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Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses?

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  • Wow. This reads like the ramblings of a narcissist, a sociopath, or someone incredibly neurodivergent (I am neurodiverse myself).

    I agree that they should seek therapy to understand themself.

    It could also be that they’re very poor at wording their feelings as I can be like that sometimes and it makes me seem like a nutter, when in fact I just articulated it incorrectly.

    • Is Lemmy community nice to new users?

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  • What brought you here? How did you hear about us?

    Just curious.

    • Is Lemmy community nice to new users?

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  • It really depends on the community you’re in.

    As others have eluded to, there is a massive glazing for Linux here and any objections to it are usually downvoted.

    The same for FOSS services.

    It made me ponder how much of an echo chamber we are in. If you think of it like this: Most of the people here are here because we were passionate about a de-federated alternative to Reddit. For me it was over the API changes.

    So if you think about being on Reddit already puts you into a small subset of society, then look at how many came here and stayed over the API issue, then we can see that some of the views here are not at all indicative of the world as here we have about 50k MAU (monthly active users).

    As an example, I got sucked in my the pro Linux rhetoric and wiped windows from my PC. It did not go as plain sailing as people would have you believe. My reservations were about maintaining the system and just not wanting to have to geek out when I’m not in work. I’m a software engineer so it’s far from a skill issue, but people here will tell you easy to switch and you won’t have any issues which isn’t the case.

    It gave me pause for thought to get out of here every once in a while to gauge the actual populations views on something and not just the circle jerk in here.

    On the whole though I can get more interaction with people here than on Reddit as there are less people and people seem willing to just chat about anything.

    • Mexico awaits new response from Google on dispute over Gulf of Mexico name before filing lawsuit

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  • Mexico should just ban Google from operating in Mexico. I’m sure they would capitulate then.

    • Little know fact

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  • I don’t really know if I ever gave it any thought, but thinking now I would likely have assumed there might have been a tax on brass goods at some point. 🤷

    • Little know fact

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  • Right! What else isn’t as we assume. The whole fabric of reality is crumbling around us.

    • The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back

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  • Been on silent for over a decade too, but in an outlier and friends phones are so damn annoying.

    • Little know fact

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  • Brass tacks. 🤔 Always would have assumed brass tax, but now I know. Funny how I’ve probably never seen those two words written together in over 40 years.

    • TIL: About Dyson Sphere. A hypothetical megastructure we would put around a star to absorb the energy being sent in space

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  • Help me. Factorio has me.

    • TIL: About Dyson Sphere. A hypothetical megastructure we would put around a star to absorb the energy being sent in space

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  • I believe they were making a joke because if you wrap this thing around a star there really is no day night cycle because it’s all star. Our day night cycle comes because we are spinning.

    • Cruel and unusual punishment

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  • Huh… Not my intention.

    I wasn’t wishing them success with their thesis /s

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  • I am currently setting up a media server but I still like to contribute money to the films I really like. Massive screen is unparalleled for the price though. You got me with the kitties though, I want to open a cinema now where you get a cat for the film too.

    • Cruel and unusual punishment

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  • It’s even more absurd as surely the objective should be to have less victims of crime, so doing whatever gets that result seems logical.

    • Cruel and unusual punishment

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  • You got this bro 👊

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  • I like the cinema and it’s £5 and you can take your own munchies.

    • Social media erupts over Miami man who shot Israelis mistaken for Palestinians

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  • Blinded by hatred seems applicable here. 😔

    • Social media erupts over Miami man who shot Israelis mistaken for Palestinians

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  • Well the lawyer for their client is going to say something like this. Has the man been evaluated for this mental health emergency?

    I also wonder which disorder in the DSM manifests with wanting to kill Palestinians.

    Perhaps you shouldn’t listen to the defence attorney in their press releases and see what comes out in court.

    • Apple Maps paid search ads under consideration in monetization push.

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  • I’m not sure you’re being downvoted for people not agreeing, per se.

    I think you’re being downvoted for coming across as a little misguided on your theory.

    And odds are good you won’t notice them

    Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of advertisers advertising if people ain’t going to notice them.

    Disclaimer: I use an iPhone and Apple Maps.

    • Apple Maps paid search ads under consideration in monetization push.

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  • Moribund (adjective)

    Meaning: Dying or declining.

    TIL a new word.

    • Do you browse the fediverse at work?

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  • No. I’ve got a cushy job that I enjoy and they treat us well so I just work. Plus there isn’t enough content on here for the whole day.