The first Friday the thirteenth when i was 15 or so. My parents didn’t even allow me to watch the news or any movies aside from a few cartoons, so i was shocked.

Which they would undoubtedly let the customer pay for when buying their clothes

I love my asics. I can walk longer now, and with way less pain in joints like hips, knees and feet. I really learned that wearing good shoes can make a big difference

https://archive.is/Nlum6

Star Wars

Exactly; if Usually, it takes years, if not decades, before laws and regulations are actually in place

And now for 50 years worth of security updates for a phone like that. Not to mention what people might do with throwing a phone in the trash or something

That’s unfortunate! I never had it crash and i use it a lot

I use https://chat.petals.dev/ I think that is also open source

Yes, very true

I seem to recall a study, years ago, which found that women are way more often filing for divorce.

Know that not everyone is like this, but it seems that the type of people you describe are the biggest shouters. There are people who have been fighting against climate change and ‘the establishment’ since the seventies or earlier, who do their best to always patiently continue to vote instead of giving up and not voting at all, who still join protests, discuss their views in the hopes of changing the perspectives of others. But they usually are just not the people who catch your eye. I’m a lot older than you, and i also still try to write to companies (sometimes even successfully change their product which is very encouraging), sign petitions, donate to certain causes, vote, answer questions when people ask for my opinion. I always was a bit of a rebel and i know of others who are too. I know that i am not alone in this. I was inspired by those lone rangers in the seventies who were already fighting against climate change, even though i don’t know their names. They were usually portrayed in the media as the exaggerating crazies or hippies. But i’m not ‘in your face’ about it and i will only discuss things when other people approach me and ask me something. This takes away some of the hostility of other people who tend to feel attacked when i do things differently than they do. I always knew that i was never alone in my views. I might not know most of them but i know they exist. They always have. It might feel like you are alone, but you never are. And i feel like i do have a certain influence on my own personal environment. It makes some people think about certain things. They might even change, if only a little. At the very least, they now know from personal experience a person like me and can use my existence in conversations about certain topics, just as i could use those anonymous strangers who were putting up a fight in the seventies.

There is a - pretty dead - community, but maybe some of you could revive it: !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca

And they also often start their text with copying your question

I recognized this as ChatGPT, purely because of the enthusiastic greeting

I agree and basically, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature

A good kaki Edit: sorry, persimmons they are called in english i think

Nothing, but my pets get a heart attack

Advertisements can be blocked or allowed. But my issue is with the secret tracking that goes on on most websites i encounter. I am willing to support good journalism, but i’m not willing to have my privacy invaded. Unfortunately, it is hard to separate them, because am i donating for good journalism, but also encouraging the tracking? When i donate, will they stop tracking me? Probably not.

You pay for the companies providing the services to get you access to the internet, but you don’t pay for the content of the internet.