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  • Norgur@fedia.iotomemes@lemmy.worldIt happens..
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    1 day ago

    I dislike that a) it’s considered binary, while the vast majority of people will not be even close to either extreme b) people put themselves into those extremes anyway, throw around the wildest (and mostly useless) definitions of what “being an introvert” is supposed to mean, more often than not dripping with victim mentality c) people use their supposed status akin to a neurodiversity d) people openly blaming others for not being allowed to be like they are because others dare to be like they are (“I have it so hard in life because I’m an introvert in a world full of extroverts”) e) people define large chunks of themselves around some label they largely defined themselves and want this label to be respected as if it was a real thing, an illness almost. f) people define large chunks of themselves around some label that is just meant to very loosely describe some aspect of a human being’s character, not the whole human










  • Norgur@fedia.iotoOpossums@lemmy.worldAre you a real patriot?
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    5 days ago

    Wow that’s a whole load of US-centric malarkey. If you read between the bouts of patriotic (hah!).drivel, you’ll see that it hasn’t got anything to do with the US revolution. One of the faction was called the patriots which warped the meaning of the word in the English language for a time, reverting after the revolution back to the original meaning.

    The word itself is derived from Greek and Latin (which took it from Greek, but that’s neither here nor there) and appears in French, German, Spanish and probably many, many others before and after the little revolution some blokes embarrassed the king of England with in the 18th century.

    No matter what they tell you in US schools, but the American revolution wasn’t this big eruption, sending ripples through Europe. The monarchs of Europe were occupied with the French and their shenanigans at the time. People didn’t care about some tea in Boston being spilled (besides the British that is). Yet, they still used the word Patriot with moremor less.the same meaning. So no, the word was not influenced by the USA in the grand scheme of things.

    Merriam-Webster is once again deep in the propaganda game, that’s all.






  • Thats the issue. Not only with poverty, but with overspending in general. Usually, money savin measures take time to become noticeable, since there is always some inertia in money flows (things that were already die when the saving measures were started, subscriptions, etc), so people who overspent will immediately see a drastic downfall of their living standards when they start saving, but still overshoot their budget for at least a few weeks usually, until all the overspending is paid off and the savings start to kick in. That’s a really dangerous phase because people often struggle to understand if they are doing it right or not.


  • So, we take the magazine diet of the month approach yet again? Instead of learning healthy spending habits, we barge in with the extremest measures we can find, inevitably fail and try the next needlessly extreme thing, repeating the cycle until we have lost so much self esteem in the process that we tell ourselves that we just aren’t made to save money?

    Well then, this website over there told me that they have got shiny new shirts reduced from 1899,- to just 15 bucks, but only if I order 65 of them in the next.two minutes. Take my credit card! I’ll start no spending year right after! Pinky promise!