When I was at school the uniform was just a basic pull over jumper, polo shirt and skirt/trousers. They were pretty effective at getting you caught if you decided to bunk off, like I did during PE and RE.

The uniform kids have to wear these days, which is basically a full on suit looks so uncomfortable, especially in the summer.

YouTube is absolutely dreadful for it. I have literally zero interest in American politics, I'm interested in world events but frankly couldn't care less about another country's domestic politics yet it's pushed almost every time I load the site.

I mostly watch things like travel vlogs and trip reports, yet get endless spam about right wing American politics. There's nothing in my search history that would suggest I'd care about it.

It just pops up randomly. Went to go make a coffee and when I came back there it was. I'm in the UK so it's not just happening to US people.

I'm going to be honest, I can't stand this trend of trying to neutralise everything. I grew up in the 90s/00s so I get this might be a generational difference but to me people being more open about themselves is an amazing thing and I'd hate to see it disappear. I don't really see what's wrong with accepting people are different and embracing it, rather than fruitlessly making everything in life a shade of grey.

Personally I actually view it as being kind of offensive, if I'm honest. Terms like "people of colour" to me come across as people minimising the vast and interesting differences in culture and customs that such a broad term covers.

It's because Niantic have actively made the game far worse in the past year, after a few quite decent years through the pandemic. Them using ai to generate the latest artwork just epitomises how ridiculously lazy they've gotten. The artwork on the loading screens was one of the few examples of legitimately good work they ever produce, so now they don't even have that.

I don't think anyone actually cares that it's ai, but it is classic Niantic to just slap together ai artwork and make no attempt to hide it.

I run an online business and the vast majority of people who contact me daily ask a question that is literally answered in the first sentence of the description.

I mean his genius solution to the steering wheel being on the wrong side for UK Tesla's was to give owners a big stick. I think it's safe to say he's not a genius.

You know full well that they can't have surgery until 18, you're just spreading deliberate misinformation. It's pathetically transparent that you are just straight up lying.

While it's not "technically" underage rape, let's be honest it basically is. No normal person thinks it's acceptable for some in there 30s to have a relationship with a 16 year old.

The law is there to protect say an 18 year old in collage, where it's common for 16-18 year olds to be in the same classes, not for creepy 30+ year olds.

Did you even bother to read your own source?

"Jay Langadinos, now 31, was just 19 when she first met Dr. Patrick Toohey, a veteran Sydney psychiatrist, in May 2010."

It's the YouTube algorithm that's pushing this garbage and it's blatantly obvious, the actual adverts largely line up with my interests. If I don't watch a YouTuber for a couple of weeks they disappear from my reccommed. I never watch anything about American politics, barely watch any American YouTubers yet there it is every single time without fail.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand the point in defederating. Aren't you just cutting down on the amount of content you can see? As a user I'd personally prefer to pick and choose what I can see.

What's the actual upside in doing it? Obviously I can see why you'd want defederating from say a far right instance, but in general it seems like only downsides.

I'm new to all this so maybe I'm missing a crucial bit of information.

Well yeah it's been shit for a while now, it was in a terrible state before the pandemic but it was at least somewhat enjoyable to load up every so often. This past year it's become basically unplayable, even the addicted whales have been dropping it in droves.

I've been boycotting the game since the remote raid price increases but caved for a few hours during Go Fest (without the ticket) I couldn't believe how bad it's actually gotten.

I live in a city and the spawn rate even during Go Fest is now attroucious, a handful of Pokémon every half a mile, it used to have 100s of spawns. The city centre now is almost as bad as the little remote village I lived in when the game first came out.

No one was raiding locally either, there was never a raid scene here but you could atleast do some during Go Fest in previous years.

The Gyms were full of people who'd been in them for well over two weeks at zero health, right in the centre of the city, last year they changed hands really regularly, even though our scene was relatively small. The two gyms at the top of the road where I live had people in them for over a month, all low level players when it used to be a us long term players who'd take them from each other. They used to change hands multiple times a day as there on a busy high street, so I could always get my coin's, now I couldn't even farm for the ridiculously priced remotes even if I wanted to.

It's way worse than it was even a year ago.

I'm a long term vaper as well but I'm going to be honest I do get the appeal of the disposables. Ludicrous regulation has made proper vapes so ridiculously annoying to use for an average person that it's no wonder people just turn to the easiest option.

The 2ml tank cap and having to mix your own nicotine are both annoying and impractical. There's also been a marked decline in the quality of coils and the tanks themselves since that law came into affect, with no actual benefits.

I had to switch to an RDA tank because the terrible coils on offer now were costing me a fortune, I'd gone from using 1 every couple of weeks to having to change them every two days. I've tried tons of different tanks and coils but it seems like it's just a fundamental design flaw, 2ml of juice just isn't enough to keep the coils wet if you use a decent mod.

RDA tanks are fine if you work from home like I do but it leaks all over my handbag when I go anywhere, so if you don't work at home it's just not a good solution.

So no mutilation is happening to children, as proven by these sources. I hope you plan to go and edit out the blatant misinformation in your original post.

I get the appeal of the Steam Deck, especially for people who travel alot, though I personally wouldn't get one.

But this has to be on the same network as your ps5 doesn't it? So the only time this is ever going to be useful is if your partner or something wants to use the main TV and is more expensive then just buying a litte monitor or something for your bedroom, so what's the point in it? The ps5 isn't exactly heavy or awkward to move like my gaming PC is.

The backlash against this is honestly so frustrating. I don't support the blocking of roads but the Prime Minister is 100% a legitimate target and the kind of person these groups should be directing their protests at.

Not the person you replied to but personally I'd like to see some kind of random communities feature so I can discover new ones.

Most of the stuff I see is memes or US politics that I'm just not interested in.

The problem is people will still just use Etsy rather than going direct to the business, even if going direct is significantly cheaper, because it's easier.

You see it with fast food deliveries as well. People would rather just order through just eat or deliveroo rather than ringing the place up and saving quite a decent amount on their order for both themselves and the local restaurant.

Unfortunately people just want convenience these days.

Is this currently working for you? I've followed every step and it just get stuck on installing forever.