frontline” that you can interact with. The fact that the business made a policy specifically addressing this common complaint, means it actually reached the ears of someone in power.

I’m not encouraging violence or anything of course. But, by design, there’s nobody else to voice your displeasure to. The only other option is to quietly accept their changes and be ignored.

If they didn’t want angry people calling, maybe they shouldn’t make terrible decisions?

I’m in Australia and they just leave it on the front doorstep. Luckily I’m always home so I can pick it up, but I’m surprised more packages don’t get stolen in general

I like how in their remediation suggestions they “gloss” over windows as an unavoidable bird genocide fact of life. Abolish windows! !fuckwindows@lemmy.world

Note: The images in this piece are dithered to reduce bandwidth

Wow, someone else who still does this! 15KB PNG images, in 2026!

TL;DR they configured uBlock to block almost everything, which breaks most websites, then only allowed the bare minimum to get things working again

Video hosting and distributing is very expensive. YouTube operated at a major loss for a while, and maybe still does, I’m not entirely sure. Lemmy is much cheaper as a text and occasional image platform.

I considered doing streaming for a while. I looked into Peertube and the Twitch fedi thing I forget the name of, wondered why there was only one Russian guy streaming, balked at the hosting fees, and gave up.

Oh yeah that thing that makes my eyes bleed. I always turn off such “render resolution” BS in settings. Full scale native please.

What’s the upscaling with A.I. “before” that you’re talking about?