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  • Too fast IMO. You’re setting yourself up for a less than ideal situation. The guy is going to come home tired from work to find you there, not even having had the time to take a shit and get cleaned up before beginning to think about wanting to do anything with anyone. Everyone is different for sure, but from a pure practical view you’re overstaying your welcome.



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    Cars sort of create that problem because the mode of transportation separates people in boxes, where we can’t hear or see each other. All other drivers are idiots, right?

    Compare this frame of mind to the Dutch bicycle intersection where both directions are green at the same time.

    Or the famous Shibuya pedestrian crossing.

    These get soo many more people from one side to the other than cars can ever achieve.

    Even if people where nicer in traffic, cars can not navigate this fluidly. They’re simply too big and drivers can’t adjust speed and direction fast enough to do it even if they had the space.


  • Yes, we have quite an unhealthy alcohol culture here.

    The only redeeming factor is that most people make their mistakes learning their tolerance while still being young enough to avoid getting in serious trouble.

    If you’ve never touched alcohol at 18, you might want to be extra careful about it. It’s kinda cringe to watch grown ups not knowing their limits, because it’s assumed that they should know by now.



  • I had to mention both, because I like them for different reasons.

    Initially I didn’t even like Vice City, because it was just an epigon of GTA3 with more lens flare, but the story and not least the music won me over. I know it’s a blatant mockery of Scarface, but that’s what makes it so great and funny.

    San Andreas is probably the masterpiece of them all. Maybe it got a little too serious in comparison to previous games, but it managed to portrait a great feeling of freedom and doing whatever in-between the main missions.

    GTA V is more like: Follow the arrow through this generic oversized map.





  • The great thing about representative democracy is that idiots don’t actually vote for anything. They only vote for whom to represent them.

    I’ll admit, I’m somewhat of an ignorant idiot myself. I haven’t read nor understood the entirety of all laws. That’s why I choose someone else to represent me.

    I think it’s only fair that mentally handicapped people are also allowed to choose someone to speak their case.

    The problem in US isn’t the idiots. It’s the two party system. In countries with multiple parties, truly idiotic votes would be scattered randomly all over different parties, or they would be placed on the party that represents idiots the best.

    That doesn’t work in US, because you actually only have one political party and then the opposition. It’s really easy for an opposition to trick idiots into voting against everything.


  • I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect and Voyager. By now these all have the options to customize the view exactly how I want it. (Dark mode, tiny list, thumbnails on the right.) I don’t care about clients that can’t do that.

    Jerboa was kind of buggy. Maybe it’s better now, but that’s what made me switch.

    Connect has a lot of options. The developer is active in the Lemmy community trying to catch up with the bugs that somehow creep into every update. It has the superior text editor of these and also its own tagging system.

    Voyager, previously known as Wefwef, is basic and stable. Maybe too basic.

    I’m currently using Voyager, but I sometimes still use Connect when I need to quote text from the post I’m replying to while writing. For instance if I need to quote two separate paragraphs or whatever. Can’t do that easily in Voyager. Also when I want to embed pictures in a reply, then Connect is ever so slightly easier. Small differences.

    If I were to recommend just one for a new user who doesn’t care about customization and weird options, I’d have to say Voyager, even if I myself prefer Connect. Voyager is easy to use and it’s stable.


  • Do they have to agree on the answer?

    If not, then you can add their experiences. They’ll share some but it’s a net plus.

    If they do have to agree, then they can only answer when they have shared experiences, in which case it’d be a net negative.

    It’s basically two arrays of binary numbers, either they know something or they don’t, and then you can do boolean algebra to get the kind of answer you want.

    In reality you will encounter both situations, and by using dialogue, you can sort out the differences and achieve a higher rate of correct answers.

    This way, two idiots can indeed answer more correctly than one expert. However it’s required that the idiots are aware of their own shortcomings.