asklemmy

I’ll preface this by saying that English is not my mother language and I’m sorry if this isn’t the right community, but I didn’t find a more appropriate one....

EDIT: Downvotes with no comments. Shocker. Guess it’s hard to back up your opinions, huh? I guess some people are totes fine with war criminals walking free?...

My neighbour (40/m) (“N”) confided that his recently retired father (70/m) (“G”) has started going to the casino twice a day (all day but he comes home for dinner)....

to my knowledge, if you input any text it will return true and if you input nothing it will return false. if it’s possible without if statements, how do i check if they inputted ‘True’ or 'False (/ ‘1’ or ‘0’) when im doing ‘bool(input("Input True or False ")’.

We live in an age of misinformation, but it’s not always on purpose. Sometimes we hear things or come to conclusions that end up becoming fact in our heads. Other times it can be malicious with intent to deceive or subvert. Sometimes it’s in the middle....

What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

Please don’t ask why I need this....

I’ve already looked at rtings.com and have tried XM5 which I didn’t like because the ANC wasn’t good enough....

Why on earth would it show me this in Music then proceed to open in the browser, ask me to sign in and then only allow you to add them to library one at a time....

I’ve officially concluded I’m at a loss for how to determine if a product is worth it’s cost anymore....

A “natural language query” search engine is what I need sometimes....

The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered...

(Couldn’t find the most appropriate lemmy community to post due to lack of activity.)...

Next to the house where I live there was an empty lot, where now they’re building a house or something, they’ve been working since last year. At first, I didn’t payed too much attention, but then they started hammering the walls. For what I understand, when building a house you need to make your own walls and don’t use...

Loblaws recently installed 7 foot high Plexiglass barriers that funnel people out of the stores. They claim it will stop theft and make people safer....

I mean oddities mostly. I corelate the area code of my highschool love, and often the birthday of another. It has no significance beyond a few pleasant memories, but it is just one of life’s oddities for me. Do you experience similar oddities?

The title pretty much says it all. I’ve always struggled to connect with others, but the farther I find myself outside of societal norms, the harder it gets.

With the addition of ads for paying users, is there anything subscribers can do to protest? I hate ads with a passion....

Extras/other people in the background are acceptable to meet the criteria but ideally with no human/entity on the screen at all that isn’t played by the same actor....

Okay, so you know the Don’t Say Gay bill in Florida? The one that prohibits “gender ideology” in schools?...

The most recent I can think of is Hot Fuzz (2007)