Undiagnosed, but yeah it’s very probable that I am at least one of those.

Actually, it would make sense if they were saying protesters “failed” to show up in DC specifically, because we were protesting everywhere but there.

As a counterpoint, I don’t replace water with anything sugary/flavored. I just… don’t get thirsty, like ever, unless I’m working outside in hot weather. Most people’s bodies remind them to drink. Mine doesn’t. I try to remember to drink water throughout the day rather than just at mealtimes, but if I don’t have a glass next to me, I will almost certainly forget. I feel like I can’t be the only person like this.

Might be electrolyte imbalance.

Not everything has an opposite. That is a trap of binary thinking.

Why would you think that state is permanent? What do you do when you get to the end of a book or an article? Do you not ever stop reading to eat, sleep, or take a walk?

It would probably make you a lot less itchy than a bar of soap, too.

This has to be satire, but just in case it’s not… you’re being scammed.

No! Don’t let the robots take our punctuation! What’s next, entire words and phrases we can’t use because “that’s what AI would say”??

And in order for the organs to be usable, a person basically has to die already in the hospital, otherwise there is too much time between death and organ removal. And the cause of death needs to have not affected the organs, etc. Really a lot of limiting factors. I don’t remember the stat, but it’s a very low percent of organ donors who are actually able to have their organs used for transplants when they die.

Different channels. Different companies. Fox News does not own 20th Century Fox broadcast channel.

I like RHCP but that “episode” was pointless. It was just an animated music video. And the sound was bad, like they recorded it while moving around the space to make it “sound 3D” or something.

I’ve fallen asleep during every episode. This does not happen with other shows, except for one or two really slow episodes of Severance. I have no idea what the problem is.

But you specifically call out European-Americans, who are much more likely to have left America because they didn’t like trump. I don’t think this is very well thought out. Almost sounds like you’re calling American immigrants violent criminals, in which case you might want to submit some evidence or examples or something.

Probably a long shot, but have you by any chance had exposure to dioxin (agent orange) when you were young? Like growing up on military bases or someplace like Laos or Vietnam?

I know a few people who have those symptoms, and they had significant dioxin exposure as teenagers, though the symptoms didn’t start coming on until they were in their mid-to-late 20s. Being exposed as an adult would not result in disability, however. It has to be during development.

Pretty sure none of them are Catholic, which makes it even weirder that they care about the Pope at all.

There just isn’t that kind of leftist discourse in America. If there are communists here, I’ve never met one in real life, and I live in a very progressive region. Lemmy has been my first real exposure to anything further left of democratic socialism. I’m not sure why non-Americans are so continually surprised that we use “liberal” framework to discuss politics (that word means something completely different to us than it does to you). It would be great if the far right didn’t keep moving us to the right, but that’s the situation we live in. As capitalism fails, more people are waking up to the class struggle, but you can’t just change a whole country’s political paradigm overnight.

Did my elderly mother suddenly find her way onto the fediverse? She used to say shit like this when I was a toddler.

I really hate this. Do we really need to spend 20 minutes on every damn post to figure out if it’s real now? Why muddy the water with fake shit when the real thing is bad enough?

Japanese culture is all about respect and being polite. They are much more likely to ignore you than insult you. In fact, it seems to be somewhat impolite to strike up a conversation with strangers in most situations. I think the nightlife in Japan may be different, as people open up more when they’re letting loose.

However, if you try to move there, know that they never fully accept foreigners into Japanese culture. You will always be a bit of an outsider.

One more thing to note is that people online will always be meaner than people in real life. Places like reddit and Lemmy are not accurate representations of real life communities.