Maybe you tried “sudo touch grass” before.

That’d probably lead to the privilege issues, but is easier to forget about.

No no, if you just use Stuhl it works perfectly in German. This word has exactly the double meaning that is necessary for the pun, it’s not even a stretch. I’d have more trouble finding an appropriate verb for the translation.

A Schemel is really a very small seat, no taller than knee-height. It’s something you sit on to milk a cow for example.

And a Hocker is a kind of chair with usually neither arm nor foot-rest of any height. I’d say it’s pretty much a perfect match for the English stool. You could call a Schemel a kind of Hocker, but a Hocker can also be as tall as a normal chair or even taller at counter height, in which case we’d call it a Barhocker.

Little nitpick: Graphene OS isn’t artificially restricted to Google phones. Pixel phones just happen to be the only ones that fulfill the safety requiremets that Graphene OS wants.

Other manufacturers could do the same and Graphene OS devs would welcome it, they just choose not to do that.

Yeah, she was weird anyways. Our session mostly consisted of arguments about our conflicting world views.

Unfortunately it was my first therapy and it took me way too long to call it quits and find a different therapist. But I did, eventually.

I made my therapist lose her shits, because I sat in her chair once.
The arrangement was a small table and two identical chairs on either side, with no indication who has to sit where, other than how we’d usually do it and no clear instructions.
She couldn’t handle it and couldn’t let it go weeks after that session.
Am I winning?

My therapist asked me this on some occasions. Part of my problem is to realize and acknowledge how I’m actually feeling.

“In my brain” was never the answer, when she asked that, I always felt different parts of my body.

Does therapy actually help you if you know what your problem is?

Yes, then you’re already steps ahead. For some people, figuring out what the problem is, already takes therapy, but it doesn’t end there. If you know, what the problem is and know how to fix it, you probably don’t need therapy. But if you know what’s wrong but can’t fix it alone, that’s what therapy is for.

Also knowing that they’re talking to you because it’s their job feels like the whole thing is a lie and a waste of time.

Only if you somehow follow the idea, that the therapist has to like you. That is not the case. It is their job and that’s okay. You’re also just talking to them because it’s their job. Why would you open up to a stranger otherwise?

I mean you should get along together somehow, but you don’t have to be friends with your therapist.

Very self-aware comment.
I have to agree, we’re very easily swayed, especially as teenagers.

I had to suffer through a lot of rejection by girls I was interested in as a teenager, and also pondered some very misogynistic ideas, that I ultimately rejected only because I couldn’t bring myself to extend that hate to the one girl that ever loved me back for a while. Otherwise I could have totally turned to a sort of incel (before I knew that term even existed), some of the ideas I came up with are shockingly close to what I later learned that they believe.

I can only imagine how easy it would be to fall into that trap, when you’re feeling frustrated and are being bombarded by Tate and the likes through the self-enforcing ideology machinery that is social media.

We really need to teach young men a healthier way to deal with the frustrations that occur in life and lead a better example of how to deal with negative emotions other than turning to hate like that.

L’administrateur, c’est moi!

My dude jumping right ahead to futures.

It totally depends what you buy. IKEA definitely does sell crap, so does every other furniture chain store, but not everything is crap. Really depends on what you look at specifically.

Punch me I bleed in my ass.

Literally listening to Children of Bodom, while I read this post. Alexi would have approved, I’m sure.

I don’t think a different base explains things really well. Even though the way you guys count to 16 may point to a hexadecimal system, but then all the higher numbers would have to work entirely different. It’s at least an inconsistent mix of systems.

But of course you don’t do maths in your head and it all just boils down to words for numbers, that you simply know. That’s just how language works, and a lot of language starts to become weird, if you think about it too much. Doesn’t mean we can’t have fun teasing each other about it. ;)

It absolutely reminded me of the fight we have here in Germany about how to say what time it is.

Some rare people (like my beloved girlfriend) only really understand when you say something like, “four o’clock thirty”
The rest of us is fine using “half five” to refer to that.

But the real argument is in the quarters.

16:15

Some people just say “quarter past four” while others borrow the concept from above and say “quarter five”

16:45

The one group calls it “quarter to five” while the others stick to their concept and call it “three-quarters five”

It is a regional difference, but the groups are totally scattered and don’t follow typical geographical or administrative borders.

We’ve had meme wars over this.

My favourite for life will always be kræftedme = cancer eat me - usually uttered in a sentence to underline how pissed off you are and how serious you are about being pissed off.

Just curious: do you take that as a reference to cancer as a sickness or actual crabs eating you?

In German the word for cancer (Krebs) is a homonym referring to both the sickness and a crustacean. So I wondered how this works in Danish.

(It is in English too, though the reference to crabs is only scientific and thus a very exotic interpretation)

(edit the 4x20+10 is similarly just 90)

I can let you get away with the first part about 4x20 just becoming the word for 80, but with this one, you’re just fooling yourself and others.

If it were just another word for ninety, than ninety-two would be (4x20+10)+2 instead of 4x20+12 And it works that way up to 96.

Just stop making excuses and own the weirdness.

"Hi,

I’m the real Nicole. I got all my pictures stolen, my identity has been tainted and life is very hard for me now, because of these scammers.

Please send help! Here’s my bitcoin wallet. "

The fact that it won’t run on Linux anymore is, what finally got me out of it.

I’ve never spent a dime on it, but I’ve wasted so much time on League for over 10 years.
Being on Linux exclusively saved me.

As a rule, you now have to inject ‘I use Arch btw’ into every conversation. We’re the vegans of the Linux world.

Welcome on board!