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Anyone who knows about kids’ movies knows how popular princess movies are, especially Disney princesses. My child is six and absolutely loves them too. My child also loves princes and kings, but I’m having a hard time finding anything that features a character as easily beloved as Elsa or Moana for example. Even worse, a lot...

On the Food network they boil potatoes, but they poach carrots. They poach turkey, but they boil eggs. They sauté’ onions, but they fry eggs in the same pan. Likewise, they fry hash browns, but they sauté’ onions in the same pan before adding the potatoes....

I mean, you can’t test everything. And no, following the latest science doesn’t count. Which leaves us authoritarianisming it up like medieval troglodytes.

My present theory is that dreaming is an active, tho unconscious, deed. So step 1 is to make the unconscious, conscious. And then step 2 is to stop dreaming....

So this is quite specific and I tried to fit the important stuff in the title, but here’s further elaboration (because it is definitely needed)....

I find it quite hard to find open source software for windows. In time i might switch to linux, but for now i am stuck with windows 10....

There has been a ton of CSAM and CP arrests in the US lately, especially from cops and teachers, along with at least one female teacher seducing boys as young as 12. I cannot understand the attraction to kids. Even teens. Do these people think they are having a relationship, or it is somehow okay to take away another human...

The two greatest and equally as devastating ineptitudes of humanity are on full display in the US and truly the rest of the world seems to be similarly embroiled in their own versions of the struggle. That being caught between the groups who would attain power at any cost and groups having been corrupted by the power they’ve...

They artificially inflate the size of lemmy and it makes me feel like I’m being taken advantage of.

Background:...

In like, 2005-2010ish I remember there being these awesome online games through sites like Mini Clip. All disappeared from the internet....

I don’t mean IPA symbols (which I can’t read) but rather characters from a normal alphabet being used to phoneticise a word, e.g. excerpt is pronounced “[EK] + [SURPT]”. What would this be called? Letter-based phoneticisation?

Is the discrimination worth it as a deterrent? Or is it just to save the instance companies $$$?

I’m getting a lot of parts in languages I can’t read. Can I filter for just my native language?

I had no idea where to ask such a question and I tried to read their terms of use / privacy statements / about us page to find info about how this popular cost splitting app makes money to employ people....

I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a dog training community, but I don’t know where to put it! How do you pick? The one thing I can’t do is host it myself 😞...

Both for users and community.