thepreciousboar @ thepreciousboar @lemm.ee

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Death is not unexpected on whether it will happen, but when. Everyone dies, but you might be going to work one day and you die because of a moron burning a red light, or you might ne the healthiest person and get an incurable cancer, or people die from random hearth attack.

That's not true, "retarded" (from the latin term for delay) was intially used as a medical term to someone with lower cognitive abilities, not an insult per se. but like other similar terms (such as "cretin") it was eventually used more as an insult, until it was considered offensive by most and only the offensive meaning remained in the common speech.

That is a very healthy way to look up to it, good luck!

It depends on the amount of time, but if they don't even have the time for a courtesy reply like "I'll get to you in a couple of days", or "please contact me in .. days and I'll be able to help you", they either don't care or are too unorganized to bother

Not really a series, but who could forget great classic movies such as:

WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX - Uganda's first action movie and TEEBATUSASULA

I read millions of "monkey" instead of "money" and was trying to understand if you were insulting browser developers or implying that thousands monkeys could to do the same work as a developer

Sometimes I do, when I have particularly funny and enjoyable conversation with my friends, or ones with my SO that become important for our relationship, but I find myself doing it less and less, don't really know why.

I understand how you feel. The first step to reduce the frustration is to try and give it less importance: as you said yourself, it's not falling in love, it's just infatuation. Your brain is confusing attractiveness to another person (physical or romantic) for a deep connection that doesn't come at first sight (despite what movies and tv would make you believe) but develops in time.

You will be attracted to a lot of people in your life (assuming you're not aromantic or asexual) and, with time, you'll realize if you went deeper in many of these situation, the attraction would disappear, because the shallow opinion you have of a person you are not dating is very difficult to get right, and usually filtered positively by your monkey brain that just wants to formicate.

Of course trying and deepening these attractions would help you realizing this, which might not be easy if you have difficult approaching other people, but try and reflect on similar situations in the past and think about them cold-hearted: to how many people are you still infatuated? Don't you see now the "bad things" that you brain was hiding and that don't make you two really compatible?

Eventually it just becomes a nuisance. I don't know if you can change it, but you can accept it and it will bother you less if you understand the mechanism behind it.

Maybe you just feel affection-starved and in these situations it's easy to attach to ideas of relationships rather than real ones. Nothing weird of course, everybody do it is some way or another. It's a combination of social brain and (according to your comnents) low self-esteem.

Of course these are my 2 cents according to personal experience, a therapist would you help you more with that.

Not saying any of these would cause WW3, but remeber that, depending on who you ask, WW2 started:

• when Germany and Russia invaded Poland in 1939
• when Germany invaded Checkoslovakia in 1938
• when Japan invaded China in 1937

there is no single point of start for a war, just many actions of variable intensity that escalate

Hdd can live a long and happy life, but absolutely don't trust a single drive ever, independently of how rugged, old or expensive it is.

My main hard drive lasted 5 years with 1 year of power on hours, working fine and suddenly failed. It was a good fail because I was able to get all the data from it, but it took almost one month for how slow it was.

Always assume your data storage is going to die tomorrow and be ready to replace it.

That is true, for an adult issue, a serious and adult conversation must happen with this girl, even if it could be okay, the situation itself should be evaluated because it can get very gnarly. We don't know much about OPs way to handle it, but it's also possible this specific situation is fine.

Either way, I agree that just telling your daughter to stop doing something she clearly feels like doing, even if she has a distorted view of that something, is not going to help anyone.

You are not wrong, but age gap should be considered relative to the people age. 20 years difference between 20 and 40? I guess, still not the best thing ever... Between 17 and 38? It's very very different, people mature A LOT between 17 and 20. Then of course it depends on the person, maybe this 17 years old is mature for her age, but maybe she is just being taken advantage of.

Also, the wording of the mother really implies it's an assimetric relationship, not really one between consenting adults, of course we don't know, but still...

"Fact checkers are politically sided"

I know they are being used to, and are decently good for, extracting a single infornation from a big document (like a datasheet). Considering you can easily confirm the information is correct, it's quite a nice use case

That is true for online password managers, you need an offline one

Take off your tinfoil hat man. The entire us healthcare system is the profitable cancer, not the illnesses

Paypal absolutely, but honey does not. Investigation by megalag showed that it purposefully did not give the best experience in terms of coupone codes, if any at all, and experience from users seem to confirm that honey does not try to provide any real service, only scam customers, creators and shops. Paypal as a company should be held responsible

Most tech companies do evil stuff that are technically allowed although immoral, and they still bring some benefit in some way. What honey did was not only immoral, but most likely illegal, and screwed literally everyone. At least amazon and google have horrific monopolies, but they bring useful products (in some way).

Agree. I use NewPipe and csn easily open YouTube linkscin my instance, but cannot if they are posted on random instance. I would have to manually copy the video code, which I definitely won't do.

He was ironicly making a comparison with Trump, convicted of serious crimes but still being elected president