swampwitch @ swampwitch @lemmy.world

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My mother is Asian and my father is British. My father had a pen pal that was a friend of my mother's, and my mother also decided to write to him. I believe they wrote for about two years before deciding that if they want a relationship, they'll have to get married. So my mother moved to Britain and they were married within the month.

Before the internet (and Facebook) became more accessible, my mother would write to her family often and occasionally call, which was expensive.

My sister-in-law, the chillest and least likely person I know to ever say this, actually wished death on Trump the other day. He's done so much global damage, and it hasn't even been a year.

He's an actual scourge.

I tend to prefer bigger games delay purely so they don't release as buggy messes (hello, Cyberpunk 2077).

Hoping they use that time to refine what they have and maybe even have it ported to PC for release.

When our new kitten decided her favourite scratching post was the doorframe outside the bathroom, we went ahead and bought one of those hanging scratching mats to nail over it.

Saved the doorframe, and have a happy kitten.

I just assumed she might be British due to spelling/tone. Cats have been around here for about 1,600 years and it's considered fairly normal to let them out.

They should be rallying for his impeachment.

I just switched when the API nonsense shat all over the actually good reddit apps, since I primarily used reddit on my phone.

I saw lemmy touted as an alternative and figured why not?

Dad fell for a Microsoft key scam. They were calling him about invalid registration or something. Kept asking for £500.

Stopped calling after my infuriated sister, who was living with our parents at the time, basically bullied the shit out of them on the phone.

I'm not sure about other places, but in mod comments on Nexus it's fairly standard to just reply in your native language and have the other person translate.

You'll often see discussions with one half in English and the other in Chinese, for example.

Make America Great Again!

Spends all day every day fucking over the majority of the population.

Sure.

Just put the whole government in the bin at this point.

Trump is a genuine man-child. He probably doesn't understand half of what he's saying or what it means whatsoever, and why is "wokeness" even taken seriously as a political talking point?

He just does things he's told to do like he has no autonomy, but I guess you can't expect more from Putin's licking dog.

I am honestly incredibly grateful for the NHS and find it bizarre that anyone can be actively against nationalised healthcare. I can't imagine how many people have died due to simply not wanting to burden their family with excessive bills.

Ah, this is something I genuinely didn't consider.

I suppose it'd be better to pick up the games I'm interested in on GoG and play them on PC?

Just figured it wasn't as relevant as it could be. It was just me mentioning that I think it's fine to push this sort of change due to being influenced by family working in the ICU seeing cases of alcoholism and alcohol-influenced accidents. However, I am from the UK, which has a higher rate of alcoholism than other nations.

Didn't think me figuring "eh, nah" would be seen as some sort of heinous micro-aggression.

Classism and stupidity.

Although they got a bit stuck on Hadrian's Wall.