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on I am el french · c/memes · 5 pts · 70d

This reminds me of when I worked in a café years ago. We had this smug woman that would try to correct our pronunciation of French words but say them wrong herself. Croissant for her was "quasant". Cafe au lait was "Caf ah light". She would do that until we hired a Quebecois student from the local college who responded to her corrections with fluent French.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 6 pts · 70d

Honestly, bro, why do you even care? Being a smug prick over insignificant shit like this is exactly the kind of asshole behavior OP is posting about.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 16 pts · 70d

A lot of people come here because they hate what Reddit has become without acknowledging that their shitty Redditor behavior is part of the problem.

on She really was · c/lemmyshitpost · 9 pts · 71d

I was really interested in ttrpgs and wargmaming as a kid. My family was poor as hell, though, so buying $40+ books and $300+ Warhammer starter sets wasn't a priority. I would try to create my own but were all proper shit. I at least had fun with process.

I discovered some used Call of Cthulhu books in an antique mall in my mid 20s and realized that I could buy all the stuff I never could get as a kid. I'm 42 now and have two full bookcases of RPGs and a whole pile of grey plastic collecting dust.

on Pool · c/lemmyshitpost · 3 pts · 72d

This is why you don't trust a dipshit who paints everything in his home gold with public projects.

I miss DIY culture so much. I grew up impoverished so replacement wasn't always an option for us. I learned basic household repair and electronics just by watching the adults in my family do appliance repairs or tinker with old radio equipment.

Knowing and experiencing a disconnected world is one of the few things I wouldn't give up from childhood. I was enamored with the Internet when popular adoption began in the mid to late 90s but it was a separate world that you could actually exit. I could still communicate with peers and friends without this layer of memes and affected irony between us.

I managed to stumble into traditional home ownership by sheer dumb luck and its not the great achievement talking heads make it out to be. Its done more to make me hate the commodification of what should be a basic human right more than the year or so I spent homeless as a kid.

You get told by everyone that its the ultimate signifier of financial security and independence but all I found was a more insidious method of capitalist exploitation. Losing an apartment to rent hikes or eviction eats serious shit but I always managed to bounce back enough to secure another place before my ass was tossed to the pavement. I get my house forclosed on or lose it in a freak accident and I'm not only homeless by also financially ruined in a manner that would take a decade or more to recover from.