My country still taking part in this is a fucking disgrace. I’ve been boycotting the shit for some years but people still like to pretend it’s not political, there’s nothing going on, it’s just a fun little music thing, absolutely nothing going on. It’s a farce

I’ll claim it was evidence he was seething and had to say the last word so someone would hear it lol. They can claim they’ve won to others and lie to themselves as much as they want, but at that moment when you walk away and they can’t reply, you both know who took control of the situation

Edit// It can also be even funnier if you don’t block them, just say goodbye in the final message, and then never reply whatever they write. Then you get to see their final attempt to say the last word, but they have to wonder did you not care enough to even block them, and can’t be sure did you ever read it. This apparently takes some weird form of self control though, so blocking might be better for most people (and it depends on the platform can it work)

Edit2// Oh, and it’s also hilarious if you’re extra polite in the last message, especially if you manage to not sound sarcastic. Then posting about it makes them also look worse, especially if they rage back

Adding the “what’s up” is important though, or something to the same effect (“how are you”, …), because it helps support the conversation and keep it flowing.

Just mirroring the “Hey” can feel terse and unwelcoming, like you’re not interested in talking because you’re not providing the other person a “conversational path” they can follow up on.

That sounds like a pretty interesting cultural difference. Around here it would be pretty normal to just reply with a “hey” back, as it’s clear the other person has something to say because they’ve sought contact with you in the first place, so it’s on them to keep the conversation flowing. We also often don’t say names when we interact with each other, so instead it could go something like:
“Hey!”
“Oh hey”
“So, what’s up?”

They always argue in bad faith so it is literally impossible to win. Except by making some point that annoys them a lot and then just immediately walking away (or more likely blocking them), leaving them seething because they can’t have the last word

Was it your usual route? Maybe your mind drifted into sort of autopilot for a moment there and it happened to be a critical one. Could also be those weird seizures where you’re just kind of away for a short while, but if you’ve never had any other situation like that, it’s not very likely. I guess wondering about it now is pointless anyway, but it does sound really odd (and interesting)

I’ve used firefox for ages, but I still switched to waterfox recently. They promised to not push the AI crap on you, so that was enough for me. Also it’s just firefox with a blue logo lmao

That was an excellent pun!

It’s always the same with the propagandists:

• Tibet does not exist and there’s nothing going on there, it’s western propaganda (Tibet has existed for a long time, China invaded Tibet, there’s information from reliable sources genocide is happening)
• if there’s something going on it’s good for the tibetans and they want it (tibetans themselves have right to decide what they want, and they don’t seem to want to be genocided)
• their savage culture needs to be civilized anyway (this is just racism and imperialism to justify genocide and erasure of people)
• the leadership of Tibet is corrupt and Dalai Lama is on the epstein list so they need to be liberated (you can’t just invade your neighbors even if they have problems)
• big list of how “the west” has done bad things (others doing bad things too doesn’t justify doing them yourself)
• random reasons why it’s not genocide (erasure of culture is genocide by the definitions of genocide)

edit// oh, and next is personal attacks towards people going against their propaganda lmao. Here’s some facts to save some time if anyone wants to look for some faults to discredit me: I’m not american but finnish and I do not support their fascist idiots in power, my country did not colonize anyone (we were the poor losers), we allied with the nazis in ww2 because everyone was allied with soviets and left us at their mercy as a collateral (and we backstabbed the nazis the moment it was a better course of action), I do not support Israel and the genocide of palestinians needs to stop, Russia invaded Ukraine and is genociding there

Oh, and I do not hate chinese people or culture in any capacity, it’s their leadership that’s responsible. I am just very much against genocide, no matter who is doing it

I do this because of it! I’m not fully faceblind and can learn to recognize people, but I cannot even form a clear picture of a face in my mind, I can only see parts at the time. But as a compensation I’m really good at recognizing people from far away just from their movement and clothes too, if they’re wearing something I’ve seen before

Presentation, hormones, some parts cut out as well, maybe legal gender change… For me it was easy since I could just aim at the opposite sex and kinda not go all the way. But it depends on the person if anything, really, I know some are fine with just presentation

Yeah I’m trans and consider myself to be enby too, I just switched over from my birth sex to the opposite one, and intentionally got stuck a bit past the halfway - I’m typically assumed to be the other and just somehow weird lmao. So now I’m in the interesting position where I’m neither but I have lived as both. Gotta catch 'em all I suppose

I didn’t figure it out until I was an adult. I knew something was going on, but I thought it’s just something to do with me being ace. I knew transfolks existed, but I didn’t think I was one, since I didn’t see myself as a man nor a woman (which should have been a big hint in itself but hey). Then I found out that not having gender is a real possibility and immediately knew what I was, and transitioned after few years. Having words for things is incredibly important

Yeah you can indeed get by, but essentially the longer you stay, the more issues you will face. It’s easy if it’s just stuff like going to a restaurant or your work, but trying to make friends that are not other immigrants? Dealing with the official bureaucracy hell? Just always being the outsider in every situation with the natives? There’s plenty of stuff you might not notice in the beginning but can be trouble later on

Yeah, it would probably have to fit very tightly and/or the fur should be really short. I guess they could shave the area - but that goes deeply into cultural stuff around it, which clearly has not been thought by the designers of that thing. I doubt they actually thought about bone conduction either, really. Looks more like “ehh cool enough” -type of designing that’s pretty typical for games and movies (and which rightly deserves critique).

Anyway I like the ear hoops! That allows a lot of designs that wouldn’t work with human-like shapes. I guess a species with inhuman hearing wouldn’t necessary even need to have the speakers near their ears, though that’s inconvenient in different way because background noise etc. could interfere. It would allow interesting versions of how a speaker could be, something like in a necklace, or glasses - maybe even in ear piercings with small enough tech…

It’s also not clear how he’s getting sound output from the headset.

Not that it makes it much better, it could actually be one of those things that project sound through bone (you can buy headphones with the tech and all, so it’s not that futuristic even). Though I don’t know would it work positioned like that, since it needs certain place on the skull for it to work and who knows where that would be on a foxes head… I guess you could just claim they’ve made the tech better in the setting or something

Sorry for derailing! I’ve just seen a bit too many optimistic “oh you’ll do fine with only english” takes around (not just on lemmy) which I find misleading and in the need of a disclaimer

I’d be more about elections if you could give both a positive vote and a negative vote, right now it feels like just fighting against fascism and slowly losing (I’m not from USA so not talking about your oranges). I used to not vote when I was younger, because I was protesting against the system. I still am, but now I don’t have the luxury of not voting since if people like me won’t, the fascists will win.

Anyway, now terrible people get in power by being terrible, lying, and getting morons to vote for them; if they’d gain negative backlash votes that would nullify that shit, it would immediately make it harder for flashy candidates to get elected. Our political system here would support this especially well, since in Finland the votes pool for the whole party - if even one populist would get a huge number of negative votes, it could even tank the whole party .
Of course this would go both ways, but cutting most of the populists away wouldn’t be a bad thing. You wouldn’t get only boring candidates elected either, because nobody would know about them. So ideally the people who vote for local candidates that walk around and actually talk to people would win, and here a lot of the smaller parties would have more chances to get in power and things wouldn’t be stagnant like they are now (in a bad way).

Of course that wouldn’t be without flaws, but it would be nice to try somewhere to see what would happen. But it won’t, since it would cut the terrible people from power and they want the status quo everywhere

I just feel extra autistic since I don’t understand why’d you react emotionally to any of those. Who cares if some random moron insults you? Especially if it’s online

Even if you can work and get by in english, you should still learn the native language. At least here in Finland you can’t fully become part of the society unless you speak finnish or swedish. It doesn’t mean you need to be immediately proficient though, but if you don’t put any effort into it, you can ever only scratch the surface of the country.

As a personal anecdote, it is also incredibly rude to travel into places and expect them to cater to your culture at the expense of their own, just because yours spread wider. Doesn’t matter who or where - if you plan to stay permanently or even just long-time somewhere, be prepared to learn the local language(s)

Though if you do emigrate into a country where english is not the native language, still prepare to learn the local language(s), even if you can work in english. If you don’t, you’ll never be fully part of the society, and things are a lot harder