Asklemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 weeks ago • 43%

There are some exotic foods we tend to take for granted exist. Almost every city for example has a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, and maybe an Outback Steakhouse. But this isn't universal for some reason. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to an Egyptian restaurant and I was like "wait, they have restaurants?" A question for all those who would say they consider themselves ethnically fluent. What are all the cultural categories of food you've had?

Asklemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 1 month ago • 100%

This refers to when two or more people encounter each other in completely coincidental fashion. You might notice your old classmate from three countries away is now your waiter in a place you had no reason to expect them in, and you might say "wow, what a small world". You might notice two people who you know from completely different spheres miraculously know each other. You might recognize by chance that your penpal has made a cameo at a venue you're at. But what was your most profoundly coincidental encounter?

Casual Conversation shinigamiookamiryuu • 2 months ago • 86%

Unless on usurped or deceptive pretenses, I do not encourage the act of circumventing bans, and other people in charge would say the same. That said, if someone gives off the vibes that they're in the business of it, it cannot be enforced as if it were an exact science. It can only be dissuaded based on certain definitive details. We kindly ask if you may give the benefit of the doubt, and if people (not us) have the authority to do so, they will act. Let people higher up take care of these matters. Do not harass people or vent at them over such matters, and report people cautiously, not based on whims. [Or as a list of rules once said...](https://www.deviantart.com/triagonal/art/The-Ten-E-Cepts-written-based-on-one-s-experience-899257268) "Remember the human" is as good a rule here as anywhere. Thanking all for their patience.

Casual Conversation shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 91%

I might as well ask this since I got stung or bit by a bee yesterday during America day. Last year, when taking strolls, it was rare enough for a bee to swarm around me that I could go whole strolls without it happening sometimes. This year, they swarm around me everywhere. Everywhere. It's like fighting your way [through putty patrollers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzwlQsGvadI). They respawn instantly, there's absolutely no lag. Shoo one away and one comes back five seconds later. Sometimes for three hour strolls encompassing six miles. What the heck happened? Anyone else notice this?

What is this thing? shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 96%


What is this thing? shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 95%



What is this thing? shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 95%


What is this thing? shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 100%

 There's a baby possum that's kind enough to be a regular visitor where I am. Poor kid has what appears to be a wound on his/her face, almost like a cleft lip. I am no veterinarian, but [a "code of honor" relevant to my hobby here](https://www.behance.net/gallery/151837125/The-Associations-Copyright-Policy) casts a shadow over me and I was wondering what kind of issue the disfigurement represents so I don't feel guilty.

What is this thing? shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 94%

 

Casual Conversation shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 84%

As video games develop more and more over the years, companies have been making them more and more realistic-looking. I can guess this is related to expectations, but am I the only one who doesn't care about graphics? We could be using the same processing power to store worlds that have as much exploration potential as the Earth itself if we weren't afraid to save on processing power by going back to 8-bit.

Casual Conversation shinigamiookamiryuu • 3 months ago • 20%

I've definitely shared this concept or observation or whatever you want to call it before, but recent events have made me think of it again. I should clarify first that what I base this train of thought on isn't entirely something that clicks for me, something I might not get into expressing, but it definitely makes you or at least me wonder why the implications in the train of thought aren't considered, at least outside my occupation (since I'm in an occupation designed to work around the otherwise neglect of the concept), and I thought of running this by. Back in the old days, it was common for business people to pay their workers more honestly, as in based on what they thought the worker seemed to deserve. Often the workers would seem underwhelmed. Organized criminals would then step in and say "you'll get more out of us" and so that part of society grew. For some reason, the first thing within the mind of the people in charge, trying to assess everything, was "let's invent this thing, we might call it the minimum wage". Alrighty. So this side thinking, what do we think of it? Something happened, right? So here is where the train of thought works into the picture. Matters of monetization are just one arena up the sleeve of bad actors. A lot of people feel abruptly socially isolated. When this happens, instinct is often to seek out companions. Social life might be dead or people might be avoidant. Someone I know is in such a situation. Along comes what might be called a bad actor. To them, they might see a potential extension of themselves with freedom of minimal effort. And voila, someone new joins the "bad crowd" or "dysfunctional crowd". Watching this unfold myself, I think to myself. Places have a "minimum reference point" for the topic of exchange/payment/whatever the word is, so then what does the non-thinking come from to apply this thought to the whole isolation thing mentioned? Anyone here have people they know who were absorbed into a bad part of society when everything seemed dead and thought "well, it's not like anyone else was going to give them what they need"?

What is this thing? shinigamiookamiryuu • 4 months ago • 100%

  

Casual Conversation shinigamiookamiryuu • 4 months ago • 96%

It's definitely hard to miss all the people where I live pulling out of driveways in dresses and people taking pictures across all the public areas, it really lets you know it's prom time. What's your experience with prom (or multiple proms if you went to others too)? How did everyone look? How was it celebrated? Was it good?

Asklemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 4 months ago • 92%

When I was little, TV shows and movies apparently liked to make their production logos creepy. That logo that appeared either in the beginning of a VHS tape or DVD or in the end was enough to get some of us to not sneak out of our rooms at night and watch our favorite shows/movies. And as I grew older, I'd be confirmed of the fact I wasn't the only person caught off-guard, as there is a whole genre of discussion around it. Which one would strike the scariest vibes in you?

Asklemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 4 months ago • 97%

To those from the Western hemisphere, it's always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the Mayans.

Asklemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 5 months ago • 93%

This seems to be something people don't always give second thought to. When people talk about the homeless, the first things thought about are images of people on busy city streets in rusty clothes waiting around near allies. In there, the answer is quite static, because it can be I guess. But if that's the case, change the setting and that changes too. In the places where I've lived, people often needed that mapped out. Where are they known in your rural locales?

Asklemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 5 months ago • 100%

It's Autumn in the Southern hemisphere (Spring time in the Northern hemisphere), and I get fascinated by a lamp post near me that some birds have been using as a hand-me-down for a decade now.

politics shinigamiookamiryuu • 5 months ago • 66%

So the gist of national debt in my understanding is Nation A asks for aid of some kind from (or commits unintentional damages to) Nation B who later on deems Nation A owes them based on their interpretation of the ordeal, with varying layers of complexity. Cities do that to each other too, right? Why do we never hear of a town or city urging that another town or city owes them, whether they're both in the same country or not? And/or better yet, why doesn't national debt default on that kind of small level, where, instead of India saying "you owe us money, Israel", if all the money is coming from New Delhi and going to, say, Jerusalem, the mayor of New Delhi can just say to the mayor of Jerusalem "hey, get your billionaires to pay up"? I know cities are not as sovereign as countries, but they're still valid units, correct?

Ask Lemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 5 months ago • 69%

OMG, it's incredibly, profoundly difficult to talk about this. Here you have such a verbally unmatched phenomenon with so much of that weird colliding context and fluctuation in generic communicability that you might as well explain to a 2D entity how the third dimension works. It is a miracle I even was able to recognize it by name when I first came across it. In ancient times, it was said that the Persians would debate their ideas once sober and once under the influence in order to align clarity with perspective, and here you have this thing, which sees this and is like "hold my beer", fading in and out like old age, flickering the old internal lights without anyone's planned consent, and misguiding thought navigation. I cannot speak for everyone, but there are a number of us who will tell you they don't dare write fiction (or nonfiction?) if there isn't absolutely every reason to believe they're in the safe zone, mind's eye, verbal recall, and comprehension (including that of relevance, which already has a relative nature) be damned, further complicated by the "there are different kinds" which ranks it in the realm of "phases", "moodiness", and "DID alters" (my step-step-kids each can attest experience with one of those three). What does your own mind match it up with?

Ask Lemmy shinigamiookamiryuu • 5 months ago • 94%

I don't know if this is something people say in other countries, but in my country, there's this common cliché or "wisdom" where adults will assure you that the people who picked on you in environments like school will universally develop lives of hardship later on, one way or another getting into mayhem. I asked my mother one day what happened to all those people growing up. I can sense she may have been sugar coating it, but she said something along the lines of "well, I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and became a teacher, and waited some more, and finally watched as my bullies had to go into retirement five years late, yay" (okay, not really like that, but it might as well have been). Yeah, common theme in my experience that what we hope for is never "that" set in stone. No matter where in the community (or even long-distance communicating) you knew them from, based on life, how much approximate correspondence do you associate with that mindset in the first paragraph?

[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation shinigamiookamiryuu • 7 months ago • 100%

Would any of you like to be a mod? With the way things are going, we're looking for equal numbers lemm.ee and lemmy.world mods. If you'd like to apply, tell us about yourself below, let it flow.

[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation shinigamiookamiryuu • 7 months ago • 90%

How was it spent?