Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory.

womp, citation needed. not to be a downer but this would be waaaay way too interesting if true to let it be said without some grounds

Walk around like you’re the king, it’s just another day, and nothing can go wrong (nothing that really matters) and you’ll sleep like a baby.

I’m still pissed at the way Reddit was celebrating Musk’s takeover, as if it was some big loss to him. Oh boy, a billionaire lost some money that he would have wiped his ass with, this is great as long as the fascist doesn’t turn the biggest social media platform into a fascist mouthpiece!

I don’t think a lot of Lemmy users are out in the world doing much punching.

But imaginary numbers were created to solve problems!

proudly proclaiming that you use slurs… doesn’t mean it’s not a slur

lonely island

Satisfactory just got it’s 1.0 full release yesterday, plenty of fun to be had

Americans fetishizing Japanese culture is gross enough without the awful, verbose, melodramatic storytelling. Also the Japanese language is fucking hard and I’m not particularly interested in learning it. I’d watch the fuck out of Korean anime if their storytelling wasn’t just as thick, though.

n e girls here? ASL?

just have it. this is the coldest summer of the rest of your life. even if it was just the hottest summer of our lives yet.

think less, practice more

Hm. Is this for linguistic curiosity? It seems like by “different perspectives” you are seeking political commentary. But I could recommend plenty of sources for hearing people speak English as a second language. Hell, I just found this one today: https://www.youtube.com/@InaYu2024 Seems to be a Japanese oncology pharmacist living in Canada. (Very slight accent, hard to place.)

Hell yeah. Likewise to you.

I think as long as we 1) stay skeptical in our understanding of all systems whilst putting in effort at understanding those systems better and 2) act in accordance with our values in the political process, then we will be doing the good that we thought we would be doing if we constantly consumed news media and designed those beliefs/actions according to that influence. Except we’re less influenced by that particular force and less demotivated by anxiety and dread.

The big stuff we’re probably gonna hear about anyway. I learned that Trump got shot within two hours.

this is so prevalent… and yet a friend told me that he “lost respect” for me because I said I am choosing to abstain from following the news this year.

he acknowledged there’s nothing that I could personally do about the vast majority of it, but that I still have a duty to “bear witness”. compared it to 1930 Germany and said if he were going down he would want to know about it!

great use of this scene. I was just referencing it the other day and it sorta got lost

“Collectivist society” and “Individualist society”

Well, no, the trauma is the event itself. The reaction to it is post-traumatic stress. If that stress gets in the way of your day-to-day functioning, then it could be called PTSD (but there’s like pages and pages of diagnostic criteria too).

Yeaaahhhh Nietzsche was making a very different point about convalescence but of course popular culture bastardized it. If Nietzsche knew that he was going to become an anthem for white girl positivity, he would… well, he’d probably gloat because he predicted that. But his gloating would look like misery.

Owner shot himself after bankrupting the company through embezzlement and we had to vacate all residential patients within a week knowing we wouldn’t get paid and would be losing our jobs, haha!