Nepenthe @ Nepenthe @kbin.social

Rexxitor. Biology nerd. Roguelites, indie games, and TRPGs. Drowning in unu

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This is how I learned Australia has states. Why the fuck do y'all have states? You're one single island with nothing in the middle! I legit thought Queensland was a county til right now!

Also. Why, in Queensland, is there a place called Texas! I'm going to come over there!

I'm from NC. My mom is from IL. Neither one of us can pronounce the word "horror." She pronounces it precisely like "whore" and I can't get over it. I, myself, dislike "harrr" movies.

Added bonus: I am a grown-ass adult and the only way I don't stumble introducing myself is if I do it like everyone else did growing up: by pronouncing the L in my name like a Y. I cannot pronounce my own fucking name and it's not even a disability. Usually, I just hope no one notices.

One of the more entertaining parts of learning another language is the extra attention to sound has made me super aware, more and more, of what speaking quirks I still have that weren't smoothed out by the midwestern influence which is considered to be the "general" American accent.

The lingering Chicago dictates random K's must immediately be followed by a Y (Shikyaaga!), but the southern part of me demands that any L at the end of a word is a W now and we're dropping consonants like we drop relatives when they come out as humanitarian. I'm horrified, I feel so bad for any foreigner who has to talk to me.

Had to look up a Louisiana accent just to see, and it sounds a bit different in some unnameable way but still definitely just South. Aside from being able to pick out she must be from some nebulous southern state that wasn't NC, I think we could have gotten along fine.

Which I guess just means you and I wouldn't be able to communicate in person if I played up my childhood accent even a little. Which is fair. The day I introduced my first bf to my dad, I still vividly remember having to stand in as translator between them and I still don't understand how that happened. He was only one state up, and from a more rural area.

They rarely eat pumpkin, calling it “squash”, and renaming squash to something else (summer squash or something?)

Admittedly, I and probably 70% of other Americans were formerly unaware that pumpkins are a variety of squash, making this paragraph surprisingly difficult for me to even parse. So that was an interesting and kind of fun experience.

If it helps, I have come to realize after thinking about it that I see any roundish variety, regardless of smoothness or color, as a pumpkin, regardless of its actual name. If it's gourd-shaped (butternut/zucchini), it's a squash.

The flavor is seasonal and therefore novel, you're right about that. But tbf, indian food uses squash in general, which seems to extend to white/orange pumpkins, and we definitely have Indian-Americans. Ditto Hispanic. It is eaten more often than the two holidays, just not by white people.

For the useless naming difference, as always, any beef with America can more factually be blamed on the Europeans. Specifically, the French.

I remember the opposite: heads always felt like "right way up" to us, but the result was almost always tails no matter who flipped it. To the extent that it still feels like the heads/tails percentage is the only positive version of the 50-50-90 rule, and I will never choose anything else.

Probably confirmation bias. But I wonder if the people in my family are wobblier than others.

But the boxes were taken to the dumpster, yes? With time saved, even? Someone in a managerial position would rather hire, train, and pay a devoted garbage person instead of three adorably unpaid raccoons?

Tfw they're three days late and it's not even the original one you lent them

I expect that so little that I had to backspace my original comment, which asked if you regularly had kidneys returned to you

Wait, hold on, has anyone thought to scan the nazca lines

“I get good chat going, the AI is set up properly, very good start, like 10 messages in or so but then suddenly the AI decides I should cum and end it all,” another user said. “The thing is that the sex part haven't even started yet.”

Well, if it isn't my own intrusive thoughts

I like chunky style because all peanut butter has an FDA approved limit on how many bug parts a jar can have per gram, and it makes it easier not to think about what that crunch was.

Found at the very bottom of the article, apparently on purpose. Down from seven, I suppose

1.) Because a weekend spent smearing shit on door handles to revenge yourself on toddlers probably doesn't appeal to you as much as doing actual work does, so you can't be a politician for the same reason I'm legally too smart to be accepted into police academy.

2.) The only thing about imposter syndrome that ever stuck hard with me was, "If you can fake a thing all the way to completion — you weren't faking it."

Whoever wrote this never cleaned a public bathroom

That is definitely chrona and that is definitely patty, but I do not remember this episode for the life of me

You're talking about transcranial magnetic stimulation?
You know, that hadn't been on my radar? I appreciate you bringing that up and forcing me to have a better understanding of it. Looking further into it, there doesn't seem to be enough literature at the moment to be certain and it's not currently FDA approved for my specific case. Severe depression, yes. Psychosis is a relative contraindication as of last year -- i.e., "exercise caution, but go ahead with it if the benefit outweighs the risk."

Which would be the question, for me. I'm not certain, in my case, whether I would be labeled as so bad off that I outweigh all risk of making it worse. Could see it happening because god does hate me and maybe I just don't realize how bad it is, but I think I'd likely just go back to being prescribed varying medications forever until we all grow old and die.

The position I'm currently in is, each successive psychotic break a person has causes a tiny little percentage of brain damage. So do antipsychotics if you keep taking them. That knowledge makes it feel like a question of the rate at which I desire my brain to rot rather than an If, and I don't think I really can be more sedated than I am and remain this barely functional.

So I've really been holding out for the US to take notice of Australia's recent approval of psilocybin, which doesn't seem to have anywhere approaching the negative effects while still acting as a successful medication. I got all excited over it and everything.

You know, I think I would try TMS if it were offered to me, yeah. What's the worst thing that's going to happen, I'll turn into myself?

You come off like the kind of person who would laugh at a hanging, and by your own metric, I would be forced to label you inhuman on that basis. I'm going to refuse because otherwise, we're just playing No True Scotsman with our own species. The biggest problem with people is that they are people.

The one singular treatment that doesn't worsen other already unmanageable symptoms or cause measurable brain damage is only available in Asutralia gang 🙃

Guess I'll just go fuck myself

Every letter in the English language is silent

they are not human beings capable of thought or reason.

Not that I don't agree entirely with everything else you've written. The left routinely has this severe problem where they're unable to acknowledge people for who they are and out of natural idealism convince themselves that if the opposition desires something harmful, it must only be because they don't understand they're doing harm.

Therefore, all one must do to combat evil is to go, "nooo, stop, you're going to make someone sad!" and after that doesn't work, they're out of ideas so they just keep trying the golden rule over and over.

But holy shit, dude. They can be vicious. They can even be dangerous enough to pose an unacceptable threat to life. They're still human.