I didn’t notice 😛

You know what, i have heard of it but my goofy ass was only lookong st it on YouTube, so thanks for that link. Forsr thing that showed up was “How to CAD anything” which is sometjing I actually need

#cerveza

but the point is that people need to normalize not getting drunk and not having to explain to anyone why they don’t want to.

Yeah, they do, but this was in the past. 2008. Article: The Mercury News

I’d go as far to say that back then people would still have the old fashioned idea that all celebrities are “masterful drinkers” who are allowed one or two glasses of champagne in the middle of the day with ellen degeneres.

As such, they have narrow-minded views towards sobriety.

Ergo, Carey’s options are

• 1. tell the truth, “I’m pregnant so I don’t want to drink”
• 2. Decide that gregnancy is more embarassing than sobriety, and thus just say “Nah I don’t feel like it” - But this is 2008 so perhaps people will start to theorise that she A) “can’t hold her liquor” or B) had a close friend/family member succumb to alcohol issues, which might lead to paparazzi, or C) decide that she’s pregnant anyway. Celebrities do not like inviting more scrutiny unto themselves, so route 1 beats route 2
• 3. (lie) Make up a compelling reason - “I’m a mormon/methodist/muslim,” “I’m observing a religious festival,” “I’m doing a dry month to support someone/charity,” "my friend lost their life from alcohol - " All of these lead to more lies or more questions later down the line.

#1 is true, short, and something people would have found out anyway.

Free access to higher education. I like learning things. Don’t actually like the full time workload though 😮‍💨

Also Cheesecake.

The first thing everyone that I’ve recommended Lemmy to sees is massive amounts of porn when they make their accounts. Telling them they need to block instances is a major hurdle as they don’t even know what an instance is when they migrate over.

Most end up not bothering and going right back to Reddit.

That really sucks! Next time maybe point them towards piefed, where it actually prompts you to filter out NSFW stuff in account creation. I haven’t seen any porn on my piefed account.

Lol, but maybe she just didn’t want to lie. Simpler. You’re right - i bet at that time the idea of “just not drinking” would be ridiculed by the press and general public - but it’s for that reason that Carey might fear she’d get caught up in a bigger lie trying a different excuse.

Find the instance it all comes from and block that entire instance? Or does lemmy.ca not allow blocking instances

I think that people can migrate their accounts to a new instance which effectively unblocks them to you, because you only blocked them in their original instance.

I have definitely seen what you describe, but only with users rather than instances or communities, which gives my theory some rope.

I’m fucking miserable.

That’s the soy milk. Replace it out with uh… Diet coke 😁

Hope you feel better, though.

My mum would try and set me up with random girls when I was younger, pressure me to talk to people she wanted me to be in a relationship with, once apparently lied to my classmate’s family that we were Jewish or something (i.e I don’t know if this was an ethnicity thing or a religion thing and I don’t want to know.)

I wouldn’t say the other party’s parents were complicit in this or even realised it was her intention. Hence why I’m not in an arranged marriage right now.

It’s interesting seeing several lonely people online talk about how arranged marriage is a superior system. I don’t feel that way right now, but we’ll wait and see what I say when I’m older.

They are when I’m around

Something so sexy about the concept of a lactose intolerant person being scared of some big swinging tiddies

Insert image of smithers cowering from two strippers

people are concerned that some women label themselves lesbian or bisexual to sound more interesting. This might be why the discord server is so defensive.

Since you are attracted to men and women, you’re bisexual.

Rich people problems are stuff that can’t be solved with money

• how do I fix my inter personal relationships? (Treating others more nicely and talking to others as equals, usually)
• how do I become more interesting? (Don’t talk about money or fame so much)
• how do I get my subjects to forget my heinous crimes (sorry Mr President, no dice on that one)

Or problems we can have too, but they need some thought to solve. When you’re used to throwing money at problems you make others solve your problems for you and stop thinking about them beyond surface level.

E.g recurring plumbing problems or vehicle problems. Problems we cause for ourselves.

Money is like batteries of performed labour.

Money is spent to leverage people’s labour.

Even heads of state - kings, presidents, dictators - need money as the lever to get people to do the work that HoS is directing them towards. Or thugs with guns, but they’re in-turn leveraged via having money.

It’s kind of important to me that people realise money isn’t “fake”, even when it becomes an abused and broken system. A currency can become worthless but money as a system will always be real.

Whole world is my emotional support animal. I am ravenous.

ur right ur right, i was being videogame brained.

The loop and the many little turns may reduce momentum enough to save some people, depending on how fast the trolley was already going

I constantly crave attention and validation on a “pathological level

There are multiple reasons to crave attention, it can be because you genuinely have not received as much attentiom as your peers! Doesn’t have to be narcissism

Also Builds momentum meaning their death is over quicker.