Washing hands with soap is definitely important. IDK that you’d really get sick from a trash can being carried around the kitchen, but it sounds like your mom just generally doesn’t wash her hands after touching dirty stuff. Some germs are more harmful than others, I wouldn’t trust her around chicken or when there’s actually someone in the household with an infectious disease …

Damn, I thought my parents’ kitchen looked like a mess, and I’m not exactly a neat freak myself. Good thing I live on my own and only have to live with my own messes …

Seems like the precondition to making it highly-publicised is that popular media actually wants to shine a light on this and isn’t prevented from it by those who buy their ads, sponsored articles etc.

It’s a bit of a catch22; to make the world better, the world already needs to be better. The media who would publicise this are probably already bringing stories about the evils of environmental destruction all the time, and they’re consumed by people who already know that environmental destruction is bad and want it to stop, but there’s only so much a minority can accomplish when big business can just pay off the people who could decide to really do something about it.

There’s Stack Overflow and Hackernews. I’d say that Stack Overflow tends to be a better resource than Reddit for tech questions - it’s not exactly a forum, and that’s both a strength and a weakness. And you can’t just copy Reddit 1:1, because then why would people move away from Reddit to another commercial site? It has been tried at least one time, and it failed (Voat). The threadiverse would probably also be considered a failure if it was a commercial operation.

Is this based on real, reliable statistics or just newspaper headlines?

Arsestralia lol

“old” also means less healthy. No one wants to have backpain and the like, though the particular issue here is probably just the vanity of not wanting to look old (e.g. aged skin, thinning hair, those “I have pain in my back/legs/etc.”-postures, or even just having an outdated sense of style).

This stereotype isn’t China-specific, though. For Japan, the cutoff point would be WW2, which is the same as for most of Europe.

Interesting, seems like a very gendered issue.

Don’t east asian countries put tons of value on seniority? Is this changing, is china just not like that, or is there something else that I’m misunderstanding?

You can do that, but fediverse and threadiverse (Mastodon and Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin) are very different kinds of websites and it will lead to unexpected weirdness. Best to make a separate account for each type of thing (i.e. one for the twitter-like experience, one for the reddit-like, one for the instagram-like etc.).

Whether you use the same identity (e.g. same username on Mastodon and Piefed, linking your Mastodon profile in your Piefed profile etc.) for the whole fediverse is a matter of taste.

When in doubt (and if possible), keep your distance. You don’t have to slouch as much and I don’t have to look up as much.

Maybe you do.

Assuming they don’t already have copies through intelligence sharing agreements and have not already demanded access in secret, how exactly would most countries pressure the US, and specifically this US goverment?

I’d assume that there’s a lot of theoretically homosexual men who are in denial or very deeply closeted. I doubt these men have a large amount of man-on-man sex.

Only now did I remember that we have statistics about a lot of things. Straight women give oral sex an average of 5.14 times per month. Gay men are 5.3x per month

Only time in this thread that anyone even tried to bring blowjob statistics to the table instead of just assuming! Would love to see that statistic. Was it for every straight/gay person, regardless of relationship status? Only in relationships? If it’s the latter, that could skew the numbers quite a bit considering gay male hookup culture.

Depends on which statistik you look at and for which countries. To arrive at 20:1, I calculated with 5% of people being “mostly homosexual”, which means that about 2.5% of the population is “mostly homosexual” men and about 45% is “mostly heterosexual” women. Admittedly, this is likely on the high side for homosexuality, but there is a lot of variation in statistics on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation.

Either way, I picked a high number für homosexuality because even if we assume that there are a lot of gay men, the ratio is still extremely high - it’s rather unlikely that the average gay man sucks dick 20 times more often than the average straight women.

I bet gay men are much more eager than straight women on average, but straight women outnumber gay men by like 20:1.

I’m talking about very flat pizza made by Italians who immigrated post WW2 and probably visit Italy almost every year, because that’s actually really easy to do when you’re in Europe.

Some pizza is just very bendy, it’s fingerfood the same way that tortelloni are finger food - you could, but it’s just more practical to use cutlery.

IDK, be poor probably. And I bet they hate it if you talk about seizing the means of production and eating the rich.