AbsolutelyClawless
@AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
I personally don’t use Idealo, but I’ve seen it. Good heads-up.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
Gonna guess Idealo and Geizhals. They don’t cover everything, but they’re pretty decent, yeah.
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just animal noises 2 weeks ago:
My father’s counterargument to my refusing to procreate is exactly this. “Who’s going to take care of you when you’re old?” What that told me is his main reason for having kids was to have someone do that for him. Funny, because despite having lived under the same roof, he wasn’t much in my life, or has made any positive inpact on me. Everything was on mom (and sometimes grandmother). And now listening to him talk like some day I will move back to the country and abandon my entire life to take care of him/them, while right at this moment he’s being extremely financially irresponsible? Cool cool cool. My partner’s mother expects the same, all the while she doesn’t work at all because it’s beneath her.
With that said, I find having children for the sole purpose of them taking care of me in my old age not only selfish (especially with the imminent climate colapse), it’s also risky (and I’m not even talking cases where the child has disabilities and can’t take care of their own needs). And that’s in the case I even live that long.
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 weeks ago:
It’s the melon fucker.
- Comment on Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere? 5 weeks ago:
7 years in another EU country for me.
My home country has continued to rapidly decline in QoL, so going back isn’t really in the cards. I don’t feel at home there at all, except for no language barrier and just knowing the culture and how to navigate it. But to be honest, I’ve always wanted to emigrated, I just hated the average backwards mentality.
I don’t exactly mind the country I live in, but the language barrier keeps things difficult. I had to learn the language in a short amount of time, but it caused a bad burnout, and all the progress went down the drain. Now between being employed and health and other life things, it looks like I’ll never actually learn the language. And the (family) history (kind of) repeats itself.
- Comment on Ballin' too hard 5 weeks ago:
Been there. Another job, got constantly teased by male coworkers and had to pretend I found it funny just so they would get bored quicker.
Mentally sending daggers in your coworkers’ direction, and hoping you find a better environment.
- Comment on Ballin' too hard 5 weeks ago:
Kind of the same. My coworkers aren’t bad people or anything, but… I work in a male-dominated field. I’m the only woman in my office and department. IYKYK.
- Comment on Takes one to know one 5 weeks ago:
Damn, it’s just a name in my region, never seen it in that light 😂
- Comment on No cap Fr Fr 1 month ago:
Ah, now I get it, thanks 😂
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
Circumcision is and should only be a medically necessary procedure. I’ve never heard anyone say medically necessary circumcision is mutilation, but I’m from Europe where most men aren’t circumcised, so there’s that. Whoever says it’s mutilation when it’s medically justified is ignorant.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 month ago:
(I’m not an Amrican, but) This comment explains it. It’s two similar cakes. The original picture is a joke about the number of “leche” you get.
- Comment on First Satellites 1 month ago:
To expand a bit, it comes from a Proto-Slavic word which was used for foreigners in general, but mostly to refer to Germans. It’s also why most (all?) Slavic languages have basically the same word for German(s)/Germany, similar-sounding to the modern Russian one.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 months ago:
In this case it would be an intolerance, and those you really do have to find on your own, unfortunately. And figuring it out can be extremely difficult.
- Comment on Make a note 2 months ago:
I had a homemade edible once and was explicitly told to take only half because it was strong. It had 0 effect. Years later I visited Amsterdam and decided to try again. The guy told me to only take a quarter for starters. I followed the instructions, but again felt nothing, so I ended up eating over half. Well, this time it actually did work. Awful experience. I was blacking out, super paranoid, super nauseous and dizzy. 0/10 would not do again, lol.
- Comment on I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate) 3 months ago:
This is what I use my Karakeep instance for haha
- Comment on Acciracy 3 months ago:
Japanese English textbooks can be very wrong, very hilarious and very strange at times, so who knows.
- Comment on Acciracy 3 months ago:
I’m sorry to disappoint.
- Comment on Just say the word 3 months ago:
Yeah, I get the guilt. I, too, had it when I was unemplyoed and wasn’t financially independent.
- Comment on Just say the word 3 months ago:
I know a few stay at home partners/spouses and all act the same: highly demanding and think they’re better than everyone else because their partners are high earners despite never achieving anything in life. That’s why it personally gives me the ick. Kudos to anyone who is in that situation, but doesn’t act entitled.
- Comment on Just say the word 3 months ago:
How do people feel about stay at home spouses without kids? Is that something that is generally frowned upon?
- Comment on Tacos for dinner 3 months ago:
I’d say “Mexican” food sucks in most European countries. I had exactly what you had in several places here. The only thing I’ve ever had that I could call real Mexican food was the tacos I ate from a food stand made by an actual Mexican in Netherlands.
- Comment on Listen up 4 months ago:
On a serious note, I know someone who had a corrective surgery as a teen to “fix” his ears, and I genuinely think he looked better before. Now his other uneven facial features come in focus much more. Sometimes it just doesn’t make things better.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 months ago:
ITT: confidently incorrect people who can’t take 5 seconds to do an internet search, lol.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 months ago:
What are you even talking about? They both acquired it over Jure Sanguinis, both of them barely understand any Italian. They have dual Italian citizenship.
Nobody said anything about needing ancestors to live somewhere else.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 4 months ago:
This is the original. Polymer clay.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 4 months ago:
This is the original, 2011.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 4 months ago:
I found this image dating back to 2014, it’s probably even older, so not AI generated.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 months ago:
It’s not quite the same, but I know someone who acquired Italian citizenship because their grandparents were Italian/had Italian citizenship. They don’t even speak Italian.
- Comment on The Wall People 4 months ago:
At that point you count on either extended family support (or both sets of grandparents), older kids to take care of the younger siblings or for kids to fend for themselves. One kid is a lot if you don’t have family support, let alone 2 or more. Definitely to each their own, but I could never (especially as the person ij the relationship who would be popping those kids out).
