zlatiah

@zlatiah@lemmy.world

• If you speak a second language better than your native language, would you describe your second language skill as "native" or "fluent"?
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• Every Author as First Authorarxiv.org ↗
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• Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I… think this question is a bit more complicated for this community. Following are only my personal opinion

  Prescribed medication? I think so, I’d rather be physically and mentally healthy rather than have the other alternative. And usually medication (even ones with noted negative effects) are meant do do more good than harm so…

  Recreational drugs… the line between this and the above is surprisingly not as clear-cut as it seems. I believe there are active lines of study of using various psychedelic compounds to treat mental disorders or other conditions… Personally I would take medically prescribed psychedelics if I am 1) under medical supervision and 2) based on evidence it would help my mental health (maybe that’s the answer to the question?)

  Hard drugs: I don’t see how they can make anyone a better person, and no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, it's me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of this post of the same community: lemmy.world/post/4492190

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having fun with text scams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my… I had a slightly similar incident. Had a bunch of random strangers texting me (some even calling!) asking for Ethan. My name is not Ethan, I didn’t know who Ethan is

  No idea what was on my mind back then, but I somehow got the contact info of this mysterious Ethan, called him (hilarity ensued since he got a call from someone on his contact list named “Me”), confirmed his up-to-date number, and promptly referred everyone looking for Ethan to the real person for over a year…

  Life is strange sometimes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I think this is it… because I guess the more important part to this trope is that “hehe this is actually the world that you - dear viewer - lives in”… the high-fantasy part is secondary and depends on the genre I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I… agree. Did get a lot of great recommendations tho!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  East Asia; again, never heard anyone refer to “24/7” specifically (ok maybe at more hipster places that try to imitate American businesses?)… There might be a similar idiom for it but I genuinely couldn’t think of any off the top of my head

• Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have actually never heard anyone say it this way specifically where I grew up… so technically the answer is “no”?

  I tried to dug around and found a Reddit post saying this:

  “The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the term as “twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week; constantly”. It lists its first reference to 24/7 to be from a 1983 story in the US magazine Sports Illustrated in which Louisiana State University player Jerry Reynolds describes his jump shot in just such a way: 24-7-365.”

  So this might be a fairly new idiom? Which would explain why it’s not really a thing in a lot of cultures… but I assume they have their ways of referring to this.

  number of hours and days are the same

  Ok akktually Japan has a rather interesting 30-hour day thing in the context of businesses… but jokes aside, the 24-hour, 7-day week system is indeed quite universal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do allergies feel like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I realized that I had allergies during the height of the pandemic… so the short answer is it gave me way too much unnecessary stress because I was constantly worried whether I got COVID-19.

  • Depends… I felt most times it was just “am I really sure I have a viral infection or is this just allergy?”, there was once or twice when it got really bad though.
  • There was once when I had such a bad allergy that my eyes both flared up and I could barely see… It was bad enough that I reached out to the allergy department of my provider as soon as I was functional & got me into immunotherapy.
  • Not meds, but I did 3+ years of immunotherapy: 1+ year of getting allergen injections every week (thankfully still had a car back then), and then once per month of maintenance after I reached the highest dose. Had to stop because of relocation/insurance nonsense… but I think the treatment worked.
  • No you’re not being a big baby, please take your health seriously and stay safe & healthy.