I’m in my mid 20s and still can’t use normal scissors due to how left handed I am lmao. Left handed, left footed, left eye dominant. Even the left side of my face is more handsome 💀
They’re the only ones I can use, I’ve tried to use normal scissors for my whole life and still can’t figure it out. Left handed scissors have the blades reversed.
Most scissors have a smaller top handle for your thumb, so when you flip it around, that small handle becomes the one the rest of your fingers are supposed to fit in, which makes it very difficult to use.
My mom bought me some for school because she figured out I couldn’t use normal scissors. I was also doing occupational therapy for some other child health issues so my parents were very attentivenat the time. This was during the mid 2000s.
When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...
Your vote matters just as much as everyone else’s.
That is mathematically not true, the electoral college exists. Also, the candidate with less votes than their opponent has won 1/3 of US elections in the 21st century. So even if the voters go out and vote, there is a 1/3 chance the person that gets the most votes will lose the election in modern US politics.
No it’s not too late, you’re only 25, that’s pretty young. Yes other people have started dating much younger, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter much. Focusing on yourself and your career and education can be attractive to others, so don’t worry about having “wasted time” or anything. Losing weight if you’re overweight helps, same with gaining weight if you’re underweight. Just be sure that the primary focus is health and ignore all the unrealistic body standards in movies and on social media. You’re doing well to put yourself out there, don’t worry about your friends, I’m sure you’ll find someone single that wants to have a relationship soon. You seem to be on the right track, so don’t worry. Avoid all the weird dating advice on the internet, it’s not helpful.
A bar of soap with a washcloth, and the cheapest 48-72 hour lasting spray on antiperspirant deodorant. No particular brands here, there’s not much difference between them. If I want to smell nice, I just put a little bit of cologne on as well. I also avoid shower gels and 2 in 1 shampoo/conditioner.
It happened to my car last week, it got towed to a mechanic and I’m yet to hear back. I don’t know a lot about cars, so I’m hoping I’ll learn something here and be able to tell if the mechanic tries to rip me off....
Sounds like it’s shifting into a higher gear too quickly, getting stuck in a higher gear, or shifting at the wrong times, an issue with the transmission.
Communities about sports/sports discussion. It’s the only reason I use Reddit right now. But it seems like the people on Lemmy are even more anti sports than redditors, which is quite something to be honest.
To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things....
Programming class at school when I was 15. Basic Delphi/object pascal back then. Was always into technology beforehand, especially tinkering with the first android phones, rooting them and installing custom ROMs
What she said wasn’t even that positive. She said that during her capture she was beaten to the point of not being able to breathe well, but after that she was looked after well and got the same food and water as the fighters/her captors, and even got shampoo.
If a statement like this is enough to infuriate Israel, then that’s pretty telling on their side
The specific combination of factors in the historical formation of U.S. society—dominant “biblical” religious ideology and absence of a workers’ party—has resulted in government by a de facto single party, the party of capital. The two segments that make up this single party share the same fundamental liberalism. Both focus their attention solely on the minority who “participate” in the truncated and powerless democratic life on offer. Each has its supporters in the middle classes, since the working classes seldom vote, and has adapted its language to them. Each encapsulates a conglomerate of segmentary capitalist interests (the “lobbies”) and supporters from various “communities.”
American democracy is today the advanced model of what I call “low-intensity democracy.” It operates on the basis of a complete separation between the management of political life, grounded on the practice of electoral democracy, and the management of economic life, governed by the laws of capital accumulation. Moreover, this separation is not questioned in any substantial way, but is, rather, part of what is called the general consensus. Yet that separation eliminates all the creative potential found in political democracy. It emasculates the representative institutions (parliaments and others), which are made powerless in the face of the “market” whose dictates must be accepted.
You are literally doing the second paragraph I quoted in your reply here. You cannot seperate capitalism and the laws of accumulating capital from social and environmental issues. They are intrinsically linked. Just as the second paragraph said, you did not even question this so “seperation”, you just accepted it as the general consensus.
Hamas is extremist to the point where they would be doing a genocide as well if they were in the position to do so.
The exact same nonsense was said about the end of apartheid in South Africa. That the extremist communist party and ANC would genocide white people. It never happened. This is literally a talking point from ex apartheid South African president PW Botha he said the same nonsense:
“I am not prepared to lead white South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide,”
I don’t think most people in South Africa desire that or even want that. White people are a tiny minority in South Africa, 7% of the population, if the majority of the country wanted white people gone, it would’ve happened already. People just wanted apartheid to end and historic inequalities to be dealt with. The first already happened, the second is happening at a snails pace, if it’s even happening at all in some cases.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
Brave was also made by a guy who got kicked out of Mozilla for being homophobic. The cryptocurrency stuff is brave also a major scam, it’s a crypto that must first be converted into another crypto before it can be converted into real money. How is that a “currency”?
Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, A Long Walk To Freedom. So many people want a copy to signal that they’re cool and love the idea of the rainbow nation in South Africa, and that racism officially ended™ when Mandela wore a Springbok rugby jersey in 1995.
They don’t realise that in his autobiography Mandela says that he takes inspiration from other left wing leaders like Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro, and rips into the ideology of people like F.W de Klerk. If they actually read it, they’d probably be shocked.
"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians … Choose peace rather than confrontation. Except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, or we cannot move forward. Then if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence."
Nelson Mandela
I guess the time has come where Palestinians cannot move forward, and have to use violence.
“It is of no use for Israel to talk of peace, if they still hold onto the Arab territories of which they conquered.”
Want to guess who said this one?
The Palestinians have been pushed to breaking point by decades of apartheid. Obviously terrorist acts and killing civilans by any side is unjustifiable, but general Palestinian resistance against Israeli military targets and soldiers is self defence at this point. And let’s be very clear, you can’t steal Palestinian people’s homes, kick Palestinians out of their land, and joyfully watch Palestinians being bombed in an open air concentration camp , which Israeli settlers have been doing to Palestinians, and not expect a response in turn. You reap what you sow.
If you want to discuss how the Palestinians have accomplished nothing but their own suffering, while having nothing to show for it, then I’m all ears
If you want to defend acts of Israeli apartheid towards Palestinians, I’m not going to listen. I’m South African, I oppose apartheid everywhere. As Nelson Mandela said, our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people.
I will not defend the killing of civilians by any side. That is morally unjustifiable. I will be clear however, that violence begets violence, and Israel has been indiscriminately bombing civilians (a terrorist tactic), and stealing land and homes for decades. The way to end this is to stop the violence, and come to the negotiation table. A two state solution of some sort is a compromise that is desperately needed to ease tensions.
It’s not a buzzword, it is apartheid. South Africans who have fought against apartheid and suffered under it agree, that Israel is an apartheid state. I know because I have I have talked to them. If you can’t agree with that, there is no use having a conversation.
but in the vast majority of cases Israeli operations don’t intend to harm civilians.
That is categorically untrue. What do you think the intention of bombing the Gaza strip is? The population density there is too high for precision airstrikes to be a possibility. What do you think Israeli settlers stealing the homes of Palestinians is? Israel has bombed the offices of journalists and killed them before. How is that not intending to harm civilians. Just because Israel uses the cloak of plausible deniability and fancy language to say that they don’t target civilians, it doesn’t make it true.
(e.g., one of their politics mod making a mod-flaired comment about how “The United States is not a racist nation,”
Lmao what? The heart of the global empire is somehow not racist now, despite all the evidence to the contrary? After all the police killings of unarmed black men, how can anyone believe that?
Redditors complaining about CSAM? Last I checked Reddit had a subreddit called r/18_19 (a porn subreddit for adult teenagers aged under 20) with over 1.5 million subscribers. I sorry, but there is no way that all the posters there are over 18, given Reddit’s lax verification practices on NSFW instances. That’s some “trust me bro” nonsense. Reddit had r/jailbait and violentacerz not even a decade ago. Spez was there back then too.
I have never seen any CSAM on Lemmy. If it’s an issue, it should be dealt with the utmost urgency and concern though.
Going to lie down because it’s hot as balls in my apartment and also because I’m just exhausted from not sleeping great. Thus why this is being posted randomly in the middle of the day. I was going to post this tonight but god knows if I’ll even be awake....
I’ve never even watched an episode of star trek before, but the memes here are still funnier than 99% of the stuff on Lemmy, and I’m glad you had a great birthday 🎂🥳
Samsung moving to four years of OS updates, and 5 years of security updates, is what pushed Google to adopt this new policy, as Google only offered 3 years of OS updates beforehand. So Samsung will probably try match Google again.
What is your Depression Anthem?
TCP vs UDP (media.mas.to)
Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)
As a lefty it feels extra special when I get that glide finally (startrek.website)
What are some of your, "If I like this, what else might I like" questions?
Thanks for all the interesting replies! Given the response, I decided to make a whole community around this, hope you’ll consider joining!...
when will be your last time to vote for the "lesser of two evils"?
When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...
Is it too late to date for me?
Hi my fellow Lemmy users! It’s been a while since I used this platform and boy did I actually miss you all ❤️...
18+ [Content Warning: Transphobia] From the very same people who tell us to "boycott Wayland"
Transphobic comments...
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What can cause an automatic car to suddenly shake and stop?
It happened to my car last week, it got towed to a mechanic and I’m yet to hear back. I don’t know a lot about cars, so I’m hoping I’ll learn something here and be able to tell if the mechanic tries to rip me off....
Age Combat 🤡 (lemmy.ml)
What are the worst names you could give a baby boy?
Hello you awesome people,...
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Chrome finally lets you move the address bar to the bottom, but not on Android (www.androidcentral.com)
What got you into coding ? (aside from money)
To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things....
Israel Furious that Elderly Captive Spoke of Humane Treatment by Hamas (electronicintifada.net)
White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan (news.antiwar.com)
Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)
"Both sides are the same" people in Lemmy 🙄 (lemmygrad.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/2320475...
Please, do not use Brave.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
can anyone tell me wtf this is? (pasteboard.co)
Found it dead in my dishes
What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?
I wish more people clean URLs before sharing it to others.
I see a lot of people, including friends and family, sharing URLs rife with tracking parameters....
Israel-Palestine escalation live: Strikes hit Gaza after Hamas offensive (www.aljazeera.com)
World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days (www.bbc.com)
Reality is blurry and a little unstable (startrek.website)
r/RedditAlternatives doesn't like a Reddit Alternative (lemmy.ml)
Just wanted to thank this community for helping me have the best birthday I've had in years
Going to lie down because it’s hot as balls in my apartment and also because I’m just exhausted from not sleeping great. Thus why this is being posted randomly in the middle of the day. I was going to post this tonight but god knows if I’ll even be awake....
I mean where are the zipties keeping things secured? It's a mess (startrek.website)
Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates (www.theverge.com)
Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.
Key Taiwan Tech Firms Are Helping Huawei With China Chip Plants (www.bloomberg.com)
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