Being on Lemmy, I’ve started to notice how little I know about conditions I’ve had my whole life. I guess I simply got the diagnosis and then that was it, for whatever reason didn’t really feel much interest in reading about it.

Wait what!?

Hmm I mean without having to work, that’s kind of what I’d spend a lot of my time doing anyway, especially the sleeping part.

Dude this is the weirdest thing to bring up and very inappropriate. You’re not in control of your friend’s wardrobe and besides, what are you actually implying is going to happen when she’s not as sufficiently covered as you deem fit? Additionally, and this is pretty important, did you consider whether or not she would have liked to have had her picture posted here especially in the context of the post you made? I take it you didn’t ask her? The fact that you took it for granted that you could just do that fits with a pattern where you also believe you can tell her how to dress. You’re going to need learn to better respect boundaries.

Food probably actually is their main product. Granted it’s been a very long time since I worked in a movie theatre but when I did they told us that of $14 or so of ticket price they only made about 50c and that candy bar sales were actually their real business.

Thanks mate. Really glad to hear that. Good luck with it all.

In my opinion, and the fact that it’s just an opinion is part of the answer itself, the term stupidity or stupid doesn’t really mean much of anything. As you say it has a lot of overlap with the concept of ignorance, the main reason someone might choose to use one term over the other is to make it derogatory, or to express displeasure with a person or action. If you’re neutral about someone lacking knowledge of something, you think they’re “ignorant” if you are annoyed by this or don’t like that person, you think they’re “stupid”.

However if you look up “stupid” in the dictionary there is a bit of a difference. It focusses more on cognitive capacity than knowledge. So if you don’t know things because you’re inherently lacking in the ability to learn them effectively, people might say you’re stupid, whereas if you don’t know things because there was simply no opportunity for you ever to have learned them, then you’re ignorant.

Fucking gold

I can’t really say anything of what you’ve described sounds strange. What you’ve written seems to mostly suggest that maybe it needn’t concern you too much how strange, if at all, you actually are because your usual preference for solitude and pretty healthy enjoyment of your own company kinda speaks to you having everything you need for contentment and fulfilment entirely within your reach and means already. You could potentially be more insulated from the feelings of insecurity and doubt and anxiety that comes from a more outward facing and sociable set of needs and that doesn’t make you strange. Viewed that way, it seems like your problems are mostly coming from when you start comparing, which tends to be where most people’s lives start to feel worse. When there’s some sense that you’re supposed to leave a legacy, or you’re supposed to want a companion, such thinking can get corrosive to general well being even when you were pretty happy before.

That said, you have indicated some concern for how others perceive you, indicated some enjoyment from and importance paid to having and maintaining relationships with other people, so maybe that really is something you’re missing and it’s causing you a little bit of anguish. That’s a more complicated problem, but also a pretty common part of the human experience and can cause a lot problems for people. It doesn’t sound like you’re “too strange” for others to want you in their lives and to share connection with you in any way though. That sounds like a self imposed restriction that’s unlikely to be something anyone around you really picks up on or considers.

If you are feeling alienated and isolated, this could be for a number of reasons that would be hard to get to the bottom of from your lemmy post alone but I think it might help you to know that you are signalling a certain kind of contempt for people that could be a contributing factor. You don’t need to suddenly enjoy drinking or loud music if you don’t like either but you don’t and probably shouldn’t look down upon people who do or dismiss them all as idiots on that basis. If you really do want more human contact and feel like the lack of it is leaving you depressed it would help if you could be more embracing of human differences. This has an effect even when trying to form a connection with people who, like you, don’t necessarily want loud music or alcohol for a good time. People tend to pick up on negative attitudes towards others as a whole and for the most part it drives them away. I’m afraid I’ve come across as preachy here and you’ll have stopped reading by this point but honestly, I really am trying to help here. If you look back at some of the wording of your post, a couple of things stand out to me

I specially hate the talkative, needy ones who wont shut up and believe I care what they think

And

the world offers me

If by making your post you really are interested in another’s perspective here, I’ll say that these two statements taken together are telling. The talkative people you have such a problem with probably really do think you care what they think and that’s not a sin on their part, it’s kind of a prerequisite for successful human connection which they are trying to make and thought they had, is that so wrong of them? They need to care what you think and you need to care what they think otherwise what are the two of you actually doing here? Granted there will be times when people misread signals and are mistaken in thinking they’ve made a successful connection with you but you needn’t judge them for that, they want and deserve human contact at least as much as you and they have done nothing wrong by trying to establish it, they’re putting in the work and you’re response to this is immature and ungrateful. You’re not obliged to accept their attempts to connect with you if you find you’re incompatible but this contempt that you allow to build is toxic and will get in the way of you ever managing to find someone you do care about and or convincing them to care about you. The second of those statements I’ve singled out sums up where your thinking on this might have gone astray: the world isn’t offering you anything and doesn’t really have an obligation nor tendency to do so, it’s just us people here, on this rock together and in order to get along and live fulfilling lives it’s we, not the world, who must do the offering ourselves . If you’re unhappy with the quality of the people you perceive as being “offered” to you by the world you might want to reflect on what you’re offering them in return exactly. So far it sounds like if someone tries to talk to you or include you, you’ll be secretly or perhaps not so secretly, resenting them for assuming you care what they think or talking too much, or you’ll consider them to be idiots because of their music tastes or enjoyment of drinking.

Again different strokes for different folks, you don’t have to suddenly pretend or force yourself to like doing things you don’t like, but at least don’t hold it against other people for not being the same as you and try to be generous with them and let them surprise you. Your self sufficiency and self reliance are great assets and maybe they could make such generosity for you, a less risky proposition, you might have less to lose since at least you don’t crave human contact in an unhealthy way like some, or suffer from the same anxiety about how you’re perceived as some, and so hopefully wouldn’t have to risk being hurt or suffering greater depression if your efforts don’t pan out.

Good luck any way. I hope things get better for you one way or another.

Trouble would be, if you did that, you’d really want to be leaning in to the fact that it actually was or very much resembled x specific celebrity and that’s probably when you’d have crossed the line in to unauthorised use of their likeness. If your porn production has nothing to market it as being something people want to watch because the star looks like someone in particular then it’s just one of a million other pornos.

It’s also be legally dicier since it seems that there’s plenty of grey area from the examples people have cited where celebrities successfully litigated against unauthorised use of their likeness and since it’s porn they’ll be so much more upset about it and courts likely a lot less sympathetic to your defence given just how damaging and upsetting it would be for the litigant. At least of it’s using a different actor for a character in a sequel you can still sell people on how much like the character your chosen star is and so even if you chose someone that looked just like the last actor there’s the whole aura around the franchise and the love for the character itself that can help you market it as being basically the same person without having to say it is and getting in to trouble.

That’s hilarious I was going to say it reads like a joke but not because I actually suspected it really was one.

To the extent that you have a choice in the matter, the reason not to fear it is because feeling that fear all the time is going to be a miserable existence that will likely drive you to an earlier grave. That said another way your question could be interpreted is, “why wouldn’t death be considered scary?”, which is that’s your meaning, it is scary, it’s probably quite literally the scariest thing given how strong survival instincts are and the role that fear plays in those instincts. The reason people are not generally always in paralysing fear is because that fear that in some situations keeps them alive, ceases to be useful for most of the rest of one’s life and is actively detrimental to the very survival it’s supposed to safeguard. However, the fact that most of us are not unduly preoccupied with a great of death is probably less to do with an active decision or rational choice and just a healthy instinct to steer our thoughts away from that cliff once thoughts drift too far that way and we experience unpleasant emotions. As far as we know, we’re the only species on the planet that deals with the knowledge of our own mortality so the extent to which this affects your daily probably has some greater degree of conscious mental decisions so I guess that’s what makes it possible for a person to get fixated on the issue and develop unhealthy patterns of thought around it, that might be what’s going on for you, but the other side of that coin is that that means it’s at least somewhat within your power to reach a comfortable medium point between acceptance of mortality and a healthy amount of attention and thought towards it.

This is the 2nd comment i read suggesting pointing out that it’s common practice for employees but not naming anyone else. I totally get the logic, it’s what I would do too, however it seems like it’s unlikely to survive the obvious next question “could you tell us who else for example?”, or “what gave you the idea that this was common practice?” or “have you personally seen anyone else eating company food?”. If such a question naturally arises you’re now painted in to a corner whereby there’s no evasive or ambiguous phrasing to hide behind and hope for the question to be dropped and if you name someone you’ve now officially gone on record making an accusation you can’t necessarily substantiate and if you point blank refuse you will obviously help construct a narrative that you were stealing and attempted to lie about common practice in order to deflect.

Honestly I think if I thought I knew who had specifically made the accusation and they were also the one who was partaking in the same practice AND I was probed further along just the lines as I described I’d probably feel I had no choice but to name names, though I’d absolutely need to be sure that person did indeed make that complaint.

Haha from time to time. Mostly as something sorta amusing because of the absurdity of it, but with the added sting of embarrassment for the parts of the story that are directly stemming from me being an idiot, and the slight shiver down my spine at the thought of people like that out there that will happily attempt to ruin someone’s life on a whim. This is probably the first time I’ve been reminded of it for a few years but I figured it might make your own much more benign experience feel less awful in comparison, what happened to you, that’s something you’ll have well and truly forgotten much sooner than 20 years.

Almost 20 years ago now.

You know what might help you feel better? Hearing my story about when the same thing happened to me but it was so much worse, or maybe that’ll just make you feel even more anxious (fair warning).

I was at the pub on my 20th birthday. I had gotten thoroughly drunk and had to pee so I went to the bathroom. Somehow in my drunken stupor I walked in through the wrong door, which would have been an embarrassing but pretty mundane faux pas, except when this woman walked in, and I, in my super drunk-ass state, instead of realising the completely obvious, instead assumed that she’d walked in to the men’s. I kinda chuckled a little bit and said sympathetically “are you a little lost?” The woman responded “err what the FUCK this is the fucking WOMEN’S toilet you dick head” then she quite suddenly pulled the Rasta Beanie my friends had gotten me for my birthday off my head and said “I’m going throw this shit in the fucking toilet you stupid asshole” I’d managed to grab a hold of the beanie when she grabbed at it so it was still in my hands and she started yanking at it trying to steal it from me all the while shrieking “fuck you, you fucking pervert”. I wrested my hat from her clutches and apologised awkwardly for my mistake and stumbled out of there and went back to my table with my friends.

About 15 minutes later a bouncer walked up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said he needed to talk to me. He pointed to my new acquaintance from the bathroom and said “that woman over there said you walked in to the women’s bathroom and assaulted her” which came as a big surprise and instantly sobered me up. He asked me if that was true and was I really in the women’s bathroom? Fortunately, against all odds this bouncer was quite a reasonable man and when I explained that yes, I had actually mistakenly gone in to the women’s bathroom and that this woman then came in after and yelled at me and tried to steal my belongings and that no, I hadn’t assaulted anyone; he actually believed me and I was able to continue the rest of my evening without being further hassled. I thought for sure at the bare minimum he’d tell me to leave the premises just to avoid any more issues just or unjust but it actually all worked out which was quite a relief because I definitely did not expect such an escalation.

Anyway, at the very least you can say none of that happened to you.

Some countries have organisations that supposedly dictate the use of some official language, the French being a notable example, but whether anybody listens to them is a whole other story and frankly I think that’s probably for the best. Languages have always been influenced organically by the cultural forces at play, they serve and reflect the speakers not the other way around. They need to adapt to the experiences and lives of people that are using them and no steering committee is going to be able comprehend nor account for the totality of that. Maybe they’re useful for like helping a publication produce a style guide since they can defer to something “official” but that’s about it.

I’m not sure I see the contradiction myself. It sounds like the theory is the towers somehow transmit the virus which creates the need and pretext for the vaccine that allows the secret nanobot injection right?

Is it contradictory because the capacity to wirelessly transmit a biological virus through these 5g towers would mean they wouldn’t need to physically inject these nanobot things because they should be able to just transmit them the same way? Because if so, I can see what you mean but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily follow, like maybe for whatever reason viruses are different to nanobots and can somehow be transmitted through radio technology but nanobots can’t. Or also they might think, as so many conspiracy theorists do, that COVID is a “hoax” so that opens up all kinds of creative interpretations, maybe their 5g towers merely produce the disease known as COVID and there is no actual virus known as SARS-COV-2 and that’s the “hoax” part. That theory wouldn’t require virus transmission over radiowaves just radiowaves being “bad” for reasons that could be made up later.

It’s worth pointing out that whatever tips you get here, accurate though they may be today, are likely to be less accurate with time and this tech is improving at a rapid pace so if this is important to you, you’ll have to keep on top of what techniques for discernment are current at any given time or if there even remain any reliable techniques at all.

Looks like eventually it’s all going to come down to context and your assessment of the trustworthiness of the source. If something is so sensational it seems unbelievable and you don’t have much trust in the source from which you saw it, it probably is literally unbelievable until further corroboration emerges. This is a pretty exhausting model when modern live involves so much media consumption but I’d advise that there’s also an element of practicality you should incorporate in to your evaluation. You’ll have to decide if the answer to the question “is this AI?” is important for any given situation before actually investing any time or energy in to answering it. Sometimes you might get the calculation wrong and it turned out that by assuming something was innocuous enough not to matter one way or the other you ended up being misinformed about something that actually was important but at the end of the day we’re only mere mortals and can sometimes be wrong.

Hmm seems smart but I mean I’d rather I only run the risk of saying the wrong thing to a species that’s largely solitary or at least doesn’t live in really big groups that engage in organised warfare. If I piss off one cat that’s hopefully not as big a deal as pissing off a whole super colony of ants.