I’d love to do a fecal swab test on your phone.

Yep, you’d definitely find some. just like everywhere else.

I wonder how many times you’ve put it in your mouth to hold it.

What? WTF? Never. Not in the nearly 30 years I’ve owned a cell phone have I EVER put it in my mouth. Why would you do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do that.

I wonder how many times you’ve ate shit.

Well, let’s not get into details. But it’s ironic that the same world with a profoundly unhealthy obsession with a germ-free environment is the same one that has normalized anal sex, ATM, and analingus.

I tend to stay away from both extremes, wash my hands well, keep up with my vaccinations, and don’t stress over the fact that literally every single thing I touch is contaminated. The number of people who get sick (particularly with fecal coliform) from their phones is inconsequentially small.

Yes, your phone is dirty; but if you clean it, you’ll be eliminating a tiny fraction of a percent of the bacteria and viruses you’re exposed to every single day of your life.

You do you, but cleaning phones is almost entirely the product of fear mongering by the media. I didn’t think anyone actually bothered.

Wow, neighbours! My dad was in Red Deer. I had a teacher in Edmonton who made fun of me for being left handed.

Who cleans their phone? Who disinfects their phone?

I wipe my screen if it’s dirty, and once every month or so I’ll take it out of the case to clean the gunk out.

My dad had his hand smacked and his fingers taped together to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1950s in public school in Canada.

When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had a teacher who threw chalk at us.

So yeah, it happens.

For those with no personal morals, limits to action are only enforced by consequences.

In the US, there are currently no consequences for immoral or criminal activity by the government in power or their minions (e.g. ICE). Thus, the only limit to their actions is their own morality; and they have been actively encouraging/recruiting support from those with absolutely no moral compass.

So no, there are no limits until consequences stsrt happening.

A low hum is almost certainly going to be 60Hz (or 50Hz in some parts of the world) line noise.

As many have said, it’s often a ground loop - but since you have a single device plugging in to unpowered (presumably!) speakers, that’s not the problem. In your case, the stereo itself is producing the hum.

So if you’re in North America, there’s one thing to check before returning. I’m guessing that a cheap Amazon amp has either a wall-wart or two-prong plug. If possible, try rotating the plug 180 degrees and see if that helps.

However, there’s a good chance that the plug is polarized (i.e. one prong is larger than the other) in which case you won’t be able to flip it.

Most provincial governments have stopped importing US liquor.

Kid should get a shovel to the face. No grace period.

One difference is that U.S. liberals are still likely to believe in American exceptionalism.

Americans almost universally believe they are fundamentally the best - moral leaders of the world, even if they have temporarily lost their way.

The great protest folk singers from the U.S., such as Woody and ArlonGuthrie, the Seegers, and so many others, feel that they’re fighting the good fight to bring the U.S. back to where it was meant to be: the ‘leader of the free world.’

It’s an infectuous ego that taints the U.S. psyche on a deep and profound level.

There are three of us in the house, and I wash them weekly, more or less.

As for replacing them, I don’t know what to say. We destroy towels in about ten years. My mom had towels that were 20-30 years old and as good as new.

Most English-spealking people outside the US said ‘aught’ instead of ‘oh’, but definitely about 2005 the ‘two thousand and’ syntax evaporated.

I’m an old cis/het dude, and while I’ve occasionally fantasized about being a woman, it was entirely out of fascination with something else - not identity. I don’t necessarily ‘feel’ male, but being female is incomprehensible to me.

Compare that with a dear family friend. When they were about 13, they announced that they were nonbinary; and two years later, decided they were transmasculine.

What was their trigger?

While presenting as nonbinary, they naturally got mistaken for either male or female. They realized that being mistaken for male was totally cool, but being mistaken for female hurt terribly. They identified with being male, and being female (their AGAB) felt abhorrent and wrong.

So if you don’t have some part of your brain screaming “NO NO NO!!!” at you, you’re likely an average, 21st century cis person whose ability to access infinite porn has dulled your sexuality a bit.

So don’t worry too much.

My wife got her masters degree last year, at age 58.

The only connection I could find was her name - Erika - which was the name of a Nazi marching song.

This sounds like a typical AI slop non-answer.

Why does this video draw Nazis to it?

Or they’re part of a cult/gang like 764. Either way, police should be involved.

As many have said, this isn’t a real thing. It sounds like she was trying to groom you. The comment about the other girl wanting to play with you boobs is reminiscent of the 764 group, who are dangerous, violent psychopaths.

Most importantly right now, GOOD FOR YOU for blocking her!

Secondly, you should report this to the cops. Please, PLEASE report this person!

Thirdly, if you did send her more than just a picture of your palm (i.e. and aren’t telling us the whole story), don’t be ashamed. Groomers are very good and very practiced, and can get past all logical defenses.

Money.

It is more popular.

That probably doesn’t make sense, but when I joined a few years ago, I could read every post across the entire lemmy-verse and be annoyed waiting for new content about anything. At the time, the survival of lemmy at all was in serious doubt.

Now I have my handful of groups that are generally active enough that I get a consistent amount of new stuff coming in. It’s fairly low volume compared to other platforms, but it’s growing fairly steadily and becoming more useful all the time.

The creation of communities happens with time. We’re getting there.

Speaking as a guy approaching 60, I say get in touch.

It iis so easy to lose friends, and increasingly harder to make new ones as we age. Hold onto those who knew you best. Maybe some won’t survive and maybe you’ll become closer friends with those you didn’t know that well, but make the effort, and do it now.