Droggelbecher

@Droggelbecher@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU nations agree a crackdown on migrant smugglers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU likes to frame being critical of it as being anti progress, but this right here is one of the reasons many leftists are critical of it, too.

  I know nobody alive today is responsible for colonialism, but we need to remember that the reason we’re wealthy is that our ancestors made these people poor and unsafe. There’s a responsibility to do better that comes with that fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But do they actually read and watch the books and dvds? Cause my mom doesn’t read, so books are just decorations to her

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My mum used to do this to my books in my room and I hated it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do linux users have wives?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you talking about irl Linux spaces? It that a thing? If not, how do you know there aren’t women in online Linux spaces? Fwiw I’m afab nb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatsapp just developed a new murder weapon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is how I find out I’ve also been doing high fives wrong half the time ;_;

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatsapp just developed a new murder weapon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been torn on whether it’s supposed to be a high five or praying hands. Is thank you really a common meaning?

  Emojis are pretty hard for my autistic ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, you’ll have to explain that to all your future partners

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imma spray you with one of those spaying water bottles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My demi experience: yeah sure I enjoy that. I enjoy gaming too. Either is nice to have, but if I can’t do it for a year, I won’t be thinking about it that much, ya know? I was shocked to find out how much people think about sex, and particularly shocked that they’ll see a stranger, acquaintance or friend and literally feel a desire to have sex with them? Like, how many people have imagined they’re having sex with me? Ew. Don’t do that to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A non US one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I was feeling bad for confiscating beer from 14 year olds at summer camp at 17 and then drinking it (drinking age 16).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROFL⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can say something like nice or good one, or react to the message with an appropriate or intentionally silly emoji

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve met lots of people who seem to hold the sentiment that if THEY managed to learn English, why can’t EVERYONE ELSE?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carcinisation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sharing because I was delighted to learn this: trees are also an example of convergent evolution. I’m personally rooting for us to become trees. Pun intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought of an example or two and corrected my comment to ‘tries to’ as I was typing haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im a high school maths teacher and that’s what we’re supposed to teach, % means percent, not percentage points. Maths always tries to have agreed-upon unambiguous definitions of things, precisely to avoid confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scalper economy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We should really start by limiting that. If we start treating housing as a basic right, which we should, there’s zero reason a company should be allowed to own housing to profit off of. It’s a far bigger problem than my landlady who owns five flats. We can talk about limits for people like her later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares how they survive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I quit uni today and applied for social security and unemployment pay I’d be way better off financially. A friend of mine actually did that for a semester when she was desperate, despite being a keen and interested student. Not being in education or training can be temporarily easier than being in education or training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I admire the way you can frame something that might be considered a bad thing into a good thing. That’s a good life skill to have. Best of luck to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks for the warning I guess??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My phone warns me I’ve been listening to music at a dangerous volume for a dangerous amount of time 100% of the time when I’m driving and listening via aux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon needs cooking advice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you forget to salt the pasta water, there’s no way of making it taste as if you had. And even if the salt dissolves well in the sauce, it won’t permeate whatever chunky things there might be in the sauce as if you’d salted a lit bit every step of the way. But yeah, it’ll be ok, even if it won’t be as good as it would have been. (I know you didn’t say it would be the same, just wanted to add).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Outside Simulator coming 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was like this about books as a teen, one time i accidentally pulled an all nighter on a school night. Well, I realized it was 5am and figured there’s no point in sleeping for 2 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Outside Simulator coming 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We had Minecraft and Lego as kids as well and still played outside a lot. I thought that mix was still mostly normal, is it not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "defense" avoided in reporting and rhetorics around Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does it mean? I’m not a native English speaker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "defense" avoided in reporting and rhetorics around Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite, because there’s also (justified) retaliation going on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "defense" avoided in reporting and rhetorics around Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also makes sense for good, honest journalists to use this language. Because they’re trying to be neutral and leaving the opinion forming up to the reader, as far as they can. They want to let the facts speak for themselves. Even if they’re pro Ukraine, they want the facts to convince you to be pro Ukraine, not their phrasing.

  So, regardless of whether they’re rage baiting, paid off by Russia, or trying to do honest journalists, it always makes more sense to use neutral language rather than having a pro Ukraine bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The g spot is in the ear canal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried cowashing before! I have a lot of hair, but thin individual strands, and it kinda made it too hydrated (idk how else to explain) so I lost my waves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The g spot is in the ear canal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you never use shampoo? I personally only even wet my hair once or twice a week, then wash with shampoo though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t want to go into it in the original comment, but yes. It is a relevant debate whether it’s vegan to swallow another humans semen, or even saliva. And yes, it is, if the human consents. Consent is the more or less the basis of whether vegans find it moral to consume something. Humans can give consent to sharing their fluids. Other animals cannot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bees make honey for their hive. Honey also does indeed contain bodily fluids from the bees.

  The bread making human consents to you taking the bread (presumably). Breast milk and other human bodily fluids can be vegan for the same reason.

  And insects pollinate plants not because they use the fruit, but for the nectar. They don’t care what happens after they leave the flower.