I feel like a better punchline might be something like “Hand washing is bloat”. I’ve heard this joke a million times in different formats. Marines versus Navy is the first that comes to mind.

I had some very similar feelings after the 2020 election cycle and COVID stuff. This VSauce video came out around the same time and, unironically I guess, helped convince me of some stuff I’d started to realize with regards to changing people’s minds. https://youtu.be/_ArVh3Cj9rw

There is no way to do this. It’s a requested feature. I’m assuming you mean how if I type something like !linux@programming.dev it will make a link that when you click it, it takes you to your instance’s view of it so you can comment and stuff. There’s no way to do that for posts and/or comments, sadly.

How far is the foreign country? Until I read that I was going to suggest you still go to the ceremony but leave as soon as the reception begins. That way you could prevent long term regrets but also didn’t have to see him.

With stuff like this, what matters is you. Showing up to your brother’s wedding is not some sort of approval of his beliefs. If being around him makes you upset, don’t go. If you feel like going will stop you from feeling guilty for not going later, then consider going.

That’s basically been what I’ve been telling my wife with regards to whether or not to cut her father off and/or write him a letter explaining what she is so upset about. It’s easy to get lost in the details about how you should act (both vengefully or peacefully), but what matters is your mental health. If really feel the need to stick it to him and skip it then skip it.

As for asshole stuff, I guess it depends what your responsibilities in the wedding are (if any). Like if you are the best man you’re expected to help out a good bit. It might be too late to switch. Or if they paid for you and can’t transfer it get a refund then that makes it shittier to not go.

This is tricky and I don’t have a good answer.

Millennials are not in their 40s. The oldest of them are, sure, but a ton are still in their 30s.

I’m not lumping you into with anyone. I’m just explaining how people use the term boomer.

Please seek therapy or counseling. If your concern that a war is on the horizon is affecting you this much then we aren’t qualified to help.

She goes to a different school.

Both millenials and boomers get hate for being terrible parents and workaholics, and the hate gen z is currently getting for having no work ethic sounds very similar to the hate gen X got back when they were in their 20s for being supposedly lazy and stupid becuase of MTV.

Millennials were definitely called entitled and lazy.

Boomer is honestly just used as a generic term for older people who are out of touch in one way or another. Millennial was a generic term for young people the speaker didn’t like, but it’s finally been replaced by zoomer which is more age appropriate, but it took a long time. It’s not that people are ignoring Gen X, it’s that most of the time when people use the term they just mean older/younger people in general.

TLDR, Gen X is probably lumped in with the term “boomer” (obviously the context matters, but this is the TLDR).

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Zero. I think one lives near me based on some posts they made (as in near the same major city, could still be hours away). Another mentioned going to the same convention I go to every year but it’s a massive convention that brings in people from all over the world. The two friends I have that used RIF is fun for Reddit back in the day switched to the official app instead of trying alternatives.

I mean, they’re clearly thinking about sweet versus not sweet. The discussion isn’t really about what a tomato is and isn’t, it’s about what the words mean and how they’re using them. There’s no doubt about what a tomato is. Everyone has a clear understanding about it. It’s just that people mean different things when they say it is/isn’t a fruit. People saying it isn’t a fruit say that because it isn’t sweet. Which is fine, there’s nothing wrong with that. But if they’re disagreeing that a tomato is the fruit of a tomato plant then they’re being foolish. And I don’t think anyone is saying that.

Whenever people are arguing about this it’s just so exhausting because they’ll hear something like “a tomato is a fruit” or that “all fruits are vegetables” and rather than try to seek understanding about how the other party is using the words they just dig their heels in and insist that’s wrong. When the whole reason they’re upset is because they’re picturing their own usage of the terms and imagining the other person saying a tomato is that.

Right, the fruit of the plant is what we consider fruit.

I wonder why so many Democrats left the party during the civil rights movement? I wonder why David Duke left the Democrat party? I guess we’ll never know.

How does this person think things like ICBMs work? They just go straight up and away from the earth and can’t turn?

I hate when people get into minute arguments about what is visually happening on screen versus the story that’s being told. It can be a single jump narratively but two jumps in production. (I’ve never seen the movie.)

All fruits are vegetables, not all vegetables are fruits. All edible plant matter is vegetable. Fruits are, well, the fruit of a plant.

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Reddit-brain is all over Lemmy. This is a far cry from the technical focused communities you’ll find on Github or StackExchange.

Have you used StackExchange? It’s very much “call you an idiot for doing things in a different way.”

I’ve lucked out and haven’t gotten anything that bad. My mother in law is weirdly obsessed with making sure everyone gets the exact same number of gifts so sometimes I get some truly random junk lol. She got me (or maybe my wife) a Toy Story 3 Pizza Planet branded Pizza… Maker? Idk. Imagine a waffle iron but for pizza. We have an oven. Idk. I guess it’s for college kids in dorms without full kitchens? We just don’t have the counter space for it. It’s sat in the box. Our kitchen is very tiny. We already have a bunch of counter top appliances and don’t have room for another. And why take it out of the box when we have an oven?