That’s still really bad. If 2/3 of illiterate people were born in America, that really highlights how inconsistent education is in America.

When I was a kid, I lived in a regular suburban neighborhood but the middle school and high schools that I was zoned for were so awful that my parents enrolled me into a charter school. (The elementary school was fine) Since then, some of the crappy schools in my city are now magnet schools and so my parents’ house appears to be zoned to different schools. There appears to be less public schools now. That’s probably not a good thing.

You should try Kurkure next. There’s a bunch of different flavors. They’re like Cheetos but with Indian spices.

I went to a school that used to be a hospital that treated tuberculosis patients back in the day. One of the floors used to have a balcony where patients would be in the sun.

I haven’t checked it out yet, but the same could be said about the early days of YouTube. Professional cameras weren’t that common for the first years of it.

Good. If I ever published anything, I would absolutely not want it to be pirated by AI so some asshole can plagiarize it later down the line and not even cite their sources.

His legacy can live on with Dr Parkinstein. (Parker Edmondson)

We need to tally up all the accidents and pedestrian hit-and-runs that occur involving cars with this “feature.” It would likely be enough of an increase you could reasonably make a class action lawsuit. I have no sympathy whatsoever for a car manufacturer that can’t get it through their heads that distracted driving is a major cause of accidents, and could easily happen by their own features.

If it’s anything like Reddit, it would devolve into being mostly creepy adults.

Most of us would post on forums as teens back in the day, so it’s hypocritical to try to keep them from doing it too. The only places we should run them off would be communities we specifically make for adults. They don’t necessarily have to be NSFW. Sometimes it’s just nice to have a community where everyone is old enough that they get the same references and are in similar stages in life.

General music and hobby related communities really shouldn’t be blocked off, though.

Meanwhile, I’d just start a gay autistic commune in it.

Yeah, the mention of AI is pretty ominous. It makes me wonder if AI would be used to fill in the gaps when the user base is too low.

Not just Europeans. I was talking to my roommate about how I deleted my Reddit accounts and fully committed to switching over to Lemmy, and his main concern was which instances were hosted in America so he could avoid them.

Soon you can’t say fired or terminated anymore either because that sounds too violent. It’s “unhiring” now. DOGE doesn’t fire government workers. It just unhires them. /s

Excuse me, the terms of service says no strong language. You gotta say frick. Or do what everyone does on highly censored platforms and strt cnsring everth*ng. /s

Yeah I think I either have been officially diagnosed with it as a kid or suspected of having it.

I would become a vegetarian to avoid this, but then they also keep having listeria on the vegetables.

A hearing implant that works by audio mixing rather than just raising volume. I’m not deaf, but I have trouble filtering out background noise.