• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Took some days off and decided to fuck off to my hometown for a few days. Time stands still in a weird way here. Like, life moves on but at the same time almost nothing changes. I see the same people I saw years ago when I still lived here. The stories people tell me are the same stories. It’s as if they outside world has no influence on this little area of the world. It’s both comforting and yet extremely boring at the same time. I feel at home while at the same time I feel like living in some sort of dream state like it isn’t real life.

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Is there a group of people who use the downvote button as an emotional confirmation tool now a la reddit style?

    Am thinking of my recent encounters with still no responses; and many others that have completely hid behind the “disengage rule”.

    • lelkins@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      7 hours ago

      i never interacted with r*ddit but my first ever post (my introductory one) for some reason has a fucking downvote, i will never understand why

      do people hate me this much? are my shitposts that bad?

      my effortposts based on a hyperfixation i have barely get traction but my shitposts sometimes skyrocket. and i still get downvote. hell, i literally don’t get anything in my foss game posts. i don’t feel like writing them anymore cause of it.

      i planned on making a post based on a comment i made here on c/games but what’s the point if i’d just get zero looksies and thus zero interest in open source games that i personally enjoy?

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Nope groups of pathetic fucks who call themselves proudly “plague rats” or whatever other fucking garbage shit. Wastes of time that I have to deal with in person every single day. Why bother sometimes when people just shit out of their mouths, right?

        I just do it anyways because fuck it and fuck them. Really all there is to it.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    7·
    11 hours ago

    something tainted my algorithm and ive been getting bombarded by clips from this lib called sarah paine doing “psychoanalysis” on Stalin and Mao lmao. The west is just so cooked if they have these people as respected thinkers.

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      “Hey, lib-buddy…think this source is dogshit propaganda…” “THEY’RE MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU!!!”

      Been through that quite a bit.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    my chinese teacher saying vietnam is troublesome country but laos is okay made me chuckle 😂

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Fuck that.

      I’d spare some, but last time I promised, I fucked up, unfortunately, and now I still don’t have the money,.

  • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    2 days ago

    Not that I particularly care much for the mainstream media, but Trump apparently signed an executive order, stamping out the last few vestiges of democracy this country pretended to have.

    Time to start learning Mandarin.

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I have nasal pads and they… fucking work so far?

    I feel a difference in the way I breathe through my nose.

    I’m going to use this with my CPAP machine.

    (Also, if anyone has a CPAP machine, let me know, because I need to get that damn thing to work; I can’t sleep with it so far.)

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    Getting into it with someone IRL and having them straight up say that “Of course America will be able to actually catch up and compete if we get some of the loose baggage off of us!”

    (This loose baggage is things like D.E.I, trans etc)

    Despite the unpleasantry, I was able to get them to at least admit that cutting government programs isn’t gonna make us somehow compete with China. Nor spending billions on programs that only cost China hundreds of millions. Decent progress, despite the bad-taste in my mouth.

    The thing that makes me genuinely shocked though is that there are a lot of burgers who think that by just being as racist, homophobic piece of shit settlers even harder that somehow that will absolve their country of struggle and decay. Somehow that will solve all the issues…it’s the “third column” holding our country back…apparently. I suppose all the propaganda of “China bad” in terms of convincing burgers of their wunderwaffe compared to “inferior chinese products” really did take a toll.

    • cimbazarov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s a result of declining material conditions and concessions being given to oppressed minorities coinciding at the same time. The two are separate things, but timing wise they coincide so it’s really easy to falsely link them as cause and effect.

      • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        2 days ago

        I feel like this is the key to neo-liberalism/crypto-fascism today. Without this move class consciousness would be way more advanced in western nations.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        Yup. It also confirms and validates notions about tradition to them; “truly things were better back then with no woke!”.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    2 days ago

    How do you directly/privately message the mods of a community? Or do you have to DM a specific mod? I know of the report feature for specific posts, but thinking of broader message than that.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    3 days ago

    The downside of working for an org that is trying to help as many people as possible is that I see a lot of people and I am once again sick. I used to never get sick but ever since I see a 1000 people a week my body decided to say fuck that.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    4 days ago

    It seems the EU is actually butthurt by the US-Russia negotiations and they are now willing to send troops to Ukraine, which is just waiting for incidents to happen.