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Hmm I really had to think hard about an example bc I would almost always prefer to be told the truth, e.g. if I had an incurable illness (I’ve seen my grandmother being lied to about her prognosis and it felt so disrespectful) or if I messed up something.

The only exception I could come up with is if it’s like in a workplace meeting a question of “what do you think?” and the true answer would be like “that you’re a bloody idiot” or “sorry I was just thinking of how hard I’m gonna fuck my partner tonight” or similar 😂

I already do that 😊 I’m originally from Hungary, but have lived in Scotland for 15+ years now. I love the weather (no, seriously) - none of Hungary’s oven-like summers and freezing winters, but mild temperatures and high humidity all year around, so mosses and some other plants that normally die in continental winters are flourishing year-round here. Sometimes it gets a bit too gloomy, but it’s a worthy cost for the temperatures :)

Also it’s a great country for the most part - don’t want to get too much into political and economical details - but the people are friendly and helpful, I very rarely see the attitudes of neurosis and apathy that seems common in Hungary (for understandable reasons).

I agree with the video, but hate rambling livestreams 😅 need an edited version of his points

yeah, I’m still subscribed, but don’t like their trajectory, a lot of their new videos feel like they’re framed too sensationalistically and light on substance. I tried out their historical channel (“Kurzgesagt After Dark”) when it launched, but that was even worse, just focusing on the scandal and suffering of their subjects 😮‍💨

I skip a lot of their videos nowadays, did this AI one too bc I knew it was bullshit.

I noticed that they often use stones in the news when talking about weight loss (ex. 1, 2). May be a regional/generational thing.

I get this on FB’s Messenger, it notifies me that there’s a new message in the thread. Yes, it’s my message, the one I just sent, thanks Meta, I’m aware of it.

indeed…

In Hungary “dekagram” is the default unit when buying food from actual humans at a deli counter or market. Asking for 30 deka of cheese sounds like a more human-scale number than asking for 300 grams.

Though it’s interesting that hecto would be even better for this, as we always use deka in 10s (or at least 5s), so we could just ask for 3 hectograms of cheese for an even more human-scale number :)

A highly authoritarian individual will be the first to volunteer when someone needs to run into a burning building to save someone. They will be the first to volunteer to defend the community. They will also be the people that organize trash pickups, because littering is bad.

I don’t think this is necessarily true. A person can just as easily be motivated to do these from a sense of solidarity and mutual responsibility than a desire for hierarchies. (Ursula le Guin’s The Dispossessed explores the various aspects of how a society could be built on such principles.)

My issue with language learning is that I hate illogical and inefficient systems, and sadly languages have so much organically accumulated bullshit in them, that I get too frustrated to continue 😅 (Yea I know, I should try Esperanto, but even that has genders.)

Same lol. And the weird thing is that I quite enjoy number-based games like Picross and Hexcells, but I hate actual arithmetics.

but ASMR is generally just annoying/grating to me

It’s so rare to find other people like this! ASMR sound effects make me viscerally uncomfortable, and I especially get creeped out by the whispering voices as if they were right next to your ear 😰

and you can watch in real time as their world view starts wobbling and they start making up rationalizations and excuses for behaviour that is utterly narcissistic.

I encounter this when chatting with a family member and she mentions that she “loves animals” and who “couldn’t hurt a fly” while also being an omnivore. She feels sorry for the animals when she thinks of industrial farming, but does her best to never think about it. When this topic comes up, I don’t say anything (we’ve been through the topic in the past), but she sees the impatience with her bullshit on my face, and gets flustered by the fact that someone doesn’t consider this cognitive dissonance normal.

This! Oddly the more socially confident I’ve got with age, the more draining and annoying I find social hangouts and noise 😅 Not having to interact with anyone the whole day is bliss (at least in-person, I don’t mind reading/writing on these forums).

I definitely game less than in my teens mostly due to reddit & lemmy, but I have a browser mod to disable social media sites and other timesinks (TVTropes lol) after 8pm, so I have several hours a day ringfenced for gaming :) (But I also got better at actually playing rather than spending hours preparing to play. I was an anxious teen 😅)

Thanks for the background! And I love that anecdote 🤣

Pál utcai fiúk is a pretty fun historical snapshot from what I remember. I only read it in middle school, but I remember I found the kids’ lifestyle and hobbies interesting :)

I grew up in Budapest, but have lived in Glasgow for 15+ years now. I couldn’t bear the Hungarian heat lol.

Swedish and Hungarian as first languages, how did that come about? :) (I’m Hungarian too.)

Yeah, I enjoy feeling/smelling paper books, but ebooks win me over by their overwhelming convenience 😅

Haha I live in Glasgow, so it’s often not fully dry, and I have to turn bottles and cans upside down to let the rainwater pour out before bagging them.

Thanks :) I really like that it has an immediate positive effect. I typically work on digital documents and long projects, so it’s at most a couple times a year that my work has a tangible end result that I can leaf through. Litter picking gives immediate satisfaction :)

It reminds me of a scene in Iain Banks’s sci-fi novel Use of Weapons: