i don’t know if this has actually been helpful (i haven’t been actively learning new languages due to chronic illness), but i’ve listened to my favorite songs in other languages (disney songs are great for this, probably broadway songs as well)

and when i realize i understand a certain line, i get that sweet, sweet dopamine hit, too

i suspect it’s been somewhat helpful because the languages seem more “familiar” to me, even if i still can’t fully understand them

honestly… ads wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so annoying

sounds like you need to make a plan on how to stay sober.

if you are forced, i would bring that up. that the medication isn’t helpful and the issue is drug addiction, and see if your “treatment plan” can be “maintaining sobriety” rather than “treating bipolar”, as “maintaining sobriety” treats the bipolar. i know these places tend to suck with treatment and so they may not be on board, but it’s good to mention on the off-chance they say yes. in which case, you would actually be getting the treatment you need. do note that a treatment plan for this may involve some medication use, depending on the medication i wouldn’t necessarily push back, as the meds might be sobriety-specific, not mood meds.

a liberal is probably your average usa democrat that is considered conservative by european standards

a leftist is anyone that democrat might consider too radical (like bernie sanders who, for a lot of leftists, might just barely be considered leftist)

edit: i’m being downvoted - am i wrong? i was under the impression that this was the difference between a liberal and a leftist

but in all seriousness, i believe it’s a derogatory term for a communist

If anyone has any questions about this comment as well, please feel free to ask. I know what this comment means, but a few years ago I wouldn’t’ve had a clue.

I haven’t tried this, but this is what I’ve read:

You can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste the text into another document (like Word, WordPad, Notepad, etc.).

Another method I saw mentioned on Facebook:

“The backgrounds are transparent. Pull them into photoshop and throw a layer of white between the text and the black background and you have your text.”

If anything is unclear, please ask. Even if I can’t answer it, maybe someone else can.

It really depends a lot on context and situation, ideally it’s someone you already have at least SOME passing acquaintance with so they give you a chance

okay, so this won’t work with all the social media maga telling me to kill myself.

i’ve done all those things as in person i don’t like being confrontational. yeah, it makes people adore me and say im the sweetest. never changes them though.

a little observation. your comment history says you’re a cis man. i think that might be part of why it’s been more effective for you to change minds. what you say has more weight.

never said there aren’t terrible leftists. there are plenty. people in general are terrible.

statistically speaking, right wingers are worse. this is factual. don’t gaslight me.

i’m afraid of confrontation and i’m friendly enough that horrible people feel comfortably trauma-dumping on me, but they never feel comfortable changing.

i tend to be a pretty validating person and they love that. but the one time i call them out on something they need to do better, their defenses go up. no one is actually interested in being a good person, they just want to be told they’re a good person.

i’m disabled and i get assigned caregivers from a local agency. a caregiver casually told me she’s a pedophile (trump supporter too btw). people are too comfortable around me.

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i’m curious how you did it. i tried being nice, they’d just attack me.

i struggle to want to be nice to people who want me dead. who are loud about how i am lazy and stealing their tax dollars.

a former maga friend - someone who i was “nice” to until the one time i wasn’t, even though he was allowed to say all the shitty things he wanted - told me i was a waste of space. he verbally attacked me over my health issues knowing how sensitive a subject that is.

i don’t see them as people tbh. if me saying that validates their opinion that i’m evil, maybe they should start acting like people instead of monsters.

they also, as a group, tend to be more likely to be offending pedos, rapists, domestic abusers, and mass shooters. which for me reinforces the idea that they aren’t people.

copied from another comment in this thread, maybe this helps? https://refuseuline.com/#resources

i agree, the point of my post is to clarify the misconception, especially for anyone who may have donated in the past and felt guilty about it

yeah? never said otherwise.

you’re right, i fixed it! my bad 😅

in the USA

til lemmy lets you edit post titles, very cool. i fixed it, thanks!

yeah, this is what i was going for

i’m not here to defend billionaires. i’m chronically ill and probably going to die young, suffering, and in poverty. if billionaires did the right thing, not only would i probably be suffering a lot less, but so would a lot of people. we’d probably have a better world.

but here we are. :(

from your post history it seems you might not be in the us so i’m going to try and clarify

soooo i have yet to file taxes (i’m disabled and have never made enough to file) but from my understanding, how taxes work in the us vs outside of the us is different

the government doesn’t tell you what you owe or what to deduct… you tell them what you owe, what you’re deducting, and hope you didn’t mess up somewhere unless you want to be shipped off the el salvador

so i believe neither my post nor their comment is bs, but if i’m wrong i’m happy to be corrected

omg. i’ve heard of interrobang but never the percontation point. thank you for sharing that!

til! thank you :)