YappyMonotheist

Of course, and I don’t think you did, not at all. 👍

I’ll remain hopeful. 🤞

I tell believable lies that cannot be easily checked, and when they can be I cover my bases to the best of my abilities. For example, I just started working in the UK and I moved here about three weeks ago and, just before my interview, I called a friend of mine and my ex boss (who’s also a good friend of mine) and explained the lies I had put in my resume cause they were my references. The odds of them calling were almost nil but it doesn’t hurt to plan ahead.

I don’t like lying simply because I’m too proud of myself to hide who I am from the world and I just find it exhausting to do all the time, but I can do it when the time comes like in job interviews. I mean, I’ve been very competent at both of my previous jobs (I was in the army before and they didn’t need references, just my passport, lol), so I trust I’ll do well and not just ruin whatever company I’m working at, and don’t see the harm in lying to work at this places I can function appropriately whilst zooted. It’s not like I’m applying for a surgeon’s job when I can barely tie my shoelaces!

But yeah, I understand how revealing facial expressions and overall body language can be and I can restrain myself competently, and I’m mentally agile. Also, both of my parents were lawyers (my mom’s still alive and working cause if she doesn’t move she dies, kinda like a shark, lol) and my dad was pretty abusive so it was ability I had to be good at, lol. 🤷

It’s hard to stomach but you knew the truth before asking Lemmy. Sorry, friend, but it’s probably better this way, honestly. And don’t take it personally! It’s not like this is someone who knew you inside and out and decided to avoid you. 🙏

“Europeans hate other Europeans, the rest of the world pays the price” could be used to describe many catastrophes in the recent to not so recent past, lol.

How else could you rationalize your/your loved ones’ murderous past and/or present as an IDF soldier? God won’t look at these vile transgressors kindly… but they aren’t the first European colonizers to find themselves in this position, ofc.

Sex sells, and infantilization plus sex even more so! That’s Sabrina Carpenter’s whole schtick, lol.

It wasn’t even used as an insult here, just a factual remark, lol. Talk about sensitive, jeez.

A certain overreaction, and a cruel and immoral “punishment” for someone who’s simply confused. 😒

I don’t give much credence to the word “gender” and their norms simply follow from sexual dimorphism in my understanding. I don’t think the vast majority of human beings need to “embrace” their sex either, they simply are, much like the rest of mammals. Humans are more complex but why “gendrify” some slight variations in personality traits? Some things simply come more naturally to one sex and not the other because of it, and their “competence” is not a marking of “gender fluidity” but development/maturity (which can be affected by many things, like trauma and ideology, because again human beings are complex), or simply variance within parameters. My “somehow” was more about stuff that you mentioned like intersex folks, Klinefelter, etc., which as you probably know affects the tiniest minority of human beings, and also the possibility that a person’s brain might have been fundamentally altered because of something not going as expected in the development process. Should we consider those with Down’s syndrome, for instance, another “viable” category of human being or understand it, as we do, as something that happens simply because ‘shit happens’ through growth, because mechanical processes can sometimes go tits up? You can modify parts of you either superficially or more deeply through hormonal changes thanks to current technology but that doesn’t mean you ARE, just that you sought changes and you got them (was MJ a white man?). People also conflate sexual attraction with “sexual identity”, which is unnecessary and just doesn’t follow, which is why we have LGBT and aren’t just separate categories. Also, that muscle mass argument is just wrong, come on now, friend. I think many just get lost in words too, and that gives credence to their feelings to a certain degree (and in certain communities, it is even encouraged) and as such will just go entirely in that direction, looking to force changes (is it not possible to be a sensitive, homosexual man without necessarily having to consider yourself a woman, for example? I personally know two, just saying). And it’s not a reason to hate people or anything even close to it, of course, but that’s another conversation (that should be short and with obvious conclusions).

Anyway, I hope this comment was understood with the same civility and respect I tried to phrase it in, and I admit it the subject might be more complex than my current understanding of it and that it might be flawed. I understand it’s an emotionally difficult conversation to have, and more so for those who are the topic of the conversation. Peace!

France! Hon hon hon! Possibly elsewhere too but it’s popular in the south over there. 👍

I did 1 thing but also went to the gym. 🤷😅

No, but the hatefully violent form of stupidity, maybe. 🤷

Are the lacking translations also supposed to be part of the shitpost?

Insulting/purely decorative out of 10.

He doesn’t understand the negative connotations behind it and why one of the main branches of the empire needs to be obfuscated in euphemism? I kinda believe the mental decline rumours now, lol, or maybe he’s just testing the waters to see if Americans still have that bloodthirst like the good ol’ Bush days, idk.

Not even “pasta”? Tsk tsk.

I was gonna mention Falco, but he’s Austrian… Are the cultural differences large enough that he cannot but counted as part of the “Germanic folk”? There’s at least one famous Austrian widely considered German, lol.

“Stop shaming me, let me live!” is something I either see textually or paraphrased in many of my interactions here… It isn’t everything, evidently far from it, but I think this sentiment has a little bit of responsibility behind these larger issues.

No, it was certainly deliberate (and a little cheeky), but without any generalized hatred. Zendaya’s Chani just happens to exhibit it and, as such, she cannot realistically be the idealised extremely mature, softly feminine (but realistic and pragmatic because she’s a Fremen still) and self-sacrificial teenager both Muad’dib (another teenager but a princeling infused with excess, inhuman knowledge) and the story need for it to make sense. Paul needs someone of his caliber, but a yin to his yang, and OG Chani is exactly that. The sexes are different and our shortcomings come in different shades: needlessly argumentative and difficult “lippy” is to women what arrogant “mansplaining” or physical and erratical “brutish” is to men, for example. 🤷