saltesc @ saltesc @lemmy.world

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Jesus titty fucking Christ can be any name you want.

I was going to note it down as I was watching F1 at the time of writing that comment. There was a kids hospital charity, a food charity, a car, other sport, and a travel/tourism ad.

When I watch a US sport, I'm blown away that the ads are all medical, banking/insurance, cars, and maybe fast food. It's so weird.

On Reddit, I once bragged about having universal healthcare and got called a Nazi and a communist at the same time.

This is what happens when Xbox kids that use the n-word grow up. They learn new "bad" words and throw them around out of context and contradictingly. They don't actually know what those things are, though, so it never makes sense.

I've been called a tankie here. I didn't know what it was and looked it up, just to discover it was the literal opposite of the things I was saying. I was very confused and just put it down to frustrated self-projection. At some point they had been called that, it upset them, so now they use it to upset people too but they still don't actually know what it is they're saying.

If I see someone defaulting to Russian bot or tankie, I've found another Xbox kid and it's in my best interests to just move on.

No, they're right. Lots of people hate the labels and being labelled as such, they just want to be seen as the normal person they are. It's not normal to be labelled. In my experience, they are the quiet majority and they just want their sexual preferences to be out of the forefront of stranger's minds, defining their social identity. It's actually pretty fucking creepy and weird.

Some people voluntarily do want the label. That's fine, it's their choice. It's not fine to involuntarily assume for others, though. Respect is something that takes the back seat to narrow-minded assumptions that ironically goes against the best intentions. In a respectful society, there are no labels and people are just people. Unfortunately we are still Neanderthalic so social and political labels, categories, etc. still exist and are assigned, for no purpose and with no consent.

Most people don't care and want to be left alone. But there are still idiots out there that care about which toilet they can go in or which toilets others can go in. One day our society will be rid of these people and concept like LGBTQ+ will be ridden of too, because people are just people and toilets are just toilets. A person's identity shouldn't be defined by their genitals and what they do with them. Labels and adheration to that is just creepy and weird.

So, yeah, many people you consider LGBTQ+ are against the whole concept of LGBTQ+ and you shouldn't assume for them or look at them as "that thing" and slap a label on. We can be so much better than this.

It's just racial stereotypes but it's funny because the words Donald John Trump are randomly at the top.

The US has a centrist party? I thought it was right-wing or far right-wing, but to US voters, the former is "left".

I work in statistics and we never use girl of woman, only female. The line is vastly different in age and meaning depending on culture, religion, law, or heritage. Even in western societ, 13, 16, 18, and 21 are all valid before tipping to 40, 50, 60, 65, 68, and 70 where the term can be prefixed with some form of adjective.

It's old-fashioned. Just say female and every culture/society understands you without confusion or insult. Save you embarassing/insulting people while travelling too.

Yo, bro, stop being so very combative. That's like, extremely subjective. You don't have good intentions. I'm better than you- what? I didn't say that.

Americans are indoctrinated by their media and society to be segregated into political and social camps that have tribal wars with each other. That's all priority no. 1 for them rn and it spills over.

It's just people bickering about social and political issues like gender, misinterpretation of isms, social hierarchy, etc. But because Americans don't do anything but compete amongst each other, they bring their problems here where it echoes out into nothingness and disintegrates. But so long as they feel they were heard or had an online "win", they get a dopamine hit and sense of progress, entirely ignorant to their apathy.

This can feel, at times, the place that attracts the biggest losers. Like all the troll characters out of South Park's Skank Hunt saga. But there is also a huge amount of insecurity and desire to be spotlighted. What society thinks of a person is also always a really important thing they'll post about—just is, they really, really care for some reason.

Moosh that all together and you got a bunch of apathetic, socially anxious, and insecure people that lack social tact and empathy, hidden on keyboards, watching their world fall apart but hoping someone besides them will help it.

Wearing something in the sauna is kind of gross. Like, you put on spare shorts, get them totally drenched in sweat, then take them off and store them in a garbage bag or something?

Edit: Oh, god. I hope they're not in underwear and just keep wearing that around 🤮

Thanks to coding, I see center as a position and centre as an object. But for the most part, I find US spelling to be lazy spelling for poor pronunciation. Like people just started saying the word wrong and rather than fixing that, just started spelling it wrong too.

Aluminium is prob the weirdest. Like everything on the periodic table ending with -ium; the Latin morpheme in chemistry. But the US just-...like, how?!

That's how I serenaded my SO

Yeah, the more I use it, the more I regret asking it for assistance. LLMs are the epitome of confidentiality incorrect.

It's good fun watching friends ask it stuff they're already experienced in. Then the pin drops

When I first went to eastern Europe, I was confused why there were signs saying to not flush paper down the toilet. Like, obviously. That's for body waste and TP only.

"Paper" means "toilet paper".

Racism is asserting an inferiority or superiority based on natural race; passively or aggressively.

You can't just use it any time you see two cultures or societies giving each other shit about their politics, foods, social customs, etc. The context of genealogy needs to be included, i.e. race. Jokes about British teeth are much closer to racism than what dumb-dumb said.

lol looks like someone doing the universal sign for "I'm drowning."

I know, right?! Glad you agree.

"affirmed of the position that the term is used"

Yrp, you're underscoring one of my tangent points. I couldn't be bothered making more text in the one comment, but also figured if the comment was too long, it'd get a bunch of people jumping on me before they could manage to finish it. Alas, never avoidable. So, thanks 😁

Oh, but also just keep in mind, those misconceptions are in quotes for a reason.

And I see it kind of the same way as we saw OCD being diluted, just the 2020s version of that. Only the ignorant claimed to be or claimed to say one is OCD for normal behaviours to average people leaning more towward a perceived unusual particularity, such as ironing and folding clothes, for example

But again, I'm drunk.

Well, that'd be all of the tiles—at least in this context. OP, sorry you had to find out this way.