Idk, I’m bilingual and I only ever think in English. It doesn’t really seem to make a difference though, saying things out loud vs in my head.
I’m learning a third language now and can just barely communicate with others (worked with a taxi driver!). That said, I wouldn’t consider myself truly trilingual yet. I could think in that language but it doesn’t really feel like it changes anything - I still only know the same words in my head
I shit on the opportunity? Dude, I don’t think you understood my comment at all, especially since you got so defensive in your response.
Let’s try and take a breath and relax. Let me know if something I said hurt/disrespected you and I’ll address it since it wasn’t my intention to offend anyone.
First, I visit Lemmy daily and comment all the time. Am I not a true Lemmy user because I don’t post? I personally think that’s a silly thing to say.
Second, I never even mentioned the posts here being the issue. You just assumed that, dude. My issue is entirely the lack of people. Sorry that wasn’t clearer in my what I wrote
Finally, if I’m honest, I don’t think this place is better than reddit. It may one day be but I don’t think it is yet. I hope I’m allowed to have that opinion here.
Something else I think is that the demographic of the userbase is a lot more similar/less diverse than it ever was on reddit. Again, I’m not even saying that’s a good or bad thing. They’re just realities we should try and understand. It could be both. I just find the hate for reddit to be over the top and I think it clouds people’s view of reality. You’re welcome to disagree. We could even have a nice chat about it!
I’m of the belief that if we want this place to be better than reddit we need to truly try and welcome people we disagree with into the community so everyone feels like they’re included even if they’re not always posting or commenting or even visiting or whatever. ;)
I mean, maybe I should just ask, are people here mainly for a defederated social network - and what does that mean to you? I’ve kinda always been looking for a good healthy community - I hear the Internet used to be way better at that before - and I felt like reddit showed that their communities were fake and ripe for turning on themselves. This place seems identical in that way.
Sorry if I could’ve communicated that better in this message or the last one
All 10 of us here stand united on this most exquisite and elevated of horses!
It’s so weird to be content with/amused by this situation. Feels like Alexandria was just built nextdoor, fisherman have started to arrived with massive boats and high-quality nets, and here we are, the old fishermen pushed off our original fishing site yet full of glee that we don’t have to pay taxes in Alexandria. It’s like, this isn’t really a successful venture, right? We’re not really thriving like we were in the past, are we? We’re likely never going to get anything like that back either, huh
Idk, maybe my values just don’t give me enough internal validation yet, to feel good about it or something. The only consolation I see really is that I don’t think the time spent online is very worthwhile anyway. What I liked most was the community but it’s become clear most of that was never real
I disagree, but only in theory. lol. There’s that one dude that deprograms KKK members. It’s always possible but you’ll notice it gets harder the more involved in the cult you are, and of course others want to help you less and less
So I think it’s possible, but we’re just not capable of doing it so it’s probably not worth relying on it as a real tangible means to accomplish our political goals. I’d liken it to having a schizophrenic uncle that no knows how to help and no one in the family believes in doctors or medicine.
There’s probably a way to help trump cultists but it would take levels of compassion and understanding that simply don’t exist in great capacity, especially in the US
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Idk, I see liberals telling everyone to be calm and content and that the economy is great and getting better.
I totally get the reason and vibe they’re going for, but they’re basically saying don’t be righteously furious and ignore reality, imo, while they capitulate on claims that crime and immigration are bigger problems. I guess, I just don’t know that significant economic/social change has ever happened without pissed-off people fighting like their lives depend on it
Most people I know know about the drake beef and the Diddy scandal, but I couldn’t even count like 5 people that I know personally that could name their senators or explain what the electoral college is.
I think most of us prefer to ignore our emotions, and I think anything related to politics beings up uncomfortable emotions for people so they just don’t do it and stay away from the topic
Not with that attitude. Seriously, we’ll need to be absolutely furious if we ever want something to be done about something we care about
Does anyone remember anger?
I’ve never been as proud of my state representatives as I was when I lived in Oregon. Wyden and Merkley are American heroes, as far as I’m concerned
Thanks for sharing that info - I was just going off the recent headlines
To your second point, don’t companies normally win arbitration cases? I thought that was the whole point of it all - to make it easier for a company to win lawsuits
Interesting. I thought that was just in movies. lol
Ok, yeah I figured the same thing
Meh, I’ve seen what y’all upvote
Assuming you’re serious, what makes them a troll?
Alright you’re not being honest and you clearly don’t care. That’s fine. I’m sorry to have bothered you
Dude reread this whole thing. When did they say they support sexual predators? Do you even notice what you’re doing?
They were trying to learn about what makes folks disregard Jill Stein as a third party candidate as a viable contender for president of the US.
If you were intentionally trying to make them feel dumb and yourself feel smart, this would be an excellent strat, but I’m inclined to think you don’t believe you’re doing that. You probably wish to educate people about things you know. All I’m saying, is this ain’t the way
Again, super sorry if my tone sucks. I’m specifically talking productive discourse. I don’t think that includes branding someone a sexual predator for sharing a link to an interview. We’ve fully jumped the shark here
That’s fair (since we’re both already getting downvoted. lol), I’ll totally admit I had no idea that’s what you were trying to communicate
To me, it seemed super dismissive of what they were actually trying to communicate and have a discussion about since you only addressed the source and ignored the rest.
Just went back, and yep the rest of the conversation, thanks to you, is entirely about the source. Was that helpful, to you? Do you think it was more helpful to you than to them? Did anyone else reading it change their mind? Just seems like pointless bickering instead of constructive dialogue (I’ll admit I am assuming this is something we all want)
As someone that’s mostly stopped watching and supporting him, that’s lame and you should know you’re not going to convince someone that disagrees with you by simply attacking their sources.
Oh did trump say something true? Well have you considered who he is? I guess I don’t have to even consider what he said now! How convenient
I’m only saying this because you literally didn’t even try to understand the person you replied to; you just said they’re wrong because of who they agree with. We can at least pretend to care about what ppl we disagree with say! lol
Imo, it’s pretty sad how we’ve legit learned absolutely nothing about political (or basic) discourse in the last decade. I recommend High Conflict as a starting point for anyone curious about having better discussions with people you disagree with. Shaming/Making them feel bad never works (it only triggers a fight or flight response). I’m definitely still trying to practice this, myself. (Sorry if I could’ve said it in a nicer way)
That seems kinda fucked up. Why would you do something like that?
I mean, I at least get fucking with people for money. Doing it for fun, not so much
Also, anyone know what they meant with this line?
I still loved my life so I didn’t want to use the Google custom search API.
Some people simply don’t know how to be good friends. You really shouldn’t take it personal
I’ve just had to learn my closest friends simply aren’t capable of providing emotional connection like I’d like. I’m working on becoming a better friend to them, meeting them where they are , trying to figure out how to provide for and validate my own emotional needs, so I can eventually work up the courage, or whatever it is I need, to meet friends that are more emotionally mature enough to have the real connections I’m looking for
I once delayed a party where I had tons of family over because my friends hadn’t arrived. They didn’t get there until like 10 or something, after I’d already told them to just fuck off. The thing is, they are my friends and they legit care about me in their own (weird to me) ways. I’ve just come to realize they’ve got legit issues, as I do (part of why we’re drawn to being friends), that they’re working on to varying degrees, and I simply can’t expect more from them than they’re capable of giving
Good luck finding a chill healthy tribe of folks that shares similar values to your own!
And here I thought they just wanted Israel to stop their genocide of Palestinians
Shit, I bet if they’d negotiated in good faith people would’ve been happy for them to just stop butchering the children. I’d personally be happy if they spares one child live for every one they choose to murder - but I’m just a bit more reasonable than most, I guess
Oh no…I’m in danger! lol
/Cries on my S10
Right… I’ma just go ahead and disable auto-updating, thanks