Onii-Chan

Cool, please do.

It's sad to see the number of comments here that still seem to be stuck in the misguided 80's/90's/00's mindset of 'nuclear power in real life is just as depicted in The Simpsons.'

Happy I stuck with my older Samsung dumb TV. Great screen, decent size, flat enough to mount on a wall, and does everything I need it to do regarding hooking up my little i5/8GB baby office PC turned media hub. I don't care that it's only 1080p, looks just fine when I'm in bed and watching movies on it. Even when smart devices were first becoming THE thing to have, the idea of having to download updates for my TV got me thinking about the more nefarious aspects of such tech the future may hold.

I think a lot of it comes down to me just not being very materialistic, or needing my household devices to be internet ready with installed apps and no way of managing permissions or data harvesting. Even my cars are older, and were made well before integrated SIM cards and constant data collection, and I've no plans to upgrade any time soon. I guess I just never 'got' the appeal of having a smart device that wasn't just my phone (and even then, I barely use any apps on my phone outside a web browser (which eliminates the need for most apps anyway) and the camera.)

You couldn't pay me enough to go back to that cesspool. Three years free of it, and have only experienced positives. As another user also stated, I've got social media blocked on the DNS level, as well as no longer using reddit.

Kbin and Lemmy are pretty good, but I still limit my usage.

No, and the answer isn't policing speech. The block button exists for a reason. Use it.

Legitimately yes. You can call me whatever you like.

I'm not going to start censoring my own speech, thank you. You don't have to agree with it.

I have autism and ADHD, so no, I won't stop using it. I don't like the idea of a word having any real power, which restricting its usage does. There is no debate here for me, I am completely against that kind of thing.

The very same AI that shows pictures of black people with dreadlocks when asked to show a typical viking also has a braindead response for a question involving Hitler and a guy who posts retarded tweets and regularly pisses off his shareholders? I am shocked.

AI is still so ridiculously tainted by bias and the relative infancy of the tech.

Aussie here. What's a tip? /s

I live in Australia, and I hate the lack of seasonal variation. Almost every day of the year is sunny with a varying temperature between 15C-45C, or overcast/humid. On the west coast, it rains a whole lot in winter. Visually there aren't a whole lot of environmental changes, and as an Aussie, the year is generally split into "too hot, less hot, cold, less cold, and repeat."

I get the appeal of seasonal stability to those in the northern hemisphere, but live here long enough, and you'll probably miss the way the passage of time seems to pass when each quarter of the year brings with it refreshing scenery and liveliness.

I've always wanted to live in a country that experiences and celebrates the changes of the seasons and all the visual beauty it brings, and truth be told, Aussie culture and pastimes don't appeal to me at all. I feel very alone here.