I still do sometimes, despite using DDG for about a decade now and working in IT myself. Haven’t met anyone who doesn’t say it in my area.

That’s what happens if you only care about engagement. Chauvinism of any kind is liked by a certain amount of people and despised by the rest of us - both positions drive engagement.

I’m honestly surprised, I would have expected a placebo effect in those who strongly care.

That’s not actually all that surprising. The far-right, at least in Germany, is far more prominent on social media. It sucks but I don’t think we can prevent that. We have a lot of complex problems but social media favors short answers instead of complex ones. A lot of younger people simply lack the critical thinking to see these simple answers for what they are - bullshit. And I can’t blame them, they have been exposed to this bullshit for most of their lives.

I’m surprised you needed to research that. How else would Turkey magically increase their oil exports that much? I assume people simply didn’t care. They had their symbolic ban and didn’t need to decrease their oil consumption.

I’ve heard about replacing eggs with applesauce to turn a baking recipe vegan. But the oil?

Also, if you don’t want an unholy amalgamation of way too much fat and sugar, why even go for brownies?

Trust me, most German public toilets are disgusting. Railway station toilets aren’t even free and a lot of them suck. The ones within a train? Even more disgusting. (If you’re lucky enough to find one that’s not closed for repair anyway.)

Hey, that’s Gina Rinehart, Executive Chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting! She recently sent me a mail about giving me ~$2.000.000, I should finally get back to her on that.

Aren’t there conervative teachers too? Based on their anwser, just going off what the image tells me, there are two possibilities:

Yes -> Being trans is what the children want, after all they are presented with both options. Not presenting the option denies them happiness.

No -> Being ‘woke’ is what comes naturally with education. There must have been something like the first ‘woke’ teacher and all the other educated people where like ‘Yes, he’s right.’. Conservatives should just educate themselves.

Back then things were more stringent and memes had fixed formats. The same set of pictures, posted over and over again with new text - I can see how one might dislike those. But nowadays the definition is kinda watered down and meme just boils down to “funny picture”, even if they are only posted once. I don’t think you can dislike those in their entirety without just disliking fun itself.

As far as I am aware only your nose and ears keep on growing, nothing with a bone in it does.

I don’t disagree necessarily, those are two different things in theory. However, my hobbies more or less cover everything I’m passionate about. At least the things I know I’m passionate about. Since most high paying jobs require certain degrees or years of training, and I’m also passionate about not starving, I could not actually try a lot of professions and therefore choosing something I liked recreationally was kinda implied, I thought.

“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

or

“Do what you’re passionate about.”

Just no. Most things I like don’t pay well and I started to resent the others while doing them professionally. Turning your hobby into your job is like setting your favorite song as your alarm. That’s my experience at least.

I have nothing but respect for people risking their lifes to fend off Russia. It is probably more important than any individual life.

That being said, I have nothing but sympathy for any draft-dodger. I couldn’t imagine fighting in a war and I myself would hide as well. That may change if I’d have kids, but even still, I would never wish upon anyone to be forcefully drafted.

My most downvoted one should be about Nintendo and Yuzu, I think. I don’t agree with some of their overly aggressive methods, but I argueed against emulation of the current gen and don’t think it is wrong for them to try and stop it (which of course didn’t work, that’s a different topic). Sucks for Citra and Pizza though.

Self-promotion, same as most other platforms. There are already people on here doing so. If you post your e.g. comics for free, there’s nothing wrong with linking your website or merch.

However, ads or other forms of monetization within the fediverse will most likely ruin it.

I don’t think anyone should be able to monetize themself on here. Donations are fine, but only for the select few actually keeping the servers on.

Bring money into it and most things go to shit.

See, I don’t get that either. Almost all K-Pop stars get railed regularly, I’m pretty sure of that. They are good looking people and if they like sex they sure as hell get some. How delusional are these people?

I really don’t get the mindset of these people, neither do they know their celebrity crush nor will they ever get an actual chance. It does make no difference to them. They could just as well fantasize about their crush leaving their partner for them.

Yeah, but unlike with Biden it is unfair to judge her by the crimes of her children! /s