People constantly complain that my gen spend too much time on our devices.
I could pretty much do exactly the same thing I do but using a bunch of other alternatives.
I was asked about going a month without my phone. But what would that actually entail?
Could I still watch my tv ? Would Netflix and prime still be allowed? If I don’t read reddit anymore since I’m moved away from that cesspool. Can I just read news articles from other sites instead?
Does it mean no access to the Internet? Can I use my phone for maps and music and ebooks but nothing else?
I think the argument is good. Why are people obsessed with commenting on people being on their phones but not those that spend a similar amount of time watching shit on tv ?
Here’s a question for you.
I went on a 3 week holiday and had a similar thought process. Now I’m generally on my phone all the time if there’s nothing else going on. But I will make a conscious effort to put it away if we are doing things socializing and during group activities. My question to my partner was
What’s the difference between me being on my phone and not paying attention to anyone and everyone reading their books ?
Would the same retort as. Why’s he on his phone vs in a book. It’s the same level of antisocial yet one is seen as derogatory and the other is a holiday past time.
It’s more social constructs than anything else. Phones bad but books good. Simplicity
The gom jabbar was held to Paul’s neck, though, and I imagine the same would be true for Thor.
You were thinking of the pain box, perhaps. The pain box is the test, the gom jabbar is the concentrated poison weapon that enforced participation in the test.
In your feed next to thread titles, you can click the domain there (smaller text in parenthesis), where the website/instance will display content posted to it just like a "magazine" allowing you to block it there. Also similar to the magazine URL, it's https://kbin.social/d/name.extension.
Note that for instances, it won't actually block threads from a blocked instance unless the content is hosted on that instance. And that can be a bit silly, like cross-instance posting not being blocked due to using their host instance for an image.
I have an assignment for my Geosciences class where I have to ask others, preferably those not from the United States, why the US struggles to believe in Science, particularly topics such as The Big Bang Theory.
Why do Americans, compared to most of the world, seemingly propagate Creation myths while simultaneously rejecting the very notion of Science?
How does your community (or country) regard The Big Bang? Is it largely accepted in your culture(s)?
Finally, what could the American education system or government do to help its citizens increase their Scientific literacy?
Thank you for any responses, it is greatly appreciated!
Longer Answer: Christianity is arguably the major religion in the United States and there is a small(ish) segment of Christianity, primarily composed of Baptists, Pentacostals, and other Evangelicals, who believe that the story in the Bible which talks about the 6 days of creation (see Genesis Chapters 1-2) means 6 literal days. How they came to this belief is a much longer answer which would require a more in depth understanding of the history of Christianity in the United States. “Young Earth Creationism” is also a rather new idea and was basically unheard of prior to the early 20th century.
This is not a mainstream view and it is not held by any Christian traditions outside of those listed above. For instance, I’m Presbyterian and the idea of “young earth creationism” is ludicrous to us. The theory of evolution is generally accepted by most Christians although we generally don’t discuss it much because it’s science, not theology and doesn’t really haveuch of a place church. Ironically, I was raised as a Baptist and was taught “young earth creationism” growing up so I am quite familiar with it even though I don’t believe in it. But again, the theory of evolution is a commonly accepted, mainstream view in the United States.
As far as what the American Education system could do to increase science literacy, that’s a difficult question to answer. The education system here is very diverse and the quality and resources can vary dramatically depending on where you’re located.
The Stumbleupon devs were pioneers of what's happening to social media now.
We're not making money. Should we add advertising? Nope Should we require a subscription fee? Nope.
The problem is all these people using CSS to curate their finds on the web. This is NOT a blog (even though there was a button that said 'stumbleblog it').
Ohhh noooo, this is about the stumble button and nothing else (the button I no longer used much because other people's content was a faster way to find cool shit).
Now, we're going to wipe all of your work out and make this about THE BUTTON.
Every curator on the site bails, leaving only the turnips trying to use Stumble for SEO wank.
And that's how you destroy a good thing. I love how they're out there still trying to make their version work.
Hmm, let's see. Things'll get better if we change the name to Mix. We'll get lots more people to try our crap.
3 people show up.
I'm still mad about that. If they had asked me to pay for a subscription, I would have.
What are good web hosting services for a social community platform? should I use AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Something else? (Needs to be budget friendly)
IMO, yep. I understand why it’s not where it “needs” to be yet. I’ve had to make a Lemmy alt cuz kbin mobile kept being weird, and while Artemis exists, it’s been having more issues of late as well. Meanwhile the Lemmy apps are becoming more and more polished.
subreddits are "magazines". Under the username at the top right is a settings icon where you can auto-populate the images and round the corners of boxes :) Other than that it's pretty much what you're already used to, I think.