Assume left handed driving, right handed drivers please reverse the direction lol.

What i meant was that are you able to leave perfect spaces on the left and on the right? Or you tend to drift little more to one side e.g. 51/49 drift toward the left instead of 50/50 exactly?

I notice that experienced drivers drift to the side too. So i am curious and i have my theories for this:

1. Drivers are more likely to drift just a bit toward their driver side. E.g. for left hander driving that means drifting toward the left. This is because the wing mirror is the closest to the driver, so it is easier for the eyes to follow and track.

2. I've been to places where we have to share roads with bikes and motocycles. So a lane road is literally 2 lane: cars need to hug the left lane to create spaces on the right. So drivers from those countries are keen to drift to the left; even when they are on the highway without any motocycles.

3. For left handed driving, you usually dont drift to to the right UNLESS you are on the phone or using the giant touchscreen while driving.

It’s probably been asked millions of times here before, but I’m not going reading all those posts (if i can even find them). Let me know your opinion in the comments.

When I say ‘divisive’ I mean ones that get the comments sections really riled up, not just them ‘unpopular opinions’ ones.

I really dislike illymation. She happens to have every disorder under the sun, leans hard into her "trauma"/abuse, and just...isn't very intelligent. This mixed with her lazy art style really put me off of her.

This is coming from someone who typically enjoys neurodivergent creators.

I'll accept a brutal course of treatment or poor treatment at the hands of medical professionals for this question.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/52778326

to download content I run yt-dlp, current version: stable@2026.08.19

I don't have an account with either google or youtube nor plan I to.

the content I look for doesn't exist on other platforms.

and how would an elder start looking for friends or recreational activities for seniors? I don't even know what's available.

my father has always been republican, never a maga type, just old school republican.

The last message he sent me was more a rant against everything that's wrong with the world together with some immigrant blaming and talking about an invasion. He also wrote how he misses when I was 5. He is usually more articulate, this message was all over the place.

My mother is Mexican and I'm half Mexican. Make it make sense.

On my answer, I asked him if my mother should be deported, if he is feeling lonely or angry and if he meets people in real life other than my mother or he spends his time watching slop and listening to right wing media.

I also told him talking about immigrants the way he did to me is the perfect way to end up alone or in a right wing bubble because nobody sane wants to talk to somebody with so much disregard for people wanting a better life.

He also wrote something about how AI makes people stupider, which I agree with and asked him if he is sure this isn't something exactly happening to him right now with the message he sent me, just hoping he snaps out of it.

I suggested, if he feels alone he may contact social services, but I have no idea if they actually help seniors find new people.

I also wanted to suggest he goes to a nursing home but it doesn't seem to be the ideal place for a competent senior to meet new people, does it?

If you ever did this, what worked for you?

I was at a public lecture and later saw photos of it. In one photo I held my index finger across my lips. A guy sitting before me, whose face I couldn't see at the time, did the exact same gesture, and the resulting photo looks pretty funny, as if we're all consciously posing to signal that we're thinking real hard.

There are other poses of this sort, the thinking monkey meme, Rodin's Thinker statue... even the sidebar of this very sub has a picture of a lemur whom we recognise as "thinking" because it has its hand on its mouth.

Are these gestures just culturally conditioned? But regardless of whether they're just cultural or universal – why do they exist?

I want to see what people on Lemmy are reading. Can be unique in terms of lore, concept or even the cover. Mine are invisible monsters, battle royale and horrorstor. What about yours?

I'm not a gamer, but I like some casul games from time to time, like Timberborn or Shapez. Yesterday I wanted to start a game again, after a period of not gaming since february or so. I've been getting used to sitting in my comfy chair in the evening, doing some programming or some online ciurse. I would like to game in my comfy chair as well, instead of sitting behind my desk where I've been working all day. But games demand much more intense mouse usage. A mouse does not work very well on an armrest. Have any of you solved that problem?

The oldest tech I have are laptops from 2006, 2008 and 2009, a pc from ~2010 and an android phone from around 2012. I also have lots of newer stuff.

I've already built a home server from the most suitable pc. What other real use cases for old tech would you suggest? What is your experience?

The all feed on YouTube is completely useless now, so for those that only use the subscribed tab, what's your favourite channels?

I'm liking the PBS channels, Ryan Georg and pitch meeting, stuff made here, animagraffs, map men, practical engineering, tasting history, and couple of more but kinda similar theme.

Some folks in parts of the world are very reliant on gasoline, while some are more dependent on electric. Petroleum based products however are still in absurd demand by almost all parties. How do you stand to fair if the oil situation continues to worsen? Plastics. Nylon. Jet fuel. Tires. Asphalt. To name just a few things that heavily rely on oil byproduct.

NSFW: I’m thinking about buying the toy you see in the picture: a bent, silicone vibrator with several beads. The motor is inside the biggest bead, next to the base and charging port.

I’m not sure I’m going to feel anything if the motor is so far away from the tip. Total length: 4.5", insertable length: 3.5"

I’ve never used a silicone toy and I don’t know how bendable it is. How much will it adapt to my body?

toy is called Gender X Beaded Pleasure

if this is not the right community to ask, kindly point me to the right one.

Will we be skibidi 67 ohio'ing in 2036?

With the frustrations from using the usual search engines growing I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

It seems we've poisoned the well by allowing the proliferation of advertising interests to dominate the web.

Like how hard would it be to make your own non-commercial index?

Only human made sites that aren't related to buying, selling, marketing, etc.

Could that be a federated open-source project?

A day or two ago, I posted here about a memory I had of a tv show and thankfully, the kind users of this platform were able to help me identify the show, even down to the episode. It also brought back memories of a crisp advert I remembered seeing once around the 2000’s-early 2010’s that I just can’t find on Google, YouTube (including ad compilations), etc. so perhaps the good folk can help lightning strike twice!

The advert I remember in significantly more detail. It is a British advert (or at least aired on British TV). It was an advert that featured two pilots sat in the cockpit of a plane messing about with crisps on the ends of their tongues (I always thought it was a Hula Hoops advert, but I guess it could’ve been another type of crisp like monster munch or something, but I don’t think so). I think the stewardess was there too and she was perplexed by their behaviour. The pilots were talking to each other (obviously in a funny voice since they had crisps on the ends of their tongues).

Does any other Brit have any recollection of something like this, and what it could’ve been? I’ve searched on the internet but cannot find the advert?

Many thanks.

Mine is Rae Dawn Chong

I heard that Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales leaders are planning to meet to break up UK. Is it really true? Anyone from UK here who can tell me what is actually happening there?

“Worst” by whatever measure you like.
Don’t explain the joke, leave it to our imagination.
Be nice, no slurs or bad language.

Asking non-native English speakers.