Ask Lemmy

Hey Lemmy!

What's that one song comes on the radio or party and you're filled with joy? Or perhaps it's a carol and it makes you feel alright. What is it?

Then there's the song that makes you flinch and cringe, and you've gotta shut that song down. What is it?

Your favorite and your despised!

I discovered bookwyrm recently, where you can write opinions and rate books…

but would like to know if exist any similar site , or something similar with good privacy policy but for music, to rate and write about music and albums.

I know about RYM (Rate your music) and AOTY (album of the year), but RYM is cloudflared and AOTY you need facebook or google account (dont have any lol and this is a big risk )

As a British lad, I've been keeping tabs on the news about this guy and the wide support he's getting.

With so much support, surely the public will get him out of jail just to spite the bastard rich kids and their CEO baron fathers?

The Man who was shot allowed a massive corporation to dangle its strings over people's lives, medication being pulled away which is horrifying to me who uses the NHS as my primary medical service for hearing.

What do you think? Will Luigi "The CEO Reaper" Mangione ever get out of prison?

Preferably in real life and without religion or alcohol.

Personally 2024 was ok for me even though I was laid off and unemployed for 6 months. Ok maybe it's a little shitty.

If we're in the darkest timeline, what was the last point where it felt there was so much hope and joy in the world?

Some options commonly put out.

• The day Pokémon Go released July 2016. So prepandemic and we went outside and and a girl told me where to find Weedles. Yep I'm in a videogame

• The day before 9/11 or when Harambe got killed

• When Endgame released, culmination of 10 years of marvel moments into a single movie, people cheering in the cinema. Still pre pandemic, maybe there's a trend here

Xmas, new year, valentine's... Seems like the festivities are there just to remind me how much I failed as an adult man incapable of getting company. It's been over a decade since I've felt this way and nothing changes.

Alcohol and porn has lost its charm over the years.

I want my apartment's decor to scream that the renter cut several ties.

Title, basically. Three Boys, aged 9, 10, and 13, are getting a PS5 for Christmas, and I want to expand their horizon beyond roblox and minecraft.

They're gett8ng one controller each, so bonus points for something they can play together.

PS: I'm not too strict about age restrictions. They know we'll what they are and aren't allowed to say and do, so I'm not very concerned about VoIlEnT videO gAmEs to a reasonable extent.

They do enjoy builders and open world stuff, by the way.

Considering to buy one for a family member.

I need some new games in my phone. I checked out the recommendations in the google play store just to realise, that they all suck. So I'm asking you, what are some lightweight(my phone is really slow so anything not lightweight will either take 40 years to load or outright crash every few minutes) fun mobile games you can recommend.

I couldn't find a concrete answer for this. Attempts to recreate the art style of this game correctly have failed, as seen on posts on Reddit. In particular , in almost all Reddit posts made by users claiming to draw in the art style of this game, the art style doesn't resemble the actual art style properly.

Like why some apartments allow no tenants with pets. Living in an apartment building, some tenants around me absolutely fucking suck with owning pets. Allowing them to bark, wrestle and play loudly, letting them take dumps everywhere and not picking it up. People actually running with their pets with no leashes when leashes are required.

Yeah I side more with apartment offices that have balls to say no pets. Nobody wants the noise.

I have a unique way of studying that seems to work well for me, but I’m curious if it’s a good long-term strategy.

Whenever I start a new topic in physics or math, instead of diving into the theory or derivations, I first skim through a variety of solved problems to get a sense of the types of questions typically asked. I take notes on the key concepts and methods I encounter, focusing on recognizing patterns across different problems.

Once I’ve built a mental "map" of the topic through problem-solving, I attempt unsolved problems using my notes and keep adding new observations as I go. By the end, I feel confident about most question types and can solve them quickly. After that, I might revisit the theory with a sense of curiosity, wanting to understand the "why" behind the formulas and patterns I’ve observed.

This approach has helped me become faster at solving problems compared to my peers. However, I sometimes worry that I might miss out on deeper conceptual understanding, especially for rare, extremely challenging problems.

The reason I lean toward this method is that I tend to forget theoretical details over time, but problem-solving strategies stick with me much longer. It feels like I develop an intuitive "second brain" for tackling problems.

So, is this a valid way to study? Or should I switch to the more conventional approach of learning theory first and then solving problems?

(Fantasy race cannot manufacture convential weapons)

I'm personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I'm gonna have withdrawl symptoms.

For me it has to be the bone church in Kutná Hora. In the 1800s a rich family acquired a church. They commissioned a wood carver, František Rint, to arrange the bones of tens of thousands corpses from the surrounding grounds (mainly mass graves of plague and war victims) into various things. They then decorated the church with them. Imagine bone chandeliers, and skulls and bones arranged like garland. The worst, Rint, arranged bones into the house crest that commissioned him. Somehow, I don’t think the family would like it if they had themselves or relatives remains arranged in these ways…