But then what am I supposed to do with this mass of gravel?

This really comes across as if you just keep shifting so that you can continue finding something to complain about. It’s ok to just not like having your camera on man. Not everything has to be the kicking off point for a sociological or anthropological study.

Backgrounds visible? It forces you to have your space display worthy!

Backgrounds blurred? Everyone knows your place isn’t display worthy and thinks you’re a disgusting pig!

Company provided background images? Corporate endorsed removal of individualism!

What you’ve touched on here is part of the intent. Not that they want to erase individuals, but that in general a more controlled corporate image is seen as more professional.

If you want to talk about how/why that’s a thing, be my guest, but that has nothing to do with video conferencing. Work dress code and even work uniforms have existed for generations.

Hooray, more bullshit bills purely for the purposes of signalling!

Oh my god crawl out of your own ass. You don’t know me or what I’ve been through, and your assertion that someone could only say this sort of thing if they never experienced that kind of trauma is asinine and insulting.

This isn’t elitism, or any other label you’ve got up your sleeve to make it easy to dismiss because you don’t agree with it.

It’s excruciatingly won life experience. I’m not going to apologize for calling what you’ve described what it is.

Yes, people are not compartmentalized automatons. But it’s just as ridiculous to argue that people are complete slaves to their emotions to the point of violence, or that it’s OK that they are.

Actual well adjusted adults are, in general, able to control their response to their own emotions. If they aren’t able to do that to the extreme degree of the examples you used, that is emotional disregulation. That’s literally the term for it.

As I said before, if you find yourself surrounded by people who can’t, do whatever you can to keep yourself safe and get out as soon as you can. If it’s family, limit your exposure or go no contact.

I know that sucks to hear when you’re stuck in the unsafe situation, or when you have to rely on those people financially or otherwise. But for your own safety you need to make an exit plan that you can work towards.

There are plenty of people out there who won’t go out beating people or murdering after a bad day, or even after a bad couple of years. You don’t have to live in a situation with people who do/would, despite how hard it may be to get out.

For fucks sake, in the past few days I called out someone for making a suggestion to someone living in an unsafe situation that seemed kind on the surface but would put them in more danger. Something I know from personal experience.

I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t got out. At best I would have only killed myself.

I ran from a dangerous situation living with my parents, eight hours away to what I thought was a safe new start and a path forward for my life. I had to move back in with my dangerous situation parents because the person I thought I had my new start with was stealing from what was supposed to be my new support network, and they couldn’t take the risk that I was part of the thefts. I wasn’t. I watched my plans for my life crumble instantly while I had to go back to where I tried to escape. Relationship I built over a quarter of my life, trashed. My safe place, my advocate, had been a liar and a thief from the start and I was too blind to see it.

And before you try to squirm around more with shit like “clearly you haven’t interacted with the public in a long time or worked retail” or some shit like that: I worked a total of 8 years between retail and tech support.

Lol, so the process is “go back in time and change how you initially formatted the drive”. Come on man.

Good knowledge for setting up new drives though.

Gsmarena is a better site to use for comparison of technical specs, if you care about those.

For anyone on dbzer0, or who already have link redirection set up: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35001146

That’s all clear examples of emotional disregulation.

You’re not wrong that you can’t help what you feel, but everyone has an amount of control and responsibility for how they react to their own feelings, and is ultimately responsible for their own actions regardless of the strength of their emotions.

If you live in an environment where people regularly excuse shitty, violent, or abusive behavior by using their emotions as an excuse for it, please understand that is not healthy behavior.

Yeah. The best possible interpretation is that in 85% of the days measured (98/116), power was covered for 42% of the day (10/24), for an end result of 35% of power needs being covered over the time measured ((98/116)×(10/24)).

But that is interpreting “up to” as meaning it was consistently hitting 10 hours each of those 98 days, which is definitively not what “up to” means. So we’ll use 35% as our upper bound, being the most charitable interpretation.

So if we assume that the 18 days not covered had 0 hours of coverage (only sane way they can’t be counted when using the term “up to”), and make a complete assumption backed by nothing that each day counted as covered had 1 hour minimum of power needs met, then we can establish the lower bound.

Worst case interpretation then becomes one day at 10 hours plus 97 days at one hour. (((1/116)×(10/24))+((97/116)×(1/24)))

So lower bound of 4% coverage using the least charitable sane interpretation.

So that statistic as written comes out somewhere between 4% and 35% of total energy needs met entirely by renewables over that 116 day period.

Quite a different feel to that than 100% of the energy needs were met some of the time.

Honestly, even 10% of the total needs met would be impressive, and for the sake of continued human existence we need to keep investing in renewables regardless.

But misleading people shouldn’t be acceptable just because it’s for a cause we favor.

(I know you’re referencing “the hand” scene, but this meme is too good to let go to waste)

It’s Facebook brand Twitter, and is or was planned to be compatible with Mastodon (Fediverse Twitter)

Short version:

Do you want to have a relationship with your son? If so, you try.

King clearly matters to your son, so if you care about your son you should try to put your own shit aside.

This isn’t your son trying to ruin your day, and that text message makes it abundantly clear this isn’t just some casual request, or even the first time he’s asked you to try and give King a chance. If you can’t see that this is important to your son, you have a ton of self relfection to do.

Longer:

Is the age difference really your only reason to dislike him?

Disclosure: My wife is around 15 years older than me. We’ve been married a few years short of a decade.

I won’t pretend the age gap between your son and his boyfriend isn’t concerning (or even that the one between my wife and I isn’t). It is.

They are both coming from entirely different place in life. They both have vastly different life experiences. King having more life experience and likely already being well established creates a power imbalance that could be dangerous or used in an abusive manner towards your son.

All of that said, do you have any reason to believe any of that is actually occurring?

If not, then treat it for what it is: a normal relationship with some weird attached. Not a big deal. Every relationship will have its quirks, your son’s just so happens to be a publicly visible one.

At this point, your kid’s an adult. You can talk to them about your concerns regarding the relationship (once), but beyond that, you need to let them make their own decisions. Whether you think they take it seriously or not, whether they reach the same conclusions or not, it is their own decision to make. Their own mistakes to make.

Your son has already made it clear that he doesn’t need your approval to have this relationship. At this point the only thing your grumbling/grumpiness will do is drive a wedge between the two of you.

Another disclosure: My personal story of “that one big bad crazy ex” includes my parents and numerous other people trying to warn me. I didn’t listen. I still lived with my parents at the time, and what their constant grumbling etc did was drive a massive chasm between us. I moved across the country to get away from them, effectively crashed on a couch with no safety net whatsoever, and almost ended up trapped with the crazy when shit hit the fan. There was literally nothing they could have done or said that would have made me see things their way. I had to reach my terrible conclusions myself. There is still lingering baggage in my relationship with my parents nearly 15 years later.

The important thing is that you be there for your son in a way that doesn’t drive him away. But for his and your sake, really deeply reflect on what your issues with his boyfriend are.

Dangerous is dangerous. Shitty personality is shitty personality. Age gap on it’s own is just weird as shit, but weird isn’t inherently dangerous.

Ask me how I know you’re under the age of 30.

Not specifically for youtube videos, but half the examples people are posting here aren’t originally from youtube anyway.

Antique Memes Roadshow- !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

Jean Luc was from YTMND, but yeah, absolute classic

That predates youtube in fact. It was from YTMND or Newgrounds if I remember correctly.

Yeah, at that point you’re most of the way to a flash cart’s cost anyway. Was a big gift for someone I knew cared about having something to display.

The Bible uses tons of masculine AND feminine descriptors for God. It boggles me that so many Christians have such a hard fucking time with trans topics.

That’s really hard to say. Comparing 1925 to now is crazy.

I think embedded tech would be in just about everything, and we’d probably have implantable tech as well. With that, I’d imagine that virtual reality would be nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.

If we’re sticking to the positive, that would be amazing to effectively make distance meaningless for most aspects of relationships and interaction. Would absolutely change life as we know it.

ITT: People who can’t put aside doomerism for even a moment to try and engage with a basic hypothetical.

(Putting my response to the “prompt” in a separate comment)