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Cake day: December 30th, 2023

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  • What I mean is: there is a place and a time. Don’t expect to enter a completely random bar insulting everyone and their mother and come out unscathed. On the other hand, if you know the people in this bar and you are the best of friends, then by all means, they might even merrily punch back with something from their repertoire.

    The internet is similar, don’t expect everyone to be your same age, gender and nationality.

    We are strangers, we do not know each other, I mean no ill will towards you and I hope you don’t either. I respect you by acknowledging you as a sentient and intelligent person with wants and needs equally as important as my own. I will not throw insults at you because in most human cultures (If not all) insulting a person you do not know is a social taboo. If you break that social convention you become an antagonist, and by your unwillingness to participate in society you turn yourself into an outcast.

    This might sound cool for a 14 year old, but I urge you to imagine yourself in a remote area of the world at the mercy of an unknown civilization. I hope (for your own sake) that your first instinct is to appear as friendly and as least threatening as possible.

    [TL;DR] Don’t be a jerk on the internet and then complain about everyone banning you.


  • I don’t know what a rightoid or a chud is, but here are a few pointers I hope are useful to you.

    • You are free to insult as many people on the internet as you please. You will not be very popular though, for that is generally frowned upon.

    • When speaking to strangers online keep in mind basic netiquette, and “read the air” per say.

    • The world does not revolve around the USA




  • You could try to find something that appeals to you both. It seems to me that you like animation and character-based stories a lot, and your girlfriend is obviously a gamer, so idk, maybe you could play the hollow-knight / silk-song games, they seem popular nowadays. Else one of you will have to “budge” and get into the other’s interest.

    Also, you could do a “sales-pitch” and try to convince someone (either your girlfriend or a friend) about a particular piece of media. But don’t push it. If you share what you like about it and they’re not interested then leave it at that.

    Idk I’m not good at social interactions either. But good luck!!


  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.loltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWow
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    8 days ago

    If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you’re reading this, you’re a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it’s a twelve minute read. […]

    (For anyone who is confused, AaronDavid posts a bunch of boomer memes and then this paragraph of self-promotion, he’s a nice chap, some of his memes are funny!! It was unexpected seeing him here)




  • It’s like the rest of the internet, a mirror of its users. Of course, the “worst” type of content gets the most views and people are encouraged to make that kind of videos to get more clout and attention.

    What I dislike the most is that these platforms are constantly bidding for your attention and if you have any sort of problems with focus or attention… Well 💀 there goes the rest of your day. It’s ADHD kryptonite. And children are the most suceptible to it.









  • I was a win10 user because I was forced to update from 7. So I got really annoyed when I saw the new context menu for dumdums. It’s useless.

    If I ever need to install windows 11, either on a virtual machine or for a family member, I run a script that returns the old context menu (and several others that remove a bunch of bloat and de-activate internet search on the searchbar)