Ask Lemmy

For masculine identifying folks, what were the things you did (or had happen to you) that you feel helped you transition into adulthood and find fulfilling community?

Statistics suggest that a large number of men feel isolated, unvalued by society, and dysfunctional, but it's not 100%.

According to a recently survey from the Pew Research Center, there is no one more loyal and more supportive of Don ald Trump than american white evangelicals. They love him:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/28/white-evangelicals-continue-to-stand-out-in-their-support-for-trump/

My question is... why? Just why?

1. This man cheated on his wife with a pregnant pornstar. He later wired $130,000 to her.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/stormy-daniels-stand-tuesday-trumps-hush-money-trial/story?id=109988197

2. This man is the only President in american history to be convicted of sexual abuse:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db

3. He attended numerous parties with a convicted pedophile:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tape-shows-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-discussing-women-1992-party-n1030686

4. In fact, this is what Trump told New York Magazine in 2002 about that pedophile:

"I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy”

“He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"

Check the date of the original article:

https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/

5. After the death of Pope Francis, he posted an AI picture of himself as the new Pope :

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrg8zkz8d0o

Seriously. What's up with white american evangelicals?

For me it's Peggy from Mad Men. At first I thought she was going to be an annoyance but half way through the first season I've grown to absolutely love her!

I did get messed up by some anxiety and have these thoughts rolling through my head so I'll leave it at cosmic horror warning.

Just want to make sure I have that right. He spoke up so now they are making shit up to try and defame him? Do I have this bullshit right?

What are your wackiest ideas for a "universal" controller layout that would appeal to the fans of the Xbox, Nintendo, and PS layouts? You certainly can't pick one of the three, that would be lazy and frankly unfair for the other two layouts. It's got to be something that everyone agrees on, something different!

I've got a few ideas: NSEW (the cardinal directions), RGBA (colours, also transparent button could be cool...), or maybe CMYK (printer ink colours for ease of printing)

What are your ideas for the universal controller layout?

I can't find my wallet and I'm hungry and I need to get groceries

For example, I don't like Will Ferrell in his typical roles. Oh they just drive me batty.

But. I do love Stranger Than Fiction. It's such a cozy movie.

I oftentimes ship a sauce only sold in my area to family at different elevations. The problem is that the bottle it’s sold in isn’t very secure and many times it’ll break in transit and leak everywhere.

What should I look for when shopping for bottles/containers to use for shipping?

I started seeing a weird trend on Lemmy that I cannot understand.

Weeks ago, posts used to have downvotes and upvotes in the semi-rational range you would expect.

Out of nowhere, it seems like almost all the posts I see now have zero downvotes with some exceptions.

What is happening here exactly?

I support free and open source software (FOSS) like VLC, Qbittorrent, Libre Office, Gimp...

But why do people say that it's as secure or more secure than closed source software? From what I understand, closed source software don't disclose their code.

If you want to see the source code of Photoshop, you actually need to work for Adobe. Otherwise, you need to be some kind of freaking retro-engineering expert.

But open source has their code available to the entire world on Github or Gitlab.

Isn't that actually also helping hackers?

I was thinking today how cool it would be to live in a community that restricted technology to things no later than 2010.

I'm not sure exactly why but I can't think of anything after then that properly enriches my life.

If you could pick a date and create a real community around it, when would you choose?

My favorite book is a little known one called "Black Holes and Timewarps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy" and I reference it so much that I would really like a copy that's fully mine and searchable, but I also care about the author receiving compensation for the purchase. Where do you get your PDF copies from?

so i hiked up to the top of a mountain and saw a really big rock that was kind of spiky and looked really cool, so i climbed up the the top of it, it was really dusty and i didn't think much of it so i brushed away the dust and sat on top of the rock while i ate my lunch, after i finished eating i stood up and looked down between me feet, then i saw it. there was a little dog tag that said: southwest crematorium. i panicked and left in a hurry.

what should i do?

Legislature Building? Around Courthouses? Banks? Public Transit? Schools? Traffic? On the Streets? Should they exist in all of these places, only some of them, or none at all? What's your opinion?

(Btw: I remember my highschool had them, felt kinda creepy since I distrust the school admin, like... even the other places with cameras didn't feel as weird)

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/33436612

saw the same bug indoors, wondering how concerned to be. looks like it has all the same grossly visible body parts as a cockroach but it is a much lighter tan than i am used to.

curious

(originally posted in sopuli.xyz/c/whatisthisbug)

Coming back full time in the fediverse.. using Mastodon it’s cool but I want the Reddit part as well all in one.. there is mib but I’m waiting to get approved are there any other instances I can try so I can start using it? Also I’m on iOS so I’m looking for an app. PWA is good also

Thanks

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51050233

Hi everyone! So, my niece is alsmost 6 years old and is very energetic and generaly active as a child. Her parents are thinking of sending her to either Karate or Tae Kwon Do, both for physical and spiritual exercise and development. Which one do you think could fit better for her age and also considering she likes it which is better in the long term?

Are they busy Friday?