Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? - Lemmy.World

I have been thinking on how to celebrate my birthday, I thought of inviting my parents to my favorite restaurant. When I brought it up, they were all upset “why don’t you invite us to your home? Why don’t you cook for us? Restaurant is all reheated food, home cooked fresh food is much better” etc. We have lived in Europe for almost my whole life, I don’t really understand what’s wrong with going out to eat or why they expect me to invite them to my house and prepare a festive meal on my birthday.

How would you deal with right wing parents? - Lemmy.World

For some context, we are first generation immigrants. My parents are Russian, my mother and her husband have been living here for 20 years (even got rid of Russian citizenship couple years ago), my biological father is still living in Russia. It’s damn exhausting to discuss political topics with them, especially my father. He keeps telling me how great it is to live in Russia, how their economy is doing great and how he’s proud that they are defending their “brothers” in Donezk and Luhansk from the evil bandera regime in Ukraine. My mom voted far right in the past election. She doesn’t believe she voted for nazis, but the party’s views on economics, climate policy and immigration seem to align with hers. She believes wind farms are harmful for the environment. What the actual fuck. Whenever I try to argue with them, they tell me that I’ve been brainwashed by “Western propaganda”. I’m at a loss. I love my parents and I know that nobody’s immune to propaganda, but it’s heartbreaking to see them holding these toxic beliefs. How would you deal with parents like these? Should I just declare to never talk about politics with them again since it’s pointless?

Which Yakuza/Like a dragon games are a must play? - Lemmy.World

I’ve already completed Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami, am currently about 15 hours into Kiwami 2. I fell in love with the franchise after playing Yakuza 0 and initially wanted to play each game chronologically at least up until Yakuza 7/ Like a dragon, but I keep seeing new games releases and spinoffs that look very interesting, such as Judgement, Ishin, and most recently Pirates in Hawaii. With my full-time job and other adult responsibilities I can’t possibly hope to get to play all of them, else I’ll never catch up to the current releases. Are there any titles you suggest I should skip? Are there any “absolutely must play no matter what” titles?

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can't upload images from pixel 8 pro - Lemmy.World

Hi there, I’ve got this issue that when I try to upload an image it just doesn’t work. It doesn’t give me any error messages, the image is simply not uploaded. I click upload and nothing happens. If it’s a screenshot, sometimes it’ll work, sometimes it won’t. Connect doesn’t give me any feedback if the image is uploading at all, or if the request was denied or ignored or whatever. The issue seems to be worse when trying to upload an image in a comment. Has anybody else encountered this problem?

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I miss rif - Lemmy.world

I used to browse reddit on rif for years before the official app even released. The official app is like “can I have a reddit, mom?” - “we have reddit at home” Reddit at home: takes an eternity to load even if it’s a text post, keeps recommending me stuff I didn’t sub to, full of ads, screen is filled with full sized images so it takes a lot longer to see posts that I’m willing to click on… I miss rif. I used to lurk and look at memes on rif all the time, occasionally asking for advice on relationships or jobs or whatnot. I’m considering quitting reddit altogether, just found out about Lemmy. Is there a lotr memes or prequel memes community over here?