It’s fine that you feel upset, everyone has emotions. It’s what we do with them that matters. It’s a good thing you asked here and that the responses mostly aren’t hurtful.

If you don’t feel like you can talk to your girlfriend about it, I invite you to go to a mosque and try to get to know a few Muslims. Or if you have Muslim friends, try to talk to them about relationships and about women dating. Also, if you do want to talk to your girlfriend about it, try to be the listener. Do not push back, try to be understanding, give a space where she feels comfortable to go into the details. Just don’t pressure her.

This is a good relationship to discover how you deal with discomfort regarding the issue of acceptance by others. It will give you an opportunity to practice. You might handle it well, take the advice you got from here and apply it successfully. You might also end up without a girlfriend, but that’s all part of the journey. You’ll get to know yourself better.

Good luck.

Does lemmy have reddit cookies? That doesn’t sound right…

How do they know that you’re going between them? Are you clicking on lemmy links in reddit?

You’re all my friends

Is it working better for the rest of the world?

FBI agent playing a prank on you

Pro, of course. I’ll side with my fridge.

That’s some inventive title creation. Does Sydney know about this?

If your joke might be offensive to anyone, its probably best to save it for outside of the workplace if you share it at all.

That’s not good advice. Any joke can be offensive to someone - especially when people are committed to being offended.

Hmmm… that’s nominally better. Which user would respond to a PII request from an admin? I for sure wouldn’t. Would you? And servers could run their own bots too, no need to pretend on a browser.

But I do agree that with control of admin and choice who to federate with, it is possible to reduce the number of bots. Eliminating them is not possible, IMO. I’d be surprised if there’s any defence against a bot that can control a browser and maybe even go as far as pretend to use a mouse.

Oops. Reverse question then. Why can we observe it on lemmy? How can we do that? Can’t bots operate web browsers? How would they be detectable?

K, that’s pretty tan.

Why can’t we observe it on lemmy?

I just don’t get why you’re asking about reddit here and asking about bot detection on lemmy. Are you actually worried that you don’t know whether you’re talking to a bot on lemmy and not reddit? It’s just confusing to me.

On reddit?

SuperOwl is a great community. So many owl facts.

I’ve had friends tell me about the same thing happening to them. One particular friend tried to call another one who had become a mom (it was planned) and the mom gave the phone to the kid. The friend politely told them that they wanted to talk to them, not the kid and asked whether there was a better time to call. It went over well.

People really can be quite touchy about their kids, but you can be direct, it’s not like it would change much for you. Just say that you’re not really a baby person and would enjoy the time talking to her. Ask her if there’s a date and time that’s convenient for her without the kids. If she gets offended, then that’s her problem and you can write her off. If she’s understanding, that’s great!

None of them on the fediverse :/

Climate change? WWIII? I dunno…

I did not, no. Thanks for pointing it out.