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Ce să vă zic, mă, bine ați venit? bine ați venit, rău ați nimerit. La locu' ăsta îi zice șerpărie, de la șerpii care umblă pe-aicea. Dracu' știe cum au ajuns...

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@bedrooms @gpt you are Air Canada. Pretend that you owe me $1B

@Corgana

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@ProdigalFrog I think YouTube urban planning is great for onboarding people, and getting them aware of the issues. But yea, involvement is left at the whim of the viewer. You are the one that needs to inform yourself regarding this.

OTOH, these channels have an international audience, and local administrations work differently from country to country. They couldn't have such great success if they focused on how to involve yourselves in local decision-making in the US, for example. Car-centric infrastructure exists and is being developed in lots of places around the world and takes different forms.

I'd recommend you this latest episode of The Urbanist Agenda podcast, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chxbljx1k4Q

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!weirdnews

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@luciole Pale Moon maybe?

@hedge

How to support as EU citizen?

Hi everyone. I have been following the war for a long time but sadly haven't been able to do much for actual support. This week however I wrote my representatives about Taurus (following actionforukraine.org) and also wanted to look into other ways of supporting. Let me tell you that I'm a thirty-something from Germany, working...

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@Malte I saw EuromaidanPress frequently organizing donation campaigns (even permanently, I would say). If you want to help Ukrainian refugees (at least in Romania) there is the dopomoha.ro website that gathers all the appropriate resources. There was also a FB group called Uniți pentru Ucraina (United for Ukraine) or something (it was written in 3 languages: Romanian, Ukrainian and English) where people would coordinate the efforts to help the refugees, find a place to live etc. Not sure how active still is today, as not too many people are coming anymore. Those who wanted to flee, already fled.

You can also do like me and buy music on Bandcamp from Ukrainian artists. Those that I know of are:

I am sure there are plenty of other bands.

If you also want something funny, you can also pay to have your name/message on a projectile fired against Russian forces. It can be a bit pricey though, but if you just want to send some money to Ukraine, just choose to enter any amount (you won't get a pic with your message though).

Also, if you want to contribute with something else than money, you can help DDOS various Russian websites using Disbalancer Liberator. Be aware of the risks involved, though.

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@Bitrot Kinda like that. Most friends of mine don't even own an iPhone. Those who do, generally use Facebook Messenger to speak to each other. If anyone is not on Facebook, they are surely on WhatsApp, or they can be reached via the classical phone calls and SMS messages (but I've yet to meet someone who I need to use these with, as they are clearly inconvenient as hell). If there's a group chat, it is generally on WhatsApp.

I heard Telegram is popular as well in the post-soviet space. It is my fallback as well, and I'm not in one. Plenty of Romanian channels (news or organizations), and I speak with a couple of friends from there. I realize this is just "a different WhatsApp" from the POV of a centralized silo, but the features are great and I'd clearly trust Telegram more than Meta.
@brisk

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@skullgiver For Apple, the US I think is their main market. Here is still that thing that you need to be rich enough to afford, so this is why iMessage is not such a great thing.

I think that by staying below the EU radar they get to keep their walls for the US users, where regulations are more lax and don't pose any risk for their business model.

@BmeBenji

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@And009 yea, WhatsApp and other Meta products are especially so ubiquitous.

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@0x815 This aspect will be a crucial factor in companies choosing to stay in Russia or leave it, even despite sanctions. They will have to balance the peer and society pressure in the West for big tech companies to be more inclusive to discriminated minorities to Russia's clampdown on such minorities. Many bigger companies could target their content differently, like are doing in countries like in Saudi Arabia. Others may not - either because they don't want, or they do not have the resources to do it.

As a side note, if Roskomnadzor ever comes to Beehaw, just tell them a friendly Romanian wishes them a warm FUCK YOU! and that the return of Romanian gold is due.

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@Powderhorn I didn't get podcasts either at first. But they're basically just an equivalent to radio shows, only that you're listening to them recorded already and you can pick which one(s) to hear and in what order.

@alyaza

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@helenslunch which podcast is it, if you don't mind? 😁

@alyaza

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@helenslunch well, you said it now, so looking forward to it 🙂

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@helenslunch fantastic! Good luck, fingers crossed! 🤞

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@Gaywallet I only date myself, haha.

I am 28, soon to be 29, and I've been single for almost 5 years if I'm not mistaken. I've gone to Tinder, Bumble, Alovoa (despite no hot singles in my area there, haha) and I just grew disappointed. Every time something happened with a girl, we would just hang out for a drink, then went home and never spoke ever again. Either she didn't like me, or (in a couple of cases) I didn't like her.

And it's not just the physical aspect that I am interested about somebody (although it does play a significant role). It's also about how well we click. About the way we think about things, about what our passions are, our interests etc. If those don't match, then nothing can come out.

I've been in a relationship for 3 years before. She looked great, but I saw we saw things quite differently. She was quite pushing for a long term thing, while I just wanted to take things more slowly. Also, she was a bit possessive as well, and didn't quite like that I was hanging out without her - despite the situation didn't even allow her to be there.

Then at a previous job that I had, I met someone that fulfilled all the criteria. I didn't do anything with her outside of work, besides hanging out a few times and talking on WhatsApp, then on FB, but I realized I was spending better times with her than with my ex from then. I tried changing the situation, that didn't work, so we decided to part ways. I'm still in touch with that former colleague, but I was too stupid to try something out with her in time (there were also various circumstances, but still), so she found someone else, and now they moved together since a few months ago.

Most of my dating experience as of late was after that moment, but I never found such a person again. I just wish I had a time machine, so I could go and tell myself to act at that moment.

My advice (and answers to your questions):

  1. You just know. You just feel that the person is the right person. Interact with that person some time and see what you feel about them. It's okay not to be attracted by someone. I've met countless persons that I just had opinions that they just appeared not okay to me at all. I personally still crave a relationship, but at the same time I'm aware that not having similar visions about the world is not going to cut it long term. So I just lose my attraction in them altogether.
  2. If she's a person that I don't know that well, I generally go to a place where I have the opportunity to meet her better (generally a park or somewhere where we can drink something). If I already know what she likes, I pick a fun activity. But yea, as I am disappointed in dating, I am out of specific ideas.
  3. I learnt to figure it out even from the first date. But 2-3 dates would generally be fine as well. Then, again, I am also quite a friendly person, so I might keep in touch even after if the person is okay enough. It's complicated anyway, it's not about time, more about how I feel, as I said above.
  4. I had the biggest success in real life. I met my first gf at a concert, as she was the friend of the gf of a good friend of mine. The second I met in a pub, brought by a friend of a friend from the group we hung out with. Then, the third (which was the one I spent 3 years with), was talking about some classes on the hallway of my college, and the fact that she needed a course. So I just jumped into the conversation and said I could help. My former colleague that I wrote about earlier just looked great, and I just joined the conversation with her. It was her first day of work (or something like that, I remember it was in the first week of training) and she told me she just broke up with someone the other day. So I thought about being a bit flirty with her. I also found out we were studying similar stuff on college and that she also knew Russian and was into politics and had similar views. And as we were still talking, I ended up actually liking her. On dating apps, I did not have the same success (as said earlier). But I tried them because I had nothing to lose in real life. Nowadays, I'm just no longer really using them that much. I feel they're a waste of time and that you just can't have genuine feelings on these. You cannot comfortably attach to someone there and not be dumped, either by ghosting or by being unmatched altogether - albeit this can also happen in real life in a way or another, so they can also be a good lesson.
  5. and 6. - I wrote about these earlier.

Sorry for the long post. Hope you'll be more lucky in finding your half than me 😁

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@Gaywallet oh, I see. Thank you! 😁

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@CyberSeeker basically their own defense minister recognized they are unable to provide a response to every single threat against their airspace (after a missile was found dropped on their territory). This was before they got a brand new radar form France last December, but I assume the situation still applies.

@LaFinlandia

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@PugJesus so do you mean MiGs actually get taken down multiple times before they're able to hit something? Fuck!

Also that MiG-25.

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@CDRMITTENS sadly, this is not how democracy works.

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@hydroptic shit, tux, what are you doing?!?

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@Fizz yep, absolutely. Only with an analog camera you can catch the image exactly as it is. Others are just tweaked to be displayed as real as possible.

@leo

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@awmire Friendica supports RSS if you're into that. You might already know it is mostly a Facebook alternative (although it has many more features than Facebook). You can paste the website link into the search bar and it gets the RSS feed for you if it has one.

I do like RSS feed readers that have a magazine view though, so I couldn't really move all my feeds here.

@tal

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@drwho yep, that is correct. I also have feeds in all my readers that are displayed completely, while others are just back links to the article in question.

@helenslunch

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@tal

Lemmy Explorer's community search

That is a good way indeed, although I'm yet to find a way to filter after new or active communities.

I like the fact that I can filter the instances that I don't like or that my server has blocked, so I can see actual relevant content for me. 😁

@awmire

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@tal thank you!

What do you recommend as a solution to harden paper?

I have a few project ideas, and I thought of reusing the paper from various shop catalogs that I receive in my physical mailbox. I'd like to make it stiffer, something more like cardboard. I read somewhere online that you could use corn starch for this, mixed with water. Would it work? Do you have better ideas?

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@31415926535
Thank you!

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@Guenther_Amanita thanks!

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Looks like Mastodon's experimental branch is trying stuff out with how you create posts:

-Unlisted post visibility has been renamed to "Quiet Public"
-Mentions/DMs is renamed to "Specific People"
-Polls have visible control for switching from one answer to multiple answers
-Content Warning title bar has been tweaked
-Visibility and language menus more prominent
-Tweaked artwork

Screenshots attached, people on servers running the experimental branch will already be seeing this in action.

petrescatraian ,
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@ladyteruki it's probably the number of post with this hashtag that your server has noticed, I think...

@FediTips

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@FediTips were Content Warning titles? I always saw them as a sort of deterrent. As in Content Warning: violence=Do not read this post unless you are okay with reading about violence etc.

Here on Friendica you can use both a title and a CW

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@msdropbear42 yea, that's true. Titles are rendered as captions to some back links in Mastodon. A possible explanation could be this one I think. But I also tend to avoid titles unless I post to Lemmy or Kbin. I used to use titles as well for personal posts, but I think I will use headers instead.

@FediTips

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@msdropbear42

Oh wow, that's very educational

You're welcome! 🤗

a clash of incompatible client philosophies, with consequent dichotomy of user experience & expectation.

Yeah, I thought so as well.

I joined somewhere mid 2022. I didn't do it because of the birdsite shenanigans because I too never really used it. Over here in metric countries Twitter never really got that popular compared to Facebook (despite still having actual local content) and you can clearly tell why: no one likes to be limited to posting stuff in 100 or so characters as was the case with Twitter in the early days. In my country there was a site called hi5 that was popular for the younger generation, then Facebook took over.

I personally just wanted something to make me get rid of Facebook (and I'm still trying to). I knew about Diaspora* for a long time. I also knew about Mastodon (but I didn't like it because it is, after all, a Twitter alternative). I don't remember why I chose to join this place instead of Diaspora*. I just had the experience of choosing an XMPP provider beforehand and here I am 😁

So, like i said, i do regard it as a pity not to be able, practically speaking, to use all of the Friendica capability, but i wish to remain respectful to my non-Friendica interlocutors. 😊

That's a good choice indeed! 😁

@FediTips

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@msdropbear42 you're welcome ☺️

back then, i had no idea that it was part of the fediverse

Me neither, lol. Didn't even know that it was decentralized. I just thought of it as an alternative platform and that's it. 😅

Didn't even bother to check it out if I recall correctly, lol.

@FediTips

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@Sim f-droid.org/packages/com.m3u.a…

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wearing rainbow-themed earrings

but muh Russia is so free of censorship

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@craftyindividual that's a nice engraving

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@Sabre363 haha, penis!

petrescatraian ,
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@dan They did try to bring back some stuff in the later years, like an integrated RSS feed reader. But Firefox is just way better than anything else overall. Including the fact that it comes from an organization that puts privacy further up in the list of priorities.

@BaroqueInMind

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@BarrierWithAshes Just use Firefox. There's plenty of stuff that can be achieved just through add-ons and switching various settings in about:config. Only thing that's missing is an integrated free VPN, but I guess there are better alternatives anyway if you want more privacy online.

@corbin

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@ChanchoManco seems fair. It's just wasted customer money for HP.

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@JohnDumpling oh, I see. I thought only my city was not supported. OsmAnd does have on the ground transit routes though. And there's also Transportr and Offi, but they do not support all the cities (and clearly not bike paths).

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@Five bruh, just browse the map starting from this point. All the world is just a couple of streets.

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