If your data is being processed in the EU, it is protected by GDPR even if you’re not a European citizen and not currently in the EU.

And also applies to non-EU citizens in the EU.

sad NixOS noises

Why doesn’t the US government fund a mass relocation program and destroy the town?

Tetris DS is still king after 18 years.

I think he is saying nobody is sending him threats and calling him slurs because he isn’t a minority, but still acknowledges the problem of others.

Explain seahorses, then, if you’re so smart.

You’d be surprised how little IG users can read.

Laws of aviation. And it’s true, because planes do not flap their wings.

Free update.

Israel is a tankie country now? Don’t they support Palestine? Let’s not rob tankies of their only correct opinion!

Yahoo Auctions is still massive in Japan.

I’ll read this next weekend 🙃

Somehow they created a worse word than Mastodon’s toots.

Elo (and not ELO, it’s a person’s name) originally comes from chess.

It’s wrong. 1/3 + (1/3 * 1/3) = 3/9 + 1/9 = 4/9. It’s close though.

However, one third plus one half of a third is correct. 1/3 + (1/2 * 1/3) = 1/3 + (1.5/3 * 1/3) = 1/3 + 0.5/3 = 1.5/3 = 1/2

The thing is, if you go into a conversation expecting to be viewed negatively, it’s going to impact how the interaction goes.

How else can I be viewed? Joining someone else’s conversation uninvited is very impolite. This is not acceptable behavior. It’s annoying at best, creepy at worst.

And at that point, you’re actually seeking a therapist anyway.

Therapists are charlatans. They aren’t real doctors. They cannot heal, they cannot prescribe, they cannot operate.

You are talking to us here, now. I know you do rock climbing and weight lifting. If you have friends, you talk to them too. It’s not different from that. You are doing it already. There’s not a formula.

I did not randomly send you a DM. We were both on the same thread (so a conversation subject was already decided), and the very structure of Lemmy makes it acceptable to reply to random people in various threads, with the added benefit of it being in written form. Real life is very different; I can’t just listen to conversations people I don’t know are having, and randomly interject when I feel I have something relevant to say.

What friends can do is tell their friends you are a great guy and introduce you to other people. That’s what networking is, the same way you network computers, you network human relationships, by connecting them.

I understand what that is, but it cannot work. I know one tried at least twice to hook me up with someone. They do not have the power to fix me. No one does.

If you are feeling good about your looks now,

I’m not. It took me almost 4 years to have a normal BMI, yet I’m still super skinny, my face is still horrible, and I’m not even that good at weight lifting (bench-pressing 60kg is terrible).

You have to talk to actual people.

Who? And say what?

This “advice” is always repeated by people like you, yet they can’t answer the most basic question about it.

you can also tell any friends you have that you are looking to start dating, network.

They know, but what can they do about it?

dating apps

I used several apps for 2 years and got nothing. Maybe a match every six months. Those apps are scams anyway; I know for a fact Tinder shadowbans accounts of people they deem too ugly. I did an experiment with a friend once; we both set our search perimeter to less than a kilometer. I could see her account, but she couldn’t see mine.

you still have to reach out to people

Again: who? Say what? I asked that question to several people over the years, both IRL and on Reddit/Lemmy, and NEVER got an answer.

Only Safari.