Me scrolling Lemmy again, after my doctor explicitly forbid scrolling.
I knew a couple of different people who would fabricate drama if they were actually doing well for once. In a good relationship with a supportive partner? Starts talking to their ex who just got out of prison. Job and housing in order? Spends rent money on a $1200 dog. Things quieted down? Starts fights. I don’t need that nonsense anywhere near my life.
The usual neuroTs confused by neuroDs.
neuroDeez nuts
This is like most people lol
In most cases I think it has to do with a large mismatch between human urges, carefully calibrated for a primitive, foraging lifestyle, and modern society.
that’s waaay to much justification
they are fucking stupid, put zero effort into forethought
and it is all everyone else's fault
Thats some premium triple-distilled trolling right there, congrats
Edit : I want going to ask, because I didn't want to ruin the magic but I can't help myself.
How do you pack it all in like that?
so concise, its almost a haiku.
true genius arrives on the toilet
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There's a word for this in mandarin - Dao Mei (forgive me if I got the spelling wrong). But from what I've been told, it doesn't quite mean "bad luck" which implies you had no control over it; but it means that bad things are happening to you because you put yourself into that position
Spelling is right - it's 倒霉 / 倒霉 if you wanna look it up
Rake-stepping is the new lingo I'd say
It’s basically this meme in another format:
A real life picture of Republican voters.
How I see people who don't follow my exact prescribed advice that I came up with without knowing the situation
Legit. If someone in my life did this I'd believe them when they say they don't know why they don't move it away. Maybe they can't. Mental health issues can often look like a person standing in fire, not moving out of the fire, just letting it consume them as normal folk watch on talking about how they should have just walked into the water.
"Just stop being depressed" as if it's a choice...
I don't remember if it was a comedian or who/where I heard this but someone once likened depression and outsiders talking about it to an asthmatic.
Why are you depressed? Just do things that make you happy - there's so much joy in the world just go get some!
What do you mean you have asthma? There's plenty of air like, right here, just breathe it!
That's a really good analogy, I can't believe I've never heard that before. I like that a lot actually.
That's your interpretation, not the real meaning
Sounds like what you call the "real meaning" is your interpretation
Of course: I made the comic strip, so my interpretation is the right one
Well that's just not true. It's merely the author's interpretation. Media analysis should extend beyond authoral intent.
Roland Barthes wants to have a word
My interpretation is still the right one. I'm responsible for what I say, and not what others understand.
If that were the case, life would be much simpler. It's not
USians voting Republican be like:
I met Americans my age (early 30s) when i was at a Caribbean resort. They were from North Carolina. The topic of US politics and their president came up and they said that they voted Republican but they're not maga and are against the things Trumps doing.
We were all confused so we asked them to explain further. They said that voting Republican was just local/family/regional tradition and voting Democrat was unthinkable. They then followed that up with something like "at the end of the day, you still have to show up to work the next day, you still have bills to pay, nothing changes".
The killer was that about 15 or so minutes prior, they talked about how their local society collapsed as a result of a previous hurricane and how FEMA never showed up and then allegedly prevented them from helping out.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THEY DON'T COME OFF! DO YOURS DO THAT?!"
Yeah, this gets applied to things like addiction or poverty, too. “All you gotta do is change stop doing the thing…”. Sure, politically or about other things it’s probably a choice of willful ignorance. But sometimes not so much.
Nope, this doesn't get applied to those things. It applies to things like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbOtyWTRZ_g
Also to those girls who always have a new reconciliation with their well known violent ex boyfriends
"Because then I would have to admit you were right."
I’m in this comic and I don’t like it
Same, and same. I must be an emotional masochist or something.
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