Probably a long shot, but have you by any chance had exposure to dioxin (agent orange) when you were young? Like growing up on military bases or someplace like Laos or Vietnam?
I know a few people who have those symptoms, and they had significant dioxin exposure as teenagers, though the symptoms didn’t start coming on until they were in their mid-to-late 20s. Being exposed as an adult would not result in disability, however. It has to be during development.
Pretty sure none of them are Catholic, which makes it even weirder that they care about the Pope at all.
Ohhh. As someone who also went through an editing program recently, yeah, I think AI has taken a lot of those jobs. Are you a member of any editing guilds like the EFA (if in the US)? They seem to have more one-off jobs for freelancers, but there was a regional guild I was part of that posted more corporate editing jobs, which maybe sounds more like what you’re looking for. But right after AI got big it quickly became apparent that even the experienced freelancers were having a hard time getting steady work. I wish you luck. At least you have a good chunk of experience. I gave up because I didn’t have any.
There just isn’t that kind of leftist discourse in America. If there are communists here, I’ve never met one in real life, and I live in a very progressive region. Lemmy has been my first real exposure to anything further left of democratic socialism. I’m not sure why non-Americans are so continually surprised that we use “liberal” framework to discuss politics (that word means something completely different to us than it does to you). It would be great if the far right didn’t keep moving us to the right, but that’s the situation we live in. As capitalism fails, more people are waking up to the class struggle, but you can’t just change a whole country’s political paradigm overnight.
Did my elderly mother suddenly find her way onto the fediverse? She used to say shit like this when I was a toddler.
I really hate this. Do we really need to spend 20 minutes on every damn post to figure out if it’s real now? Why muddy the water with fake shit when the real thing is bad enough?
NEOShinjuku Atsushi had amazing vegan burgers! And the cyberpunk theme was cool. Hope that place is on your list.
Japanese culture is all about respect and being polite. They are much more likely to ignore you than insult you. In fact, it seems to be somewhat impolite to strike up a conversation with strangers in most situations. I think the nightlife in Japan may be different, as people open up more when they’re letting loose.
However, if you try to move there, know that they never fully accept foreigners into Japanese culture. You will always be a bit of an outsider.
One more thing to note is that people online will always be meaner than people in real life. Places like reddit and Lemmy are not accurate representations of real life communities.
Well, you’re reading it wrong. It’s latin, like magna cum laude. It basically means “with.”
Maybe that’s the point. Citizens aren’t going to deport themselves, so it’s just a really random extortion racket. Or maybe it’s not random, but so far it’s unclear whether all the people receiving those letters have anything in common.
The whole “open to work” thing started during the pandemic, when everyone was supposed to be staying at home. It was how chuds signaled to each other that they didnt care about the lives of others, that the economy was more important than people dying. The fact that anyone is still using these banners is just… weird.
Still? Fucking really? Supporting Palestine is now fucking thought crime, and you’re still saying genocide Joe not genocide Donny? Gtfo.
Why would insurance even think of covering something like that? As if rape is just another cost of doing business… and not just any business, specifically God’s business.
It’s the way people keep bringing it up. Like my mom, who I’m pretty sure doesn’t even know anyone who is autistic. But she continually wonders why there are “so many of them now,” as if it’s a problem. She doesn’t consistently bring up any other societal issues such as, why are there so many traffic accidents or increases in cancer diagnoses (although she does bring up increased crime even though it hasn’t actually increased). I just can’t fathom why she worries so much about autism when her life isn’t affected by it whatsoever.
I guess you missed the post where everyone was complaining the protests are only filled with centrist libs? How many actual tankies exist in the US, do you think? Maybe all of them live in your city.
Wait are you saying you think Quebec is a country or that you don’t know where Canada is? I guess the username is appropriate either way.
A split would create North and South Koreas. If we don’t split, I’m afraid we will only get North Korea 2.0
But how do they know which email that might be? Do they even know which of my accounts are for business or personal use? If I send an email from my business email to a bunch of friends and relatives to plan a party, will Google assume those are subscribers and pull my party-planning content from my email and put that info… somewhere… on my business page? I don’t want them reading any of my emails, ever.
The email from Google was laughable in that it contained almost no info on how this process is supposed to work. All it means to me is that I don’t have control over my own content. This should have been opt-in instead of opt-out.
And crop dusting, ffs. Spraying actual chemicals on our food is totally fine for these people.
But you specifically call out European-Americans, who are much more likely to have left America because they didn’t like trump. I don’t think this is very well thought out. Almost sounds like you’re calling American immigrants violent criminals, in which case you might want to submit some evidence or examples or something.