Cris_Color

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

My advice is to learn a lot as much as you can about polyamory, and how to go about it in a healthy succesful way. Until you're equiped to understand how different the relationship dynamics can be it will be hard to give useful advice or support, or know when things are not in a good place.

Polyamory can be a perfectly reasonable and healthy, if untraditional way of doing relationships, but it can also very easily be unhealthy, especially if the relationship is polyamorous for the wrong reason.

Ultimately what would be most important to me is that my kid is healthy and emotionally safe, and until you know enough to evaluate those things, it will be very hard to know whether your kid is in a good spot and navigating a style of relationship you're unfamiliar with, or being taken advantage of while navigating something that is also likely very new for them, or somewhere in between as everyone involved navigates uncharted territories as young adults, making mistakes along the way (which to be fair, is developmentally normal.)

I very much agree with the other comment about twice the risk. I had a very painful experience with attempting to be poly when it was a poor fit for me and my then-partner, but I have friends who are poly who are profoundly happy to have found the type of relationship that is fulfilling and feels right for them πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ. Its not for everyone, and there are definitely ways of going about it that are likely to end in heartache, but for many people it's a revelation that there are no rules for love, and that they're free to assemble whatever type of relationship they feel is right for them.

I wish you the best friend, parenting a child who is neavigating things you are fundamentally unprepared to help with because they're alien to you is more than a little bit scary. The best you can do is learn a lot, try to understand where they are, and try to support them in building a healthy life with healthy relationships, even if it doesn't make a ton of sense to you.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I was curious to learn more so I looked at their website- their database is community built and crowdsourced rather than being run by a company

https://www.themoviedb.org/about

The Movie Database (TMDB) is a community built movie and TV database. Every piece of data has been added by our amazing community dating back to 2008.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

EDIT! I take that back! Showcase has a link to look something up on JuatWatch!

Thank you so much for the recommendation, I can replace JustWatch now, that's one more proprietary app gone! And the interface looks excellent!


I wish either would show me where I can watch things like justwatch, but I guess if I'm transitioning more towards piracy it doesn't matter.

But if there's a way to watch something without pirating it, it's nice to know where I can do that. I recognize that'd be massively more difficult for an open source project though

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we don't have a state delegate should we just pick the closest state?

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I honestly can't fathom people identifying with what one would describe as "backlash against the metoo movement"

"Can't stand hearing all those women say they were raped or sexually harassed. I just won't tolerate it."

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I already do that cause I'm broke as shit πŸ˜… most of what I let myself buy is stuff that makes it a little easier to manage my sleep disorder

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Once again, one of the very rare few areas where ai isn't a completely shitty solution: tasks that are worthwhile and important, but that require labor no one is willing to pay for.

Others include translation, transcription, and image descriptions. Things people won't put resources into but that should happen anyway

The only problem is that these have nothing to do with why massive companies are investing in this tech. If AI didn't enable the equivalent of money laundering for intellectual labor, the billionaires wouldn't give a shit

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That looks awesome! I'm deeply nostalgic for that period of time, material design was the big thing when I was first getting into UI design and I was absolutely in love with it

Klwp and Kwgt are still a blast, that's what almost all of my stuff is made out of, but iOS has its pros as well :) from what I hear things are progressively getting a little more customizable, if still pretty locked down

At some point I'd like to get a little better at animations so I can make my setup feel a little more alive, but for the time being it's mostly just static elements

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Lol, I'm somewhat similar. I'm a big ui/ux nerd but don't have professional or academic experience other than some pro-bono work in high-school. But I love tinkering with my phone's homesceen and other similar little projects. I'm hoping to make a neocites page soon!

This is my previous phone's homescreen I posted a while back:

https://mastodon.online/@CrisColor/111440259435482295

I've gotten a new phone since then and am still getting it updated to fit properly on a new screen, so right now it looks a little jank πŸ˜… but it's always interesting to hear how other people feel differently about aesthetics than yourself!

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for your thoughts, I appreciate it. I'll see if I can learn more about groups in my area.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective with me! ☺️

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I'm curious how you feel about the GNOME application icons, they sound like they might be up your alley

Right now I generally have a preference for either weird stylized themed stuff I make myself, or very flat stuff like what android currently does for app icons, but I can certainly see the appeal of other stuff :)

I really like the application icons used in Gnome but I really like the consistent line weights and geometry of material symbolic icons so I'm still using a material icon pack on gnome

Edit: Here's a picture I grabbed of icons done in the adwaita style Gnome uses in case you don't use linux and aren't familiar with them. Its not a full sampling, but you get the idea :)

 

This is from Durham NC, so the text is a silly "Durham" pun. And the local mascot is a bull, so a lot of Durham themed stuff features a bull

Forgive my very sleep deprived face and weird-ass glasses, I'm not normally awake during the day and the glasses help with my sleep disorder πŸ˜…

Feel free to post your voting pictures or "I voted" stickers in the comments; seeing them makes me happy!

 

An interesting old video on communication. It shaped a lot of my thoughts about communication from a young age and I recently watched it again and remembered how much I love it all over again

Also, yes it's by the guy who does the "true facts about" videos

 

Radiofreefedi.net is a super cool internet radio with a couple stations that plays music from fediverse artists, along with a "words" station that plays non-music stuff like podcasts or other kinds of spoken programming

I've really enjoyed it and only learned about it cause someone here on lemmy mentioned it in passing, I thought I'd share so other folks know about it as well :)

 

One of the biggest obstacles facing workers issues in the US is the disproportionate representation that corporate interests recieve, due to funding campaigns indirectly through citizens united. Bernie highlights the end of citizens' united, and public funding for political campaigns as key pathways to fix the outsized political impact of corporate interests

As long as corporate interests bankroll political campaigns, the people we can vote for will be elected partially at the behest of companies, and will have a conflict of interest in representing American workers

 

I really enjoyed the well researched video Fortnine put together on how grille height is the greatest predictor of pedestrian collision fatality.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Cris_Color@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
 

I don't totally belong in this community as I rather like cars & motorcycles (but not how dependent our society is on them), but I really enjoyed the well researched video Fortnine put together on how the height of the front bumper/grille is the greatest predictor of pedestrian collision fatality and I felt it'd be a good fit for the community :)

Even as more of a car enthusiast, it's very frustrating how regulations intended to improve emissions have inadvertently resulted in basically every car on the road being a towering murder-behemoth that isn't actually even practical for their "intended" purposes (Speaking about trucks and SUVs since in my mind at least they're supposed to be utility vehicles for getting stuff done. Truck beds are the same size, but far harder to reach/see into, and get stuff out off for really no benefit whatsoever, and also have crap visibility)

I'm sure the way he voices certain things will be frustrating to some folks in this community, and thats fair- I think there's still merit to the way he's trying to push for a single small change that'd make a really big impact on safety (assuming legislators are willing to bite the bullet and actually do something for once). I try to be an ally to the ideas of making society less car-dependent even coming from a different perspective, and I hope y'all can see the value of folks in the enthusiast world as allies to the cause even if we don't share perspectives on everything. (For context, Fortnine is a motorcycling YouTube channel, and is as such obviously run by folks who love and care about motorcycling)

Hopefully this knowledge being more commonplace and widely discussed can more quickly result in legislation that makes cars far safer for pedestrians and cyclists

Hope y'all have a good day :)

Edit: added some context regarding Fortnine that intended to include but initially forgot

 

A bowl of somewhat lazy tomato based curry made with stew beef and served with jasmine rice, some toasted naan with garlic honey butter, and garnished with some cilantro :)

(Somewhat lazy because I cheated making the "sauce", using a jar of curry sauce in addition to the aromatics I fried up, supplemented with a bunch of additional spices)

 

Thanks for your help, and happy to be a part of this community ☺️

 

Just thought I'd mention it since it improved my browsing experience a bunch. Seems to work great for a variety of different media sites, and means I dont have to wait for Firefox or a custom tab to load just to see a picture gif or video!

Hope you gave a lovely day :)

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