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"Spectacle" (char lang)
Some months ago my mother was on a work trip so I had the house to myself. One night I watched some yt videos on TV using SmartTube. Usually I would put my glasses on the chair of the sofa. The next day I was looking for my glasses but couldn't find them anywhere, and normally my vision is functional, but from where I sat in class I couldn't see the blackboard well. And that morning I had classes. Eventually after a while I gave up and thought I'd just find them eventually, so I started cooking my breakfast.

I would like to clarify that the distance between the table and my kitchen is just less than two meters. And I looked for my glasses on the table already. Okay so, I had two parts of my breakfast. Once I put my first part on the table I then turned around to cook an egg (the second part). I took the egg from the wok and when I turned to put it on the first part of my breakfast I suddenly saw my glasses just in front of the plate of my first part of the meal. It was a literal jumpscare. Idk how that was possible unless it somehow fell from the ceiling!

"Running Shadow"
This one happened years ago when I was young. I invited my friend over to draw stuff together. Before that I saw a running shadow outside of my bedroom from my window. Now I remember that it didn't disappear in just a blink, I had the chance to see it clearly. Some point later, my friend arrived, I never told her about the shadow. At some point my friend looked at the side of my house and she said she saw a running shadow that made no sound. I asked her about its height (relative to the window) and it matched what I saw.

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Okay wtf do elaborate

I am stealing that too

When people say that higher grades don't make you successful, many don't realize that that probably means students who sacrificed their performance on school assessments to challenge themselves, work on personal projects and gain experience rather than trying to get a perfect assessment score in school. A portfolio is more important than grades when it comes to applying for jobs.

But don't they use Portuguese?

I've said some personally identifiable information here on my account so babanatin ko if ever it becomes controversial, and there's a lot of cases where anyone being criticised on reddit are good at tracking the people there and identifying them and making it an issue on Facebook lol. But I'll DM you if you're okay with it.

or sunspots

I'm sorry for blowing up on you. It's just that I feel powerless and I feel like it's hard to change anything if I do things more directly. I've been trying to get people involved but it's so hard to get the momentum going that it tends to fizzle out (kinda like c/Philippines). I really wanted free internet to be a thing here in my country (not only that, we pay more for lower quality internet cmp to other countries due to underdeveloped infrastructure) so that it would break the monopoly of facebook but I'm not sure if they're doing their promise. I'm just used to my actions not having an impact unless it was supported by some external circumstance. Like how Lemmy became popular because of an external event.

Apathetic attitude? Not everyone has the privilege of having ever been under an authority figure who actually cares about their job. My university can't even bother to fix their drainage system, my city has had its reputation dragged in the mud on national TV for its shitty (literally) garbage collection system (btw, I still see NOTHING came out from the publicity), even though people have been complaining about these for months. Do you seriously think they'll take my opinion seriously? If I try to rally people to my cause, which would most likely be on Facebook, people would just snarkily say I'm overreacting and that I'm a hypocrite for using Facebook (which is the only way I could reach them in the first place). Even when I complained about the drainage system I was being name-called and insulted by someone who thought that making any demands to a school as a student was being entitled and what did I get out of it? Nothing! Do you think the geriatrics at the upper level even care about privacy or information? They still admire Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg goddammit! Have you ever had to really fight for a cause? Because you are painting an unrealistic landscape that I've never been able to see my entire life.

It is not feasible unfortunately, and if I were to put that as a complaint, I would most likely be called unhinged, out-of-touch, or trying to discard a perfectly usable system. We can only raise questions and influence people as of now. Besides, the reason why Messenger is popular is because of the freebasics service which allows people to use Messenger for free.

Vulnerable people tend to be the target of abusive ones. They'll basically reinforce that vulnerable person's beliefs from their experiences to say they shouldn't risk anything but to stick with that abusive partner. So they tend to reinforce the focus more on anyone else being oppressive, to create a sense of "why should you bother?" Also those women who care so much about height tend to be assholes. I saw those types from Twitter a long time ago and I would roll their eyes whenever they, at the same time, sexualise asian men or are outspoken about racism even though asian men tend to be shorter. Also one thing that's almost a parallel to the manosphere are the radfems (or at least they call themselves that way, because whatever they are seems different from what radical feminism is supposed to be). A lot of these radfems tend to just only see men in a bioessentialist or utilitarian way, because they think men are incapable of genuine connection. And it too, is a pipeline of sorts (which I encountered firsthand through Pinterest) because they start with women voicing out real concerns, to "rule of thumbs", to defending the use of generalised language such as "men are...", until they become prejudiced and start seeing individual men as only a part of a greater whole for this perceived collective identity of a "man".