There’s a zoo near me that started out as a rescue park for abandoned parrots. One enclosure had all the potty-mouthed parrots in it and they hung up a sign saying

“If the parrots shout insults, they’re (usually) not directed at you personally”

That always made me laugh.

Also don’t buy parrots as pets. They’re notoriously difficult to keep and most people get in way over their heads while the parrots live a miserable and depressed (and very long!) life.

Looks like you just handed me a new Rabbit Hole to dive into, lol.

Oh, I didn’t know that, what are they most closely related to then?

Agreed on the parrots but a lot of corvids I’ve encountered were absolute trolls as well. Very intentional and calculating, they clearly had fun antagonizing other animals. Don’t get me wrong, they’re assholes. But they’re funny assholes.

Maybe European corvids aren’t like Australian ones. I’ve heard stories about your magpies.

I have a personal vendetta against OneDrive because it literally holds your files hostage. It uploads your data without your consent and then threatens to cut off access to your own files unless you pay up. It actively fights you when you try to regain control, up to and including reinstalling itself once you finally manage to uninstall it.

It’s the main reason I finally got serious about switching to Linux (which I have and it has been amazing)

I’m still mad though, fuck Microsoft. Evil assholes.

Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

Until you then find out that the Netherlands is actually called “Nederland” in the Netherlands. And the reason they’d called “Dutch” in America is due to an archaic mix-up between the two nationalities.

Adding slop.

It’s actually a great tit. They look very similar though.

There have been some very helpful replies already so I’m just going to add this:

Imagine if your kids came to you and told you they were depressed (if you don’t have kids, imagine you do and you love them very much).

Then imagine that -of all the things you could possibly say to them- you chose to tell them what your mother told you.

How would you feel about yourself as a parent (or even as a human being) if you did that? Essentially calling your own children worthless for being sick?

It’s ok to feel that same way about your mother.

It’s like people saying their facebook got hacked when in reality, they logged in on a public computer and didn’t log out. Or their password is their kid’s name or some shit.

I always preferred Garbage Time, his car channel. Dude’s hilarious.

Post10 is so wholesome. His enthusiasm for everything he sees and does always makes me feel calm and happy.

Autopilot. That’s what I started calling it for lack of a better term. It’s like my consciousness moves to the back of my skull and I’m watching myself interact with the world as if following a script.

For me it’s derealization/depersonalisation (I always confuse the two) caused by complex trauma. Any social interaction can trigger it so I tend to avoid people now.

I heard about the Area 51 thing back when it was happening but didn’t think much of it other than “edgelords being extra edgy”. And I hadn’t given it much more thought after that. Until that documentary came out recently on Netflix. I watched it and I was mostly shocked about how much the military/government were shitting their pants over it.

The main thing I took away from that was how much power a large group of people would truly wield if they actually organized and worked together .

That’s the reason we’re all being pitted against one another.

And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death.

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That makes sense because those tits are the opposite of calm.

They survive by firmly staying in denial about their own pain, shame and insecurities. And they do that by offloading and projecting those things to the people around them, with zero regard for how that might affect them.

I’m going to reserve my empathy for the people who have to deal with narcissists rather than the narcissists themselves.

The moment she expressed concern for people who weren’t her, or directly related to her, was what broke the suspension of disbelief for me.

Toxic people mistake kindness for weakness and you just told on yourself, assuming everyone thinks the way you do.