Well yes, sadly, we can’t embrace a cosmic perspective, because it’s not ours. We can have a human perspective though.

What the…am I reading? Lemmy truly is a beautiful place.

Hmmm… I may skip this one. This one requires a… special mood I guess (upvoting though!)

Oh, right. I thought it was related to a particular kind of diagnosis. Thanks for clarifying.

Oh, btw, one last thing. When you say “we”, you mean… Who ? Thanks!

I’ve been thinking about this lately. I’m almost 40 something and I think I really wouldn’t like to imperson younger generations lingo for the sake of it being “trendy”.

But there are two exceptions for me :

1. It genuinely made me laugh and “weaves well” with my own way of talking. I mean, were not supposed to stop incorporating new words in our language as far as it’s not forced, right? My slang comes from the 90s. Certain (small) parts of the newer gens slang fit so well into my own repertoire! I think that’s mostly the part which isn’t “word building” but “word archeology”, like slang from my gen being reinterpreted/reappropriated, which is actually pretty cool.

2. Another funny case. Its happening a lot lately, but some words from my mother’s language (she comes from an African country) are surprisingly becoming popular. I never used them before even though I think and talk to myself with them since being a child. I’m hesitating a lot to use them now. It would be easier for me but could really look like “playing cool” which I don’t want at all. For additional complexity, add that some of those words, in my mother’s/family language have slight differences (like language differences across same-language speaking countries), and when I do use those words, I’m getting corrected by youngsters for slang misuse. I mean it’s fair, I don’t take it personally, but it’s weird.

Ex :

Miskina, in Arab

Maskine, in the weird variant of swahili my mother speaks.

Hmm. Thanks for the info. I might need to have a talk with my psychiatrist.

Hmm. Yes indeed. But can’t it… well…hurt, like physically, even if the sense of self is gone?

What? could you elaborate on that?

Femboys are you still in the end

Thanks for the laugh!

Wiki tells the specific breed information is incorrect (AE had different cats, the breed shown, the ma’u, was engineered in the 1950s), but the onomatopoeia part isn’t necessarily false for AE.

Brilliant!

Just googling his name and… ewww.

Being no. American, I had no idea who this person was, sorry!

That’s truly a joke.

It is my current understanding, from various experiences - and I want to state that I publicly engage with men and women who’ve had violent experiences in various ways on a regular basis - that men are FAR more likely to be supported when facing domestic violence by the left, the very same woke/feminist left.

The right? They don’t give a flying f*ck. As always. The incels and their variants? They don’t care. They’re in a political crusade against social justice.

Al…right. Let’s do a little sanity check and let’s see how up or downvoted is gets.

1. It is absolutely true that violence against women is structurally endemic in our societies and they represent a large majority of domestic violence
2. It is also absolutely true that domestic violence against men is clearly under-reported, to an unknown but significant extant
3. It is absolutely true that abuse is abuse

Those assertions do not contradict each other.