I saw the .nl and figured you might be unaware of applicable laws and might be concerned about her family being responsible. In reality if she has health insurance then the hospital is still getting paid probably enough to cover her care regardless of if her portion is paid. If not she’ll likely be eligible for Medicaid seeing as her circumstances have changed and then taxpayers are footing the bill.

If she’s poor it will just kind of disappear. This does not transfer to next of kin or anything.

Some keyboards allow you to map different keys to different things depending on certain settings. So for example you could make it so that if you press ctrl+esc+enter your keyboard knows that instead of typing in English, you want your keyboard to act as though it’s a french keyboard. Some keyboards are made with this feature in mind and ship with lights that you can program to indicate which “layer” (keyboard setting) is currently active. So if you see a red light it’s English and blue it’s French. That’s probably poorly explained and only a small example of how layers can be used, but in general it’s just a preset layout that you can impose on your keyboard. The specifics of the layout are often up to you. If you’re interested there’s several companies out there making specialty keyboards and most have YouTube explanations if you google keyboard layers that are definitely clearer than my explanation.

Unironically, yes. Especially if you have a nice keyboard that allows layers.

I had something in there originally about “if she has one” but it felt charged, so I took it out. Hard agree though.

I had a friend ask for recommendations for prebuilts. I found one that was under budget and over spec for their needs and sent them the info. They ended up going with an overbudget one with arguably worse specs (they didn’t really need the specs I was suggesting but bang for buck it made sense and was still under budget) because it had all the lights that the seller could shove in it. No real judgement if that’s your style and you have the money, but it just upset me to have spent time doing research for them only to have them ignore all of that because they failed to mention that lights were important.

Iit will likely be taken out of her estate unfortunately. What a great point. As if her son hasn’t lost enough.

I couldn’t agree more. Things might have turned out similarly regardless, but there’s a non-zero chance that without it the patriot act, the second bush term, and the following collapse of civil liberties would not have occurred, or at least would have taken more time or a different path. Sometimes you see people say al-Qaeda won that day and though I don’t think anyone really won, sine it and the aftermath were devastating worldwide, they certainly had some of their aims accomplished.

I’m not acting like there’s only one country in the world and nothing in my comment would suggest I think the US was omnipotent and wonderful, unless you think racism and Islamophobia and turning against other countries is somehow wonderful.

If I see a post that talks about how too many parents are giving their kids tablets, my first thought is not “there are so many places where no one even owns a tablet, stop generalizing”. This is a random meme, not a manifesto on global issues. The term millennial isn’t even used globally and often different countries will have different ideas of what a generation is and what to call it. In South Africa some “millennials” would be part of the “born-free generation”, in Northern Ireland you might call them “Peace Babies”, in china “Post 90s”. Terms from the US might make their way abroad, but “baby boomers” certainly was not a phenomenon in every country. Getting upset that someone is using a US made term in a meme in English on a site where the plurality of the traffic is from the US is a weird choice. I don’t know if Ukrainians consider themselves millennials but it seems like people who did at least some sociology have made the following divisions: the Soviet generation (age 60 years and older), who were 30 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed; second, the transition generation (45–59 years old), who were educated and launched in the Soviet Union; third, the post-Soviet generation (30–44 years old), who were educated in independent Ukraine and have little memory of the USSR; and fourth, the young generation (18–29 years old), who have no memory or experience of the USSR.

Again, I don’t know what is the most popular term in Ukraine, but it’s clear that generations mean different things to different people and using millennials in a US centric way is pretty standard. It’s not our place to act like we can use our sociology names for social cohorts globally and have that be reasonable. So if anything the use of the term to describe US sentiments (or other countries that feel like their experience aligns closely enough) is a good way to honor other countries and cultures agency and autonomy.

Then why are they flocking to the military and the church instead of mutual aid organizations and general interest groups?

Plenty of people (including young men) want hope and community, and are finding it through means that don’t involve violence and suppression. If you don’t support violence and suppression on some level, you won’t seek community with people who do.

Does economics play a factor? Sure, but the other commenter said “many” not all or even the majority, and there’s little evidence to the contrary showing that these men are actually interested in patriotism and godliness and not the other aspects of these outlets. They don’t want to give up their vices, they just like that some churches say they should own women. They don’t want to protect their country and its values, they want to commit acts of violence. Maybe they feel this way because of the current economic and social climate, but acting as though they don’t feel this way is naive.

I don’t know how old you were during 9/11 but it was an awful time to grow up. Out of nowhere you were being bombarded with messages of hate towards of nebulous group of “others”. The country overnight decided that unabashed Islamophobia was in vogue (previously there was still hate but not as outright). Think the Asian hate during covid but ramped up to 11. Your country was changing (at least from a young persons perspective) and all the sudden our allies were not to be trusted (remember freedom fries?). The US became embroiled in what was ostensibly a forever war for no reason.

It wasn’t the worst thing, but people were going to war again and that was very clear and very scary. The financial crashes probably take the spotlight since they affected a lot more Americans directly and it’s possible that everyone knew someone who lost or had to leave their home, but 9/11 changed the country in unmistakable ways and it was scary to watch and then have to witness the fallout without really having much understanding and certainty no agency. I don’t think the meme is saying all of these things are equally bad. Just pointing out that these were major events and possible inflection points in history that didn’t break in favor of justice.

Valid points. Thank you for your insight.

Would you mind elaborating why it’s a bad fit? No shade to Lemmy, but if anything I feel like that would be a worse fit. People always talk about how the best part of Reddit was the niche subs, and a big issue here is that now instead of one small community you end up with 50 communities that all have one subscriber each. Also, there’s a lot of reposting and cross posting to the same community on separate instances. Instances on what is functionally a more social network like mastodon make more sense, so you could for example have all players of a specific team on an instance just for that specific team, or government employees on a government instance. Make up and beauty influencers could for example be all on another instance, making their work easier to find.

I was never on any microblog sites though, so maybe I don’t really understand them.

OP is a bot or basically exclusively using ChatGPT for posts/comments. I would suggest not engaging with them. They are not here in good faith.

This is a bot or someone using ChatGPT for all their comments. Do not engage with them. They are not here in good faith.