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Are you able to recommend any shows or movies that portray Egypt and your culture well?

We Americans don’t get a lot of exposure to Egypt much outside of media like Indiana Jones or Moon Knight (which, despite having scenes set in Cairo, wasn’t filmed in Egypt as far as I know).

Because you’re the account who posted what I’m responding to.

You didn’t make any substantive critiques about the journalism, so why would anyone be responding to that? All you’ve said is that you “don’t care about ffmpeg”, which is dismissive of the software itself, so yeah obviously people are going to be responding about the software.

Yes, this happens all the time to me. I think it’s a relatively common thing for autists to emote differently, and I’m autistic, so I guess it makes sense for me. People who know me well can definitely detect my smiles though, so that’s nice. I’ve been trying to get used to overcompensating for strangers to make sure they see my expressions, and I just hope that it doesn’t end up looking too uncanny valley.

Your comments are not wrong, but also Trump is not the sole issue here. There would still be a problem even if he was removed from office today.

Proprietary software and services are an issue regardless of which government jurisdiction they fall under. It’s a good idea for the EU to be moving to open source instead of proprietary solutions based in the EU.

Calibre will work for this, but it almost certainly won’t give a good result. That’s not Calibre’s fault; Adobe InDesign produces exactly the same horrible output from a PDF. It’s just a reality that PDF does not lend itself gracefully to being converted easily to a well behaved EPUB.

Unless you are converting something extremely simple with no inline images or interesting text layout, getting a nice EPUB will almost definitely be a tedious process of fiddling directly with the HTML and CSS with something like Sigil (or Calibre, but it’s not as nice).

I last left this morning for work. The last I left for my own enjoyment was last weekend for the Pride parade. (State of GA in the USA celebrates in October for some reason.)

(I tried to spoiler this bottom part since you didn’t ask for advice, but I guess I don’t know how. Sorry.)

I suffer from chronic depression, so I might know something of what you’re going through. Hang in there, friend. It gets better, eventually.

Also, I know this probably sounds ridiculous (it does to me when I remind myself of it while depressed, especially since I’m also autistic and antisocial) but the safety of home makes depression worse for me. It’s the last thing that I want to do while depressed, but it really does help tremendously to get out and do something. Anything. Go to the grocery store and buy a ramen or whatever, it doesn’t matter. Go through the human line to checkout so that you have to interact with a person in some capacity. It’s silly, but it does help me a tiny bit.

The next day, try to do it again, it helps a tiny bit again. Eventually all the tiny little bits add up, maybe, but even if they don’t then at least it’s a tiny bit better all along.

This is a good idea, except that it requires money. I already have an old Pixel right here that I can put Graphene on.

I guess my point is, it’s not necessary to harass people about their choice of phone OS before you know their situation. 🤷

Because of investors needing a quick “win” with a game studio acquisition, and because gamers buy the slop that someone managed to shit out while trying to appease those investors.

The investors cash out and are emboldened to go burn some other game studio into the ground again. If the studio hasn’t imploded badly enough yet, the investors demand another game with whatever IP “worked” last time, but at a lesser budget with more aggressive deadlines, so the next result that is shit out is worse, but players still buy it.

The cycle continues endlessly, it’s the same pattern in every industry because it’s all the same tiny group of investors with “diversified portfolios” ruining everything in the name of profit.

That’s just language Nazis understand. You do eugenics at gunpoint because something something anvestors–your blood line ends.

You want to eliminate their entire bloodline because someone in their family advocates eugenics? What the fuck kind of a suggestion is that? Are we supposed to kill your entire family now because you’re advocating for eugenics too? Where does that end?

Intelligence is a difficult thing to measure, especially merely by interacting with a person for a little while.

Many of the answers in this thread amount to privileged assumptions that fail to account for the fact that what they describe as signs of lacking intelligence could also be symptoms of exhaustion and alienation inherent to conditions such as living under a capitalist system and/or neurodiversity and/or disability and/or sickness and/or…

For example, when someone works 16 hours a day for 5/6 days a week, they are far less likely to have the energy for using their little free time away from work to ponder deep questions at the same level as someone privileged enough to have a less demanding existence. This is not correlated with their intelligence in any way.

I dunno how familiar you are with the US military recruitment and training process, but they are very much selected for and drilled specifically to follow orders without question. I wouldn’t advise getting your hopes up that there’s going to be some sudden mass resistance within the military against fascist orders. It’s not impossible, but very unlikely.

Hmm, fair enough. I was just going off the dictionary definition of parasite which I suppose isn’t the medical definition.

If there aren’t any symptoms, then how is it a parasite? The presence of harmful symptoms is kind of central to the very definition of a parasite.

The contractors would merely need to use/develop open source software if they want their cushy government contracts. Seems doable to me.

I’ve had many many conversions where I’ve tried to get people to define what romance means, and so far nobody has a satisfying answer. It seems like everyone thinks it should just be obvious what is meant by that word, and can’t or won’t pin it down in a way that describes what’s unique about that kind of love compared to other kinds of love.

The dictionary definitions are also highly circular. It’s like, romance is “the desire to be in romantic relationships”, and romantic relationships are “oriented towards expressions of romance” and so on.

I’ve started to suspect that the very fact that I’m unable to determine what romance even means is a hint that I’m probably aromantic. It’s a very strange thing though… how can I call myself a word that means “not romantic” when I don’t even know what it is that I’m not?

Not everyone values the same things in relationships. Just because someone doesn’t want romance doesn’t mean they don’t deserve or desire intimacy and connection with others.

The edits are automated from what I understand. There’s a regex that does it when the post is created server side, but I imagine automatically removing a user entirely would result in problems. The admins probably want user removals to be more intentional and a result of a human reviewing the activity.

In an effort not to fall too hard into the classic Reddit trope of proclaiming that everyone’s partner is a bastard in these kinds of threads, I think there could be some yellow flag reasons for this behavior.

People are strongly conditioned to perform certain behaviors in social situations. Her actions could have been a result of that conditioning, especially if she is trying to be perceived as femme. That is, she’s performing “flirty, fun, sexy” in non-intimate situations because it’s how she wants to be seen in those moments. That doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s lying about being aromantic in her more intimate and less guarded interactions with you.

This person is just being a troll. This instance doesn’t censor cursing. Here’s a giant list of comments on lemmy.ml with cursing present that aren’t censored.

This instance does remove slurs and ableism and things like that, though. So, yeah, this person is just angry they can’t as easily spew bigotry as they’d like to. Nothing of value is lost.