I wonder if a cup pressed against the wall counts as tech

In the other direction from most of them here, “Losing my Religion” hit a lot harder before I realized it was just about anger.

I drink my coffee black and don’t have a huge sweet tooth, but I take my (black) tea like it’s candy: a lot of sugar and milk. I’m not a huge fan of tea, but it occasionally hits the spot perfectly. My late mom drank tea (with lots of sugar and milk), so it’s probably more about nostalgia than anything else

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.

Good goddamn, Jefferson was wrong again. I bet this is what a lot of judges are thinking about when looking at J6 cases.

Maybe she’s autistic

I’ve also known more men named Leslie than women

I love Elfriede and Ute, too

I hang it up to keep it out of the way and to keep feet that haven’t just been washed off of it, so it’s more of an added bonus. Plus, I’d bang the shit out of my elbows trying to dry my hair in my shower stall and if I don’t dry that first, it’s pointless.

I’ve been recommended this book multiple times and it probably would help me, but I feel like I’d have to admit to myself that my goal is manipulation before picking it up, and I don’t want that to be my goal.

Tbh, saying “come feel my wound, bro” is a metal as hell way to respond to Thomas

I just hang the bath mat up to dry afterwards, problem solved

I fully agree. It’s not always intentional, because sometimes I do pick up on it (probably the non native language + work makes it just impossible to get in the moment from her), but I almost always pretend not to, and it generally defuses the situation pretty well.

I’m also a crier, so the alternative is not great

I have coffee, raspberry seltzer, and tap water. This is very normal for me, though my husband thinks it’s funny to see how many different types of beverage I’ll accept without realizing, so sometimes it’ll get up to like 6 drinks.

I take medication that causes dry mouth, for context.

Aw, a shared yearning: federated itch.

My boss has got very high EQ, but tends to have fraught, tense relationships with our female coworkers (I described it to my husband as working with a mother and daughter who don’t get along- they say a bunch of things that seem nice and also seem to hurt each other a lot and I don’t know why).

She sometimes says passive aggressive things to me, but it always takes me too long to parse passive aggression in person, so I respond completely earnestly. This seems to confuse her without being rude, and she’s just vexed by me.

Actually, passive aggression in general makes me feel very neurodivergent.

That all leads back to cultural exchange and trade through the sea though.

I’ve got a dear friend who’s been struggling with suicidal ideation for years, and there are lots of reasons I don’t want him to, primarily that he’s a force of good in the world. Secondarily, he deserves to know joy and he can’t do that if he kills himself first (then there’s his goddaughter, his writing, getting to watch trump die, coming to visit me in Germany, his work is getting picked up more and more, apple fritters, blueberry picking, going on drives in his beat-to-shit old van, and a hundred other reasons). It’s getting to the age where even my terminally optimistic self starts to think that he deserves peace, but I can’t help thinking that therapeutic attention is the best solution (he was raised too catholic for that, unfortunately). He keeps talking to me and he doesn’t get too annoyed about it, so I’ll keep talking to him until one day, panicked, I can’t reach him, and the world will forever be worse.

Not globally, but on lemmy. I assumed that’s what you meant.

65% is my guess.

Northern German dialect

Weird question: I notice she pronounces the g in Hamburg with the ich-Laute, like Hamburch. I hear this all the time where I am, but we’re definitely not northern.

Does anyone know if that’s done everywhere in Germany or is it most commonly done in the north?