It’s often tempting to say “this X is screwed, let’s start all over again”. But deep relationships are not formed that way.

Between any people, there will be points of tension, and if this calls you to quit, you risk never to get to the point of stable long-lasting relationships.

May it be that they need to break up? Yes. Does it have to be? No.

Tfw I don’t have to know Esperanto

Depending on age, but generally, go from small to big.

Something like: "You know that sometimes people disagree and become angry at each other? A good way to solve it is to speak it through and find a common ground. But that doesn’t always happen, and some people start a fight - I know you’ve seen that happening in your life.

But sometimes it’s not just John and Jane - those can be the leaders of countries and groups, too. When people commanding others cannot find a common ground, a fight can be very brutal, and many innocent people may get hurt. Sometimes it leads to a war, but sometimes it gets more sneaky.

Sometimes, armies are not sent on a battlefield. People are sent as civilians, but they are actually armed, and can kill many innocent people around them. This is terrorism.

The goal of terrorism, however, is not necessarily to kill as many people as possible, but to make everyone scared. When you don’t know whether the person next to you carries a bomb, it is scary indeed. Because of that, our country has special forces that find and arrest terrorists before they do any harm, so nowadays terrorist attacks are very rare, and really, you don’t have to worry much about it. Stick it to them!"

Interestingly, often times it was the old users who were the most toxic as a result of this, aggressively citing Eternal September and going elitist.

So, we can do a lot to prepare on our end.

Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?

At least three times that I can recall

I am a grad student, and I often wish we wouldn’t make too much distinction. It’s just creating problems out of thin air.

Even as an adjective in scientific context.

Nope, not proud as in “yay I’m so happy to be male”. Proud as in “I’m a male and there’s nothing bad about it or the wording around it, I’m happy to be who I am without shitting on anyone being different”

Not here in particular, but I have been called out several times for using the word “female” in an appropriate and normal context.

Why?

One can call a group of men “males”, and no one bats an eye. But once anyone uses “female” to refer to a woman, it’s a shitshow.

People do use them as nouns. For example, in statistical/scientific context: “Among males/females…”, or outside: “I’m a male”

And I certainly saw the word “males” being commonly used, which is pretty much why I’m so baffled by the need to banish its counterpart.

Incels may call women whatever, but actively banishing the word because it was appropriated by some group of weirdos isn’t gonna help - rather, it will only deepen the flawed interpretation of a very regular and normal word, assigning context to where there was none.

I’m a proud male. Why can’t there be a proud female? This only means she is a woman, after all.

Driving above ~150 km/h is never ever safe, which is why Germany is such an outlier, while about every other country does not allow for it.

Autobahns are significantly more deadly than other roads.

This is basically Formula-1 race car/small aircraft speed.

Regular cars will only get you to, like, 160-180 km/h at full gas.

In other words, this is insanely fast and potentially very deadly.

At speeds above ~150 km/h, even on a well-organized highway, you won’t be able to control your surroundings and have to rely on sheer luck to survive, unless you’re a professional race pilot on an empty road. Also, unless the car is equipped with special gear for improved road grip, it will become uncontrollable because it will literally start to hover a little.

The latter. Even without mortgage, here in my city it would take 150 months of an average salary to buy a fairly modest apartment, and we’re speaking average, which is very far from median. With mortgage…you simply wouldn’t be able to cover the interest payments, so it’s out of the question.

Also, government tries to step in to compensate a bit for the families with children. But overall, the insane interest rate reflects in everything. I currently pay out a loan at 35% APR.

Can we stop with this for once?

Men are male, women are female. These words are interchangeable, and whoever decided one should be somehow bad or derogatory is deranged. Claim the words for what they are. Use “male” and “female” in appropriate context.

Wait until you hear about mortgage in Russia

26% APR. On a mortgage. No, seriously.

Those are older/richer people that saved enough money to buy new.

I would really like it if we could exterminate all species of fungi, mosses, lichen as well.

Congrats - you just destroyed yeasts and useful molds (both are fungi).

Now we don’t have bread and most alcoholic beverages, skin is lacking natural protection, and yes - no more blue cheese.

In seriousness, this kind of opinion shows lack of understanding as to why those ecosystems are preserved in the first place. Not only are they directly responsible for producing things like oxygen, they prevent a lot of natural disasters (drought, cataclysmic hurricanes, land erosion, etc), and are able to naturally replenish their own resources, unlike agricultural land that either needs influx of matter from natural ecosystems, or requires finite resources extracted from Earth (for example, apatite).

As much as we think of ourselves as the conquerors of nature, in the long run we still cannot exist without it. We didn’t figure it out.

Good, I also think the “some money” part in the end can be removed. It’s obvious and at the same time makes it sound a bit more rough than it needs to be.