danhakimi

See, the impracticality here is not that I’d be jonesing for sugar, it’s that almost all processed food and most natural food has a little sugar in it, and also that our bodies literally require some simple carbohydrates to operate. Best case, you go on a hard keto overnight, and yes, the first week is terrible, because keto is a stupid fucking diet that doctors don’t recommend because it sucks.

Yes, if I eat nothing but beef and saltines for a week, I’m going to feel like shit. That’s not an addiction issue.

People want to see more happening here. The fediverse is not quite the ghost town it was a year ago, but it’s still pretty quiet, especially once you start digging into hobbies.

Of course, the good solution is not bot-driven, but human-driven. But people are lazy and think that they’d rather repost thousands of posts with a bot than figure out what links they think are good and post those.

yeah, I’ve heard of this e-mail, I keep hearing it’s really easy, but idk…

oh, Microsoft got even better at spying on people?

come on, this is a bug, not a feature.

I do not pirate. I occasionally like to go out to sea, but I feel like spending long stretches of time out there would suck. I’d get sunburnt, I would eat like shit, my ship would probably not have decent internet access… like, there are so many cons, and I probably would make less money doing that than I am as an attorney. Not a great career path.

I do download movies I want to watch if I can’t find them streaming. But I don’t do anything that I’d call “piracy.”

that holds more weight in my mind than it probably should…

edit: it’s true-ish, and apparently many people associate it with BTAS! https://www.inverse.com/science/can-you-read-in-your-dreams

I have not heard of this as “common knowledge.” I can’t particularly remember reading in a dream, but I don’t remember much about past dreams. Is there a source here, or is it just something you’ve kinda heard a few times?

What do you mean “still true?” The stereotype was never true.

There were Italian mobsters. There were also Irish mobsters, Jewish mobsters… There were mobsters of just about every major immigrant group in the US, especially if they were marginalized. Organized crime allowed these communities to not only build an economy of their own, but police themselves when they didn’t trust the police.

The stereotype doesn’t come from the fact that Italian mobsters existed, it comes from their portrayal in the media. The Godfather was popular, Al Capone was famous, so people got into it and made a ton of movies about Italian mobsters. That’s all.

yeah, you got it. obviously, since we’re trying to balance multiple different factors, it’s not necessarily a “correct” response, but it addresses the question directly and well.

OP is kind of asking which names are common in the largest variety of places. Is there a name that’s kinda- common on every continent?

supposedly, the Feds at some point gave up on Gotham and said "fuck it, it’s hopeless, let them keep to themselves, as long as they’re not leaving we’re good.

and then try to find one there that is somewhat common in the US too… good luck.

I think you straight up ignored OP’s explanation of their question. OP explicitly addressed why Mohammad is not “the most universal name” by his meaning.

Well, let me play devil’s advocate.

• You don’t need a two-way binding contract to form a labor relationship. You could have a relationship where an employer offers a child some terms, and the child can work whenever they want, leave whenever they want, and get paid for the time they work, or for their output, or something.
• Does the labor cause the poverty, abuse, and crime? I’d imagine that the poverty causes the labor, and the poverty also causes the crime. Abuse might also cause the labor, as parents could force their kids to work, but you could create systems at certified child employers to interview Children and see how their home lives are going. The children might also be using work as an escape—either a temporary one, or a way to save up money to move out as soon as possible.
• Generally, when people talk about the age of meaningful consent, there’s a clear line at or near the age of majority. Where’s the line where you can meaningfully consent to labor? Does it depend on the job? Sure, five year olds shouldn’t be allowed to work at all, but what about a fourteen year old who really wants to be a camp counselor during the summer? I worked at a park when I was 16, I mostly sat around all day. I read three books (the ones I had to read for school and one more), I went for a walk every day, I got fresh air, I talked to people. Surely we can agree that that was fine.
• We should definitely talk about the types of job. No kid should be a factory worker or an accountant or a dentist. But working in a park, being a camp counselor, babysitting… There are many traditional jobs that apply to children with no risk of physical injury, jobs that don’t conflict with schoolwork, etc. Do those studies address each form of labor?

I do not use “whatsapp business,” no idea why I would.

I do not seek to use a service and then interact with the people who happen to be on that service, I seek to interact with people and meet them on the service they’re using. The fediverse is an exception, because I believe in the principles, but the experience sucks because it’s all tech with no real community (Lemmy/Kbin) and none of the people I want to follow (Mastodon).

the phrase you’re looking for is “positive network effects.” The large network is a killer feature.

people have explained a dozen reasons why a. telegram is not better and b. nobody cares which is better anyway.

I mean, Telegram is the worst of the bunch, but putting that aside, the point is that people aren’t comparing telegram and whatsapp, they’re comparing telegram, whatsapp, signal, matrix, sms, imessage, facebook messenger, instagram messenger, session, wire, wechat, the crypto ones, kik, and a dozen other chat clients you’ve never heard of. And most people are not actually making those comparisons, most people just use the one their friends use, or the one that their phone came with. Nobody, anywhere, is pretending there are only two options and picking one of them.

Convince some non-nerds to give it a try. I haven’t managed to. Therefore, telegram.

Your logic does not check out.

Telegram gives me:

• Roll-their-own encryption off-by-default without cross-device support or group chat available.
• The ability to talk to strangers I don’t want to talk to
• An open source client, but a proprietary, non-federated server
• An unmoderated social network that’s a free-for-all for crypto scammers, extremists, and other nuts

WhatsApp gives me:

• Signal’s encryption algorithm on all chats
• Whatsapp web (still with encryption)
• Encrypted group chats
• The ability to talk to human beings I actually know and want to talk to

Neither respects my privacy.

Not sure why I would bother attempting to use Telegram again.