Idk, I’m bilingual and I only ever think in English. It doesn’t really seem to make a difference though, saying things out loud vs in my head.

I’m learning a third language now and can just barely communicate with others (worked with a taxi driver!). That said, I wouldn’t consider myself truly trilingual yet. I could think in that language but it doesn’t really feel like it changes anything - I still only know the same words in my head

I shit on the opportunity? Dude, I don’t think you understood my comment at all, especially since you got so defensive in your response.

Let’s try and take a breath and relax. Let me know if something I said hurt/disrespected you and I’ll address it since it wasn’t my intention to offend anyone.

First, I visit Lemmy daily and comment all the time. Am I not a true Lemmy user because I don’t post? I personally think that’s a silly thing to say.

Second, I never even mentioned the posts here being the issue. You just assumed that, dude. My issue is entirely the lack of people. Sorry that wasn’t clearer in my what I wrote

Finally, if I’m honest, I don’t think this place is better than reddit. It may one day be but I don’t think it is yet. I hope I’m allowed to have that opinion here.

Something else I think is that the demographic of the userbase is a lot more similar/less diverse than it ever was on reddit. Again, I’m not even saying that’s a good or bad thing. They’re just realities we should try and understand. It could be both. I just find the hate for reddit to be over the top and I think it clouds people’s view of reality. You’re welcome to disagree. We could even have a nice chat about it!

I’m of the belief that if we want this place to be better than reddit we need to truly try and welcome people we disagree with into the community so everyone feels like they’re included even if they’re not always posting or commenting or even visiting or whatever. ;)

I mean, maybe I should just ask, are people here mainly for a defederated social network - and what does that mean to you? I’ve kinda always been looking for a good healthy community - I hear the Internet used to be way better at that before - and I felt like reddit showed that their communities were fake and ripe for turning on themselves. This place seems identical in that way.

Sorry if I could’ve communicated that better in this message or the last one

All 10 of us here stand united on this most exquisite and elevated of horses!

It’s so weird to be content with/amused by this situation. Feels like Alexandria was just built nextdoor, fisherman have started to arrived with massive boats and high-quality nets, and here we are, the old fishermen pushed off our original fishing site yet full of glee that we don’t have to pay taxes in Alexandria. It’s like, this isn’t really a successful venture, right? We’re not really thriving like we were in the past, are we? We’re likely never going to get anything like that back either, huh

Idk, maybe my values just don’t give me enough internal validation yet, to feel good about it or something. The only consolation I see really is that I don’t think the time spent online is very worthwhile anyway. What I liked most was the community but it’s become clear most of that was never real

I just read it as supporting third parties. I thought you were going to mention what happens if a third party were to get more votes but not a majority. I actually don’t know. Would there still be a runoff between Dem and Rep or would the third party actually win it? I’d assume theres some rule that the third party has to win a majority or some bs

There’s a link under the post linking to info on the Sri Lanka election.

All good! It’s easy to miss

Idk, I see liberals telling everyone to be calm and content and that the economy is great and getting better.

I totally get the reason and vibe they’re going for, but they’re basically saying don’t be righteously furious and ignore reality, imo, while they capitulate on claims that crime and immigration are bigger problems. I guess, I just don’t know that significant economic/social change has ever happened without pissed-off people fighting like their lives depend on it

Most people I know know about the drake beef and the Diddy scandal, but I couldn’t even count like 5 people that I know personally that could name their senators or explain what the electoral college is.

I think most of us prefer to ignore our emotions, and I think anything related to politics beings up uncomfortable emotions for people so they just don’t do it and stay away from the topic

Not with that attitude. Seriously, we’ll need to be absolutely furious if we ever want something to be done about something we care about

Does anyone remember anger?

I’ve never been as proud of my state representatives as I was when I lived in Oregon. Wyden and Merkley are American heroes, as far as I’m concerned

It’s cheap

Idk, you ever wonder who bought/read all those Killing x books that Bill O Reilly wrote?

Interesting. I thought that was just in movies. lol

Ok, yeah I figured the same thing

That seems kinda fucked up. Why would you do something like that?

I mean, I at least get fucking with people for money. Doing it for fun, not so much

Also, anyone know what they meant with this line?

I still loved my life so I didn’t want to use the Google custom search API.

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Some people simply don’t know how to be good friends. You really shouldn’t take it personal

I’ve just had to learn my closest friends simply aren’t capable of providing emotional connection like I’d like. I’m working on becoming a better friend to them, meeting them where they are , trying to figure out how to provide for and validate my own emotional needs, so I can eventually work up the courage, or whatever it is I need, to meet friends that are more emotionally mature enough to have the real connections I’m looking for

I once delayed a party where I had tons of family over because my friends hadn’t arrived. They didn’t get there until like 10 or something, after I’d already told them to just fuck off. The thing is, they are my friends and they legit care about me in their own (weird to me) ways. I’ve just come to realize they’ve got legit issues, as I do (part of why we’re drawn to being friends), that they’re working on to varying degrees, and I simply can’t expect more from them than they’re capable of giving

Good luck finding a chill healthy tribe of folks that shares similar values to your own!

And here I thought they just wanted Israel to stop their genocide of Palestinians

Shit, I bet if they’d negotiated in good faith people would’ve been happy for them to just stop butchering the children. I’d personally be happy if they spares one child live for every one they choose to murder - but I’m just a bit more reasonable than most, I guess

Do those goalposts have little feet on them?

“Democrats wouldn’t do this”

Democrats do this

“No, not like that”

Look, I said it in a dumb meme format so you know it’s true

(I appreciate you for posting here, just making fun of you 😊)

Anyone know if The Finals counts as a “live service” game? It’s free to play and I think it’s fantastic - both the game and the fact it’s free.

I just don’t play games enough to justify the huge asking prices anymore. The last games I paid for were COD MW2 and Cyberpunk and I doubt I’ll ever drop $70+ for a game again, especially when there’s games like splitgate and whatnot that are free (not that I ever tried the new one. lol)

Idk how it could. Haven’t tons of companies been announcing layoffs for like tens of thousands of workers for a few years now?

Yeah, I couldn’t believe the ridiculous narrative either. After the reading the article though, it at least makes some sense for me as a Mexican-American dude. It’s mainly white people doing better and I guess that totally tracks (also helps explains why so many people here are ready to believe it). I honestly sometimes forget to remind myself “American” hardly ever means all Americans

That said, it’s wild how little discussion there is on this here and how any mention of frustration with the accepted narrative results in others thinking you’re just a bitter idiot, or something

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