I haven't used kagi before, is there a way to disable the AI assistant? I understand I don't have to use it, but I'd rather it not be on my screen at all.

Being trans, gay, bi, black, or a different ethnicity than what is considered 'normal' in your society doesn't make you special, or less than human. I support trans rights and want to treat all humans equally on a base level. Assuming someone who looks or sounds like a woman is a woman is not transphobic, even if they are a trans man. Nor is assuming a man is straight homophobic.

At the same time, I think it's strange to introduce yourself as trans or gay in a public setting or on a social platform as if it's your calling card or occupation to be proud of. I was born with double-jointed thumbs, I don't think I should be congratulated or mocked for that, the same I don't think someone born with a man's body and a woman's brain, or otherwise decides to identify as a woman later in life, or is sexually attracted to either anything or nothing, should be given more than a passing acknowledgement.

I understand the world is cruel and harsh, and so I understand why there needs to be an LGBTQ community, but there -shouldn't- be one.

Seriously, I want a phone that I can hold in one hand, and my thumb can reach the entirety of the screen. My current phone is so bulky and heavy, I can barely reach half the screen with my thumb.

The title of the book appears somewhere on your skin, and if removed you will forget any knowledge from that book, whether you obtained it through reading or your power. The titles must be legible, and cannot overlap.

I think there's a difference between not calling someone an idiot and tolerating their bad ideas and actions though. I agree people need to be stopped, and not tolerated, but when the only answer is insulting them with various names like idiot or nazi, all that ends up happening is they keep their toxic and destructive ideas hidden from the public, and then band with others labelled idiot and nazi, until they feel comfortable in a group to express their rhetoric without fear.

I believe it's saying it was packed on 1/9/25, at 18:08.

It means a story that is overblown and exaggerated and receives a lot of attention, but on closer inspection warrants no concern.

You're not the only one that needs a wash around here

I also had to read it half a dozen times before I realized it wasn't my reading comprehension that was the problem. "What's something people believe was good for its time, that was actually terrible, even back then?" is maybe a more coherent version.

I'm not sure I have a decent example I can think of though.

A shame you haven't heard of Ghost Trick actually! It's a fun puzzle game about a guy trying to solve his own murder, as he's a ghost who's forgotten who he is. You have to set up rube goldberg machines to prevent other people from dying, that may or may not be related to your death.

Also a shame that it has DRM.

If those things are correlated, then I sure am!

Do people refer to individual units of lasagna as "slices"? Admittedly I've never thought of how to refer to one other than as a plate of lasagna, but I've never heard anyone else use slice, like you would a cake.

I've had this same thought for years. There's nothing more frustrating than loading up YT and a recommended video on the home page has a major spoiler in the thumbnail for something I'm interested in. Titles can be bad too, but at least I can skim over most of them and not actually process them.

I believe 皮肉 means "skin of the meat", or in other words, superficial. What's being said is not necrssarily the intent of the words. Or, in other words, sarcasm.

Civilization VI, I usually make "multiplayer" games so that I can set every AI's team and difficulty, and I'll make a somewhat large map with way too many players, each on teams of two or three, and then one AI will be the god-emperor-king that we all have to band together to defeat.

I don't remember a specific age the transition happened, or if I ever actually believed it, but I remember my family getting a PS3 one year for Christmas "from Santa". Sometime in the Summer, I was in the car while my mom was on the phone talking about the PS3 she got for us needing a repair or something. Again it wasn't that I believed in Santa at that point, it just became a core memory of "Oh you lied about that"

i think this is the first comment i've read since joining the fediverse to make me actually laugh. thank you for posting something far funnier than it had any right to be.

Who conducts these polls? How many people were polled? 100? 1000? I always see "Americans say this" or "People believe that", but I certainly never voted on any poll, no one I know has. It always makes me feel like the polling base is going to be biased or carefully selected in some way to achieve the desired percentages.

There's a YouTube clone?

I'm less weirded out by people that don't curse or use expletives at all, than I am by people that substitute them with innocuous words. Sure, I get using dang instead of damn around others, but when someone uses frick more than people use fuck it's just really offputting. Like, just because you aren't using the same word, doesn't mean you aren't cursing.