TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Seanut Putter Jandwich 3 days ago:
Now listen here you little shit
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 1 week ago:
He finally flipped it inside out last year.
- Comment on Dinner is ready 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never related to trypophobia at all before just now. Now I get it.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely not too weird a question!
There are plenty of introverted Americans who hate how extraverted it is here. And the U.S. definitely isn’t “superior” to Germany in that way (or any other particular way.)
Also, there’s a difference between introversion, shyness, social anxiety, an avoidant and/or schizoid and/or schizotypal personality type, an avoidant attachment style, hikikomori/shutins, autism, and plenty of other sorts of socially-averse sorts of temperments. Some are “problems”, some aren’t. Given the way you’re talking about yourself, it sounds like what you’re experiencing is something you’d like to change about yourself. I do think it’s worth introspecting a bit (see what I did there?) and seeing to what extent your desire to change is internalized shame put on you by others and to what extent changing your presentation in the world would lead to a truer expression of your true self. But assuming the latter is the case…
Practice. Even if Germany is a pretty introverted place (and that’s valid – there are definitely differences regionally with regard to how introverted or extraverted the culture is) there are definitely places/events/gatherings/etc that are more expressions of extraversion than others. Immerse yourself in such events. Baby steps are fine. Start with contexts that are just a little bit more extraverted than you are if you like. And move on to more and more extraverted sorts of contexts. Also, I’d try to focus on events centered around things you hold a genuine interest in. (I, for instance, have enjoyed a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. That activity, even though it’s engaged in with others, feels much less overwhelming to me given that everyone’s focused on a common activity rather than just on “each other.”)
One more word about this. Try to avoid “masking.” That is, don’t invent a facade of extraversion to show people. It’s very cliche to say it, but: “be yourself.” I think probably ultimately if you end up “pretending to be extraverted” rather than engaging in socialization in a way you genuinely enjoy, it’s likely to do you more harm than good with regard to your goals.
Good luck!
- Comment on ‘Malcolm In The Middle’ Reboot Wraps After Frankie Muniz “Proudly” Returns To Acting 2 weeks ago:
Please be good. Please please be good. Please don’t retroactively ruin the original.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s weird, we can be weird together.
- Comment on Every post in Ye Power Tripping Bastards 3 weeks ago:
Would it be a proper shitpost if nobody shat on it?
- Comment on O no 3 weeks ago:
The internet has reached its peak with this meme.
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 5 weeks ago:
My favorite book ever. “Hackers” by Steven Levy. It really does a good job of giving you a sense of the early days of software development and the background behind/before the Free Software movement.
- Comment on Deepfakes now come with a realistic heartbeat, making them harder to unmask 5 weeks ago:
Wait, they can detect your pulse via a video? How? Variation in flushing during systolic vs diastolic phases of the heartbeat? Unconscious synchronization of affect/verbalization/whatever with one’s own heartbeat? Given the following, I think it must be closer to the former:
The analysis of the transmission of light through the skin and underlying blood vessels has long been indispensable in medicine, for example in pulse oximeters. Its digital cousin, so-called remote photoplethysmography (rPPP), is an emerging method in telehealthcare, which uses webcams to estimate vital signs. But rPPP can, in theory, also be used in deepfake detectors.
In recent years, such experimental rPPP-based deepfake detectors have proven good at distinguishing between real and deepfaked videos.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 5 weeks ago:
“Upgrade?” “UPGRADE?!” Oh no they didn’t.
Seriously, though, there may well be ways around this without switching your OS. If it’s browser-based, the first thing I’d try is a user-agent switcher.
Though, actually, does that “remind me later” option work? It does look kindof grayed out, but it couldn’t hurt to try a click.
- Comment on does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng? 1 month ago:
Jean-Luc Picard is entirely too classy to snore.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 1 month ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding octopus_ink’s comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they’re just a Lemmy user hoping we don’t get flooded with 4chan assholes.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
I hate agreeing with a CEO.
- Comment on Stuck 1 month ago:
Fwizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan, simpsons never fail 1 month ago:
But the title of the article is “Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict President Trump’s Death”. And it’s rated “false”. If The Simpsons did predict his death, just not as indicated by the specific image mentioned in the article, surely that would be mentioned and the overall rating would be something like “mixture” rather than “false”.
I suppose unless The Simpsons predicted his death in an episode released after that Snopes article was written. In which case, fair point.
- Comment on Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan, simpsons never fail 1 month ago:
Yes, this is a shitpost community, but I still feel obligated to make sure folks know this isn’t real.
- Comment on Forever exists ♥️ 2 months ago:
…asks a user whose username makes it seem that they pretty certainly know exactly what’s wrong with that website.
- Comment on British TV industry is in crisis, says Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky 2 months ago:
Everyone, quick! Go watch a british TV show.
I recommend Red Dwarf. For something more current, Ludwig is great.
- Comment on omg 2 months ago:
This isn’t intuitive to people?
2/sqrt(2) = ( sqrt(2)*sqrt(2) ) / sqrt(2)
Then cancelling out one of the
sqrt(2)
s in numerator with thesqrt(2)
in the denominator, you’re left withsqrt(2)
.I do a lot of toodling around OpenSCAD, though, and
sqrt(2)
tends to come up a lot because, you know, Pythagoras and right triangles and all that. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This really isn’t the right community for this post.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 months ago:
Probably if you’re too lazy to grab a cord, line it up with the plug, and press gently but firmly. With wireless, you can just lob it vaguely in the right vicinity and not overstrain your fine motor skills.
- Comment on Wonder what it tastes like 2 months ago:
Probably goes well with mushrooms.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
Erasable pen. Just because I’m contrary.
- Comment on They are lying to us 2 months ago:
Please tell me “rectify” does not mean “insert into a rectum.”
- Comment on Sounds logical to me 2 months ago:
The twist: OP was ace the whole time.
- Comment on Is this true? Software companies had diversity quotas to meet, and realized it was easier to turn autistic men into women than it was to turn women into software engineers 2 months ago:
OP is like the new Don_Dickle, only more so.
- Comment on Is this true? Software companies had diversity quotas to meet, and realized it was easier to turn autistic men into women than it was to turn women into software engineers 2 months ago:
/thread
- Comment on what is psychological definition of an ideal or good family? 2 months ago:
what if you don’t have kids?
That’s why I said “at least a little bit related to what you’re looking for” rather than “exactly what you want.” The “Good Enough Parenting” thing is more focused on raising kids. Beyond that, I’m not sure I can help.