You know the one. The dumb joke you chuckled at that now just comes out unbidden at random times.

What's your protocol regarding 'expensive' gifts (anything over $200). If the gift receiver no longer wants or needs it, does it go back to the giver, or can the receiver sell it or give it to someone else?

My 10 year account got banned for voicing criticism of the fascist State of Israel

What got you banned?

So, I'm interested in getting into rock climbing/a climbing gym. I had a bit of a discussion about this in a previous thread. My main concern is my build. I'm 31 years old, 6'5, 260ish lbs and have size 16 extra wide feet. I do lift weights 3-5 times a week so I'm physically strong. I also climb around shit at work semi frequently, which is where I decided I think I'd enjoy it. I'm nervous about if a gym will have equipment that can support me and if it's really a sport/hobby that works for an ogre like me. How do I find a "good" gym amd what makes it "good". Past experience with Brazilian jujitsu taught me that every gym has its own culture you have to navigate and choose. Is climbing the same way?

I was gonna word it as “flip off” but I think that might’ve been confusing.

My answer would generally be a few times a week for various reasons.

I'm looking for any good tech-related/engineering podcasts. No AI slop or any podcast primarily about AI (If an episode is about AI, that's fine. I just don't want an entire podcast about AI)

Some podcasts to use as a reference (what I've been listening to):

• The RTFM Show!
• Darknet Diaries
• Well There's Your Problem

For me, it’s CAD software. FreeCAD is trash (sorry, lovers). Fusion360 is honestly the best out there for free. The “almost there” app is Shapr3D, but fuck $40/m.

And yes I’ve tried all the others not listed here.

I've saved up some amount of cash, but family is poor and hasn't had useful advice. I feel like the stock market hasn't been great for society, but surely there are some causes who would use the capital for good (and give it back when I need it later)? I have a half remembered portfolio from a previous union with a big war chest, but it doesn't feel actionable.

I'm in North America + UK; but answers globally I think are interesting.

Why do you need to rev it early in the morning for 5 minutes waking up the neighborhood?

So, I was recently banned from a community for being a "serial downvoter". If the votes I've cast there were only downvotes, that surprises me, but I'm looking to gather more information about how, historically, I've voted in that community before I seek an appeal with the mods.

Being banned from that community, I can't see my my votes in that community just by sorting by "new" and scrolling through all posts in the community looking for blue (upvotes) here and orange (downvotes) there to get a rough idea of how much I've upvoted and how much I've downvoted specifically in that community. (And even that sounds like a pain.)

I tried lemvotes.org. It will give me every post and comment I've ever upvoted or downvoted, which is great, I guess, but it's not really easy to see which votes were for what communities. In fact, it's not really easy to see what votes are for what instances. Each vote has an associated link on lemvotes.org to the post (or comment) I voted on, but domain name of the link doesn't necessarily go to the instance that hosts the post. As in (for instance) a post I downvoted that shows up on lemvotes.org with a link to a piefed.zip may take me to a post that was originally posted to a programming.dev-instance community. So the domain of the link doesn't narrow it down any. As far as I can tell, the only option lemvotes.org affords me is to look exhaustively at all of my votes, click the link for each of them, take note of what instance/community the vote was cast on, and keep a tally of upvotes/downvotes only for the community I'm particularly concerned with, which would be super time consuming. And I haven't found any better options.

But I haven't really found any better options, and I'm hoping you folks might have an idea or two. I guess worst case, I can DM the mod without getting this information, but I'd really rather go into that conversation a little more informed. (And, I suppose, if I find out that the only votes I've cast in that community are downvotes, I might decide not to even pursue an unban. But I'll see what I can find out, at least.)

I guess my question is specific to the british royal family.

I saw a post online that said "God save the King" and had a photo of the king. The idea of a monarch or reverence for any other type of leader simply because they are the leader is outside of my experience.

I'm not here to disagree or argue, please don't feel like you need to justify or convince me. I can accept that people value different things.

I would like to understand the appeal the monarchy or even specifically King Charles has for people who respect and support the monarchy.

The only “way” to really avoid it is renouncing the American passport (if they are a naturalized citizen of the country they have moved to first). Like this: the individual has moved abroad to another country under an US passport at first, but they still owe taxes to the US government despite them not physically being there even though they’re earning a foreign paycheck (until they surrender their passport for another not considering dual citizenship).

Why don’t digital nomads consider naturalization rather than living under a Golden Visa? I know that Portugal or Spain for instance is popular towards digital nomads, but should they renounce their American passport into becoming a Spanish or Portuguese citizen? Also, why don’t Western expats living in Dubai consider Emirati citizenship (they do not recognize dual citizenship, though) if they consider the UAE their new home?

I wanted to know about your experience as many digital nomads are in this group. As a reseller who is currently working with AIRALO & SAILY, I had a query about what a buyer of esim actually looks for when it searches online for best esim.

Also what are your reviews on AIRALO & Saily. I do 50% off, so people get their esims half of their prices listed online. curious to know about their image.

Just curious to find out what other people think about my ... "collection".

More and more mainstream analysts are identifying the coming AI crash, which is a good indication that it will happen soon.

So, what happens to all the data centers? They are already built but probably very expensive to maintain. Will many of them just be abandoned? Bought up by cloud computing companies? Scammers? Crypto miners? Can they be parted out and sold off piecemeal?

Will they be put to some productive use, or just become massive e-waste sites left to the locals to deal with?

ok so i've heard at least 2 different definitions of progress.

• one strictly defines progress as technological progress. the reasoning is that "progress" comes from latin "pro-gress" (marching forward) which refers to any labor process feeling very similar to a long march. exhausting.
• another nice angle i've heard was that "progress" is a play-on-words with progesterone which is a substance produced by biological women to advance various internal processes, as such it is understood as "what women do" or as women's movement. it's silly but i've heard it and now so have you.

especially, do you think that "progress" properly describes your goals? do you say that progress is what we need as a society? if no, how else would you describe your goals?

Maybe a human front half (including the legs) and horse rear half? It would seriously suck to run with 2 human legs and 2 horse legs.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/61532142

Friends and coworkers keep sending me tiktoks.

you would actually need to contribute to receive, and you couldnt just move money around contributing nothing

Seinfeld- Jerry and Elaine are exes and breify get back together at the end of season one

Friends- lots of romantic entaglements but mainly Chandler/Monica, Ross/Rachel, and Joey/Rachel

How I Met Your Mother - two of the main characters are a steady couple, the other three are a love triangle

Big Bang Theory- by the end, it's three couples and one single guy

Any shows like these where the main characters never date each other or hook up with each other?

A comment on this earlier AskLemmy post inspired me to ask this question. I think there's lots of delicious British food/it really depends on how you cook it, as with any cuisine.