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  • It's very hard to explain. I'm not American but I've migrated to Australia. What you will find is a culture that is probably much more polite and considerate of others than American culture, and also, the culture here doesn't appreciate individuality much. I'm painting this with broad generalizations so of course this will differ from person to person, but generally, this is my assessment.

    Individuality isn't overtly shunned, people will tell you to be you, but subconsciously you will find the real attitude is that people who stand out are also set apart, semi ostracized. It takes loads of charisma to stand out in a positive light here. This is the land of the tall poppy syndrome. Difficult to put in words, I would bet money you won't notice upon your arrival, you'd be like "nah man that mothra dude on lemmy was talking shit, people here are super friendly" and then after a year or two you'll see the pattern. It's very subtle but very much there.

  • AI usage is reduced to nearly zero, it's now mostly a niche tool used only in specialized fields probably for research. No LLM girlfriend apps or book authors. No more visual slop. People may still use it occasionally but won't take everything at face value.

    Cars would be smaller. More buttons less screens. You truly own what you purchase, and that also goes for any electronics and software. Software with subscription models practically disappear. Fast food chains either increase their food quality or disappear too. They would still shrink no matter what.

    Rent would become heavily regulated, and reduced. You would see an increase in work from home too, and more flexibility with people's schedules.

    I don't know about the "bad morals and habits". Been thinking but can't come around many. I guess you would see a lot less sports, but I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Maybe people become more isolated and shut in? But also if they're now sharing more interests maybe that's not the case.

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  • OP already understands this is something that requires a professional, however, there is still insight to be gained from other people's experiences.

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  • 'thank mr skeltal' on this picture

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  • Well... Mine is baited.

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  • Ok but why on Science Memes? I'm also confused, not downvoting but wondering wtf why here.

    Waiting with baited breath for Lemmy community to turn this into a science meme

  • I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED IMMA REPORT THIS POST AS SOON AS I FINISH LAMENTING WHAT I DID IN 2013

  • Well it's been good while it lasted, then

  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

    Concept was great but I really didn't like how the story developed past book 1. I know the series has its fans, but it's a big nope for me.

  • Please to anyone reading this headline, remember: this is just for certain heart benefits. Exercise in lower amounts still gives you other health benefits compared to zero minutes of exercise. If you had a ten minute routine three times a week, please don't drop it.

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  • Depends on how you define "financial literacy"? I think what you point at is pretty basic and obvious, and for that matter I'd say yes of course that is important but I don't know if it qualifies as "literacy" to me.

    Now, information on taxes, how investing works, how money flows, and economic/financial jargon yes I would say that is financial literacy and it matters a lot and I believe I would be slightly better positioned if I knew better.

  • You need money to act with a certain amount of freedom and intention in our current society . You make a point that practically every person needs money to live, but the comic's point is that being human is beyond economic or utilitarian value

  • How's the chicken breast, good? Oh, bit dry maybe?

  • Ok so I'm not very into tech and I had a hard time understanding what was going on especially since I didn't know what Microsoft Azure was. So TIL that's a computing cloud system, and that now you have a Linux distro called Azure as well which can be run on this cloud for some reason but also on your laptop (I guess it operates from the cloud? Bit confused about that too)

    Now the million dollar question: why? Why is Microsoft doing this? They are obviously seeing a path to fuck people over in a couple of chess moves, but I'm not good at this game, so here I'm asking those of you who actually understand the significance of this

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  • Read the community rules...

  • I would also be confused af. First, I would think it wants me to tap objects with a somewhat glossy surface, even though all of them actually reflect light. But having sorted the first trick in this question, I am now confronted with two other questions: is a body of water considered an "object"? Also, are those actually photos of a river or are they illustrations of a river? They don't look realistic to me... Because if they're illustrations then they wouldn't be particularly more reflective than anything else in this set of images

    I hate these things

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  • Interesting, I can't say I lived in Melbourne other than during a holiday visit. Maybe I should say NSW

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  • Agreed

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  • So is Australia apparently. I've seen this joke a few times and the first time I had to ask what the hell it was all about. I've seen my share of gardens with mint in it and not only it doesn't take over everything, it's also very susceptible to insects. A fully grown plant will disappear over the weekend if the right caterpillars find it.

    Lantana, now, that's a problem

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