I’m not investigating those bullet points. First thing I’m doing is trying to get help for myself, and getting “help”/police for the dead person. And also a lawyer for myself.

Getting help for myself includes contacting people at home, confirming the timeline and alibi.

I’m going to echo the suggestion to approach men (and later women) for whatever reason to practice approaching people you don’t “have business” with.

Ask a question, comment on something benign (cool shirt?), etc.

And also expand your list of contexts where it’s ok to talk to people.

Anywhere that groups of people gather is a good option. Concerts, cafés potentially, parks…as long as you aren’t cornering anybody, you should be fine.

Newspapers used to be displayed in boxes, and available for sale almost vending machine-style.

I imagine headlines were “buy-bait” back then. But maybe they weren’t quite as good at it, since it hadn’t been studied as much?

English would also be unrecognizable in 1375. At a glance, it seems like it was Middle English, which means you’d probably get as much intelligibility with any other English speakers as a monolingual Dutch speaker would have with a monolingual English speaker today. Maybe a bit closer, but still.

Shakespeare was still hundreds of years away.

…Not that any of this would matter to anyone living in North America.

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“But I haven’t seen you in over a decade!”

I said, SAME. OLD!

Even people who had great childhoods often spend “the other 8 hours” trying to be kids again.

You either gotta do it like the rest of us and find time for enjoyment between work and errand, or find a way to make money off your “adult childhood”. Neither is easy, but you’ve been through a lot, so you’re obviously capable of doing difficult things.

It might help if you schedule time for it. That way, you can say, “On Tuesday, I’m going to do these things I missed out on as a kid from 7 to 9pm”. And then you play. Or whatever.

You need this, and everyone needs it, so don’t feel bad about scheduling it. You’re helping yourself heal.

I don’t drive. Where I live, you can really only “not drive” in cities. And even then, it can be hard at times.

At the same time, I live within reasonable commuting distance of multiple friends and family members. I can walk to a few of them. I don’t need to be closer to my community.

I might want to retire someplace quieter, but I like being able to hop on a train or a bus to get to somewhere fun, or to be able to walk across the street to a store if I need something. Heck, I can even easily get takeout if I don’t feel like cooking – I don’t even need delivery.

Yeah, and bathroom suggests that there are baths or places for bathing.

Water closet really is the right thing to call it!

Yup. I use whatever feels best, which is usually American words, British spelling (except for the -ze instead of -se for words that end in a “z” sound).

Also, there are our own Canadianisms, like “washroom”.

To express a range of numbers, Korean (and likely other Asian languages) will use a tilde instead of a dash or hyphen. To me, that better expresses that we’re talking about an indeterminate value or a range. Especially when we use ~ for “about”, as in ~$20 for something that costs $17.99 before tax, for example.

Dining out costs like 20~40 dollars per person!

Whereas “20-40” looks too similar to a subtraction equation or a hyphenated word to me.

It’s not a regular ID to vote. It’s a regular ID.

You need an ID to vote, but you can use it for many other things too.

If getting an ID is a barrier for you to vote, then talk to your representatives and they might be able to help you out.

I feel like a chunk of the population of Lemmy is people who got banned from Reddit.

And a portion of that chunk got banned for being too young according to Reddit’s T&C, lol

8 hours a day plus whatever the commute time is (times two)

Meanwhile, a dozen eggs are like $5 in CAD in CA (aka. Canada)

North Korea taking over South Korea sounds as absurd to me as Jamaica taking over the US.

The closest to “taking over” SK would be if they started dropping nukes and didn’t actually want the land/resources/businesses/money and also didn’t care about retaliation from allies…

Nazism has went from being about being against Jews to being a Republican who loves Israel.

It sounds ironic, but that’s only if you adhere to an almost caricature-like (or surface-level) view of what a Nazi is.

Of course, it’s better to refer to them as Fascists – that’s the more accurate term that fully refers to both of those groups. It’s just that “Nazi” is the more recognizable term to the layperson.

As someone else said in another thread, the comic is about RAM, not storage.

The NES and Genesis/Mega Drive have RAM. The 2600 doesn’t.

I have up/downvotes merged in my app. Is it actually controversial?

I have another friend who could imagine dating a woman and also didn’t find them attractive. She was straight.

I could imagine being a bumblebee, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of transforming into one or anything! Haha