Unfortunately, the US regularly intervenes in foreign countries’ affairs, so it’s not possible and geopolitically pretty stupid to not worry about the US. You can worry about both, though.

The problem is that the 340 million people there are incredibly diverse. While a large part would circlejerk about how superior they are, another large part wouldn’t. It’s easy and fun to lump all Americans together, and even mandated by our brains inability to process such large numbers, but doing it always unfortunately alienates the ones that do not exhibit the traits you ridicule.

It’s so much better (and useful) to just ridicule the traits/behaviors themselves instead of the relatively unrelated nationality. There’s nationalists and smug superiority everywhere.

If you’re going to the US, you’re supporting whatever is going on over there. It makes you worse than the many people in the US that were born there for no fault of their own, now trying to work against it.

Schadenfreude, while very natural, is bad enough by itself, actually increasing the Schaden is even worse. So I’m not sure exactly what you’d be celebrating, except your own shittyness.

And I’m not from the US, so “my” nation isn’t even the one you’re talking about.

Of course not, the tip is just viewed as an additional surcharge and they don’t want to spend that money. The social issue is very likely, if at all, just an after-the-fact rationalisation/justification.

The problem is not doing it, the problem is feeding an AI generated text here.

When I pirate something, I have no clue what company or service it is from. How is it giving them a platform?

AirVPN

You need to make it as easy and safe as possible for yourself to find people. You’re essentially doing it right now by making this post, which is great! You just need to keep at it :)

Basically figure out the way of doing this that is most comfortable and least scary. You need to be a bit creative for it, because only you can figure out what exactly that means. Maybe that means just more commenting on some Lemmy posts. Maybe you could private message someone whose comments you like and ask if they’d like to talk a bit. Maybe there’s a chat in a community of some of your interest where people casually talk online, like a Matrix or Discord server, and you could join that and do some talking. You can also go outside to some event or whatever with the sole goal of observing and not interacting, just to get some feel for a place/group, ideally with a way to easily and quickly leave.

Most important of all is to be kind to yourself, this kind of thing is super hard to overcome and you’re doing great in even attempting it! I had to go through a similar thing, I was extremely lonely however luckily never completely alone, but I remember how hard it was for me. It’s still hard but not crippling anymore :)

If you want to talk, sure, otherwise I wish you so much luck and success and just the best experiences possible for you :)

Fairphone is not perfect, but Fairphone.

That’s what you think, but as soon as I leave this comment thread and become unaware of it, I’m sorry to say, but you will stop existing. Tough luck.

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Yeah the problem is not the browser, it’s that websites are so big. Firefox works perfectly fine on low bandwidth if you use ublock origin and block media and script loading.

I use this often for the same reason, many websites don’t display properly or at all anymore but at least it’s more usable.

I’ve driven my car until it shows 1km and then 0km expected distance, and then a few kilometers more.

Yes but that is also a rationalization after the fact. First, it was ew, then we figured out that there were also rational reasons against it.

Kein scheiß, in dem Fall sollte genau das passieren. Es gibt so ein paar Sachen, wo die, die darüber entscheiden, die Effekte der Entscheidung spüren müssen, und das wäre so eins wo das der Fall ist.

Dude, it’s ok to be wrong sometimes, no one would judge you :) In fact, it’s a sign of strength to be able to admit you’re wrong, and people will like you more for it. It’ll also be good for you personally as you will be more effective in more things :)

Nice, now even if I become disabled I still won’t be free of a job!

(I recognize that this may be an incredible achievement and quality of life improvement, but the way this news is phrased is absolutely ridiculous)

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Maybe we just need to market it as the first step for viable railguns

It does. I’ve been using it as my secrettool for quite a while instead of kwallet in KDE kwin wayland.