I would guess most, if not all, Slavic languages use some form of the homophobic slur in that way. Even if you’re not homophobic, it’s so widely used that sometimes you don’t think about what the word really means.
Source: am Central European Slav.
People need/want/are used to active sync. For that one either needs a true self-hosted solution and/or a service that requires opening port(s) on the firewall/router, which most people either have no idea how to do or can’t due to ISP lockdown. Self-hosting can very quickly turn into a 2nd job and not everyone wants that. Or they have no required techical knowledge and no desire or time to learn. Plus, you still have to set up proper backups, even if the service is just running on your desktop. Unless, of course, you’re fine with a single point of failure.
On the topic of mail hosting, as someone who works in IT and self-hosts a whole stack of things: I do not ever want to self-host my email. Personally, I was considering just getting another domain for email and switching backend services as needed, but I liked the package Proton offered, so I chose that instead. I might need to rethink that domain option, but at this rate, soon no backend service will be safe from fascists and/or AI.
Yeah, I don’t get it, but to each their own I guess, lol.
The last two are pretty standard in Europe, I’d say. But the first one I’ve never heard of.
I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.
I always bring up this story when talking about (bad) teachers. Once on my way back from school on public transit, I saw a teacher grading essays. They give this one essey an A, then close the notebook, check the name, open the notebook again, cross out A and write a B. Obviously I don’t know the backstory, but I was still looking at it in disbelief. I’d definitely been graded lower based on how the teacher liked me. Even on things that should be objective, like science subjects.
From my experience most teachers shouldn’t be teaching. Some downright hate kids. I had one who admitted she didn’t manage to get into medicine, so teaching biology was the second best. She definitely shouldn’t have gone into teaching.
My elementary school literature teacher loved my creative writing and always left a note on my assignments, encouraging me to continue. Then in high school my literature teacher consistently gave me lower grades because she didn’t like my wiriting. Completely killed it for me. To be honest, I don’t know how she could even be a literature teacher, because the creative writing she loved from other students my friends and I agreed was unimaginative garbage.
In the 12 years of mandatory education, I can count on one hand the good teachers who made me interested in the subject. And I’ve had well over 24 teachers in a wide range of subjects.
YMMV. I like the weight, but not for sleeping. I toss and turn a lot and wake up sore and uncomfortable.
I’m not autistic, but I can definitely relate to overthinking and using earbuds without music. I guess there’s a decent amout of overlap between autism and ADHD.
I noticed the cat only when I realized which community this was shared in.
Weirdly, they replaced stone paths with green geotextile couple years ago? Thought that they were maybe renovating, but doesn’t look like it, judging from the photos on their website and historical Google images.
I wish the people at my company were like your mother. Instead, they freak out about the smallest of changes in the UI of the same application. God forbid they have to move to another application entirely. Had a user freak out their application wasn’t licensed and they couldn’t use all functions anymore. Turns out they just managed to somehow hide the toolbar with all the options… These are people anywhere from 20 to 60 years old, btw.
You sound like my mother. But with her even when I warn her about the person, she is somehow unable to understand narcissists and sociopaths exist.
I basically don’t have any friends of my own anymore. The ones from high school I was never really close enough with to hang out outside school. We were just too different. Almost a decade and a half later and we see each other maybe once a year and don’t talk outside of that.
College was supposed to be a place to meet new people, and I did meet a few, one of which is my current partner. But that also didn’t last past college years, really.
I’m now in a different country, don’t really speak the language well enough and don’t really have energy or time to find new people. Plus, my introversion, social anxiety and health are only making it harder. My partner occasionally comments on me having no friends of my own, but then I look at his friend circle and want to roll my eyes. Most of his friends are from high school years, and he sees them maybe once or twice a year. There are a few he met through work, but it’s easier for him because the field we work in is male-dominated. So for him it’s okay, for me it sucks to be the only woman. But he doesn’t hang out with any of these people on regular basis. Realistically, most people he knows are acquaintances.
I think about this whole situation frequently and it makes me depressed and bitter. I feel like even if I find new friends, I’ll never be the friend, you know? They’ll always have other people they’ve been friends with for longer and I will be either not as important or discarded later. It’s been this way my whole life. Always easily forgotten and replaced.
New Outlook is such a pieceof shit.
Want to view mail headers to check if the mail is legit? Though tits, bro, no can do. Either save the mail as .eml and open it in a notes app or switch back to Outlook Classic.
Want to run a rule manually, but have notifications for it turned on? Lmao, are you stupid? You can’t do that. This particular bug has been reported over a year ago and they still haven’t fixed it.
I fucking hate working with this piece of shit and other Micro$lop products.
Same for Dota 2. I said some really vile shit to my own bf when we played together years and years ago. We don’t play any competitive games together anymore because we get really toxic to each other, lol. I just play single player or PvE co-op games now. Nothing gets me that toxic as playing competitive video games. I wonder if there’s a study on this somewhere 😅
Not that fast. But faster than any insect or spider of that size I’ve encountered. Weirds me out.
We make fun of English all the time. In both senses.
So kind of like Giertz is somehow pronounced Yetch. I can’t believe we’ve been making fun of French only all these years when Swedish is right there. /jk
Just an FYI for others: you can have sleep apnea even if you don’t snore; in the same vein, if you snore,it doesn’t mean you have sleep apnea. For instance, my partner started snoring once he became overweight. He did a sleep study, which confirmed no sleep apnea.
But if you suspect sleep apnea, get a sleep study asap. It can cause various health issues such as diabetes, heart issues, high blood pressure, etc.