My dentist started using this. Not the same service, but automatic AI-based visit recording, transcription & record-keeping. She’s experienced with a difficult issue I have, so I’m staying with her for now but this is definitely a minus.

It feels harder, where I live now. It feels like I’m getting so much older so quickly.

Some financial institutions are much worse than others. I think it depends on what system they’re using for fraud detection.

If I have to use ID.me for something, I just don’t do it.

Same here. So many websites are now virtually unusable. It doesn’t seem to happen with Chinese sites, though.

When I was in my 20s, I viewed people in their 40s-50s as parental or even grandparently figures. As an older person, I would be open to dating someone in their 20s if we had a great connection, but I wouldn’t make a move unless they expressed an interest first because I wouldn’t want to be creepy or make them uncomfortable.

When my grandma was old enough to marry, her father took her to his friend’s house and introduced her. The friend said, “I’ve got two boys upstairs. Go pick out the one you want.” So she went up and talked to both of his sons, and the one she liked best became my grandfather.

She said she was fine with this, but I would’ve been climbing out the bathroom window. 😂

When I was younger and single, I had co-workers or random older people I met trying to fix me up with their brother/son/whoever. I think that’s pretty common. But I ended up getting together with a guy I met online (organically, not through a dating service.)

What do you need a govt app for? What do you do with it?

It’s good for buying things online when your bank has an overly strict fraud detection system that blocks legitimate purchases because the seller is in a different country or whatever.

My mother, who has had three kids, believes that women pee out of their vaginas. She realizes that pee comes out the urethra, but insists that a woman’s urethra is inside the vagina. She was extremely condescending to me when I tried to explain that’s not how it works, so I just gave up.

This is the thing I like least about Lemmy. So many people have no friends or life experience, hate everyone, and want to constantly argue or insult others that it’s difficult to avoid them. I block as many as I can, but it takes a lot of the fun out of meeting people and having discussions.

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

Heartless Bitches.

I felt that way, too. I started enjoying it more again when I started blocking people that I wouldn’t want to interact with, and blocking communities that seem to attract that type of person.

It’s frustrating getting errors that I can’t load a website because I’m in a certain country, and I’m not even in/from that country.

My instance doesn’t have downvotes. Seems fine to me. If a post bothers me that much, I just block whoever made it.

It’s always great to have good friends, regardless of details like gender. The more love in the world, the better. If you and your best friend have known each other since age 12, it sounds like he’s had plenty of time to tell you if he has romantic feelings for you. If he hasn’t, it sounds to me like he’s happy with the kind of relationship you have now.

I use Eternity, too. I tried lots of options, and liked it the best.