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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Literally as soon as I was finished with my tantrum, I started thinking of ways to fix it.

    I think it’s a really good example of a principal that a lot of us can struggle with - sometimes you just have to feel your emotions and let them rule you for a minute in order to deal with them. (although I wouldn’t usually recommend this for anger of course.) But we often try to bottle up our sadness or frustration or even our joy, instead of feeling them and letting them pass by us. It’s much quicker and easier to process some emotions by letting them happen.

    In this specific situation, I should have a) stopped sooner; or b) found something to destroy that didn’t matter. But, I still did feel a lot better for having it out of my system even if it was silly to damage my work





  • I’m in a similar situation - I badly hurt my best friend from school and we stopped talking. This was over a decade ago. I know from mutual friends that she’s moved away, she’s happy and has children now. Although I really regret how I acted, I think it’s best to just leave it in the past. No need to dredge up old pain for her just so I can feel better for apologising.

    Idk if that’s the right answer, but it’s what I’ve chosen.











  • Worx@lemmynsfw.comtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldRoundabouts are Woke
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    11 days ago

    Drivers in Britain should give way to pedestrians at all junctions, including entrances and exits to all roundabouts. It’s literally in the highway code.

    Admittedly it’s only a “should” rather than a “must” for most roundabouts, but still. This is the what driving standards are these days, and it is a good thing. It’s all about protecting the more vulnerable. Car drivers are more dangerous to others than pedestrians are, so car drivers have to take more care and should give priority to the more vulnerable pedestrians.

    EDIT: But once again I’ve fallen victim to a classic blunder. The sort of people who would say a roundabout is woke would never care about a well-reasoned argument. And I’m just preaching to the choir in this community anyway!






  • That’s what I’ve heard other people say, and it just sounds insane. You’re in a world of fantasy literally seeing things that aren’t there and somehow that’s normal behaviour. Crazy!

    But I guess it seems weird to you how I can do anything without seeing things. I’ve had someone online get very angry with me for saying I have no visual imagination, because how can I even read and recognise letters if I can’t see them in my head?

    Humans are very weird sometimes! It’s nice that there are so many different ways to exist :)