Not the greatest website but it summarizes things adequately.
Essentially, (in America)divorce rates steadily climbed until the late 1970s, with a slight dip in the 50s. Starting in the 80s, divorce rates started falling again, and have fallen all the way back down to where they were in 60s. It’s a tricky thing to get a handle on though, because one reason divorce rates have been falling is because many millenials never got married in the first place, when compared to earlier generations.
I’m glad you posted here, because I happened to notice while reading wikipedia that Spain and Portugal have the highest divorce rates on the world, at 84% and 94% respectively. Obviously your personal experience doesn’t really align with this, but I did want to ask if anyone could help explain why the divorce rates are so high on the Iberian Peninsula.
The idea that it cannot be done(unless it’s done with no effort) is the main reason most couples fail to do it.
Strongly agree. But how does that idea take hold? Has Portugal always had elevated divorce rates or is this a recent development?
I also wonder if it has any relation to the legal status of marriage and divorce. Perhaps it’s less costly to obtain a divorce in comparison to other countries?
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During the colonial period, more than 100,000 Koreans served in the Imperial Japanese Army. The service of these Korean men was forced upon them.
Approximately 200,000 Korean children (predominantly ages 12–17) were also sent forcefully as “comfort women” at the war frontlines to serve the Imperial Japanese Army as sex slaves.
In 2013, polls reported that 94% of Koreans believe Japan “Feels no regret for its past wrongdoings,” while 63% of Japanese state that Korean demands for Japanese apologies are “Incomprehensible”
Now consider how many poor people were generated by black slavery, segregation, and explicit racism in America, and how, in a society, we all just swim around in the same trauma soup, deflecting pain towards one another.
I often enjoy reading through the threads here, even if I don’t comment much. I also can’t see beehaw communities because they defederated us. I would really appreciate if you keep this place going for a while longer and see how it develops. I can help with moderating if it’s getting to be a lot.
I saw you were looking at discuss.online as well, which also makes sense to me.
Just be aware that you will lose a chunk of subscribers by moving to another server, no matter how many announcements you make. That being said, better to make the move sooner than later, if you’re going to do it.
Also, although I do think hexbear users are often funny and positive contributors, they’re not particularly well suited for casual conversation. Despite wanting to be federated with that server, it’s also nice to have the option of spaces where I don’t have to worry about being called a reactionary lib when I’m just trying to make polite conversation. Just something to think about. Lemmy.world’s aggressive defederation policies are actually a benefit when it comes to a community such as this, imho.
TL;DR: Apple dominates the US smartphone market, but EU regulations may offer Android a chance for resurgence by enforcing messaging interoperability and standardizing hardware features.
Yeah even among younger millennials, the green bubble is a big deal. It’s not the color of the bubble, it’s the ability to use more advanced chat functions like reactions, and if any phone in an iMessage group is Android, it breaks the functionality for the entire group.
I’ve always had an android phone and I’ve had to deal with shade from Apple sheeple regarding group messages on many occasions.
Seems like every Bodega and head shop in NYC is selling weed on the side. They’ve really created a problem for themselves because the market has already been filled. The licensed dispensaries will still capture some of the high-end market, but most NYC stoners can already find good bud and even edibles and concentrates at a good price and convenient location.
Can confirm that Gamer’s Nexus and Optimum Tech are absolutely superb. You can tell those guys are doing it for the love of the game. LTT is vacuous in comparison.
It’s all good man. Mean people always like to pile on when someone is getting heavily downvoted and they keep responding. Mob mentality.
I think you are slightly biased towards Linus, but I also think you made some valid points that contributed much more to the discussion than people regurgitating some variation of “Linus sucks”. I enjoyed reading your perspective 😊
This doesn’t answer the question… but it’s my 1,001st comment on Lemmy, what the hell.
This thread exemplifies why I love Lemmy so much. It’s because we have so many original, free thinkers. We don’t always get along, but you can be sure you’ll find plenty of brand new ideas when you scroll through these threads.
Flexing doesn’t quite work in that context but I get what he was going for. Probably bending or relaxing his principles sounds better, i.e. lowering himself to scummy behaviors that would normally violate his principles.
That channel is absolutely amazing, each video has so many hilarious little moments. The video game music/sound effects/animations are just perfectly edited in. Seeing new uploads from that guy is usually the highlight of my week.
No. That is human nature. In order to overcome that, we would have to evolve into a different species, which I would argue is less appealing than it might sound on the surface.
Instead of trying to overcome it, it makes more sense to build a society that directs that energy in a positive direction.
Are you from the future? It says this will be posted in 2 hours. Am I from the future??
Seriously though I think your admin can fix that, I’ve seen similar things before and it may be a configuration issue.
I’ll just assume you’re not talking about the people themselves, but rather the institutions that funnel people into modern day tribes. And in that case, I would agree with you, currently people are getting funneled into extremely niche groups that are inherently going to come into conflict. It might be necessary to reduce the granularity of human communities in order to arrive at a more cohesive whole. And doing that would not necessarily involve violence, but rather shutting down many of the commercial influences that create certain mindsets and desires in people that they wouldn’t otherwise have.
That’s why we need to take matters into our own hands and refuse to use their services and support FOSS with all our efforts. The government ain’t gonna do shit, this is a DIY project to save the open internet.
I’m not saying to tackle it individually, I’m saying to tackle it independently. As in independent groups that are not part of any government or corporation.
Any type of activism which is enacted through the channels of government and/or business is inherently meaningless in the grand scheme. You can move a few pieces around the board and get a small concession, but the wealthy will always find a way to outmanuever and come out on top. The game is rigged, and the fact that most well meaning people spend all of their activist energy playing into this rigged game is a tremendous waste.
It’s necessary to quit the game entirely and start a new game. Which entails sustainable, self-sufficient, non-capitalist communities and structures. Eventually political interaction with established power structures will be necessary, but right now the average person has zero leverage. In order to have leverage, you need to not be working for the people you are trying to negotiate with, no?
The problem with activism is that it puts duct tape over leaking pipes, but never goes down to the basement and turns off the water pressure. It’s a mental treadmill that drains revolutionary energy from people without producing meaningful change.
Don’t get me wrong, you should definitely advocate for institutions to be better, it’s a net positive (probably). But my point is that this whole paradigm needs to be disrupted, and activism is like mental masturbation for those who claim to want real change, but are uncomfortable with the drastic actions necessary to enact such change.
Is it necessary for the government to break up Reddit in order for Lemmy to succeed? I don’t believe so, and even if I did, I don’t believe they actually will. Instead of spending our whole lives praying for the government to save us from reddit, we are doing it ourselves.
Still up? Yeah I kinda like when I pop off 10 comments and get nothing, go to bed, and then wake up and they have a bunch of upvotes and replies. It’s a nice little surprise but it does make it hard to hold a conversation sometimes
Nice, that’s a pretty favorable article. I actually learned a few things from it, mostly about kbin. He really gets into a bunch of the features that Lemmy and Kbin have that reddit does not.
That’s how growth works on social media, it comes in waves. We are basically in the first wave, because there were only a few thousand people here before June. Its going to take a while before we build up enough organic momentum to cause a second wave, unless reddit makes another oopsie; they could trigger another wave at any moment.
The curve is fine, what you’re seeing is the bleeding of alternate accounts. Many of us made 2 or more accounts on different instances early on, and many of those initial alts are now becoming inactive as people settle on their preferred servers. The rate of active user growth is slower than the rate of attrition right now, but that’s only because the rate of attrition is so high. That should stabilize in the coming weeks.
Look at threads, their activity declined like 70% after a week or two. Lemmy is actually retaining users at a much higher percentage than the average social media site, it’s just that we haven’t gotten enough people to give it a try yet.
Yeah good points. I have never used Twitter so I missed the whole Mastodon exodus, and I don’t know much about Lemmy before the reddit migration.
But I’m just basing this on the MAU figure being around 1000 in March 2023 and still being around 1000 at the end of May 2023. Then starting in June there was a massive wave that pushed us to 70k at one point.
I get that there were previous waves, and God damn if I’m not appreciative of everyone who was here before me and created the environment that convinced me that Lemmy was worthwhile. But at the end of the day, any previous waves are more like ripples when compared to the reddit exodus.
And hopefully we have at least one more wave in our future that will make this one look like a ripple.
Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested
Damn, you just reminded me I downloaded some sick games onto my TI-84 back in high school. I gotta find that thing, I can’t quite remember most of the games besides Tetris.
What I miss is the civility of the internet pre-2008. When it was harder to get on the internet.
Agree 1000%. In the early 2000s the internet was a sanctuary from mainstream society, and more cohesive in many ways. Now, all of the real world’s problems have become manifest online. Not in the fediverse yet though 🤞
After buying a $70 pair of Vans at famous footwear and having them literally fall apart after using them as daily walking shoes, I’ve realized the quality of shoes overall has gone down over the last decade or so....
Adidas Sambas. I’ve worn multiple pairs for close to a decade apiece. The soles eventually wear down but it takes several years. Haven’t seen any signs of decreased quality on my newer ones.
Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.
We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.
Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.
But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.
And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.
Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.
Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.
We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.
We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.
Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.
You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.
We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.
By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.
By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!
Wow. This is a Mastodon account posting to Lemmy and we are getting cross platform engagement and it’s all working pretty seamlessly. This is the first time I’ve seen this kind of thing on Lemmy. The Mastodon users don’t get to see the upvotes though, right? The @ thing when they reply is kind of annoying but it seems like a fairly easy fix to hide those when browsing from Lemmy.
Maybe it’s just because there’s less content on Lemmy as of right now, but I remember doomscrolling Reddit, but now I only briefly open Lemmy once or twice a day....
@o_o asked “why are folks so anti-capitalist?” not long ago. It got quite a few comments. But I noticed a trend: a lot of people there didn’t agree on the definition of “capitalism”....
How does anyone believe in monogamy nowadays?
Not talking about being with one partner at a time. Talking about the idea of finding “the one” and being with them your whole life....
Lemmy Needs Donations!
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CenturyLink left 86-year-old woman with no Internet service for a month (arstechnica.com)
Oppan-heimer (sh.itjust.works)
Who else is a little bit stoned rn?
Anon is tired (lemmy.ml)
Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck Parts (jalopnik.com)
Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks
Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have
Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
I am always a bit surprised by the lack of activity in this community, are we doing something wrong?
57k active users on Lemmy, Casual Conversation seems a pretty common topic, and still there aren’t that many people around here....
Only the EU can save Android in the US now (www.androidauthority.com)
TL;DR: Apple dominates the US smartphone market, but EU regulations may offer Android a chance for resurgence by enforcing messaging interoperability and standardizing hardware features.
Traditional Art: A community for celebrating traditional artworks (lemmy.world)
Traditional_Art is for posting artworks made in a physical medium as opposed to digital or Ai art....
Why There Are Still So Few Places to (Legally) Buy Marijuana in New York (www.nytimes.com)
Madison Reeves on why she left LMG (threadreaderapp.com)
HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs (m.youtube.com)
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular....
I'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button
What’s a painful experience you haven’t had in years?
Question inspired by a Charley horse that hit in the middle of the night.
what are some great YouTube channels worth checking out?
Will humanity ever be able to overcome that tribalistic instinct of "us vs. them?"
The way I see it that instinct is the cause behind so much suffering and injustice in the world.
I just like being able to feel when people on the other side of the globe are starting to post
Hello,...
Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives? (www.pcmag.com)
All this excess of information, games, shows and everything else is ruining our boredom, which is usually what leads us to think more creatively
Title....
What's the best Xmas gift you've ever got?
Actually, let’s be inclusive here. What are some of the best gifts in general you’ve received?
How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it? (tim.kicker.dev)
Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested
Shoes that dont wear out and start falling apart after a year?
After buying a $70 pair of Vans at famous footwear and having them literally fall apart after using them as daily walking shoes, I’ve realized the quality of shoes overall has gone down over the last decade or so....
if you tweet on Twitter, what do you do on X ?
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[Meta] Happy to see non-relevant posts being removed. Thank you mods for your work
I know I am probably violating all the rules at once, but I didn’t really know where to post this.
Alternative WhatsApp Client
Hate to use the app but many relatives only have one. Is there any privacy hardened versions for Android?
I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy
Maybe it’s just because there’s less content on Lemmy as of right now, but I remember doomscrolling Reddit, but now I only briefly open Lemmy once or twice a day....
What is the definition of capitalism? Is it compatible with people owning the things they produce?
@o_o asked “why are folks so anti-capitalist?” not long ago. It got quite a few comments. But I noticed a trend: a lot of people there didn’t agree on the definition of “capitalism”....