Wikipedia lists influencer as a synonym for internet celebrity, so I guess just when they become famous.

Unless you take the title literally, then it’s whenever they become influential over a statistically significant portion of the population.

Aluminum soda cans have plastic linings, because the acids can dissolve the aluminum. What that means for your drinking bottle, I don’t know.

Yeah, if you want a single system for heating and cooling, you’d be better off getting a heat pump. It’s the most energy efficient thing for both anyway, from what I’ve been told.

Because the onus is on the farter to say something courteous. Because we, for some reason, decided that a involuntary, natural bodily function is rude.

No, this is a myth someone made up to scare people. There have been no recorded cases of cockroaches living in a human penis.

https://merlinenvironmental.co.uk/blog/pests/cockroaches/can-cockroaches-live-inside-your-penis/

Not normal. See a doctor, at the very least get the serious problems ruled out.

Not a dentist, but the reason dentists gave me for doing it in that order is that bacteria and plaque build up a lot while you sleep, since your teeth are just kind of sitting there doing nothing. So I guess waiting until after breakfast is just an unnecessary delay.

J.J. McCullough did a really good video about this fact, I’d definitely recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCVQKD3jH2M&ab_channel=J.J.McCullough

Because the Republican Party aims to represent the minority of Americans who do oppose abortion access. That’s the job of a political party, to represent a voting interest. If every political party aimed to represent the voting interests of the majority, they would become irrelevant.

If that one innocent person agrees to it, I say yes. Otherwise, no.

Daryl Davis has managed to persuade several KKK members to leave the Klan by being a friend to them. So it has happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

Isn’t the point of the fly swatter being mesh to minimize those air currents?

Not quite. The LGBT initialism only includes lesbians, gay people, bisexuals, and trans people. It doesn’t include asexuals, pansexuals, or intersex people, just off the top of my head. I don’t imagine many people will correct you for just using LGBT, but it can be more inclusive.

I’m guessing it’s because different parts of us mature at different rates. Brain development continues into the early twenties, so mind-altering substances are generally regulated with that in mind. Physical maturity ends in the late teens, so things like military service eligibility start there. Other activities are based on more abstract measures like responsibility, emotional stability, etc.

Sometimes. It’s kind of cathartic in a way, helps externalize the feelings.

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Venom (2018). I thought the action was exciting, it had a great sense of humor (I even liked some of the gross jokes), and I liked all of the character dynamics. Honestly, most of the complaints I hear about it boil down to “this movie isn’t for me”, or “this doesn’t fit my interpretation of the character”. Which are fine opinions to have, but I’m not sure it’s fair to call the movie bad because of it. Then again, that’s just the complaints I’ve heard. I’m sure there are people out there who hate it for fairer reasons, and I’ve just never met them.

Me too. Pretty standard way of pronouncing word-initial X in English.

Correlation does not prove causation. The fact that the number of men seeking a relationship is declining at the same time that MGTOW rhetoric is on the rise does not mean the two are strictly related. It could be related to something else, like the radical lifestyle changes forced by the pandemic, or the economic decline making it difficult to justify investing valuable time and money into a relationship, or any number of possible factors.

Also, your suggested solutions are super problematic. For one, they would be blatant governmental intrusions on the human right to privacy. And for two, they could be seriously harmful to gay, aro/ace, and other LGBTQ+ people. With all due respect, please stop.

Is ‘karma’ even visible on Lemmy?