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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re technically voluntary but also socially expected. I’m not sure about birthday gifts in particular but Japan is a country where if you go on holiday somewhere you’re expected to bring a gift for each of your coworkers, and people will think worse of you for not doing that. I’d be kind of surprised if omitting birthday gifts for your romantic partner without prior agreement is a real option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's family tries to rein in grandma⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The equivalent would be instead of saying “the only good nazi is a dead nazi” you’re saying “the only good german is a dead german”. Or, alternatively, saying nazi to mean german.

  I don’t blame anyone for feeling uncomfortable with countries that have done horrific shit to them in the past, that’s normal and fine. Translating that into a blanket hatred for its current population is not (it isn’t in general, but it’s hard to truly blame someone for just not liking people from a country they’re currently at war with by default, it’s kinda the natural reaction and they probably have other shit to deal with)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporations are saving the planet!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only complaining about all the people that apparently regularly lost bottle caps. I don’t think that has happened to me ever… Not the end of the world and if it reduces litter I’ll deal with it but I curse these people every time one of the new caps is being annoying to screw back on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a tragedeigh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, I’m not 100% sure about this but afaik the + got commonly added before the IA, and I really dislike adding anything specific after a generalized “everyone who feels part of it” because doing that delegitimizes that the + actually means everyone. Though it also does suck if people feel excluded otherwise.

  I’ve seen queer used to refer to the whole community though, but I think LGBT(+whichever addendums) has just been around for so long it’s most people’s goto, plus “queer” used to be a slur.

  In my head it’s just “people not conforming to the majority group for sex or gender related reasons” and then I write whatever my brain decides is the term in that moment. Usually LGBTQ+.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, as someone relatively deep into lgbtq issues (particularly trans issues), I’d say the term itself is perhaps a bit misleading. The way I understand it and see it used is that it’s about heterosexuality and also gender norms within that traditional heterosexual relationship. In that sense (to directly relate to the post) a dominant woman in a relationship with a submissive man would actually go against heteronormativity.

  On second thought I guess I can see the relation though, in the sense that the traditional “man is dominant in a hetero relationship” combined with the fact that by default most men probably mostly top could make someone see “topping is considered dominant” to reinforce those traditional relationship norms. Still feels very overreactive by the original commenter but eh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heteronormative != heterosexual

  I fail to see any issue with the post (like fucking everyone associates topping with dom that doesn’t mean it has to be, and the image works), but it’s decidedly a complaint about social norms rather than a group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proof that fashion is cyclical, even in nature.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If humans are any indicator, they might also be doing things because they think it’s an advantage but actually does nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My prediction is that (barring a heavy left shift in politics, i.e. a linke grüne spd government or similar) it will keep getting more expensive until it becomes useless enough that cancelling it is no longer political suicide.

  It’s honestly insane to me that it seemingly wasn’t a huge topic in the election (at least I didn’t hear much about it), millions use it and many more benefit indirectly as it lead to better offers for local transport ticket subscriptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got something special for you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great in mobas where skills are universally referred to by their default binding on qwerty (since most layouts have qwer on those keys). So sometimes unaware french people talk about their a and z skills and everyone else is just confused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨want to be a woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dysphoria by definition is about feeling bad (wikipedia calls it “a profound sense of unease”, which seems pretty apt). It’s the opposite of euphoria after all.

  You can be trans without gender dysphoria though, nothing wrong with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you mean Kinder Joy that’s a different product that we have in europe as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regularly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does AI just generate a font now and use that for text? I’m asking because the letters seem to be entirely consistent which I don’t think would happen if the text was image-gend.

  There’s also a good chance it’s just the image that was AI generated and someone did manually add the text, easiest check might be to reverse search without the text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So far for me the game has done a great job of having recognizable landmarks at least. I might not always know where I am, but I’ll frequently come across something that orients me again.

  I despise being lost in video games, but claire obscure has been fine because I never feel like I get lost for too long. Just long enough to appreciate the gorgeous and very weird world I’m in.

  I still sometimes wish there was a map but it would probably be a net negative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's gonna be walking for a little bit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t actually know this (all my math knowledge comes from what my cs degree forced me to ingest) but google says yes (since natural numbers, being a countably infinite set, are apparently an example of the smallest possible cardinality of infinite sets, so any infinite subset of natural numbers is always the same cardinality.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's gonna be walking for a little bit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough that’s an example of two infinities that mathematically have the same cardinality (which is very often conflated with size since for general mathematical purposes that’s what it is) since you can map a bijection (i.e. every number in the first set has one and only one mapping in the second) between the two (and it’s as simple as f(n)=2n).

  And intuitively that makes about as much (or rather, little) sense as the infinite hotel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t stay in my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I eat all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not typical in all of europe at least. Dominos here offers 25, 28, or 32cm diameter, and most other pizzas I’ve had, fast food or not, have always been in that range as well (though I can only speak for germany and the netherlands, haven’t had fast food pizza elsewhere and I don’t even really remember how big the pizza I had in italy 10 years ago was). 40cm is family size here (one local place used to have 50cm family pizzas, which are definitely 2-3 slice per person territory).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsubscribe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I make significantly less than that and make more money than the median in both my own country (a decent bit more) and the US (a lot more). It is mathematically impossible for expenses that high to be the norm.

  If you have kids or other dependents like elderly or disabled family members in need of support, I’m sure it can get very expensive very fast, and it’s quite obvious the average american does not make enough money. But $250 a day is an insane number for an “average” person. Even if you pay 3k a month in rent idk how you would get to that number.

  Fwiw my own recurring daily expenses (disregarding things like saving for holidays and such bc otherwise it’s just my income) including saving up money as a safety net/for retirement are around 70€. More than triple that seems pretty unfathomable to me even in a country with even higher cost of living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a single person in my life has ever had an issue with the fact that i prefer to be texted and reserve phone calls for more immediate issues. My time belongs to me and no one else so I have no obligation to answer people, and text is faster to parse for me and always has a protocol available if I need it later.

  Calling someone isn’t disrespectful. Calling someone that has made it clear they do not want to be called except for emergencies is. In my case I’d just mute all calls from them after it happens the second time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is. Since the cake is in the shape of a 1, unless you want the name to be sideways when you look at it in the correct orientation, you have to write it vertically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wish there was a toggle for it like there is on phones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only this was true, but for some reason midnight is 12 am. And noon is 12 pm (I’m aware that the reason is that 12:00:00.00001 is in the second half of the day. I just think it should be called 0 pm).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time I search a windows error⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have very positive experience with that thing actually. It fixed many a wifi issue for me (interestingly, while also saying it couldn’t find the issue. It just fixed it. Probably ran something as part of its diagnostics that happened to also fix the problem)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea pretty much. I have no idea if going inside just to throw stuff away is considered ok (always felt a bit weird) but for the most part it’s not too bad to find a place to throw stuff away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t even have that, they just have seperate bins for cans and bottles and people use them, and the only public places to throw away trash are in convenience stores. Which tbf exist like every 400m.

  There are exceptions but generally people just keep the city clean because they want to (and social pressure).

  Bottle/can deposit system can do a lot to make bins less full though. Japan just doesn’t seem to need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being scared isn’t really something you can control. So I think what matters is whether that affects how she treats men.

  As someone who also is quite scared of strangers when no one is around, I mostly just avoid that situation to begin with. If that’s not possible or it’s just too severe, it’s definitely something where looking into professional help could help her, if it’s available. Though not listening to true crime podcasts would probably be a good start…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I’ve only watched the first one but I think on its own, ignoring the book it’s based on, it wasn’t that bad. It (and the sequels) are just hated because of how utterly and thoroughly they shit on the books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves sunny days⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Granted I think my heat intoletance is abnormal and when I get a doctor that doesn’t dismiss it out of hand I want to see if there’s a reason, but simply sitting in my chair at my pc in 22°C in t shirt and shorts is uncomfortably warm for me. 40 is just awful. Then again I barely notice a difference for anything above ~28, it’s all horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an example⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao what

  If you don’t want one and people make fun of you for that that is still shitty. Also it’s entirely possible to want one but just not enough to go actively looking. The only person that would be allowed to make that joke without being very certain he doesn’t mind would be anon himself. Society’s ultra focus on relationships and sex can feel bad enough without your fucking family making fun of you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik they all kill you by being introduced into your bloodstream, the difference is mainly how they’re able to accomplish getting there. So any poison will kill you if you inject it, but venom will mostly be safe to ingest barring any wounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  K is just shifted °C though and just removes what’s nice about it with freezing/boiling of watee while requiring 3 digit numbers for every temperature you’d encounter in daily life. I think I’d rather use Fahrenheit