Social media changed dating, and made it ok for both women and men to treat eachother as commodities, resources, status symbols.

This bleeds over in real life, where women don't need/want to have relationships with men anymore (in real life) in the west (outside of their love relationship). They already get all the attention they need from hundreds of men on social media telling them they are beautiful.

A lot of western guys go for girls in Indonesia or Thailand these days, because they are kind and beautiful. Of course the girls see the opportunity to be with a guy from the west who has money. But it seems to work out. Both genders are often happy in those relationships, both get what they value from it.

It's not a war at all actually. More like social media keyboard warriors needing something to do on their phones. :)

I understand though. We all feel powerless and it's nice to upvote stuff that makes us feel like something is changing.

People trust it because scientists make a model. They don't think about that the model makes many assumptions and if any assumption is wrong, it fails.

When I was a kid, they said entire California would end up in the sea within a few years, since it's on a earthquake fault line.

That was 1990. :)

Always bring umbrella when it rains in shower.

I played poker with my girlfriend. Watched fireworks for maybe 10 minutes.

Don't worry so much what everyone else is doing. I also don't drink on new years eve.

The public is full of people who do what they are told by our culture. You can choose to follow or not. :)

Pathetic would be to go out and hate it, just because you are afraid of what others will think if you don't.

I actually think there is a reason to celebrate that we made it another year....it doesn't seem so obvious we will anymore. Will we make it through 2025 too?

I will try it. People are too negative about mozilla. They are a hundred times better than Google and we need them to survive.

Oh yes, they must be very private.

It's become much more moderated and controlled. I think reddit is actually less controlled. I'm seeing conversations about Swedish immigration that would never be allowed on Lemmy.

On the other hand, I saw that Luigi was not allowed to be mentioned in Reddit now in some subreddit.. So... Lol.

Path of Exile 2 got me hooked bad. The combat is actually fun and you have to use a few different abilities at the right time to be successful, at least as a monk. It feels very, very satisfying to fight both mobs and bosses in that game.

And the yellow rare items are actually rare, so using blue items is very necessary. Not like in the first game where you had yellow items drop constantly so blue was just useless and not even picked up.