Lazylazycat
@Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 3 days ago:
I retired my 2003 VW last year after 15 years of service (F fallen comrade) but it couldn’t do 20mph in 3rd, only in 2nd.
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- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 5 days ago:
It isn’t about style. Women’s sizes (e.g. 8, 10, 12) originally came from codes based on the variations between hip, waist and bust measurements.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 5 days ago:
Generally, women are going to have boobs and wider hips and men generally have bigger feet. Obviously there’s a massive spectrum of human body shapes, but this is the big differentiation.
If I wear my (male) partner’s t-shirts, they’re just straight with no space for boobs and they don’t come in at the waist. Same with trousers, there’s a massive pouch in the crotch, too narrow on my hips and to loose at the waist. People like to wear things that best fit their bodies.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 6 days ago:
Thanks, I’m not from the US so have only seen little snippets.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 6 days ago:
People need to be sharing info here and through other channels. Pictures, videos, links to organised groups.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 1 week ago:
Yeah you shouldn’t have to, none of us should have to face prejudice. But talking to someone could help you learn how to deal with difficult situations, or manage your emotional reaction when something bad happens (I’m not trying to invalidate how you feel, feeling rage is justified, but finding more productive outlets for anger can be really helpful, I’ve found this for myself personally), or they can just be someone you can vent all these thoughts to about wanting to burn them all to the ground. They could also help you consider other practical/logistical solutions to problems you’re facing.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 1 week ago:
Well that’s a really good starting place :) If you did want to try therapy, being able to go in saying “I have these issues and I need to learn how to cope them” then you’ve got something to work on.
It would be helpful to find a therapist who is a specialist in trans issues, and hopefully they can help you work through what you’re struggling with. They can help you reflect on why you feel a certain way, or why certain things make you feel uncomfortable or how to cope with everyday things you have to face from other people. Sorry if I’m making any assumptions about what you need, but hopefully you get the gist of what I’m saying.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say it’s essential, more one option out of a whole bunch you could use to improve yourself (though we pay for many essential things like housing, water, food… Welcome to life as we know it).
Therapy isn’t going to “fix” anything. It’s a way of helping you reflect on yourself, see where your problems are, give you some perspective and start to see things differently. It can help you understand why you have certain behaviours and traits and work on unpicking them or unlearning them. But like I said, lots of other things can help you get there too, like meeting new people and having good chats, taking drugs that change your perspective, travelling, reading books. All of the above combined.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 1 week ago:
Therapy is one tool that can assist personal growth. You could also try reading into Stoicism or make friends you can talk to candidly or take some acid.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 1 week ago:
Who is most of the income you generate going to, if not a billionaire, or multi billionaires?
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 1 week ago:
There aren’t many wild camping spots in the UK, especially in forests. Definitely no raccoons either haha. This area would be more for walking or picnicking.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 1 week ago:
You don’t understand why a country full of oppressed people enslaved to billionaires would empathise with citizens of another country experiencing similar oppression? Why not?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
I have the exact same problem. I’ve maxed out my hardrive and every week or so it complains that there’s no storage space and I’m like, I HAVEN’T DOWNLOADED OR INSTALLED ANYTHING I MONTHS, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS YOU SHITTY OS! So I delete some stuff so it will continue to operate, maybe free up 1 or 2gb, and then a few weeks later it’s full again.
There also isn’t space to install Windows 11 😑 I only use it for DJing and I’m not sure you can run Rekordbox on Linux but I need to find out.
- Comment on Our workless young: a scandal we cannot ignore 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it has been at least since I was that age and I’m in my late 30s now. Basically, if you don’t have wealthy parents (or at the very least, parents you can share a house with), you’re fucked.
- Comment on Our workless young: a scandal we cannot ignore 3 weeks ago:
I mean, the current minimum wage for 18-21s is £8.60 an hour. I wouldn’t work for that either, it’s not like you could support yourself on that wage. If I had kids that age, obviously I’d want them to get an education but I also wouldn’t force them to work for a pittance.
- Comment on Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed 11 months ago:
I’m a buyer for a wholesaler and import a lot of food. I’m having to discontinue most of my imported dairy products now as this additional charge makes it no longer worth it.
Tories, the anti-business party.
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
Also women here, hi.
- Comment on Judges to rule on whether tenants in England have right to keep a pet 1 year ago:
How would this be any different if you owned the flat?
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- Comment on Rishi Sunak says people ‘can’t be any sex they want to be’ in new swipe at trans community 1 year ago:
What are you on about? When I (a woman) got eye surgery and put on a mixed ward afterwards to recover, how did it affect my treatment?
- Comment on How do you exit a dream? 1 year ago:
If I become aware I’m in a dream and want it to end, I usually try to focus on the feeling of my body in bed. Once I become conscious of my physical body it’s basically impossible to stay in the dream.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
What is there to disagree with? Women talking about assault and harassment? Yes, let’s go back to the good old days when we all pretended rape was fine or didn’t happen…
- Comment on New cars are great... 1 year ago:
Yeah you’re right I could probably do this! But I’m not sure I care enough about its appearance 😆
- Comment on New cars are great... 1 year ago:
I have one car, it’s 20 years old and I’ve had it since 2009. Sometimes I look and think, maybe it’s time to get one not covered in scratches with a dent in the back? But then I see posts like this and feel incredibly grateful this little banger has kept me on the road for so long.
- Comment on School absences: The school picking kids up from home to boost attendance 1 year ago:
I was in primary school in the early 90s and there’s no way my parents would have put little 4 year old me on a bus on my own.
- Comment on 'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team 1 year ago:
This is interesting, palm oil is hard to substitute but we can grow rapeseed easily in the UK. I hope we continue to hear more about this.
- Comment on While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 59% of the National Grid's electricity demand 1 year ago:
It’s was at 65% at 5pm today according to the link above.
- Comment on Senior Tories warn: if we can’t offer policies to win over young, we’re ‘sunk’ 1 year ago:
We can hope, but history say otherwise 😭
- Comment on Senior Tories warn: if we can’t offer policies to win over young, we’re ‘sunk’ 1 year ago:
Hopefully there will now be at least 3 generations of people who won’t vote Tory.