This reminds me of Ursula Le Guin’s “bag theory”: that the first tool humans developed, was not a weapon which is usually taught, like a spear, but rather, a bag, to carry things: for example for berries we picked. A nice reframe from the violent status quo.

No, Romanian. The majority of Romani people here are however from Romania, hence the connection

I dated a Romanian woman who hated the Romani people, she said they made her ashamed to speak the same language. We didn’t really work out in the end.

Another Romanian woman whom I met a few times, upon hearing this went “lol why were you together with a racist”. Fair question, honestly. We didn’t work out either, but for different reasons.

Why tf do ppl care, who even has notifications on for others starting games. You message me about it, I block your ass

The solution is to only join servers with a strict 18+ policy and instant ban if anybody even implies they are underage. Even better, a strict 25+ policy

It does say Kerala though

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laughs in Python

(then cries because explicit type declaration is superior)

If you mean the definite form, then no, Polish doesn’t have it. Learning English as a kid was difficult because no teacher could explain it to me in an understandable way.

I’ve been learning a little Romanian lately though and it is there. Romanian is such a weird language. The vocabulary is like a mixture of five other languages, the grammar has gendered words and conjugations, yet it has a strict word order, unlike Polish that thanks to the complex grammar allows for very free reordering.

From now on I’m calling my girlfriend “my microscopic mite”

You’re right on the money there’s already a lot of focus on “poor isolated white swedes”, nothing on the fash narratives soaking every corner of society

They are machines, so I rage against them

I have zero media literacy

My favorite prefix will always be exa. Mostly because of a sci-fi book where one character called himself Exa and there were a few subtle puns with that name (like getting obliterated with a 10^18 W laser)

Semi-agree, the weird pauses were baffling at times, but the voice itself was very cool

They would 100% be trying to peddle ape runes inscribed with XP cost (for extra permanency) as the next big investment opportunity

Give less of a shit of what your peers will think of you, do your own thing as much as you’re able. And also read leftist shit, be it Marx or Goldman, that will make you a better person overall.

I haven’t had any big mishaps myself, but I worked in a wafer fab and apparently the person who came in to replace me after I quit, dropped a whole box of wafers like a month into the job. Shit worth like $1M.

That said, massive fault on the company for a lack of better procedures handling those, and afaik the person didn’t even lose the job as it was an honest accident.

Also leather is just fucking uncomfortable lol. When I was a teenager I bought a leather jacket because it was COOL, but holy fuck it was so uncomfortable, I was usually sweating and freezing at the same time. Even when it comes to boots (which historically might have been necessarily made of leather to keep ppl’s feet dry and warm, idk) we now have much better materials, and crying about microplastics is nothing but carnist cope

Not long after I went vegan, my dad tried to get me in a gotcha about leather, how faux leather is all plastic and REAL LEATHER is so natural and great. But, uh a) I don’t use faux leather either, b) something like 95% of the cool real leather is cured with extremely toxic materials and just that pollutes more than any microplastic-laden shitty pleather would. He rebutts with “yeah but you can cure leather traditionally, without chrome, they do that in Italy (or some other country)”, but had trouble answering which kind of leather he usually buys, seeing as the cool “enviromentally-friendly” (if you disregard the entire cow mass breeding part) kind is super expensive.

Honestly, my favorite tool is just a cheapo chef’s knife from Ikea or somewhere like that. I occasionally sharpen it with a slab of iron and use it for like 90% of all cutting I do.

Then there are a few robots I use: a kitchen assistant with a dough hook that makes all my bread with zero hassle (it also has two more accessories that can be used for example for flax seed mayonnaise), a “multi-cooker” (like a crock pot and a rice cooker in one) that I mostly use to make rice (and if I went back in time, I’d just buy a simple cheap rice cooker instead, but oh well) and, undoubtedly, my cheapo drip coffee maker. I hate brands so I just buy slightly-above-the-cheapest stuff, good enough so it doesn’t break, but that’s it. 90% it’s good enough. I also have a cheap bamboo steamer basket that is slightly coming apart at the seams, but it’s been great for a lot of things, from spring rolls to dumplings, seitan sausage and even steaming soy beans to make milk.

Oh, honorable mention to my tortilla press, though lately I’ve started to just use a rolling pin as that gets the tortillas thinner than with the press.

Jesus fucking christ

there is so much to unpack here lmao. I am too tired and relaxed to do it all, but just the first point, implying Mao or Stalin were nationalists in any sense other than some kind of opportunistic building of “nationality” to ignite it into full on proletarian revolution, like, fucking read a single text you lib shits, lol. W*stern “leftists” deserve the same hellfire as libs, they are just smug ideology shoppers