They’ve certainly “taken back control” from those pesky EU privacy regulations.

I’m sure his son has vetted it first!

Yes high max brightness is important. But low min brightness is too. The problem is that reviewers and spec sheets emphasize the former and not the latter. So manufacturers often disregard the latter as improving it doesn’t translate to better sales. Some even use terrible PWM.

Astigmatism definitely has different orientations (a 360 degree angle figure) but it affects the direction the blurriness goes. Not the amount of it.

I also have it but not super bad. For me it’s still much better to have a little blurriness at night than burning my eyes out on a white background (thanks google for popularising the “white on light grey on white” design mantra)

True, I’m very very positively not a team player (which gets me in trouble at work sometimes because they want everyone to be a good corporate boi) and have no brand loyalty etc.

I just don’t really get the “us versus them” mindset.

Just because I prefer dark mode at night I’m now a light mode hater?

What’s wrong with wanting choices? It’s not a zero sum game, when I like one thing I don’t automatically hate the other. I use dark mode at night and light during the day. Also because screens these days are optimized much more for top business than bottom brightness (reviews always scream about 1400 nits screens but never about ones that can do <1 nit at night while retaining full colour depth!)

And when I have a different preference to someone else they immediately take this as a personal offense. Even with brands, the fanbois are so toxic these days if you have the slightest criticism about their beloved brand. Well, nothing is perfect.

Society is so polarised now. I hate that more than anything.

I apologize , that didn’t come across as intended. I didn’t mean to imply that it’s a matter of wanting at all.

I just argued against the narrative that somehow trans people are forcing cis people to become trans. Obviously they don’t ‘want’ that because they are in the right body for them. This is where all the “Don’t say gay” idiocy comes from. Because they view it as propaganda or something.

But of course the whole premise is BS. Even the concept of ‘becoming’ trans is. And yes I know it’s not a choice <3

But that came out wrong.

I like the way how conservative Americans are generous on Thanksgiving and think that one day is somehow enough or whatever.

I really really don’t understand what people have against you. What you do with your body is obviously none of their business whatsoever. I don’t get why people even want to have an opinion about that.

FWIW I’m really happy for you that you can live your life in the proper body to match your soul and I’m an LGBTQI+ ally <3 (and a little on the Q side myself).

I can understand people don’t want to be trans because they are simply in the right body or they aren’t but have religious doubts or whatever but that deep hatred I see even in some of my “friends” scares me.

Why is mastodon too much trouble though?

I really don’t see the difference. In fact the one difference I do see is that it’s a whole lot less toxic than Twitter.

But I’m in Spain. People here are not Latinos or Latinas :)

Here in Spain you see X or @ a lot.

Like senorxs or señor@s. Where the X or @ means ‘o’ or ‘e’ (male) or ‘a’ (female). I like the way they do this.

This has some issues as it doesn’t include non-binary options. I think it’s also more of a protest against the patriarchal nature of the Spanish language which always defaults to the male version in the case where the gender is unknown or a mix.

How is pronounced I don’t really know. People don’t really speak it in practice. It’s more used written.

Well too be fair the cost will always be borne by the consumer. After all if it comes out of the operator’s pocket they’ll just up the food prices.

But that’s really what should happen because it makes the pricing clear for everyone and a salary for the waiters makes them have a decent income even when it’s quieter.

It’s most probably the US actually which is one of the least socialist countries in the world.

In Spain we don’t generally tip at all.

In Holland we’re trying to kick them out because of all the pollution they cause (and refusal to fix that). The jobs aren’t as much of a concern. In fact the towns that are the most worried are the ones where all the workers live.

That’s the cool thing about kinks. They’re very diverse. Like people everyone is different.

“Medical” is just a whole category in fetish. People literally “play doctor”, use needles there, do gyno inspections, and more. There’s usually a corner in the clubs with one of those metal chairs and fluorescent lighting. And a bunch of metal implements and rubber gloves and hoses (Not sure what they use those for but I don’t think I want to know lol).

Usually people play behind the screen there. But it’s a thing, almost every fetish club has this setup. But for me it puts me off as it does most people I know. It just lacks any eroticism to me. But I know some people love it!

‘Medical’ is a major fetish I see a lot but it’s not something I ever suspected would be a thing. I still don’t feel like it’s at all erotic.

That’s just inserting a urethral stick right? It’s not super extreme IMO. It doesn’t hurt unless you do it wrong and it’s the most direct way for prostate stimulation (through the back passage there’s other tissue in between :) )

As far as fetishes go I know a lot worse lol