Goodbye
DashboTreeFrog
joined 2 years ago
"WE'RE WE!" -Redundant, but yes.
"HERE FUCK" -Like, right now?
"WE'RE SHIT" -Well now I'm not sure I wanna participate in that last bit.
"QUEER UP!" -Is... Is that a threat?
I'm in South East Asia, seen them in different countries here, mostly in malls but even in my current apartment building. Feels very Cyberpunk even just walking by and hearing it.
Beats the ads on screens I see playing in many elevators...
Industry groups-
Yup, got it, big money controls everything.
Columbia University PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan calls accusations that she’s a ‘terrorist sympathizer’ absurd, telling CBC’s David Common that she feared for her safety after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials showed up at her door.
That's the entire text with a 7 minute video on the page.
Newsworthy and valuable info in this climate, but I can't be the only one who gets frustrated when a news site posts basically just a video and no actual article. Maybe just a personal gripe
I'm taking a sick day too. Except for the first time in nearly a decade, my current employer doesn't require a doctor's note for anything less than 3 days.
Honestly, most doctors just give you a note if you go in no matter what anyway, so I've always felt that it's more about your workplace tracking you than trying to make sure you're alright. The need for a doctor's note doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Sucky, relatable situation, you got my sympathy
Oh, so if it's going to be down voted anyway, then a lot of down votes feels good? Guess that's more validating than a middling response
I spent two years in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s and was hearing stories like this even back then as a kid. I remember some kids even put on a skit involving maid abuse for some kind of social justice style project (I don't remember the specifics) so it was a well known enough issue even then. Terrifying stuff and disgusting that they still hey away with it.
I guess getting people to rage can feel validating, knowing that I've made someone rage quit a game feels satisfying for sure.
I don't personally feel that way about sites like Lemmy/Reddit/Social-media in general where things are more discussion and social-interaction based though. I guess for my kind of discourse goals, if I've made someone angry rather than laugh or understand my perspective, I've done a bad job.
There's still some toxicity around Buddhism at least. Living in SEA I now know several people who are really turned off by the practices and beliefs of their family's religion, Buddhism, from the way all troubles are explained away as karma to neurodiversity and Learning Differences being hidden because that would mean that person did something bad in their past life.
I used to think Buddhism specifically was the "good" religion that's more like philosophy, but spending more time with people who grew up deep in Buddhism has made me see there's really more to the community and it's beliefs and practices than I thought.