AbsolutelyClawless

My father would beg to differ. Some of the things I’ve heard: “who’s going to take care of you when you’re old”, “the undesirable immigrants with 5+ children will take over and ruin Europe”. He also told me I was being selfish when I was barely 18 for stating I didn’t want to have children because carrying a child for 9 months and childbirth terrify me. That shit still terrifies me to this day, on top of all the other reasons why I still don’t want to have children.

Also, according to him the feelings a parent has for their child are “unexplainable”. That must be why my mom and and his mom were more a part of my childhood than he was!

I can tell you there are some who believe he is the Antichrist. At least that’s what I heard an acquaintance of mine say, and their church/ community believes the same. However, this isn’t in the US, which is kind of even more WTF to me, lol.

And that’s definitely a big hurdle many people don’t want to get over to join a rather niche platform. Most people just want things to work and not think about it any further. The older I am, the more I understand the sentiment.

We shouldn’t need to spend hours of our free time just to find out where it is “safe” to post memes and share silly stuff. Sure, if we had to do that only for lemmy (or fediverse in general), it wouldn’t be a big deal. But there are so many things in life we use, it’s impossible to devote enough time to research every single one of them. Especially when there are more important things in life to spend time on. It’s exhausting.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I feel this is one of the reasons lemmy/fediverse will remain niche. Maybe this changes in the future.

We’re supposed to introduce confused normies to the fediverse by telling them to just pick any instance, because it’s all the same. And then shit like this happens, lol.

I typed in “o” or “oz” in the win11 start menu to search for an app. Instead, the menu gave me internet results, with the first one being “ozempic”… This was on my work machine, lol.

Time for some Horizon: Zero Dawn style Vantage points.

I want to add it’s especially difficult if you work in a field that’s dominated by the opposite gender. My partner and I work in the same field. He’s made a few friends at work, because they’re all guys and connected over guy things.

On the other hand, I’m the only woman in my department, younger than all my male coworkers. The very few women that work in the company I don’t click with either due to language barrier or (mostly) completely different interests.

And then my partner points fingers as if I don’t want to make friends. All of his actual, IRL friends are either school or work friends. People who have friends mostly from childhood or school underestimate how difficult it is to find new ones outside work as an adult. Especially if you’re not into partying and drinking alcohol.

It’s insane, isn’t it? Especially when it comes from a fellow woman.

I had a pre-syncope and could barely get out of bed for a week and a half. When I told my doctor I’m worried about it reoccurring because I don’t know the cause of it, she just smiled and said that’s something that would be hard to diagnose and that I shouldn’t live in fear. And I’m like ??? Your job is literally to diagnose. I also have a few chronic illnesses, so I tend to feel up and down. She straight up told me it’s just anxiety and I should be grateful I don’t have any serious illnesses.

Unfortunately, she’s not the only one like that. Just recently I had a doctor tell me such nonsense that’s debunked with a 2 second internet search that I questioned whether he got his license off Temu.

Too many misogynists and narcissists in the field.

It’s a mental illness. Or several in a trench coat.

I’m utterly shocked people in my home country are finally showing up in the streets. Croatians have been quite passive for decades, letting our politicians rob us blind. Thompson can go fuck himself, but so can all the people I personally know who went to his concert. It’s genuinely pathetic.