It can. Maybe yours does. Maybe mine did by default. Mine ignores vote weights and sorts both the home feed (either Subscribed or All) and the comment feed by newest first.
I can vote, I see the arrows, but I don’t see vote weight and vote weight has no affect on how I read Lemmy.
I can’t imagine a bat using a phone, but I’ve seen plenty of children laying on a bed with their head hung over the foot or side of the bed (so if you approached, you’d be upside-down to them) and they’re holding their tablet upside-down so they can see it.
Hurts my neck to even think about it.
Columbine happened in the 1990s. I remember when they came out with the DOOM map for it. In the 90s. I never actually played it, but I kinda wanted to.
I feel like if Blood came out after Columbine, they would have had a school level. They did have a grocery store level. Blood was more like Duke Nukem 3D, way more advanced than DOOM, but still that same generation (what people now call boomer shooters).
“Sweet Home Alabama” jokes aside, if you mean “someone else’s mother,” it means you have a step-child.
If you’re (I know, not you, OP, but rather, the person you heard about) 17 and dating an adult who has a 12-year-old daughter, that’s gonna cause some friction because the age range is so close there. She’s not gonna be a stepdaughter, she’s gonna be more like a stepsister. She’s not gonna see a teenage boy as a father figure. She might even try to kiss him to get between them (or because she’s curious). Yeah, it’s not something you wanna think about it, but you can bet she’s thought of it.
Any time you date someone with a kid, regardless of the age gap between the two people dating, or the gap between the non-parent and their dating partner’s child, the first thing to note is that the child will always come first in priority in their parent’s life. If not, they’re not a good parent, and won’t make a good partner, either. Specifically referring to people who date abusive partners, and look the other way when that person abuses their child — or blames the child, or accuses the child of initiating the abuse.
But assuming everyone is good and acting in good faith, even though it’s not “your” kid, if you have long-term plans with the kid’s mum, you have to plan on that being your kid as well. If you’re not ready to sign papers and adopt that child as your own, you really have no business sleeping with his or her mum. You should be honest that this isn’t long-term and you’re not ready to commit to having a family and be honest that way. You can still hook up with the mum. You can even be friends with the kid. But don’t string the mum along, and don’t give the kid false hope that they can trust another adult if they can’t.
And regarding having another child, never put the child you have together over the child your partner already had. If the previous child says “of course you love them more, they’re your child,” you have to reassure them somehow that they’re your child as well and you’ll always be there for them regardless of blood relation.
If you record your dog talking to (barking at) you and play it back, the dog will think it’s another dog barking at them, and they will bark back. Tested with a Jack Russell terrier. They’re high strung by nature, but I imagine it’ll work with any breed prone to barking into a camera (not all of them will). Of course, the dog has no concept of self. It’s always another dog.
We do have a sense of self, and it’s often not how others see us. Consider that what you think of as you is only how you see yourself. It’s partly what you see in the mirror, but it’s also mixed with your ideals, who you want to be, and your shame, reflections of past mistakes. If you have a partner/lover, they see you differently. They tend to amplify your virtues and minimise your flaws. Same if you have a friend, but they still see a different side of you. Parents are stranger still; we tend to see our child for a few stand-out events in their lives. Not just parents, but anyone who’s raised a child from one age to another; as they develop, we latch onto one moment. I have two cousins I helped raise, and I always see the oldest one at 4-5 because that’s when we were closest. The younger one, I see at either 8 or 15 because those were her best years. They’re in their early to mid 30s now. Obviously I see them as women (and as mothers) but in my mind, they’re the children I helped raise. Ergo, I don’t use profanity around them. If I partook in vices like smoking and drinking, I would not do those things in their presence. (Plus, I was always the reliable adult when all the other adults were getting shitfaced, not that it was ever abusive AFAIK, but I was the sane voice in the room, so I wouldn’t want to jeopardise that.)
For a far simpler explanation, none of us actually sound how we think we sound. The camera does not lie, but we lie to ourselves.