Worked through my obsessions a bit and let go of them. In the following weeks I asked three women out and got shot down each time instead of thinking about doing so for a month and being a creep.
Unironically, good on you. That’s character progress and it takes a lot of courage and self-confidence to accept rejection in a mature way and keep trying regardless. For what it’s worth I as an Internet stranger think we should help more people do the same sort of things.
Her name is [kept to myself because I’m a gentleman who doesn’t kiss and tell]. I hope I, in turn, am not someone’s most alarming thing but it’s possible :P
I’d say it’s sometimes ok, sometimes necessary for brevity, and sometimes accurate. Accurate = “All people need oxygen, water, and calories to survive.” Brevity = “Generally speaking, people enjoy good food and good company so those situations work well for forming relationships.”
Consequences of generalizations have a lot to do with how tolerable they are. If I say, “most people like pizza” there’s not much harm if several million people don’t. If I say, “all or most people of this gender/ethnicity/religion/whatever have X problem” that’s a lot more problematic because it can easily lead to a consequence of harmful prejudice. When it comes to matters of ethics, beliefs, accusations etc. it becomes very important to handle cases individually as much as humanly possible.
I want to avoid being too abusive, but it’s the not-so-clever person’s idea of what a well-thought-out argument looks like. They are akin the folks who abuse “creative accounting” to dodge taxes, but not as well-researched (or rich enough to hire someone who is).
Waking up when the weather changes:
No, I don’t pledge allegiance to the monarch.
This sounds like some “sovereign citizen” crap finding it’s way into Canada. The only thing that stance is good for is schadenfreude when a judge makes “SovCits” aware of the fact that they are, in fact, subject to the law.
That’s the face I made about a week into trading Reddit participation in for Lemmy participation or just break-from-social-media time. Conversations feel more genuine, there’s less overbearing moderation (at least in my experience), and if there’s nothing new on Lemmy I’ve probably spent enough time reading forums anyways. I’m only keeping my 13-year-old Reddit account to keep track of old favorited posts and specialist forums like specific video game tips.
In the spirit of the thread, here’s a meme I’ve stolen from someone else’s recent post (want to give credit where due) in case you get criticized for your plundering ways:
One of the most important things to remember about scams is that there’s almost never an “act now” urgency with legitimate investigations/actions. Even in cases of crimes where people are arrested on the spot they have the right to talk to a lawyer before anything proceeds legally. The authorities are not contacting groups of citizens over the phone to tell them they’ll be arrested/lose everything in 24 hours if they don’t comply.
If someone is telling you that you need to do something IMMEDIATELY and you need reassurance, first off realize it’s almost certainly a load of crap. Tell them to send their requests to you in writing, hang up, and contact your bank and/or the institutions that are apparently investigating you (CRA, Police, etc.)
How about we just avoid the long arguments and jump to the end:
There. After so many of these threads I can near guarantee 90%+ will fall roughly into those categories.
I’m going to show my age with this list, and metal is such a large genre I don’t always know what counts. Hopefully there’s new ones for some folks that you’ll enjoy as much as I do.
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Ah, now I get why it’s being downvoted. What a lousy spin to put on something so necessary as minimum wage increases.
The only reason I read the article was to figure out why LGBTQ+ was going broke in Canada. Given that (as near as I can tell) “Pride” has been associated with LGBTQ+ (or their historical analogs) since about the 70’s, that’s quite the name for an unaffiliated company.
Is anyone else annoyed by the advice that young people should give up hope of paying their own mortgage for their own home in favor of paying their landlord’s mortgage via rent? “People need to shift the idea that to be successful you have to own a home. It’s just not going to be in the cards for some people, and they’re in a worse position for trying to own a house,” she said.”
I say that instead of telling young people to give up on goals we should, as a nation, protect owning a home as if it was a basic necessity and do something about large %'s of homes/condos being owned by investors. It was possible to buy a home on a single income just a few generations ago. I’m sure it can be again if we make housing security a priority.
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I agree. Danielle Smith, the former oil and gas lobbyist who is now Premier, does not. Alberta elected Conservatives out of habit and hatred (homophobia, homeless, etc) and shot clean energy in the foot by doing so.
Closets have no need to worry about being phased out so long as there are Republican politicians who secretly love LGBTQ+ sex. “It’s happened so many times that it’s almost become predictable at this point. The louder someone is about the righteous conservative Christian lifestyle they’re leading, the more likely they are to be stepping out on their wives or having secret gay affairs because if there is one thing you can count on in life, it’s for Republicans not to practice what they preach.”
I almost never buy multiplayer-focused games anymore. Of course not all gamers are shitty, but enough are to matter. Having left those games behind I can see how they were taking more joy from my life than they added. If friends want to do private co-op that’s cool, but it’s also rarer now that we’re all older.
As far as sales go, I love playing a year or two behind new releases. Patched games at a discount ftw and timing doesn’t matter in single-player games.