Higgs boson

I use those both regularly. And people seem totally unable to tell whether I am doing it on purpose.

“He looks like he fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

IMO, “dog in this fight” is more common where Ive lived: Appalachia, mid-Atlantic, Midwest. I wouldn’t be surprised if it also varies by region, class, etc.

Sure. It ain’t rocket surgery.

It is not always feasible to differentiate. I only know a dozen or so Japanese or Korean words. Fewer Chinese. Some of the rudest people Ive seen in public were probably Chinese tourists in Myanmar, but I only had my guide’s word on their nationality. IMO, Japanese are usually much more polite in small numbers. By the busloads, less so. I cant reliably tell Chinese from Korean without hearing them speak a bit.

More, though, I just feel like cultural norms like personal space are just very different in Asia in general, so I find it strange.

Another one that has gotten me is that Eastern Europe doesnt smile in public. They literally think you’re mentally ill if you smile like an idiot in public.

Ive not noticed that at all. In my experience, Russians are absolute shitheels when abroad. Americans aren’t much better. Most Asian tourists are super rude by Western standards of behavior. Europeans are mostly fine unless theyre very old or visiting the US.

I spent 20 years in and around IT and the more time I spent around computers, the more superstitious I got about them.

It makes sense. Humans create and maintain systems so complicated that no single person can fully understand them. The classic example illustrating this is the essay: “I, Pencil.”

Make noise. They will hear you coming amd gtfo. They’ll leave on their own, so let them. Dont corner them.

Stick a bowl of water on top of it.

Ive seen that movie way too many times and I can never hear that phrase without wanting to finish it now.

Get after it, then.

Sorry it came to this. We sane few who remain will miss you; we will undoubtedly be worse for losing the diversity of thought (and snarky humor) expats like you bring.

The best advice in the thread so far was to freeze your credit. And I’d add: don’t assume you’ll never want to come back just because your current self doesn’t forsee it. For your own sake, don’t burn bridges out of spite.

My guess is that the artist or someone realized that: Beast is big and shaggy and blue. Inevitably, he is going to look like cookiemonster to some extent. So they hung a lantern on it

Possibly a broken adblocker

Literate.

Hyperlexia is a thing, kids with super-reading.

I might have nerve damage. Hmm. Do I seek the opinion of a qualified medical professional? Nah. I’ll ask Lemmy.

Dude. Just go to the urgent care or whatever you have where you live.

Actually a lot of spices contain unsafe levels of heavy metals, so you definitely could hurt yourself with them

If someone calls you a Nazi and you lean into it, you’re a white supremacist bag of shit. Not a Nazi, mind, but just a racist piece of shit. And likewise, if you defend doing it as “just a troll, to own the libz”.

A private citizen should be allowed make whatever gesture they want. And I am free to point out that makes him a racist shitbag, along with his defenders. Like you.

He, however, is no longer acting soley as a private citizen, so it is much worse. Go ahead and defend that now. He also voiced support for AfD. You know, the German far-right party. The one that is the spiritual successor to the actual Nazis. I’m sure you’ll argue that was just a troll and hes really a swell guy, right?

Nah, fuck off. If you act like a Nazi “trolling” you’re still a piece of shit. If you defend it? Yeah, you’re also a piece of shit. Notice, I didnt call you a Nazi. I disagree with the practice in general, and you’d probably take it as a complement.

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