If they tell you they love you, they love you. But there are many, many different kinds and aspects of love, many ideas what love is. If they tell you “we love you” but you cannot feel or sense this love, you are both using the same word, but not the same idea of love. Or maybe you have even the same idea what love means, but have different ways and needs how to express and experience this love.

The key would be not to doubt their love but to discuss and reflect with them what they mean when they say “We love you”, how they try to show you their love, how they want you to show your love, how you want them to show their love.

Sadly, for most people such conversations are very hard, if not next to impossible. Counseling, mediation or therapy can be helpful, if you’ve got access to any.

@gigachad@sh.itjust.works has a point, though. I agree with you that love is expressed by words, but I also agree with them that words alone are meaningless if not backed by loving behaviour.

If you want software that analyses an image and produces tags that describe the image’s content, you want a combination of image recognition, image interpretation, text generation and a promp generator to link these three parts. There is no way that any single of these applications can be “lightweight”, not to speak of the combination.

If you stop at radical acceptance, you’ll end up being fatalistic and spineless, giving up your own needs and wishes, hurting yourselve in the process.

In psychotherapy, the next step after acceptance is comittment. What do I really want? For what do I really care? What do I really need? My coworkers are morons, Ok, accepted - but what do I really need? Perhaps I need to take pride in my work, and need to commit to get a job I can take pride in. Maybe I need friends and need to commit finding friends outside of work. Maybe I just need money and can commit to just earn money. In either case I don’t have to be upset about my moronic coworkers any longer.

Just take them out 1–2 days before you consume them.

Thank you.

I think the exact magnitude of the billionaire caste illustrates the magnitude of the point.

You vastly overestimate the billionaire cast. As of April 2025, there seem to be 902 billionaires in the US. (I can’t access the original Forbes article, sorry).

Now include perclude and reclude! (Ok, I’m afraid English forgot to loot the last two from Latin’s pockets, after she robbed her in a dark alleyway)

Only for the real thing. [Reenactors]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZusqHYkVgU) don’t want to wreck their wrist and feet and use ropes for suspension and nails for show. A pretty damaging show, still.

Well, they did use ropes, so this technique would work.

I’m not entirely sure that there are no religious fanatics who reenact the crucifixion. Using ropes for fixation and putting nails through the center of the palm, they would avoid crippling their hands severely.

If you were used to analog clocks, you’d read the remaining time just off the clock. As you would just read the time off it – no need for any translation or comparison, just one glimpse and you’d know it. For several decades this superiority of analog clocks was a main argument against the use of digital clocks. Digital clocks are more precise, though.

There is a traditional saying in Germx’an: punctual as the railway. It’s meaning has shifted quite a lot after Deutsche Bahn was transformed from a public service to a private company. So yes, the reliability of DB is indeed incredible. They’d have to issue notes when they’re on time nowadays, though.

I don’t know about Yiddish culture, but there are a lot of cultures where it would be considered extremely improper to tell someone they made a mistake because this would ring shame on them – complaining to a superior even more so. In these cultures, you have to resort to such indirect clues as described in the joke to communicate complaints.

As I understand it, this joke describes the a clash between shame based and guilt based cultures making fun of both.

Well, back in the day they successfully ousted Mr. Boycott by boycotting him. So at least the first boycott successfully worked.

Is it even legal to use lemmy with any other keyboard than thumb-key?

I’d say all of history until 1968?

What is an SMS?

I’d count emotional numbness as an undesirable side effect and switch the antidepressant.

Here is a good video explaining the trend: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0arvnAlV_C4

wasis: https://cygwin.com/