I think romance in fiction is really hard to do well because you somehow have to get across the fact that every romance is different, unique, and often doesn’t make too much sense except to the people involved.

A “realistic” romance can be realistic to the author but be filled with very idiotic choices that makes the reader find the romance not realistic at all

Similarly, an “ideal” romance might be written as perfect for the author and certain readers feel it’s the least romantic thing in the world.

This looks like a lose-lose but all I’m trying to say is that regardless of what you pick, to me, the most important aspect is getting across that this relationship is entirely between the two characters and difficult to get across to the reader. That’s why, to me, romances in stories often work when they aren’t the main plot as it lets the reader fill in the gaps of how that romance evolved.

Why would you trust someone summarizing a rag you think is fake news?

It’s not about making good games. It’s about acquiring assets then liquidating them, marking them as a loss.

It’s a dangerous thing. Because if you talk to some of these legislators they can easily hand over the same excuse about it being their belief as the voters who believe in that. But the scary thing is, as hard as it is to admit, many of them genuinely believe in the thing they vote for.

Maybe in places like the house or congress it’s a skew towards money and power, but it exists especially in local government. It’s easy to completely dehumanize them by saying they’re just paid to do it but the much more real situation is that it’s genuine.

Many of them are just old and have cognitive dissonance about their own experience as a child. They simply believe that children today have the identical, fantasized experience they think they remember. Not only is what they remember untrue and most likely a collage of half-memories, stories from other people, and propaganda, but they have no incentive to scrutinize their decisions and beliefs because they’ve been in a comfortable insular community for most of their life that rewards them for thinking this way.

I say old but you don’t have to be that old to be brainwashed by a religious community and a comfortable job.

Absolutely wild thing to say. The time it takes for someone to learn a language enough to delete an app, especially an adult is so astronomical that there’s no reason for apps to try and stop you from learning the language.

Where I am it’s about twice the price of other sparkling water. Live your life however you love but that’s the reason.

While it’s not a large market, high quality products featuring hitler quotes have a very dedicated and passionate base that you can guarantee a return on.

Actually, in this case is could be irony. OP lives his life as someone who needs therapy, then when they go to get the therapy the therapist doesn’t show up.

I suppose it would be more like irony if their therapist needed therapy.

I actually ran into something similar recently. To me, the point of accepting the things you cannot change is inevitable. It may hurt in the moment, but so long as you recognize it as something you cannot change it will quickly slip away. It’s in the past already, flowing into the distance on this stream of time.

I think the only issue is figuring out what to recognize as something you cannot change. People run into problems when they refuse to acknowledge something is out of control and chase after it.

First of all, I think this is you being an older millennial, my formative millennial memories, especially politically, mostly happened in the 2000s.

I think what you don’t even realize your comment shows is that most of these events, while they seem like paradigm-shifting events when put into historical context and tied together with the decade of history they were surrounded by don’t actually have a significant impact on the individual.

I was aware as a millennial growing up of many events like these that happened in my life. followed the news in and out. But now I couldn’t even tell you much if any of the significant details of any of them.

I noticed you didn’t include 9/11 as a forgotten event, an event that was truly significant in a way. Much in the same way, I’m sure most of gen z will be aware of those same types of events when they get older but will only really remember COVID, maybe something about Trump too.

To be fair though, if we go by evolutionary standards, all pets then should be free roaming.

Just for anyone who has this thought: your stool can have blood in it occasionally for trivial reasons, when you should be concerned is when your stool is pitch black, that means youre bleeding somewhere farther up your digestive tract and that is when it’s a problem.

And I want people to stop porting meaningless reddit meme subs and instead create their own lemmy-based meme instances.

“BREAKING NEWS: Man Takes Dump, Claims He is not an Astronaut!”

I’d read the article.

Yeah the only thing raising the smoking age will do is make smoking cool again.

Flip one of those bad boys around and baby, you’ve got a centipede going!

You’re right, your ignorance is a choice.

My answer.

Someone below me posted a big video on that. Other than that it takes two seconds to Google. He has a history of saying extremely reactionary things (advocating for a straight pride parade, saying feminism is a disease, being transgender is just a mental illness etc.) And then walking it back which is weird that it happens over and over again. He also unironically believed in Qanon.

Maybe not an outright fascist bigot but however his social system and brain works, it leads him to fall face first over and over into extreme right wing reactionary takes.