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- Comment on Suggestion 11 hours ago:
Tbh, this meme should go on that index, because 460 likes on instagram is nothing compared to ~120 (so far) upvotes on Lemmy.
- Comment on Always nice to have a guest room 11 hours ago:
I was typing out a question about what this is referencing, and then it occurred to me. Cowabunga, dude!
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 days ago:
But it’s not completely covered in fur. A partially hairy sphere doesn’t need a cowlick.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 days ago:
Unless the mole just doesn’t have hair on its face or ass or somewhere, then it’s possible to comb all hairs flat.
That is the case, it has bald patches around its mouth and, uh, hands. I don’t want to look up pictures of mole ass, but I can’t imagine the anus itself is hairy, that would be a biohazard trap in the environment moles live in.
- Comment on Oink 4 days ago:
More importantly, how do we know that he knows it’s a kink?
- Comment on Make it stop 4 days ago:
What a great term!
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 days ago:
That’s up to you, I much prefer Mrs. Ms. feels somehow condescending to me.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 days ago:
Correct. I didn’t say there was an r sound, but that it was going off of the spelling. I agree there’s no r sound.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 days ago:
That came later though, as in “I had dinner with the Mrs last night.”
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 days ago:
Mrs. originally comes from mistress, which is why it retains the r.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 days ago:
I don’t, but it’s abbreviated with one.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 6 days ago:
I know there’s no logic, but it’s funny to imagine it’s because it’s pronounced Mrs. Sippy
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
I think your server might contain a hint as to why…
Not that you’re necessarily Canadian or in Canada, but you probably get more Canadian-centric posts on your local feed.
- Comment on ??? 1 week ago:
This was posted by someone else yesterday, but I didn’t save their comment
- Comment on Every day 1 week ago:
The good sun giveth and the good sun taketh away 🤷
- Comment on Too many complaint posts, do this instead. 1 week ago:
Huh, good to know. I wasn’t planning on sucking my thumb, but there are probably other things to avoid with that in mind. I’ll look into that book.
- Comment on Ach aye, Scottish words for plants 1 week ago:
Wait, I don’t speak Italian, is the meaning of porci in ingrassaporci being pork and porci in insalata di porci being pig distinguished by the lack of preposition and the formation of a compound word or is it just a known thing?
- Comment on Too many complaint posts, do this instead. 1 week ago:
Out of curiosity, even if you do it for less than an hour a day as an adult? I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I’d be surprised if occasionally doing it after your bones have finished growing would cause huge problems. I don’t know anything about dentistry or anything relevant though, so I could totally be wrong.
- Comment on frienemies 1 week ago:
That sounds like it could have been written by Pratchett
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
I was once called down to the principal’s office and told I would be expelled from my Catholic school because in spite of my catholic upbringing, I was an atheist (in the US, at a time when this was obviously unconstitutional, given that the school accepted non catholic students of other religions). They called my dad and had me wait in the hall outside the principal’s office. For context, my dad’s an agnostic who doesn’t harbor any positive views towards the Catholic Church, but is a huge fan of educators and would always side with the teacher, no matter how unfair they were being.
My dad went straight in without acknowledging me and spoke with them inaudibly for about a minute, before the secretary came out and sent me back to class. I never heard anything about it from the school again and when my dad got home, he just said I didn’t need to worry about it. Decades later, he still won’t tell me exactly what happened, but I honestly think he might have forgotten and doesn’t want to admit it.
- Comment on Maybe need a little ivermectin for that. 2 weeks ago:
I’m an American living in Germany and married to a German. The first time I brought him to the US, he thought we paid way too much for gas because he forgot it wasn’t by liter.
He’s been driving for over twenty years and he’d never seen as low a price as the ones posted right next to the airport in New York City.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
Is that usher?
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Yes about the Schlager, lol
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, having birthright citizenship makes a huge difference, imo. I’m from the US, which is obviously not currently immigrant friendly, but at least had the veneer of such when I was growing up (at least from my childhood perspective), and it’s hard to tell whether birthright citizenship or the idea of an “immigrant nation” played a bigger role in the difference between the two.
Germany and England do have specific and individual cultures that are worth protecting, but cultural exchange doesn’t inherently destroy extant cultures and if you follow the roots of any tradition far back enough, you’ll find influences from outside cultures.
I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but I got a feeling similar to what I imagine compersion to feel like (I’m not poly) when I saw a group of women wearing full hijabs integrated into their Karneval costumes bringing their costumed kids to a Faschingsparade. It was such a clear image of cultural blending that I got a little sappy about it.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
It’s an incredibly sensitive topic for both ethnic Germans and descendants of Gastarbeiter (as well as for people who are both, obviously), and I’m an autistic foreigner, so I’m trying to be delicate, but I might be missing the mark.
It seems to me that it created a group of people treated as second-class who weren’t given the tools to do well in the German education system, and systemic discrimination solidified that. I hear complaints from (some, racist) Germans that immigrants haven’t integrated, but how could they (obviously there are individuals who integrate under those circumstances, but that’s not going to work with a wave of immigrants from the same country- they’ll just form cultural enclaves, because they won’t get community support otherwise)?
For more recent immigrants, like my coworker from Syria, who’s been in Germany for nine years as a refugee, the choice is between staying a refugee (the German government could at any time say that Syria is safe again and send him back with a few days’ notice) and applying for residency outside of his claim for asylum, thereby giving up his right to asylum (so if they say no, he’d also have to go back with a few days’ notice). His wife and their daughter are in the same position. How on earth can anyone expect him not to teach his daughter Arabic? She might at any point have to move to Syria.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
That was the original plan, which caused a lot of the trouble the Germany currently has. There weren’t big programs for immigrants to learn German until decades after the original Gastarbeiter had arrived. There was no effort at all of integrating them or their children until basically an entire generation had already come, settled, and retired. Even aside from cultural aspects, a lot of the descendants of Gastarbeitern don’t have German citizenship. It’s fucking wild to me that someone could be the third generation of their family born in a country and still not be given citizenship.
I’m an immigrant and a German teacher, so I’m probably biased, but that’s not the way to go about things.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Those came after WWII, from the Gastarbeitern who helped rebuild Germany
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Going off of the shape and what I know of Germany today, beer bottles.
- Comment on buddy of mine is in a horrible mood 2 weeks ago:
I always want to point out that I’m a normie, then I start thinking of criteria and shut my mouth.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 2 weeks ago:
We gossip about our coworkers, shared hobbies, and upcoming plans together.
