ValiantDust

A few weeks ago there was already a related discussion because the pride flag was not flown in front of the Bundestag for CSD, unlike the previous years. The fractions of Linke and Grüne (the left and green parties of Germany) decided to show up in clothes coordinated to form a rainbow flag, which was pretty based.

Sexy iguanas.

Is there any other kind?

Came here to comment this. Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?

Anne of Green Gables is one of my favourite comfort novels. It just instantly takes me to a happy place. Somewhere on the internet, I once saw Anne described as

a red-haired, freckle-faced orphan who faces the world with nothing but the sheer force of her personality

which summarises it very well.

If anyone is interested in checking it out, I cannot recommend this LibriVox recording by Karen Savage enough.

Are we sure they would be upset? I can kinda see my cat reading it, turning to stare directly at me and then slowly but deliberately climbing in.

I really made a fool of myself, haven’t I?

Well, for what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

I don’t think the ancient Greeks used Roman numerals. Though to be fair, I-III should be easy to understand anyway.

I get that. It shouldn’t be necessary to do research just to be sure it’s safe. I apologise for my aggressive tone. It must be really scary and exhausting to live somewhere like that. My country is still holding up but seems to be sliding slowly in that direction too.

So do whatever makes you stay safe and feel safe.

I’m sorry if I misgendered you. I was already exhausted from the other comments that clearly state that they are men and probably was biased in that regard. But my point still stands that there is no reason to completely forego tracking apps.

Drip, the app mentioned several times in this thread, let’s you encrypt the locally stored database with a password you have to enter every time you open the app. How is that not safer than a random piece of paper?

It’s so exhausting that this thread is full of men telling women what they should and shouldn’t do while having very little knowledge about the topic.

Do people need an app for taking notes? Or a calendar?

Sure, I used to do it on paper for many years. But it’s much more convenient to track it on my phone, which I have almost always with me. That way I can check whether I’m likely to be bleeding heavily before making plans with my friends to go swimming that day or on a long hike without access to a toilet.

Also many women don’t just track the blood flow but also other data like temperature, cervix and cervical mucus. This helps calculate the most fertile days. It’s much easier to let an app do that.

I think many use apps that don’t show avatars. I usually browse lemmy with Eternity and sometimes forget they even exist.

Can’t misrepresent women if you don’t represent them. Taps forehead.

The scary part is, that for them “everyone” is having fun. Because women are usually not included in their everyone.

This is gold. The person he finds eventually is Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir from Community doing his Nicholas Cage impression.

He worked 500000 times as hard as other people! It’s well deserved! If you worked 168 hours a week instead of 40, and 120000 times as hard, you could easily make that, too.

I’d also like to point out that with an app, you don’t just hire a programmer, they make an app and done. You have to maintain it. (Although many companies with “smart” products with apps skip this part, so I’m sure it’s fine /s)

Serious question: Do people share their lemmy account with others irl?
Not even my closest friends and family know my username let alone random strangers. And I intend to keep it that way.

I’m also not sure if it’s what OP is looking for, but I also think Fall of Civilisations is not quite as dry as other history podcasts.

He does a great job of painting a picture through the narration, making you imagine what it would be like to have lived in those times. And he sometimes does add his personal takes (always clearly pointed out as personal takes).

It might still be too narrative for OP, but it might also be colourful enough.

In addition to what others here have already said: Sometimes what they gain is a feeling of power and/or control.

This can play a role in the vicious cycle of abuse. People feel powerless because they are abused. To regain power they abuse others. Then they are the ones in control of the situation.