Consider that for Arabs the old school way would be using their left hand and sand (well, in more humid areas - water). Which is the reason you should be careful with your left hand while interacting with a person of that culture.
I think I like some paper between hand and ... more, than sand, ya knaw.
Well, I personally get drunk quicker due to metabolism and my hangover starts the same day.
That is, compared to most Europeans, but I've heard that for SE Asia this would actually be the norm.
So one can say in this case culture just follows structural difference.
But - yes, it's much nicer to be with friends when they are not drunk.
Except for beer, there are weaker sorts, and the effect of hops on people I actually like.
That quote seems more like Usenet. But yes.
Would be nice to have the same identity for Lemmy, XMPP, Diaspora and whatever else.
XMPP would be better, but this is something, yes.
Just a different walled garden.
My Russian friends are all in VK, my Russian relatives are all in Telegram, my Armenian relatives are all in Facebook Messenger, and my American relatives are all in WhatsApp and Skype.
I'm so tired of this shit TBF. Is it so hard to just install Conversations once for Android and whatever for iOS?
I don't think this is a satisfactory answer.
Anyway, what I said can be shortened to "everybody who is looking sees you as a hypocrite when you are doing this kind of activism which costs nothing".
I mean, there are indeed issues with the BLM movement. And this "possibly leading to radicalization" is much better than lack of critique.
Say, cultural appropriation is suddenly fine when it's black people doing it. (Talking about Cleopatra in that show, the show itself is not important, just that the "politically correct" approach to it differs.)
Or people who think that BLM is more important than actual ethnic cleansing happening in parts of the planet far away from BLM.
Of course, these issues are inherited from general ignorance and indifference to suffering of others combined with trends of virtue signaling. Same happens in many areas not connected to racism.
I mean, that's the way trademark laws in theory should work. Who got there first gets the logo. And the other side gets Jobs' mummified dick with some salt.
Possible if they respect your opinion, not really if you are a weird guy with a disorder whom they like, but are not going to take as a tech authority or something.
I already had this with recommending Linux (and other Unix-like OSes). All my attempts to even talk about it were taken with zero understanding, but once another person tried Fedora and liked it, this started spreading like a virus.
Well, there's a question of how exactly are they going to do this.
XMPP? Everybody who had XMPP has dropped it. It's not at all obsolete, but the fact is that companies don't like it.
Closed federation between friends with some proprietary protocol (possible with XMPP too, though)? Well, so I'll be able to write to WhatsApp users from Facebook Messenger or Viber. Doesn't change much, TBF.
I mean, I can imagine them setting something up for identities and private messages from them going back and forth. But practically important features would likely still be locked.
Same age here. However the problem is not only that, but also our (as in "people enthusiastic and understanding of it") failure to communicate to "normies" (yes, it's a derogatory term, but a deserved one) what the Web is and how it should function, and what are the threats.
I'm very optimistic about Locutus (Freenet 2023), looks quite similar to things I dreamed about for a long time, only this time it's real. Imagine dreaming about spaceships and then seeing one built for the same general goal, but for bloody real.
It may really be a changing point (provided it doesn't get banned and regulated, which is unironically a risk ; remember how BTC ban was being considered in many countries until it became clear that it doesn't have the potential to be a daily currency due to well-known downsides).
That's a society which had lots of hierarchy and very little social or even territorial mobility until very recently. And those people's ancestors were likely peasants who'd just live all their lives growing crops in very scary conditions.
I mean, I've heard these things about China and manners.
I've event heard maybe not so scary, but similar things about Russia and manners in the early XX century (since I live in Russia, I do believe they are correct).