I am not talking about taking culture and integrating it into your own, I am talking about appreciating it without taking it.

I think the problem is more that many Americans are very focused on their own culture to the exclusion of every other culture and in a sense love these things more because they are theirs and they grew up with them than out of an honest appreciation after comparing it with alternatives.

The hated minority being inferior but also immensely powerful is a pretty standard feature of anti-minority world views of all kinds. It is pretty much required to justify the extreme actions they want to take against the minority.

A lot of software writes to log files or temporary files or lock files or database transaction logs as part of its normal function and when those writes fail due to a full disk the software doesn’t work anymore.

It is not that the regular frontend doesn’t work and alternative frontends do, it is that half of the stuff on their server (including image uploads and the frontend) don’t work because the admin has no time to deal with it. The problem isn’t the software used but the lack of maintenance.

So really any tab user in any language requiring alignment then?

It is so brave of you to share your struggle with that horrible affliction with us here.

There are also many things we consume only because marketing makes us want them even though we have no real need for them. And many jobs producing completely useless things. Not to mention waste through planned obsolescence, DRM, patents and similar mechanisms that artificially reduce the usefulness of goods below its natural level. We could easily produce everything we need with a fraction of the current work force.

Oh, I meant searching for lists of celebrities with mixed heritage.

You might be able to find some more unique looks by searching for terms like mixed heritage, often children with unusual combinations of ethnicities also have facial features that are not often seen in the countries where the individual ethnicities are common.

That is not quite how that works. The effect can apply to separate fields of knowledge or separate skill sets separately. You might actually know what you are talking about when it comes to e.g. plumbing but only think you do when it comes to e.g. IT systems.

Also, expanding on that, if you go into every interaction with a narrow expectation (e.g. to find the love of your life) you will be disappointed almost all the time but if you keep an open mind you might come out of that with some other positive interactions (a new friend, an interesting conversation, …) than you expected or were hoping for.

I honestly don’t think AI is anywhere near advanced enough to produce entertaining content in the long term. I see the current boom in generative AI as a fad based on novelty that will die down to a low level until there is some significant improvement to AI actually understanding what it is doing instead of just being a slightly more advanced markov chain like reproduction of existing content with no understanding at all. Sort of similar to what happened in VR in recent years.

“Good morning/day/evening” or something similar always seemed to be appreciated and “Have a nice/great day/week/weekend/…” works quite well in most situations where you or other people are leaving too.

I doubt that would work since the nature of the information often already limits the number of people who might have access to it severely.

I love musicals and musical movies but really didn’t like this one.

Coming from Windows and DOS originally Linux was the first OS that made me realize that computers actually behave in deterministic ways when you get the ability to look at everything that is going on. And I also realized that given a proper OS you can actually automate most of the common tasks instead of doing the same things over and over again by hand.

I think it is probably related to the fact that upsetting your crush has higher stakes than upsetting a random person.

I personally really don’t like the art style but tried watching part of the first episode before I stopped and had to say “nope, this really isn’t for me”.

You might want to elaborate on that question a bit. Do you mean for an individual, for a company, a government, a society in general?

And what do you mean by using the internet? Obviously unless you live as a hermit in the woods many systems you use every day are going to use the internet anyway, the traffic light as you are crossing the street, the order system the stores you shop at use to fill their shelves, your employer, the government departments managing the infrastructure in your area and your taxes and other bureaucratic data about you and your possessions, your doctor, the producers of most of the goods you use, the phone system,…

So presumably you mean some sort of direct use on a device you interact with, what do you mean there, the web? Social media? Messengers? Email? Voice calls? Video calls? Video conferences? Online games? Search engines? Mapping apps? Wikipedia? Youtube? Netflix, Amazon Prime and similar sites? Twitch?