Board games. Either just standard board games and chat while you play, or something like wavelength, that’s a question, or herd mentality to actually get to know people through the game.

My knowledge on them has its limits

There are a lot of people in this community, as well as lemmy as a whole, who are very anti genAI. From the environmental impact, to the ip infringement, to the honestly just shit output, it has not got a good reputation here.

You’re best of using a photo or art done by real people - either your own, commissioned from an artist, or publicly available stuff. If you’re adamant on using genAI, you’ll get better answers from a community specific to ai.

I went to Europe when I was 11, but now that I’m an adult and have an appreciation for history I’d love to go back. Me and my fiance have talked about traveling at some point. The main destinations are Ireland and Scotland, because our families are from there

I have an office job, but I work with a lot of tradies.

A ute with no mud on it. Either it’s brand new, or they have no idea what the point of a ute is, so they bought an overpriced car which is worse for them than an average station wagon

Or if you know a farmer, a paddock is also a good option

Mods should be an improvement on a good game, not a fix on a bad one

Hard disagree. I can’t think of anything less short signed or selfish than raising a generation to be better than the previous

For sure. I’m getting married in about 6 months, and we’ve already agreed we want to have kids, but that we don’t want them right away.

Tabletop/party games? How big is the group? I could probably recommend half a dozen games for any group size up to 20

My brain just went to “you were trying to cross the border right? Same as us, and that thief over there”

Honestly, princess bride. I’m usually not all that into rom com type movies, but princess bride is a masterpiece

Usually only if there’s something good as part of the credits (eg. Portal 1 & 2)

I’m just saying I wouldn’t mind hearing what Jeffery epstien would say over the clean air act

Not what I’m saying. My point is that one flaw, even one as terrible as pedophilia, doesn’t influence all of a person’s opinions. Sure, I wouldn’t ask Gandhi for his views on healthy relationships, and having learned about this I have lost pretty much all respect for him as a person. But his opinions on international politics should be reasonable because of his role as a leader of a protest movement, and likely aren’t impacted by him being a pedo.

With your Epstien example, is there reason to think his opinions on climate science are more well informed than the average person’s? Do you think his role of running his pedo island would impact his views on topics like the clean air act?

The trouble with your line of thinking is that we’d run out of acceptable people’s opinions really quickly. No one is perfect, and it will usually be possible to frame someone’s flaws in a way that makes them a horrible person in all aspects and never worth hearing out. When it gets to “Bob is a racist, Jim is a pedo, Fred is a domestic abuser” (to be clear, in not saying these are equally bad or anything, just some examples of ‘this person is inherently bad because of one thing’) and so on about everyone, who’s left to be worth discussing things with?

the dude was a pedo

How is that related to his opinions on international politics? Just because someone is terrible in one aspect of their life, doesn’t mean the rest of their ideas have to be thrown out.

Hospital is good if they’ve taken action towards suicide (eg. tried to overdose, or jumped but survived), but it’s terrible for someone who just backed out. Imagine you’ve just gone through pretty much the worst experience possible, then you have to put up with the noise and business of ED.

If “getting rid of the USA” is all you think the is to life, might I suggest getting one?

Does it need to be net spending, or can I just buy and sell things really fast?