French is also used in quite a few African countries as well iirc!

Hm well I honestly have a very tiny bathroom for American standards.

Ok I was gonna ask for pics of your bathroom and spa lolol

I really doubt it’s that deep. The price likely just changes globally.

So if you pick up your item while it’s $7, but then walk to the register and it’s now $9, it would ring up as $9.

Yeah, that does sound like deceptive marketing, but my random guess is that it likely isn’t changed much throughout the day.

Idk…a lot of speed bumps I’ve come across are crazy violent. They aren’t sloped enough and instead project upwards very abruptly.

Obviously, not every speed bump is the same, but still.

I really would prefer for hidden speed bumps to not exist when I’m riding my motorcycle, for example, where that can be a rather dangerous “feature” of the road.

Is this a serious comment

Interesting. I thought a lot of Japanese dwellings were smaller than the average American home. But I’m in the US and my entire bathroom is like between one third and one half of this image. I don’t have room for a setup like this without making the neighboring room significantlly smaller.

I wouldn’t say that I enjoy it necessarily, but I heard an MRI machine recently for the first time and it makes the most bizarre collection of sometimes comically comouter-y sounds. People told me it would be loud but I didn’t know what type of sounds I would be hearing lol.

I work in a place where machinery is always whirring and I don’t find it particularly enjoyable. Our machines are more just sort of droning as opposed to something interesting.

Man I’m sorry to hear. You’re already diabetic so I mean carbs are out…but I mean I feel like fats and sodium aren’t going to be as much of a worry until you also have high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Altho once you do then you’re fucked I guess. Can’t enjoy anything anymore. I’ve heard of salt substitutes, but I don’t know much about them.

Lol well you aren’t wrong!

I mean, the vast majority of menu items are carbs, cheese, and protein. There’s really hardly veggies in there at all. A nominal amount of shredded lettuce is really nothing compared to fruit and a salad.

Weird I have heard of KFC being very lauded in the UK. It always confused me as an American because it always seemed very mid to me. I was wondering if you guys had way better quality KFC than us or something. Now I’m wondering the same for Popeyes.

You were with me until the latter part. People aren’t hitting up a sit down restaurant when they want fast food because they want to get in and get out without having to leave their car.

I have a Chick Fil A literally a 2 minute walk from me. I go often because of convenience. I don’t have to wait in a long line in my car and because it’s one of the few fast food joints that offers healthier alternatives like grilled chicken nuggets, salads, fruit, sides of kale, etc. It’s not a common occurrence to have options like that at a fast food place. The Chick Fil A and Taco Bell are right next to each other, but I end up going to the Chick Fil A 9 times out of 10 over Taco Bell because of this.

I agree that it’s not worth going out of your way over. But it does have some big perks over other fast food joints.

My brother actually likes it there because they are one of the few fast food places that still have a play place for kids.

Edit: Huh, weird. I was trying to respond to the dude who said you should get a better sandwich from a bar instead.

Looks like it’s even weirder/more confusing. The F series isn’t actually the A series but rebranded.

The F series is actually a “rebrand” of the M series. It’s sold at a retailer called “Flipkart”. What the fuck is the M series then? No fucking clue. It’s supposedly different than the A series line. From skimming online, it seems like the M series for some reason have larger batteries, but are also cheaper(?), but randomly not supported as long as the A series.

So I think the M series is maybe like a shittier A series. And then the F series is literally identical to the M series except it’s sold by a retailer that starts with F.

Man, shit is stupidly convoluted.

Is that not technically the legal purpose of marriage to begin with???

I know I’ll get downvoted for this, but…Lemmy and related are an “echo-chamber” of sorts. You’ll find that a vast amount of people “in the real world” don’t share this sort of imminently apocalyptic mentality. I really mean no offense in my phrasing and I’m not trying to shit on anyone here. It’s just the way things are.

I remember being almost surprised at how “normal” life was when I first moved to a place that had polar opposite political views than me. Life went on…in mostly the same way it did when I was surrounded by people who mostly shared my ideologies. Life goes on…especially in the western world. Even in different parts of the US, it’s a far cry from some place like Somalia or Iran or Israel/Palestine or North Korea.

Idk. Sorry I got a bit rambly. Suffice to say that I don’t think you’re ever going to find what you seek.

I would say very very rarely and also fleeting. They don’t occur on their own. But very rarely when I used to see a sex scene in a TV show or movie I would feel something for some limited moments. If I didn’t have visual stimulation from these, they wouldn’t occur on their own.

I echo others in that I don’t personally feel like it will “go away”.

But I guess I view it kind of like I view trauma and grief. It will still always be there, but you can build your life outward from there so that it feels less significant with time. It might still bring you back and catch you off guard some days with how strong it will feel, even if you think you’ve “moved past” it. But you can get through it. Time and living life will help to make that a comparatively smaller part.

Best of luck.

Personally, I am someone who prefers the other form factor…a regular sized phone that can fold to become smaller. Works great for stupid ass tiny women’s pants pockets.

But I don’t understand why the form factor that I enjoy is just not nearly as popular as the folding tablets. Doesn’t seem like many people have use for carrying a small tablet with them unless they are big into drawing. But idk.

I’ve never had the ability to feel sexual pleasure, unfortunately. Was a confusing time growing up. It also sometimes makes me really feel like I’m missing out. When all media revolves around sex and you can’t even feel pleasure from masturbation, it feels like you’re missing something from the core human experience. Sometimes it has made me feel like a different species.

I guess at least for me, I “don’t know what I’m missing” because I’ve never experienced it. I’m sorry that you know what it feels like so that it’s more painful when you can’t anymore.

Has anything changed in your life recently?