These national tests are yeesh material tho. Subtle, or not so subtle, at least tangential to, eugenicist or nationalistic ideals.

it’s because initiating it is almost as hard as pronouncing this word

I remember just feeling numb like in disbelief that it was happening, I’m sure I have blocks of parts of that experience. I felt subhuman there.

At some point after returning home I just shut down, stopped communicating with anyone, and layed in bed for months.

2020 wasn’t five ye… oh no

I think the key criticism of OP is the rent. Maybe proletarians don’t understand luxury but for me the idea of luxury is owning a modest home, be that a single home or a flat in a building, working a couple days a week to cover essentials, spending the rest of my time with loved ones and self improving.

the idea an apartment can be luxurious, ostensibly

lmao that’s a funny way to put it. I honestly have no clue about outgassing, I’ve worn glasses my whole life and I don’t recall ever having issues. I also have no allergies or sensitivities whatsoever though. My partner is sure that it’s just eye strain or adjusting to the new “biome” of stale air you have for your eyes now, she just got a pair after needing them for years and she had a lot of trouble adjusting to them and still never wears them all the time.

I never would have thought of burning as a way to describe it but I looked it up and apparently it is a fairly common concern if you never wore glasses and got a large prescription, the glasses focus the light in on your eyes and your eyes aren’t used to that. I actually do have trouble in daylight cause of my extreme prescription and never thought it could be possibly related to the glasses, I just thought it was that way due to my silver irides.

I figure you’d also have a rash if it was a sensitivity strong enough to make your eyes burn, but the only other things I could think of I feel you’d already have figured out… Not blinking enough cause no wind on your eyes to help trigger blinking, eyelashes getting in your eye, or eye fatigue from the correction and not taking breaks to look at something far away…

Remember when ads were just popup banners on the bottom of the screen?

I want to go there just to get the shirt tbh

It’s not just a hospital too by the way. It was a murder short of feeling like I was in the asylum from outlast. Wailing, fighting, screaming and all other sorts of antisocial behavior, with the staff barely in control. At the least that was how it felt and being committed to that place beyond just preventing my possible suicide in the short term became a lasting traumatic experience.

If everyone took action it would be pretty quick and drastic. But the problem is they aren’t meaning actually everyone. They are talking about the peasants, cause in actuality everyone taking action would include the few who contribute the grand majority to the problem, the few who uphold policies that cause people to damage the world, the few holding profits over meaningful and long-lived global health. But NYT is talking not about them, not about the real problem, they are talking about individuals forced to contribute to global warming by way of interaction in a system run by the real problem people and that is why it cannot be true and meaningful improvement.

this is me to a t almost

I’ve seen a big uptick in that word usage, I don’t like seeing them and use a replacing extension to intercept and censor them to a more appropriate word, while showing an asterisk so I know it was censored. Now I don’t have to see the word, but I still get to see who is being a bigoted jerk.

Edit: ya so I guess on lemmy people think it’s cool to throw ableist slurs.

Better chat models exist ^w

This one even provides sources to reference.

In capitalism, you have the capitalists, presiding above all, with made up ideological boundaries to keep them in-fighting. In communism the true boundaries are revealed, between the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, and the plutocrats.

this is too cute

Because the british bought all out their food sources, subjecting them to a famine where they had to grow potatoes to survive.

We already have VNs and dildos so idk what else we could need.

shitocracy, or a skatacracy if you will.