Join a hobby group or club for activities you’re actually interested in. It could be anything: sports, board games, video games. That way you already have a common interest with the others, and you feel less pressure to make friends because you can still spend your time doing what you enjoy.

I’m going to try reading a book in my target language and look up/write down definitions of unfamiliar words. Although I miss the convenience language learning apps offered, I felt like the courses weren’t paced well and that I was stagnating. It would be helpful to have someone to practice with in person but right now it’s not an option.

How’s it going for you?

I’ve always found it better to let online friendships form organically based on shared interests rather than seeking them out. With the second method, there’s a good chance you and the other person won’t have much in common besides wanting to make friends, and the conversation will taper off on its own.

I hope your new chat leads to a strong, lasting friendship :)

The average Lemmy user seems rather tech savvy. I assumed it would be something to bond over.

That’s a cool hobby :) what motivated you to start a homelab?

So eloquent.

It reminds me of this collection of analogies in students’ writing.

If you are not looking to pay for their content anyway, why not just view what they post on Reddit for free themselves? I’m sure if you search, you can easily find subreddits dedicated to average bodies and most niches you are interested in.

Vinegar, baking soda, and lemon juice all make good cleaning agents.

It’s also good for stain removal and cleaning eyeglasses :D

Maybe not completely obsolete, but landline phones and fax machines.

I rarely see anyone using mp3 players anymore :(

I wish for you to find love for yourself and acceptance with those that will appreciate you for who you are. 🫂 The impact of trauma can be hard to reverse but not impossible. But the good news is that even an old beat up RV can be repaired, restored, used towards building/buying a new one.

Mazel tov! An invitation to the Jew Moon is a rare privilege :D

Just one of those pesky Freudian slips. Thinking of one thing but dreaming your mother :P

There aren’t really men’s clothes designed to look “sexy” to women and accentuate their features the way there are for women, but I’m partial to seeing some chest hair peeking out from under a tank top/undershirt :D

I’m sorry you have to deal with with bullies and I hope your shift change creates a healthier work atmosphere for you 🫂

I also think dreams are snippets of our minds running in the background that sometimes get patched together in odd ways :D

They can be influenced by recent events or things you think about often.

Lucid dreaming is like a real-life superpower. I wish I was able to do it.

I hope that you can find peace and closure 🫂

You could argue that users agree to exchange their data for convenience and free services when they accept the terms of service and create an account with a company that collects and sells user data. So it’s true that there is a degree of personal accountability there.

However, sometimes you’re required to have an account with one of these services for something like work or school. And sometimes you can even be tracked when you visit websites without creating an account based on your device ID, settings, IP address, browser specifications, maybe even facial recognition used on a photo of you someone else uploaded. Technically you can avoid this by not accepting those jobs or attending those schools, or not visiting any websites at all, but how practical is that in modern life?

I think your average user isn’t well-informed about the extent of data collection and how easy it is to de-anonymize data by cross referencing it, and businesses both take advantage of that ignorance/apathy towards privacy and downplay the extent of how they use it. I support more *transparency* around data collection and sharing policies.

That’s a sweet and comforting sentiment <3

On a side note, I never liked the term “big girl job”. Just feels infantilizing and not in a cute way.

Not surprising. People adopt vocabulary, phrases, and mannerisms of speech from sources they interact with often. It happens in interactions between real people on and offline too.

I like how Lemmy is reminiscent of early Internet forums and how users have a choice to share as little or as much as they want about themselves. Having online status publicly displayed detracts from that experience. We shouldn’t have to justify being offline or simply not wanting to respond right away. The internet is at our fingertips but it doesn’t mean we need to be accessible all the time.