He caught one of the nursemaids speaking G*rman to the infant and the experiment had to be aborted. RIP

There’s something so cozy about late 90s web pages

get out of the house,

But the sun is out there. I think I’ll stay where the giant nuclear fusion reactor can’t see me

No, no, I was told that Tiktok was Holsum Left Education and besides, China is more free than the degenerate West.

/s

Not just Zoomers, unfortunately.

They’re betting on their fascist puppet in the US tearing apart NATO, so they don’t have to worry about such things when they start eyeing the Baltic states.

Gender norms make things so fucking hard XD

Vote early, vote often!

I (straight male) always found it easy to connect with girls, but I was also raised in a very feminist family (despite my mother being nominally conservative).

Dating is a lot of work and vulnerability and an attempt at ‘clicking’ on many more levels than friendship. It definitely wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in dating (I very much was), but ‘Gorl fun AND pretty’ just wasn’t enough to automatically spark my interest in romance. ‘Gorl fun’ meant possible friend; ‘Gorl pretty’ was most girls, because girls pretty.

I got spontaneously voted the most handsome boy in the class when I was in 10th grade though. Always burnished that particular memory on the Altar of Ego.

Oh, it’s definitely satire, making fun of “nice guys” who complain that they’ve been “friendzoned”.

The horror, friendship!

Don’t have to be either to want opposite sex friends who are just friends.

You sound like you put girls in the girlfriend-zone

I mean, I’ve got definite FOMO, but I generally don’t feel the need to continuously search for new content. If the comms in my feed are quiet, that’s nearly a good thing.

The advantages most of us see in the Fediverse (lack of corporate control, low algorithm interference) are seen by most normal users as either of little importance, or actively detrimental. The Fediverse requires you engage with it to cultivate a feed that gives you what you’re interested in. But the people fleeing to Rednote want a strong algorithm that feeds them what they want, and they don’t mind influence games being played by the algorithm in exchange for this convenience.

Sadly, I think it’s photoshopped. But ten minutes in Maryland will show you just how true it is to attitudes there. People love their crab, and their Old Bay.

I’m mostly bone, so you’ll probably want to make me into a broth.

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Would you like to cite the part where sanctions were threatened against Pakistan, the actual topic being discussed?

No one brags about their Lemmy accounts’ special numbers. We don’t even have karma.