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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I struggle to come up with an actual good and not just mediocre movie that Tom Hanks was in.

  Adding to the trash list: Incredibly loud and extremely close. They massacred the book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He is in this abomination of a book adaptation for Incredibly loud and extremely close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but… Most of them? Especially since it’s his performance that has become poor. He is playing himself more and more. A similar thing happened to Johnny Depp. Look at both of them in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and then at stuff like Great Gatsby, Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter’s Island, Django / Willy Wonka, Pirates of the Carribean, Shadows, Transcendence. The acting and characters are so similar and they don’t give an effort anymore (or try to, and absolutely overdo it).

  (Sorry I somehow incorporated a Johnny Depp rant in a critic of DiCaprio, their story of decline is just too similar to me. And Gilbert Grape is an amazing movie.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God that sounds disgusting. I think, for the first time in 4+ years of sobriety, I actually feel genuinely sad for not being able to try that one out. It sounds so awful it must be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please dont feed the creatures 🪱⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First it was hanging, now it’s shooting. Make up your mind. It might help to first get your head out of your ass though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please dont feed the creatures 🪱⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a parent too, and here are my thoughts on this. I would rather knowingly live next to a pedophile - someone who outs themselves and goes to therapy - than not knowing about whether or not my neighbor has ever had such tendencies. I wouldn’t forbid them from having contact with my child, if they are sure it is not too hard for them, and obviously, keep them supervised. (I have barely ever left my child with another adult outside of the kindergarten setting though.) As was commented above, pedophilia is a valid and incredibly unfortunate, isolating and lonely sexual orientation and a disorder that can be treated, if not “cured”. I wholeheartedly agree with what you said about society’s hostile mentality driving people into the shadows and keeping them from seeking help.

  I also want to point out that the majority of minor sex offenders (sorry I can’t remember the correct term, English isn’t my first language) has no pedophilic tendencies. A lot of sexual assault happens not because of attraction but because of power, dominance, violence, control. It’s something so important to keep in mind. Your local pedo might be the nicest and most harmless guy, while some other, heterosexual and “normal” oriented person in your neighborhood might have actually assaulted a child. Not having pedophilic tendencies does not mean a person won’t commit pedophilic acts.

  In a way, my heart goes out to pedophiles. I can’t imagine how incredibly lonely it must be to have a desire for intimacy only with people who you will never, under any circumstances, be allowed to touch. You will never be able to act on your desires. You will never be allowed to live like yourself, be yourself fully. This must be hell. Even without the witch hunt. The least we can do as a society is to offer all the help and support we can get.

  (It goes without saying - fuck all sexual offenders.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah now try being absolutely unknowledgeable when it comes to tech and very much into makeup, skincare, 90 day fiance and parenting content. Lemmy, it’s been nice, but after one and a half years I started lurking to Reddit every once in a while again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s the other way around. That pizza is looking at me replacing the finished pea package yet again for months and months on end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid you won’t have time. It will take minutes. And I’m not even sure it would be announced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, in the best case scenario, the US as we know it is done and, after a hard fall and hitting rock bottom, will emerge as a country that is less of a capitalist hellhole. Ideally, in the process, other countries will find more independence from the USA, be it trade wise or security wise.

  The more realistic scenario is that everything will stay the same/similar and just get slightly worse all the time but every other country will still suck up to the USA and everything gets a little worse. Oh yeah and climate change will fuck everyone up the ass.

  The worst case scenario, I would argue, is that this ends in the destruction of the world via nuclear war within less than an hour. This is what I am scared of the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working below minimum wage to save the planet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone here fixing stuff with 3D printers while I am here struggling how to sew up wool silk leggings in a way that keeps them elastic and fighting for my life with darning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my version is better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always heard promises promises give an end to those promises in the bridge of Lady Gaga’s Pokerface

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you eat soap for acid reflux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t eat soap simply because it’s amphiphilic, which is why, well, it makes good soap. The molecules have a hydrophilic and a lipophilic side and this will much rather soap off and severely damage the lining of your digestive route, potentially and probably also resulting in dangerous foaming.

  If you take the most simple soap that’s just like potassium ions and negatively charged fatty acid residues, I’m not 100% sure but I doubt that the fatty acids want to accept a proton because they are rather stable when negatively charged, hence they won’t work well to buffer the stomach acid. And again, by the time that the fatty acid thinks about accepting a proton or not it will most likely be soaping up your cells’ membranes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing pink is chaotic evil?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I don’t like weed or any of the other options

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing pink is chaotic evil?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take yellow because nothing would change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they tell you "oh of course it's safe" they are lying⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On a sadder note, there are a lot of instances of men forcing themselves on their partners who just gave birth. Some nurses do catch them trying to make love in the hospital. But it’s usually… not exactly the new mom’s idea to do it. Not sure why you would want to bang a torn, soft, expanded, bleeding treasure cave to begin with but ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can smell this picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so sad to see this, especially knowing that while you can like or dislike Clinton and Pelosi, I doubt they are unware that Sanders is not proposing socialism. Socialism and social democracy are two very, vastly different things. And they for sure know this very well.

  I sincerely hope that Sanders will found a new party soon, it will have 4 years to gain momentum. Will it win in the next election cycle? No, but it might actually get enough votes to win in 8 or 12 years. Just do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I'm hungry and thirsty at the same time what do I do???"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone know the context? Is the soup a metaphor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delivery Photo⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. Back then I didn’t know that, I assumed contacting the delivery service was the logical step. Some googling then showed me that was wrong and I should have contacted the company right away. But that wasn’t even a thing I thought about googling - it seemed like the feud was with me and Hermes only.

  But everyone, take notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delivery Photo⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had that with a rather expensive parcel from Korea “delivered” by Hermes. They claimed it had been delivered to my post box - a small slit of an apartment building. There were skincare products inside and no way this would have fit in there.

  Anyway, it was not there. I wanted to call them to ask about it and jfc it took me a labyrinth of automated answers in a chat bot to even get the number for customer service. Once I called them - same shenanigans. Robo answers, asking for the parcel number. It always ended with “it has been delivered to your post box. Thank you”. Somehow, magically, I finally managed to talk to a person - after pressing a very specific combination of dials during the robo answers which I will never be able to reproduce - I explained them the situation, they said “uhum” (like a nod), started typing in silence, to then tell me “the parcel has been delivered to your post box” I am very glad this was a phone call because at that point I would have gotten violent.

  I ended up asking the company I ordered from for help and they just resend the parcel. The missing parcel was never found and I hate hermes.